Agoura Awards Greminger Plot of Land

Frank Greminger, a fixture on the Agoura High sideline for 25 years, will be remembered every time anyone checks the score at the school’s stadium.

Before Agoura’s game against Thousand Oaks, the stadium was dedicated to Greminger, the Chargers’ coach from 1969-94. A new scoreboard, unveiled Friday night, reads “Frank Greminger Stadium.”

The honor was a surprise to Greminger, who was escorted to the field in a police car.

“We kept this a big-time secret,” Agoura Athletic Director John Crow said. “Frank and his wife went to dinner with another coach and his wife, then our Cops and Jocks officer drove him to the field.”

Upon arrival, Greminger was greeted by many of his former players, who were invited to the game for homecoming, and he and his wife, Carolyn, were escorted onto the field by Agoura Principal Jim Christianson.

Visibly moved by the unveiling of the scoreboard, Greminger said, “I can’t believe it. I swallowed the whole thing. They set it up so good.

“We were at dinner and all of a sudden two policeman came in to escort us to the field because it was homecoming.”

Always a bridesmaid: It had been 21 years since Crescenta Valley was last crowned a league champion, but a member of the Falcon coaching staff received a crown of a different kind Friday.

Junior varsity coach Paul Schilling was chosen the school’s mock homecoming queen after five Falcon coaches allowed cheerleaders to dress them in drag during a pep rally.

“I thought several of them looked especially good in lipstick,” said varsity Coach Alan Eberhart, who received a kiss on the cheek from the winner. “It was either a kiss of luck or the kiss of death.”

Attracting a crowd: If Notre Dame High running back Justin Fargas is the region’s most heavily recruited player, Palmdale’s Matt Leonard runs a close second.

Notre Dame University assistant coach Mike Sanford visited Leonard, a 6-foot-4, 290-pound defensive lineman, before Palmdale’s game against Littlerock on Friday night. Two Stanford assistants watched Leonard from the Falcon sideline in the first half.

Of course, Stanford Coach Tyrone Willingham went to see Fargas.

Fleeting time: Because Paraclete’s opponent, Kern Valley, has only 15 players, both head coaches agreed to use a running clock early in the second quarter of their High Desert League game Friday.