Poly held on after scoring what proved to be the final 20 points of the game to knock off Moore League rival Lakewood, 20-10, at Cerritos College.
That means the defending champion Jackrabbits will take a 25-game winning streak into Anaheim Stadium next Saturday night in the Pac-5 championship game, against either Orange Lutheran or Tesoro, who hook up in Santa Ana Stadium Saturday night.
This game certainly lived up to its hype. It was a tandy.
it's official long beach poly heads back to the pac-5 championship for the second year in a row...now who are they going to play...i'm hoping orange lutheran because poly and orange lutheran the past two years has always been a great game...
sorry to say but once again lakewood thought they can take us(Poly) but can never deliver..we just won't allow it...
from Big D poly football alumn....c/o 2008
I just have to say that from the stands Lakewood looked every bit as good as Poly. I think Poly won because they kept their composure - which comes from experience being in these situations and because their physical nature wears down their opponents by the time it gets to the 4th quarter. Gotta admit though that Lakewood outplayed them in the first half. Clearly looked like the more versatile team and the defense impressed.
Of course Poly players will probably say Lakewood was weak, but any objective fan knows that wasn't the case. It was a good game.
Lakewood crack under the presure of a big game like this. Wonder what is going thru there minds.
Class of "79"
if poly had lakewood offense coordinator,you couldn't beat them. We will get you rabbits next year. You will never beat us 27 straight times. Never!
Poly has Too much team speed all the way around, offense-defense. And they remind me of USC they bred guys on defense like no other, year end and out. Hate to put it this way but they (Poly) has superior athletes, and the amazing thing about Poly is there going to keep doing it(winning) and doing it time after time huray for the jackrabbits!
and poly was so banged up, too.
4 starters hurt on defensive side (3 out), and 2 hurting on offensive side (1 out).
yep poly got lucky and beat orange lutheran 2-0..
they just started state a few years ago...poly didnt go last year and probably wont go this year..to many good teams everywhere else and they only take 6
i watched the game, lakewood had ball in 10-10 game on the 20 yard , 4th down and dod not kick a field goal...
would of been 13 -10
then with scored tied, they forget the running game and quarterback who is not a very good quarterback, starts passing and gets intercepted twice late in the game...lakewood runs , there in the game. both teams do not have good quarterbacks, poly stuck to the runninggame
Bottom line - all of you Lakewood people that posted blogs over the last few weeks said that Lakewood would beat Poly and all of you were WRONG! -- As i said from early on - You don't know what you are talking about and i was right! Some of you were even saying the game would be at John Ford Stadium and i told you that you were wrong! and you were. Now just forget about it and have a nice Christmas with your family.
great game on both sides - semi finals is nothing to scoff at and trying is not failure but criticism and arrogance toward high school kids or any sport player is a loser's attitude even if that loser has a winning team - many kids have a future on both sides so good for them
Go POLY! The winning tradition continues. It's the support like no other school enjoys - our bench alone of Alumni fans were from the Class of '68, '71,'72, '73,'74, '76 and 2013! Play your game POLY, we'll all be there Sat. night.