Monday-style Three-And-Out
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At the end of the Los Altos-South Hills game, things got animated on the Huskies’ sidelines. South Hills Coach Steve Bogan screamed, stomped his feet and ran onto the field on three consecutive drives.
To many it may have looked as if Bogan had lost his mind, but I think it was just gamesmanship.
Bogan first got mad -- with the team up, 35-14 -- when, after a run, the clock did not start (The runner looked to have gone out of bounds, but it must have been hard to tell from his view). He then got even more animated on a kickoff when Los Altos recovered the onside kick. He felt the ball didn’t go 10 yards and didn’t agree with the ref’s assertion that the ball hit a South Hills player first (‘But I think we have a biase,’ Bogan joked). With the score now 32-21 and momentum on Los Altos’ side, Bogan got mad a third time after a pass interference call.
‘We felt like there were some close calls in this game and we weren’t getting any of them, that’s what it was feeling like,’ Bogan said. ‘We’re going, ‘Hey, we’re in their place and everything, I better keep some heat on these guys’ to make sure that ‘if you’re going to do this to us, it’s not going to be comfortable.’ So it was a little strategy, really.’
There you have it Los Altos fans, it was just a little strategy. Really.
On to Three-And-Out.
First Down: Charter Oak. The Chargers (4-1-1, 1-0) looked like the No. 1 team in the SGV with a 50-6 victory over Wilson. Running back Kanaan Snowden scored four touchdowns. He rushed for 139 yards and 3 touchdowns and also returned a kickoff 88 yards for a score.
Second Down: Arcadia. The Apaches (6-0) remained unbeaten with 45-0 rout of Glendale on the road. Running back Troy Amhaz led the way with 157 yards and two touchdowns in 16 carries. He was taken out in the third quarter.
Third Down: The game of the year? Bishop Amat and St. Paul needed three overtimes to come to a resolution. The Lancers (2-4) came out on top, 31-30, but the Swordsmen (4-2) had their chances. After the first overtime, St. Paul could have won the game with a 27-yard FG, but it went wide left (blame it on the rain?). In the third OT, after Bishop Amat scored in the opening drive, St. Paul answered with a touchdown of its own but opted to go for two. Running back Luis Garcia took the hand off, but stumbled and fell at the 1-yard line. Which brings us to punt...
Punt: St. Paul Coach Pete Gonzalez on going for two at the end of the game: ‘With the rain and the ball getting wet, you know, we figured it might be tough to get the hold and the ball down and so on and so on. And we had just kicked a couple of kicks so we figured we’d go for it and see if we could end it in our favor.’
Great thinking. Too bad it didn’t work.
Relieve the action in the video below. Play-by-play by the Whittier Daily News’ Andrew J. Campa.
- Jaime Cardenas