Casual Fridays on Thursday: Game of the Week, etc...
Above: Temple City and Alhambra square off at Moor Field on Friday night at 7.
If you're Temple City (1-0) what team poses a bigger threat: a team that heads into the game also 1-0, riding with confidence, or a team that is 0-1 and has a sense of urgency and desperation in hopes of not looking from the bottom up?
That's the question I posed Rams coach Randy Backus and he had some interesting stuff to say. More on that in Friday's paper on page 2.
Every time I talk to Alhambra coach Gil Ruedaflores he mentions another coach either coached as a player or has had on his staff.
Backus at one point was an assistant under Ruedaflores. I think Backus left Alhambra in 2000.
Back to the game ... One thing that worries Backus he said was Alhambra's ability to score quickly like the Moors did in the fourth quarter against Glendale last week. Alhambra scored three touchdowns and were led by sophomore Vailele Peko who caught three of those passes for touchdowns in the 44-28 loss.
Despite the 34-0 rout over Arroyo last week, Backus said he thought there were area for the Rams to improve such as blown assignments, not picking up blitzes; little things like not having 11 guys on a punt.
Darrian Cazarin, the junior quarterback for the Moors, completed 18 of 33 passes for 300 yards and had four touchdowns. He threw three interceptions and two of them were returned for touchdowns.
"We turned the ball over too many times," Ruedaflores said. "You can't give another team 30 points, ask UCLA."
Friday's Game of the Week: Temple City vs. Alhambra at Moor Field
Back by popular demand is the Star-News' Football Scoreboard.
Click here for quarter-by-quarter updates!
Tonight's Game with predictions
South Pasadena vs. Hoover at Glendale, 7 p.m. -- Melendez (Hoover); Lair (South Pasadena)
12 Comments
Leave a comment
About this blog
 |
|
Melendez worked as a correspondent for the San Gabriel Valley Tribune for three years and later landed a job as a freelance writer at the Los Angeles Times before accepting an offer at The Orange County Register covering high schools. Melendez covered Major League Soccer at The Register for three years before being promoted to report on the Lakers, Angels and Dodgers for the Web. Melendez also worked for the Daytona Beach News-Journal, Fresno Bee, Oakland Tribune and The Boston Globe. E-mail opinions, suggestions and tips to miguel.melendez@sgvn.com. |
I like this information presented and it has given me some sort of inspiration to succeed for some reason, so keep up the good work.
What a relief to determine a page that can be at last in fact value reading! I’ve been looking for all-around on the subject of this issue except men and women now put waste posts, or brief meaningless article. I contain looked at a couple vids on youtube but it’s now the equivalent as reading a good post.
Great wordpress blog here.. It's hard to find quality writing like yours these days. I really appreciate people like you! take care and see you soon
I like this info shown and it has given me some sort of commitment to succeed for some reason, so keep up the good work.
I am impressed, I must say. Very rarely do I discovered a blog thats both informative and entertaining, and let me tell you, you've hit the nail on the head. Your blog is important; the issue is something that not many people are talking intelligently about. I am really happy that I stumbled across this in my search for something relating to it.
This is the best blog I've ever seen in my life! I really appreciate you taking the time out of your busy day to share your this with everyone.
Goldenarm:
I think that Monrovia has too many counter-weapons to get blown out. The biggest factor will be to get some of the other skill players to step up and control the game from the offensive end. I think our defense will be quick enough to hold the rosmead players to an even match. Having Marquise playing on defense has really help the secondary. If he has one of those games that he is due to have it could be quite a night. I think that DJ Cole is a firecracker ready to explode as well. He reminds me alot of your guy Broadnax.
First the Mead hammered 50 pts on Covina, then Covina turns around last night and put the hurt on Elmo 38-10.
Rosemead has a chance to rock the Valley.
Monrovia has a full load tonight against the Mead. Whatever the outcome, it is going to be money in the bank for the Wildcats - powering them up for the RHL opener against rival TC. I think M-town has a solid and improving run defense, but the Mead will hurt them through the air....and maybe the ground as well. Best of luck to Monrovia...I can't see them blown out as some predict.
off the hip I believe this is year 13 for Backus at TC.
Yea, Backus was brought to TC by Soumakian
Good call....
Backus has been at TC longer than since 2000. I beleive he was Defensive Coordinator for Soumakian's staff, pre-dating DiFiori and Mooney's return. Can anybody verify?
Miguel, I know it was not your intention but you are perpetuating rumors by publishing them above. Nobody knew about your voice messages until you put them on the board....