LJ FB: Me as OC

By Ed Piper

You would never want this to be true, but make me Offensive Coordinator for the Vikings for one game, Homecoming, tonight (it's 11:30 a.m., Fri., Oct. 2), and here's what I would do.

Mind you, I'm an amateur. I never played football (our mother prohibited my brother and me from playing), never coached it, never learned it. My only schooling is watching La Jolla, primarily, for the past decade and a half, and observing and learning from Head Coach Tyler Roach as much as I can from a distance--and the occasional interview.

I'd have La Jolla do what the Vikes do best: Start sophomore Ty Tortorice and let him direct the offense, gain some momentum. Roach always--without exception--elects to receive the opening kickoff, whenever that is possible during the pregame coin flip, to gain early momentum and get the ball rolling, literally.

Turn running back Kali Deberry loose, employing him on rushes frequently in the early going. Throw Joseph Crudo, the other back, in there for a good sprinkling of rushes. Both run between the tackles, and Crudo also swings outside for the occasion ground-gainer.

Set senior athlete/playmaker Nico Bardaro up for a jet sweep here and there--he usually swings to the right, starting out on the left.

Up and rolling, with the defense doing a good job of doing the basics, staying with their fundamentals (this is how I played basketball my senior year in high school eons ago), stopping the visiting Falcons from Scripps Ranch.

Make adjustments. Go with what the game gives you on offense and defense. Your good athletes on La Jolla are going to play both ways, so they'll be busy in the heat (already picking up right now in Clairemont: 85.6 degrees at 11:37 a.m.) and doing the jobs.

At an opportune time, insert junior Brody Bukich at quarterback, say, once the second quarter moves midway through the dozen minutes. Give him short routes to throw, looking for freshman Zakai Jackson, Deberry, and Crudo moving about. Let him get comfortable as he steps into the shoes of leadership this night.

Go from there. I don't know of particular tendencies Scripps Ranch has, but Roach does. This is the same Scripps Ranch where Marlon Gardinera carried on such a great rivalry with Roach and the Vikings, especially the Max Smith game in which the linebacker lined up on the line and jumped across the instant the ball was hiked and caught it in mid-air--then QB Jackson Stratton engineered a quick-strike touchdown. La Jolla pulled off an incredible last-minute comeback during a league game in the late 2010's.

Fortunately, Gardinera retired at the end of the 2025 season, so his successor, John Taylor, has to carry the reins. A quick look at MaxPreps shows the Falcons are struggling more than the Vikings, having yet to win a game this season (0-5). This is the time, this is the place tonight at Edwards Stadium for La Jolla to celebrate a good Homecoming.

By the way, Scripps Ranch, showing itself to be pretty weak so far, suffered a blowout Eastern League loss to San Diego last Friday, Sept. 25, 35-6. Their efforts the week before didn't go much better, losing 42-21 to Mira Mesa Sept. 18. Poway is good, and the Falcons lost to the Titans 16-0 on opening night back on Aug. 21.

West and pre-logo days

By Ed Piper

A seventh-grade boy, obviously into basketball and the NBA, asked me what team I liked. I said the Lakers, kind of. I haven't adjusted to the Luka Doncic era yet.

He asked me who my favorite player was. This type of exchange goes on not infrequently. Middle-schoolers are shorter; my height raises the immediate question of whether I played basketball. I did.

So, I thought for a second--Elgin Baylor, Jerry West, Wilt Chamberlain... I said "Jerry West". He, obviously an avid NBA follower, said immediately, "The Logo."

I don't think this way. Jerry West being the figure used for the NBA logo came in much later.

I don't condemn the kid, but generations are on different wavelengths about these things. For him, Jerry West is someone he reads about in books about the history of basketball. For me, I actually turned on KTLA Channel 5, or KTTV Channel 11, and actually saw the guy dribbling down the court. (I didn't see my first NBA game in person until my teen years. My dad wasn't into sports. My mom, either. We lived an hour from L.A. by the time I was 10 years old, so driving there--and I didn't really know they existed and played in an arena somewhat near my house, I was into major league baseball--was out of the question, especially since my dad already commuted one hour each way from Camarillo to El Segundo Monday through  Friday.)

I asked him he was into. "The Knicks," he said. "Bandwagon," I said. I wasn't very gentle. "You just like them because they won the NBA title this past season."

