That championship feeling

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It was only a season opener, but Long Beach Cabrillo’s 6-2 nonleague victory over Beverly Hills on the Normans’ home field had the feel of a championship game for the Jaguars’ third-year coach, Marcus Turner.

That is, all wet.

The Jaguars’ victory celebration included the players dumping the contents of a large jug of Gatorade onto their coach. And they chased him halfway across the field to do it.

Turner, who played cornerback at UCLA, first soaked up all the Gatorade, then did the same with the atmosphere, thoroughly enjoying his players’ happiness after snapping a 13-game losing streak that dated back to Oct. 28, 2005 and included a winless 2006 season.

‘It was different. We haven’t gotten to do that very often,’ Turner said. ‘It was hard to go through, and I hurt for them, but we have some fighters, and look at them. They’re just so happy.’

- Lauren Peterson