Canyon, Cajon, Whatever ...
Cajon High School girls basketball fans were unhappy even before tonight's CIF-SS Division II-A championship game began.
During pre-game lineup introductions, the PA announcer at the Pyramid kept referring to Cajon players as being from "Canyon."
The first Cajon girl out ... it was as if the several hundred Cajon fans couldn't believe what they'd heard.
By the second girl, more than a few were shouting, "CAJON! IT'S CAJON!"
But the PA dude kept announcing "Canyon".
Right on through the third and fourth starter ... and by then Cajon fans were seriously annoyed. And their "CAJON" shouts had finally registered.
As Cajon's fifth starter was announced, the PA guy said, "From Cajon ..."
The Cajon fans applauded. Sarcastically applauded, if that's possible.
Thing is, people in the L.A. and Orange County areas just don't know much about the IE. They don't know the schools, the freeways, the cities. It's opaque to them. The areas they drive through on the way to Las Vegas.
But you'd think an announcer could at least be sure of the name of whatever-school-it-is-he's-never-heard-of. Jiminy.
Cajon is playing Ayala. They met earlier in the season, with Ayala winning 47-46.
That score would suggest this game is going to be close, and so far it is.
Cajon just went ahead for the first time. It's 21-20 Cajon, with four minutes left in the second quarter.