"No," protested the boy. "I've been into them since 2014"--which would be the day he was born, which is impossible.

Then class started and I had to get things going. I didn't really give him a chance. Looking back, I realize how much he knew and how much he was into the NBA. The next time I meet him, I should give him more chance to explain.

He's kind of the way I was at that age about major league baseball. (I'm not capitalizing it, because I'm not talking about a product, but the professional game of baseball. Back then, it was called Organized Baseball. I've seen read that that term was rejected because it hearkens back to the days of Kennesaw Mountain Landis, before Blacks were allowed to play in the majors. Plus Black owners in the Negro Leagues were denied a chance to move their franchises into baseball, basically killing their businesses off. Walter O'Malley and his cronies weren't actually for free enterprise; just enterprise they could carry on.

We talked about the incredible giftedness of players nowadays. He asked, "Why were centers so tall back then?" I said I hadn't heard that question before, but that centers were trained to only play center, with their back to the basket. Wilt Chamberlain was nimble in his younger years, but he and Bill Russell and Walt Bellamy and the others were only expected to play under the basket, block shots, rebound, and slam dunk the ball from close in.

I told him, Giannis Antetokounmpo is from another world. He is 6'9", yet can play like a forward or guard did in the old days.

He brought up Victor Wembanyama, and we agreed he was a creature from another world, so agile and nimble, yet 7'4" and able to defend guards as well as big men. Incredible.

He said "Wemby" didn't do as well in the playoffs as he had during the regular season last year. I said he's still young, he needs time to mature even more, and that with all the focus on him he will learn how to deal with the pressure and double-teaming as he develops. He's still a young man at 21, I believe!

I confided to him that he and my basketball buddies back in the day didn't watch the NBA, because we considered it a sloppy version of the game. (We preferred college, with its more-disciplined game. But that was before the shot clock came in.) He didn't really seem to understand that. I don't know if he actually plays basketball. It's different being a fan from being a player who is a fan.

LJ g golf vs. OLP @ Balboa - 10/1

Photos by Ed Piper

Senior Turi O'Brien looks for where

her shot landed off the women's

tee on the first hole.

O'Brien shows her power on her initial

shot.

Junior Milena Malik tees off in the fourth

group vs. OLP.

Liesl Kijora hits her third shot on the second

hole, way down below the clubhouse at Balboa.

Her tee shot on the hole went a little awry,

so she had to make up distance.

The Vikings wait on the path down to the first

tee just before the first group at 3:27 p.m.

LJ assistant coach Noah Marquez

tees off from the men's tees

way up top above the first hole.

LJ b water polo: Game story 9/30

By Ed Piper

Quinn Daniels, a senior whose All-CIF First Team selection last year has only stoked more confidence, drilled a goal from the perimeter with 1.16 seconds left to break a 13-13 tie at Bishop's and give La Jolla its first Western League win this season, and its first win over its crosstown rival in the initial match of two during league play.

Daniels, setting up at the point as the clock ticked down from 10.7 seconds (a timeout) in the match Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 30, became the man of the hour.

Teammate Dexter Black had been bulloxed all game as Knight coach Ian Davidson directed his defense to focus on the 6'6" 4/5-position scorer on the right side of the cage.

Another of the Vikings' big four, Henry Glenister, had to battle inside at the center spot. That's a physical position. He was frustrated as multiple backhand shot attempts either were blocked or went off-target.

Opposing them, Aden Shin, on the home squad, led much of the Bishop's scoring. But midway through the final quarter, beginning at 4:13, La Jolla built two-goal leads twice after trailing 4-2 in the first quarter.

With Knight girls getting vocal from the stands, and Viking supporters being no less vociferous, Barney Pearce scored from the 1-2 side (left side of the goal) for a 12-10 LJ lead.

Then a minute later, Glenister bounced a shot in transition, ahead of the sprinting pack, against Bishop's goalie Adam Revenco, making it 13-11.

But Shin scored in close, then hit a penalty shot to the far right of Vike goalie Addie Calhoun's outstretched arm to knot the score at 13-all. That set the stage for Daniels' dramatic shot.

The Vikings have now split their matches with their fellow Western League and CIF contenders, Cathedral Catholic (a 16-15 loss) and Bishop's. They want to make up ground in the second round of conference play before the postseason.

LJ sports: Hallelujah!

