Colony football team bracing for tough preseason foes

Colony celebrates after defeating Los Altos 35-7 during a CIF Southern Section Championship football game at Cerritos College in Norwalk, Calif., Saturday, Dec. 6, 2014. (Photo by Keith Birmingham/ Pasadena Star-News)

The Colony High School football team had quite the storybook season in 2014, marching all the way to the CIF Central Division title game where it completely dismantled Los Altos in a finale that was over by halftime.

Much of the reason the Titans accomplished that was that they played a tough slate of non-league foes. Among those Pomona, who won a CIF title in the Mid-Valley Division.

Well it isn’t going to be an easy road this year either.

Coach Steve Randall may have graduated 30 seniors but that didn’t mean he was going to scale back the schedule. It may be even tougher.

“I like to schedule tough teams but I am a little concerned this year,” he said. “It will be a real challenge. Hopefully we get through it healthy.”

The Titan opponents will include West Covina, Alemany, Bishop Amat, La Habra and Riverside Poly.

Those teams were a combined 44-16 last year and all but one made the playoffs. The one that didn’t, Alemany, played in a tough league and finished fourth.

Riverside Poly is coming off a 13-1 season that included a narrow 36-31 loss to Redlands East Valley in the Inland title game. Of course REV went on to win a state title. So that easily could have been Poly.

Bishop Amat lost a semifinal playoff game by one point to perennial title contender Corona Centennial. That says it all right there.  Amat is expected to be the top team in the San Gabriel Area and possibly in the entire division.

The other aren’t too shabby either. La Habra is one of only two teams to beat the Titans last year, doing so by a 45-27 score.

It will also be quite the start because although the Titans have a quarterback returning in Josh Thompson, they do have a new offensive coordinator and a few additions to the coaching staff as well. Previous offensive coordinator Kevin Davis left for the head job at Etiwanda, taking a few of Randall’s other assistants with him.

“We’re going to know right away where we stand,” Randall said. “If we have any flaws they will be exposed.”

 

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