Fall Sports Recap

Fall is Over, Now on to Winter
by Bob Chan

Can you believe it? a third of the school year has already passed and so has the fall sports. This year there was six sports during this season, Boys' Football, Boys' Water Polo were for guys only. The football team this year was led by Lamar Weston as the quarterback and had Marcus Gladden, David Leon, and Marus Boldridge as Lamar’s primary receivers. This year had high expectations with new coach Mike Esposito taking charge of the team. It was a disappointing season but did have its high point when we won the Golden Shovel in the "Battle of the 905" between us and San Ysidro high 35- 8. We finished 1-11 which was an improvement from last year. The Boy’s water polo was led by a batch of new players and also by Coach Carson. The team went 3-7 and had a schedule that faced a lot of tough teams such as Mar Vista and Spring Valley. Top players were sophomore Jesus Lopez and Senior Luis Vasquez.

The sports this year for girls were tennis, golf and volleyball. The tennis team had ended their season with second place trailing the Olympian Eagles. It had players ranging from sophomores such as Yasmin Garcia to juniors like Joy Roxas and also seniors like Brenda Pitogo. The girls' golf team had a young team, who was led by senior team captain Elma Gonzalez. They had finished second in their league only finishing behind the Sweetwater Red Devils. In the individual playoffs we had seven SOH girls who were among the top twelve golfers in the league which include senior and team captain Elma Gonzalez, freshmen Alison Lawyer, freshmen Valerie Rodriguez, junior Grisela Robles, sophomore Maria Bojorquez, sophomore Teresa Romero-Medina, and freshmen Yunueth Jimenez. The girl’s' volleyball team had ended the season with a record of nine victories and three losses, in second place of the Southbay League. The final game of the season showed how dominant we were with a clean sweep against the Red Devils. The Lady Raiders then went off to the playoffs against La Jolla for their final match of the year.

The final sport was a coed one that started in July and ended after four long and grueling months. The "X"-Country Team was lead by newspapers very own Omar Arce and had science teacher Mr. Buse as a coach as well as others. The JV boy’s team and varsity girls had both finished in third place and also show a bright future with sophomore’s Yessenia Baylon and Andrew Palacios. With this season over we’ll be looking forward to the winter sport’s where we can hope to find as much success that we found in the fall.