By Ed Piper

The "hallelujah" is for the fact I could access my blog at the particular location I am at at this time. It is unexpected, but welcome.

I know the headline for this entry is "LJ sports", but I digress in view of the MLB playoffs (they avoid that word in promotion--it's "Postseason" in all marketing--to say I just encountered a gentleman in a Phillies jersey who I also saw last week in the same gear. I thought, I should have worn my true colors (blue).

He said something to the man standing next to him in the restroom, "We play again." I said upon entering, "How are your Phillies going to do?"

Then I said, "Our Dodgers are waiting for you," and he left. On to another day.

*  *  *

This Friday night, Oct. 2, is Homecoming at La Jolla High versus Scripps Ranch. I hope they truly do a Homecoming. Last year, there was no on-field announcement of the Homecoming king and queen. Later, someone told me, "They wanted to save it for the dance."

Back three years ago, quarterback Jackson Diehl was the Homecoming king, and sprinter Payton Smith was the Homecoming Queen. Jackson, playing in the football game, was allowed time to come back out onto the field and be introduced for his honor. Payton, who was serving as ASB president, merely stepped from her post in front of the stands leading her fellow students (probably went and changed--I don't remember that part) onto the football field.

I'm sure the Viking cheer team will do a special routine for Homecoming. But maybe there also will be a parade of some sort of vehicles carrying the honorees--none of that happened last year.

LJ b water polo 14, Bishop's 13 - 1st round, Western League - 9/30

Photos by Ed Piper

Lev Kevorkian (2, left) applies defense against

Liam Zarcu (7) of Bishop's in the first half.

LJ's Quinn Daniels (right) fires a shot from the

perimeter against Cutter Leach late in the game.

Note Leach's facial expression. Daniels, an All-CIFer,

scored the decider with 1.16 seconds left

for the 14-13 win.

Henry Glenister listens during a timeout

in the fourth quarter.

Nathan Shin (10) was pretty productive

for Bishop's throughout the game.

The Knights (including Seamus Murley, 9,

black cap) concentrated a lot on denying

LJ's Dexter Black (4, white cap) the ball

in the second quarter. Bishop's coach Ian

Davidson called out, "Don't throw the ball

over Dex" after he made a steal.

Knights starters gather near poolside during

the break at the end of the first period. Ian

Davidson (black hat) imparts wisdom, while

co-coach Doug Peabody (gray hat) listens.

Viking Henry Glenister (bottom, 13) handles the ball

while La Jolla spreads the offense to set it up

in the first quarter. Henry scored back-to-back

goals to knot the score at 4-4 with 21.2 seconds

left.

Padres 8, Cubs 0 - Wild Card game 1 - 9/29

Pete Crow-Armstrong, the favorite to win

NL MVP, strikes out to begin the game.

Padres starter Michael King pitched 7 innings

of no-hit ball.

Padres fans take the Blue Line of the trolley

home shortly after 10 p.m.

LJ sports: Full week ahead 9/28-10/2

By Ed Piper

It's going to be a good week (Sept. 28-Oct. 2). How do I know that? One, I woke up (actually I had been awake a lot during the night, but enough sleep to recharge) and the humidity wasn't back up to where it was two weeks ago.

And two, after a million pathways to confirm my identity and jump through every hoop Google (thanks for providing this blog space for the past 13 years or so) put in my way, I am now writing on my blog to start a Monday morning.

First, the girls golf team led by sophomore Liesl Kijora and senior Bella Itkin plays tomorrow, Tues., Sept. 29, at Coronado. I know this course because my sister and brother-in-law, who are golfers (I'm not of that breed), enjoy playing at the scenic course, which takes you right next to the water in the bay right there near the Coronado Bridge.

Secondly, on Wednesday, Sept. 30, the Viking boys water polo team has an enormous match at Bishop's against their crosstown rivals, the Knights. Both squads are elite year-in and year-out, and this year's Bishop's team was rated higher than La Jolla (at least at my latest time checking).

The physical effort in training for water polo, and the effort required during matches, are supreme. Just ask the football team members, who a week ago tried to float, and meanwhile get off any kind of meaningful shots in the pool against the varsity water polo team. The Tangle in the Tank was a lot of fun, and a good fundraiser for the Susan G. Komen Foundation, but the dunkings and frustration the football players experienced brought to the surface how hard playing the sport really is.

