By Ed Piper, Jr.
The school sports year officially started Wed., Aug. 24, with La Jolla's girls golf team vanquishing a Parker team that had to forfeit due to the lack of two additional golfers to make its required sextet. LJHS coach Aaron Quesnell's contingent, almost a complete makeover from last year's CIF third-place team, covered the nine holes in 256 strokes, despite the official forfeit.
But the big bang of the fall comes with the Viking football team traveling to the South Bay Fri. night, Aug. 26, for its season opener. New coach Matt Morrison's squad will meet a new opponent, Montgomery.
Then, next week the girls volleyball team under new coach Kelly Drobeck and other teams swing into official action after preseason practice and scrimmages.
But the bigger bang will come with La Jolla's home-opening football game in week two of the season, next Friday night, Sept. 2, under the lights, on a new surface.
"We have the first game at home," said Athletic Director Paula Conway of that date. The shiny new field, with bright red end zones, will go underfoot for the first time.
Bishop's football coach Joel Allen said at the preseason scrimmage at his school with the Vikings and two other teams a week ago that he deferred from playing a home game on the Edwards Stadium field in week one of the season before La Jolla High had even played a home game on its new field. That's just out of respect for the host campus.
Instead, Bishop's is on the road in its season opener.
The Viking cross country teams, girls and boys, run in the Vaquero Stampede, hosted by El Capitan, at Lindo Lake in Lakeside Saturday morning, Aug. 27, at 8 a.m. in their season openers. They are coached by second-year coach Mandy Benham.
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