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Foreign Football

1A of JVTeam Non-natives

Football is a sport quarterback Ian O'Brien
unique to North Amer­ provided leadership and
ica, but what happens emerged as the base for
when one third of your a strong passing attack.
team comes from foreign Reflecting on a team
countries? The result — composed of over twen­
football, Pine Crest style. ty ninth-graders and a
On the junior varsity huge number of players
squad many of the unfamiliar with the game,
players had never par­ Coach Karl Hop com­
ticipated in a game while mented that he was
others barely knew the proud that the team
rules. Through a combin­ came together in the
ation of teamwork and face of such adverse
long hours of practice, conditions.
however, the team unit­ Most of the players on
ed and earned a 3-3 the junior high squad
record. were disappointed with
Because of an excep­ their record, but not
tionally large number of with their efforts. Com­
players, two full offen­ mon statements from
sive or defensive units players included, "We
could be fielded at any worked so hard to­
given time. Rotating tired gether, but just couldn’t
players with fresh ones win some of those
enabled the Panthers to games.” An outstanding
wear down opponents. player, back Chris Gertz
Center Ricky Gertz and often used his size and
speed to plow over
opponents. All players
Versus the Gulliver Raiders, agreed that they had
Drew Kemp, Frank Ferrari, learned valuable fun­
and Greg Stuart prepare to
smash their opponent. damentals.

Football

Junior Varsity
(3-3)

OPP
Belen 3
Westminster Christian o
Gulliver 13
Curley 19
St. Andrew's 14
Pace 24
JUNIOR VARSITY FOOTBALL: FRONT ROW: Mr. Karl Hop, Brent Holman, Geof Bullens,
Ken Allen, Walter Lopez, Juan Collazo. Darren Pollock, Wes Deeds, Marcelo Villalba,
SECOND ROW: Vincent Galiano, Jordan Drew Ruf, Nigel Zelcer, Alex Slatopolsky, Bill
Sayfie, Gus Cuadra, Bobby Cheanvechai, Ian Atkins, Jon Weil, Ricky Gertz, Andy Strong,
O'Brien, Erik Kraemer, Matt Josepher, John Yirak, John Tucker, Mark Chaiken, Mr.
George Telegadis, Edgar Correa, Paul Keung, Leigh Harris.
Richard Hwang, Larry Matus. THIRD ROW:

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