By Ed Piper
As Union General Ulysses S. Grant had his "Seven Days Battle" against Confederate nemesis Robert E. Lee in the closing months of the Civil War, a quartet of returning La Jolla High student athletes are in the middle of their own four-day experience, combining basketball and baseball.
On Thurs., June 28, Langston Aron, Evan Brown, and Gabe and Diego Solis played for Viking football coach Tyler Roach's team in a 7-on-7 passing round-robin at Francis Parker School in Linda Vista. All four saw considerable action, as La Jolla rotated opponents among host Parker, then Del Norte and Serra.
A day later, on Friday afternoon, three of the four (Aron sat out) plus rising freshman Max Raulston shined against Olympian in a summer league basketball game at Grossmont High School in East County, 14 miles away.
The two days of weekend loom before them, at this writing. Asked which sport--or both--he was going to play Saturday, with a La Jolla High-hosted football passing tournament all day at Edwards Stadium on the LJHS campus from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and summer league basketball games at 11 and 3 at Grossmont, Gabe Solis replied, "I'm going to play football. We have basketball Sunday (so I can play then)."
Aron, sitting out the Vikings' basketball game Friday afternoon, caught the ball out of the basket during warm-up shooting and distributed the ball to his teammates. "I'm going to play football only," the rising junior replied when asked. "My ankle can take that." He's experiencing some tenderness in that important body part.
This is an unusual time in recent La Jolla basketball/football history. Coach Paul Baranowski hasn't had this many members of his rotation active in both sports in his six years at the helm.
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