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Friday’s games and predictions
Baseline League
Etiwanda 35, Glendora 28 — After winning five games by four points or less, odds starting to even out for Tartans.
Serra League
Alemany 29, Bishop Amat 26 — Warriors blew a 14-point lead, then rallied from 12 down in the fourth to win. Amat can blame this on poor clock management and bad decisions.
Valle Vista League
Pomona 61, Baldwin Park 21 — Goodness, is Pomona really this good. Even without 15 players because of suspensions they still rout Baldwin Park.
Covina 41, Nogales 6 — Colts trying to stay in the playoff chase.
Sierra League
Chino Hills 52, Ayala 28 — Bet they’re still kicking themselves for that loss to Charter Oak at home.
Damien 28, Claremont 27 — Spartans led 14-0 before you could blink, then had to hold on for dear life to pull it out.
Hacienda League
Diamond Ranch 30, Rowland 28 — Despite 19 suspensions as the result of last week’s brawl, the Panthers had enough in reserve to squeeze it out.
Los Altos 37, Walnut 14 — With a win over West Covina next can do no worse than second in Hacienda and could finish 9-1.
West Covina 26, Bonita 14 — Bulldogs back in the playoff hunt and feeling good for the first time all season.
Mission Valley League
Arroyo 55, Mountain View 19 — The Vikings usually a tough out, but not tonight.
Rosemead 45, El Monte 0 — Former coach Matt Koffler retires again after returning for one game and tossing a no-no.
Gabrielino 47, South El Monte 0 — Not surprised by the result, surprised by the total domination.
Montview League
Bassett 42, Ganesha 14 — Say it, the Olympians 5-0 in the Montview and move another step closer to big showdown for league title against Azusa in a couple weeks.
Duarte 20, Sierra Vista 15 — Falcons doing all it can to stay in playoff contention.
Workman vs. Gladstone: If you know the score, tell us, lol

CHARTER OAK WINS BIG: Kory Brown threw for 414 yards and four touchdowns and the Chargers won their fourth consecutive game with a 41-18 victory over host South Hills in a Sierra League football encounter Thursday at Covina District Field.

AZUSA HANGS ON, 27-20: Azusa scored two touchdowns in a five-minute span early in the second half and hung on for a 27-20 win over La Puente on Thursday night at Citrus College.

South Hills, Charter Oak photo gallery
COVINA — Charter Oak High School’s slow start is a distant memory.
Kory Brown threw for 414 yards and four touchdowns and the Chargers won their fourth consecutive game with a 41-18 victory over host South Hills in a Sierra League football encounter Thursday night at Covina District Field.
Zion Echols also rushed for 129 yards for Charter Oak, which improved to 4-4 overall and 3-0 in league play. The Chargers also held the Huskies under 200 yards.
Adam Goss accounted for 237 yards and two touchdowns for the Huskies, who slipped to 3-5 and 1-2.
Charter Oak coach Lou Farrar: “It’s a heckuva job trying to get to .500. I’m just happy our kids have put it together. We always talk about league, and how the second five games are the important (part of the season). We’re on a drive. We’ve got our head down and we’re going to keep driving.”
South Hills coach Albert Rodriguez: “We thought we had put ourselves in good position (late in the first quarter). But you have to credit Kory Brown. He did a great job extending plays. There where times we seemed to have him, but we couldn’t get off the field on third and long.”
– Steve Ramirez
@steverramirez on Twitter

STORY: The Glendora High School cross country team’s catharsis has been to run, run hard and break records.
Shortly before the start of the season, longtime coach Don Sumner suddenly died.
“He knew we had big plans for this year,” said his son, Steve. “He saw a lot of potential in this team and he had high hopes for them.”
Steve Sumner, who has taken over for his father, has the Tartans boys and girls teams ranked in the CIF-Southern Section’s Division 2 polls and competing in the sweepstakes races at this weekend’s high school portion of the prestigious 66th annual Mt. SAC Invitational.
More than 500 schools will take part in the two-day meet on the 2.92-mile course. It begins Friday with competition among schools in divisions 3 through 5 and continues on Saturday with competition among schools in the top two divisions. There are 24 races on the schedule.

