Football: L.A. Jordan back to full strength
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After nearly upsetting Esperanza with only 19 players available, L.A. Jordan should have a full complement of players Thursday night at Buena High when it plays St. Bonaventure.
Meaning, it will have all of 25 players at its disposal.
Five players were suspended for the Esperanza game because of minor transgressions and another player dressed but was unavailable. The shorthanded Bulldogs nearly knocked off the Aztecs, reaching the 10-yard line at the end of the game before a pair of incomplete passes sealed a 9-8 defeat.
‘Those guys played all night long and it was still our game for the taking,’ Jordan Coach Elijah Asante said.
Junior receiver DeShawn Beck scored all of the Bulldogs’ points, hauling in a 35-yard touchdown catch in the fourth quarter and then making another catch on the ensuing two-point conversion. Freshman linebacker Patrick Wooten made 13 tackles.
‘It is an opportunity lost because it was a chance for us to show everyone who we are and we came up a little short,’ Asante said. ‘But I was really proud of our kids. Our guys showed a lot of guts.’
-- Ben Bolch