Flipping the calendar to October, which we never thought would come (with predicted El Nino storms the most powerful since 1950), the girl golfers under Coach Christie Quinn and new assistant and former Viking Noah Marquez, Class of 2019 (he didn't golf as a high school student, he says) come "home" to Balboa Golf Course to face Christian High on Thursday, Oct. 1.

We're hoping for the best with the Viking footballers, who play host to Scripps Ranch in a second Eastern League game Friday night, Oct. 2, in Edwards Stadium.

We've left off other activities, though not out of disrespect. Remember, self-care means taking good care of your mind, body, and emotions in an unselfish way, as the adage "Love your neighbor as yourself" says. Also, as we teachers and others who went into the so-called "helping professions" for our working lives tried to do, think and do those things that help make the world a better place.

LJ FB: More photos 9/25

Photos by Ed Piper

A lot of good happened, too, on the LJ defensive side

like this botched Saints field goal attempt.

The holder, Luke Penich (12), saw Bryson

Grant (4) breaking through. So, instead of holding

for kicker Alfred Attallah (10), he got up and

tried to run--unsuccessfully.

Nigel Thompson (4) of St. Augustine

piles up a few more of his many yards

in the second half.

LJ FB: Photos 9/25

Photos by Ed Piper

LJ QB Brody Bukich (7) leaves the pocket

as he looks for an open target. He is followed

by the Saints' Nigel Thompson (4).

Saints QB Julian Chanfreau rushes with

a keeper early in the fourth quarter. The play

was called back on a flag.

Viking DC Stephen Dixon (center) gives

his defenders counsel during a timeout

late in the game.

Unfortunately for La Jolla, too much of this

happened, with the Saints' Ryan Haniger picking

up 18 yards on a reception from QB Julian

Chanfreau.

Beautiful skies shine out toward the coast,

looking west from Mesa College's stadium

five minutes before kickoff.

LJ FB: Style of play

By Ed Piper

There was an side aspect to the Vikings' Eastern League opener at Mesa College Fri., Sept. 25. St. Augustine, who holds its home games there because it doesn't have space on its tiny campus in North Park, draws a lot of alumni to these games in the way of gathering, tailgating, and enthusiasm for the present edition of the Saints.

I didn't grow up in the area, so the tradition of the Catholic boys' school is something I had to learn about. I remember pulling up in a parking space last year for the La Jolla-St. Augustine game, and wondering at all the purple-clad folks, men and women primarily, but also some teens, congregating well before the game, sitting in chaise chairs in the college parking lot, eating and drinking, young people throwing a football. A lot of warm friendship built up over a period of years, it seemed like.

Well, the point of this story is not the Saints alumnis' tailgating. It's about the style of play on the field.

After a St. Augustine touchdown to lead 7-0, on the first La Jolla possession after that, Paisios Polamalu hit Viking running back Joseph Crudo helmet-to-helmet on the edge of the field right in front of the La Jolla team area.

Crudo gained 15 yards, this time on a completion from quarterback Ty Tortorice, but helmet-to-helmet is illegal. New LJHS Athletic Trainer McKenna Peckinpaugh shook her head. I said something to her about the play as I wrote my play-by-play log in my notepad.

By then, La Jolla coaches were shouting about "dirty play". It wasn't the first instance.

Later, Viking tight end Nico Bardaro was decked on a pass reception, his legs knocked right out from under him, slamming his helmeted head to the grass. I walked up the sideline to ask someone the term for a dirty hit like that. "Targeting," someone said.

Polamalu, I know, as the son of a famous football player, draws more attention than your average player. His brother, Ephraim, is out there now, too. One assistant on the visitors' sideline shouted, "They're both taking cheap shots on every play." That's exaggeration, but cheap shots seemed to be in vogue this night.

Is that the way better players achieve their effectiveness, by pushing the limits of clean play? I remember as a basketball player decades ago getting the street treatment from players who would do anything to win and who did things we hadn't even learned in the whitebread suburbs.

Just a thought.

LJ FB: Difficulties

By Ed Piper

During Viking football coach Tyler Roach's 10 years at the helm dating back to 2017, none of his teams have started out a season with the struggles this team has.

La Jolla, 0-1 in the Eastern League after St. Augustine's 35-18 whipping Sept. 25, 1-4 overall, has reached an unexpected low in the 2026 season after its league opener.