According to sources, an assistant football coach with the Diamond Ranch football team resigned in the wake of last week’s brawl against Diamond Bar that resulted in CIF suspending 19 players for Diamond Ranch for Friday’s game against Rowland. Diamond Bar will have to forfeit its next game, also vs. Rowland, which was scheduled Nov. 1. In addition to the dismissal of an assistant coach, Diamond Ranch also suspended some players from school for last week’s brawl, according to sources.

STORY: The punishments have been handed down and it’s not pretty for the Diamond Bar and Diamond Ranch high school football teams.
Diamond Bar saw nearly all of its varsity roster given one-game suspensions on Wednesday when the CIF-Southern Section office announced the results of its investigation into this past Friday’s brawl between the two rival schools.
Diamond Ranch wasn’t much better, with a total of 19 players suspended for Friday’s game against Rowland.

Diamond Ranch coach Roddy Layton hasn’t commented in the days following the fight, but we did speak with him immediately following the game and this is what he had to say…

TMZ VIDEO, STORY: TMZ is also all over the story with exclusive video. TMZ is interested obviously because Diamond Bar WR Cordell Broadus, the son of rapper Snoop Dogg, was allegedly involved in the brawl.

FULL CIF-SS PRESS RELEASE

Note: Players ejected are subject to one-game suspensions.

Question has to be asked: It appears that Diamond Bar will not be allowed to call up JV players to field a varsity roster, thus forcing it to forfeit its next game. Question is, why? When Cathedral and St. Paul baseball had a bench-clearing brawl last April, several were suspended. St. Paul forfeited its next game because of a depleted lineup. However, Cathedral did use JV players to field a team for its next game, though it was a tournament game. I have no problem with CIF forcing a forfeit, but I always thought you could call up JV players if needed. In any case, there is nothing Diamond Bar can do about it. They signed an agreement that stipulates whatever CIF decides is final.

CIF-PRESS RELEASE SAYS: After an investigation of the events surrounding the early termination of the Hacienda League football contest between Diamond Ranch and Diamond Bar High Schools the section, in cooperation with the schools involved, has made the following determination:

1. Diamond Ranch High School had three (3) players ejected from the contest on-site by the officiating crew due to fighting and/or assaultive behavior.

2. Diamond Ranch High School, following review of game footage, has had an additional five (5) players ejected from the contest due to fighting and/or assaultive behavior.

3. Diamond Ranch High School, following review of game footage, has had an additional 11 players ejected from the contest due to leaving the confines of the bench or team area.

4. Diamond Ranch High School, following review of game footage, had 10 players on the field prior to the onset of the altercation that did not participate in the altercation and were not observed displaying aggressive and/or assaultive behavior and are NOT ejected and considered eligible for their next contest.

5. Diamond Bar High School had four (4) players ejected from the contest on-site by the officiating crew due to fighting and/or assaultive behavior.

6. Diamond Bar High School, following review of game footage, has had an additional five (5) players ejected from the contest due to fighting and/or assaultive behavior.

7. Diamond Bar High School, following review of game footage, had all but one player who was on the sideline at the time of the altercation leave the confines of the bench or
team area. Those players are also considered ejected.

8. Diamond Bar High School, following review of game footage, had six (6) players on the field prior to the onset of the altercation that did not participate in the altercation and were not observed displaying aggressive and/or assaultive behavior and are NOT ejected and considered eligible for their next contest.

9. Diamond Bar High School, due to a lack of varsity players available to compete in their
next contest will forfeit that contest. The CIF Southern Section now considers this matter closed and will have no further comment on any aspect of this unfortunate situation.

You can read the entire story, but being a golfer, I thought it was unusual to read about a coach telling players when they can and can’t hit driver depending on what hole they’re playing. I don’t fault the coach for teaching his players how to manage themselves around a golf course. That’s smart. But for me, my driver is the most accurate long club in my bag so I’m not sure he could sell me on this. I’d probably hook my utility club, then I’m blaming coach. But you read the story and decide for yourself. And in any case, the coach is doing a great job with Walnut. Here’s a quote from the story:

STORY: “Our preparation is a little different in that when we play at home on certain holes not any of my players are permitted to hit driver,” Wood said. “Not even in practice. I do not want them to get used to it.
“When we’re ready to go to CIF, we go there and look at the course the night before. I’ll say, ‘On this hole there is no way you’re going to hit that club. You’ll get in trouble with that club.’ We go hole-by-hole.”

This seems like a good thread to share the Fred Robledo trick shot … any questions?