By Ed Piper
Last week (Dec. 4 or so), when La Jolla was 8-0 on the young season, I contacted Rick Smith, San Diego high school sports historian par excellence, about the Vikings historically in boys basketball: Did they have a start better than that in recorded history?
Smith (partleton.com) wrote back, and said, "Off the top of my head, the 1963-64 team started 28-0 before losing to Helix in the CIF finals."
Wow, that's a lot of excellence and history to be compared to.
Rick Eveleth, long-time LJHS coach and athletic director, was a starter on that 28-1 squad.
Now (Wed., Dec. 11), the Vikings are 10-0, and Coach Paul Baranowski's squad doesn't show any signs of slowing up.
Most of the scoring firepower continues to come from guards Brody Sessa and Leo Hawkinson, both averaging in the high teens per game.
But scrappers like Eyal Amsalem, Seigo Lavinsky, Jeremy Cromwell, and Wyatt Olmert have contributed to the potent mix of diving for loose balls, making the most out of sprints down the court against the short clock--all the ingredients to put force on opponents.
It's "organized chaos", applying immense pressure to opposing teams.
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