The Vikes' triumph over a depleted La Jolla Country Day two weeks ago, 26-0--the Torreys' starting quarterback and his replacement both sustained major leg injuries in the first half--seemed to portend better weeks ahead after the bye of Sept. 18.

Instead of progressing, the La Jollans seemed to regress, even though they debuted a transfer, defender and potential playmaker Bryson Grant from Hilltop.

The formula that worked best during the first four games, with sophomore Ty Tortorice throwing and directing the offense, fell flat.

The Vikings seemed a little bit awed by Pai Polamalu, son of an NFL star, who ran on offense and played safety on defense. But more than that, they didn't appear ready for the game, missing assignments, not knowing who was going to go in on one of the platoons (special teams, offense, or defense).

Certainly, Roach himself was fit to be tied at the some of the more timid approaches of some of his players, and at a certain point on the sidelines, said, "Forget it, we'll get the younger players out there who want to play."

Everything came to a head in a perfect storm. Something that never was an issue before, transfers, might be playing a bit of a difference. The Vikings lost a running back, and gained some other players by transfer this season.

Definitely, the number of players who went out for the program in the late summer was down from previous years. It is a steep drop from the glory days of the 2019 Southern California Regional champions, when La Jolla went 10-5 behind drop-back passer Jackson Stratton.

The other Jackson, Jackson Diehl, became a two-way star at the central position, both passing and running as the quiet one who led the Vikings three years ago to immense success. Those are the two poles spanning La Jolla's football success during the Tyler Roach years.

Maybe the Viking faithful can pass the 35-18 debacle by the Saints off to a bad night. Certainly, teenage athletes ride a wave of confidence and performance, and part of the football players' solace has to be in Roach's knowledgeable experience in getting the best out of his athletes.

The immediate need is to get ready for the Vikings' next game Fri., Oct. 2. Cathedral Catholic a week later promises to be a rare occasion against a local superpower on Oct. 9. Other than that, La Jolla has more moderate challenges against its other four foes over the next five weeks.

LJ FB 18, St. Augustine 35 - Eastern League opener - 9/25

Nico Bardaro (15), Vikings edge rusher, tackles

Saints QB Julian Chanfreau for a loss of two yards.

(Photo by Ed Piper)

By Ed Piper

A pair of 1-3 teams met up in their Eastern League opener Friday night, Sept. 25, and St. Augustine--in the roomy confines of their rented home field, Mesa College--bushwhacked the Vikings, 35-18.

But it wasn't even that close: The Saints led 35-0 with less than a minute gone in the fourth quarter, before running back Kali Deberry, tight end Nico Bardaro, and back-up quarterback Brody Bukich went to work to score three touchdowns in the next eight and a half minutes of elapsed time.

Unfortunately for La Jolla head coach Tyler Roach and his struggling minions, the Paisios and Ephraim Polamalu show went even better than advertised.

Pai, the older son of NFL Hall of Famer Troy Polamalu, repeated his performance of a year ago against the Vikings on the same field. He demolished the red-and-black defense with scampers up the middle, around the side without being touched, and even on returns of kicks (the last until La Jolla learned better).

Aiding the senior this time was his sophomore brother, who goes by "Phri", pronounced "Free", from the middle part of his name Ephraim, a chunkier version in the family line who reinforced his sibling's efforts to stymie and harass the visitors.

La Jolla seemed to sleep-walk from the start after a bye week following an encouraging 26-0 defeat of La Jolla Country Day.

A blocked punt by the dependable Ryan Hassankhani, that was run into the end zone from the 22-yard line by senior Matthew Weinpel, smelled like trouble immediately.

In focusing on Pai Polamalu, that took the Vikings' defense from focusing on other aspects of the St. Augustine offense. So athlete Mateo Iuli ran the ball in from 32 yards out for TD number two. That followed Pai's superhuman run from southeast to northwest against a team of tacklers who couldn't bring him down over 21 yards.

After a tongue-lashing by Roach during halftime as the season now seems in crisis, La Jolla emerged from the locker room to give up a 54-yard pass play and touchdown involving receiver Ryan Haniger

within the first three seconds of play from scrimmage opening the third quarter. The Mesa College scoreboard, missing many lights just like it did in 2025, read 11:57.

The Saints, having lost three games already, isn't a great team. But La Jolla made them look that way with a dispiriting performance.

LJ b water polo: Photos 9/23

Photos by Ed Piper

Vikings' Barney Pearce (5) looks inside

from the "1" position, in front of the cage

to the left.

