La Jolla, by winning Tuesday's (May 19) CIF play-in game at Vista, gets rewarded with an eight-hour, four-hours-each-way drive to Blythe today, May 20, to face Palo Verde in the first "real" round of the Division 3 playoffs.
Said Paolo Bregant, with an injured shoulder, at Monday's (May 18) Padres-Dodgers game at Petco Park, where I ran into him on the trolley, "Palo Verde is (supposed to be) pretty good."
Said someone in the Vikings' dugout Tuesday during the win over host Vista, "Even El Centro hates to play Palo Verde" (because of the long drive).
This reporter is not going to drive there. (In fact, at this writing, 12:27 p.m., I would never make the four-hour drive in time for the start of the game in Blythe.) Some of the La Jolla side attendees yesterday were talking about going: principal Chuck Podhorsky, who said motel rooms were $59 if he stayed overnight; Rich Cardenas, father of Andrew and Emily, wasn't sure, but I can't imagine him not going; Jose Arzate, the father of probable starter Will Griebe-Arzate, said he couldn't go due to work.
My Google Maps app on my iPhone says the 148 miles to PVVHS ("Valley" comes after Palo Verde) would take three hours, 40 minutes. My wife thought I was going to go when I called her driving home to Clairemont from Vista and told her the distance. I said no.
The route, which I have never taken from San Diego, goes east on I-8, exit near Holtville (for the annual wrestling tournament) on Highway 111, north on Highway 115, east on the continuation of the 78 (which begins in North County in Oceanside), and north on South Lovekin Blvd. Insane.
Instead, I'll take the easy drive from Rancho Bernardo, back to the Clairemont area, on to La Jolla High, for the softball team's opening Division 5 playoff game at home.
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