Dexter Black (4) gets a lot of pressure

at the "2" from Dons' Brayden Axline (6).

Vikings in pool get instructions from assistant

Cole Martinez (crouching far left, shielding his

words with his clipboard, end of the second

quarter, 10-6, Cathedral leading.

Dons' Braylen Axline (6) fires a shot from

the perimeter to score past LJ goalie

Addie Calhoun.

LJ's Dexter Black (top right) looks for a pass

recipient from the "5" position. CCHS goalie

(1, far left) is Luke Anderson.

LJ g golf 236, Cathedral 219 (lower score wins) - Rancho Santa Fe - 9/24

Photos by Ed Piper

Soph Liesl Kijora smiles after

teeing off against Cathedral.

She shot a 40 to lead La Jolla.

Kijora follows through on her shot

off the first tee at Rancho Santa Fe.

She co-captains the Vikings' varsity.

Viking co-captain Bella Itkin (red top, reading

off her phone) leads the Don and Viking golfers

in a tribute and moment of silence for Joe Heinz,

the CIF San Diego commissioner, who

passed away Sept. 22 after a stroke. He was

56.

Natalie Sutton, also a

sophomore, reacts after

her tee shot.

Sutton holds her club way up

at the end of her opening shot.

Golfers in the second group head off toward

the fairway and bunker on the first tee.

Tiffanie Brownson, yet another

sophomore on the Vikings'

varsity, on the first hole.

She shot a 51.

Tiffanie on her tee shot.

Milena Malik, a senior, carded

a 57 on a bright, sunny day

at Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club.

Sophia Wright (far left, in red top) tees off

on the first hole in RSF.

Noah Marquez (left), LJ assistant coach, listens

as the Cathedral Catholic coach, Tyler Anthony,

goes over the ground rules.

Liesl drives with the power of her legs.

LJ b water polo 15, Cathedral Catholic 16 - Western League opener - 9/23

The Vikings' Quinn Daniels (far right) fires a shot

to open La Jolla's scoring and knot the score 1-1

in the second minute of the game.
(Photo by Ed Piper)

By Ed Piper

A writer for the Union-Tribune predicted a repeat of La Jolla's Open Division championship in its fall season preview.

More recently, a 30-year club coach confided at the AFC Tournament, no one is going to beat Cathedral Catholic for this year's title.

Well, the talk moved to action Wed., Sept. 23, at the Dons' facility, and the hosts took away a 16-15 win in the first of two league matches between the two teams.

Bishop's, the third player in the Western League fray, will have something to say about the whole situation as well.

Burly Cathedral center Grayson Taylor scored three of the Dons' first four goals, and added a fourth in the second quarter, as Cathedral built an early 6-3 lead, then 10-6 to end the first half.

The Vikings' Quinn Daniels, then Dexter Black, scored to keep La Jolla in the game, in front of a full house.

When the Dons built a 13-7 lead midway through the third frame, it looked like they were pulling away with little resistance. Max Bruhn scored a pair of goals in the quarter for Coach Tommy Corcoran's talented squad.

Then, down 15-10 after Jack Davis' goal, La Jolla put on a furious comeback as Henry Glenister, Lev Kevorkian, and Daniels scored in a two-minute flurry to trail 15-14 with 1:48 to play.

Cathedral came out of a timeout at that point and Taylor scored his seventh goal from in close to seal the game, as a meaningless goal by Kevorkian with 17 seconds fell short.

LJ flag FB vs. PLHS - 9/22

Photos by Ed Piper

Eib Brennan leaps to pick

off an interception on a pass by

Pointer QB Emma Rosenberg

in the first quarter.

Under pressure from Point Loma's Sophia Vanin

Valli (10), QB Paige Dykhuis completes a pass

to Khloe Spear (not in view) for an 11-yard gain.

Viking captains Paige Dykhuis (12) and Eva

Solsona (3) walk toward the center of the field

for the pregame coin toss.

Sophomore Ava Gorman (16) takes a pass and twirls

for yardage in the second quarter.

On 4th-and-12, Dykhuis runs a quarterback-keeper

late in the first half. At near left is receiver

Eva Solsona (3). Paige did not make it

to a first down, and La Jolla turned the ball

over on downs.

Receiver Violet Vitale (19) runs for yardage

to the left.