Flag football preview: Orange Lutheran aims for even more in 2025
The theme of last year for the Football team of the Lutheran Flag of Orange was “established the norm”.
The throws did exactly that, finishing 23-2 and swing Newport Harbor 20-18 to win the inaugural title in division 1 of the South section and guarantee classification n ° 1 in California.
Coach Kristen Sherman revealed that the theme of this season is “returning the bar” and, after obtaining a single starter, it seems that his team could be even better than a year ago. It may be necessary if he wants to defend his crown because the talent in the whole south is deeper than ever.
“We hope to reach a higher level this year,” said Sherman, whose husband, Rod, is head coach of the Lutheran football team from Orange. “These new rules are changing a lot. I may have preferred the old rules, but girls love thunder and return, so I think it will be more fun for them. ”
Given that defensive players will now be able to align six meters closer to the ball, an elite quarter will be essential, and throws have the best of Makena Cook, the title player of the CIF year. On August 6, the two -sports athlete joined Georgia for football, but his goal at the moment is on a rehearsal.
“We are certainly better … But it’s a clean slate,” said Cook after launching six passes from hit against the Long Beach Poly host in a scrum on Thursday – his first competition game since November.
In the second year last season, Cook passed for 6,611 yards and 97 affected, including 20 captured by the recipient All-CiF Julia Oberholtzer (now a senior) who also led the defense with 114 flag prints and eight interceptions.
Launches open the season on Wednesday in Woodbridge on Wednesday. Sherman again completed the quality opponent calendar, including a September 4 confrontation with Irvine Northwood, which won the title of Division 2 last fall thanks to Natalie Keith, which won the honors of the player of the year of the division after having launched for five touchdown in the final against Trabuco Hills.
Sherman predicted that the Trinity League competition will be a “slap in the face”.
Makena Cook led Orange Lutheran as division 1 of the southern section of 2024.
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The alignment of Jserra includes three entrants who are entrants who are entrants who are members of the national junior team 15U – the quarterrier Katherine Meier and the large defensive receiver Tessa Russell and Ava Irwin.
Kendra Hansen will be a threat of score each time she touches the ball to Mater Dei, and the management of the offensive in Santa Margarita will be Madi Lamil All-CiF, who quarterly her club of the loaders club to conquer during the NFL flag championships in Canton, Ohio, in July.
The finalist in the Division 1 Newport Harbor has graduated the quarter-Arrière All-Cisf Maia Helmar, but Sophomore Scarlett Guyser will take over the position. Cooper Dick (a football commitment in Texas technology) and Maddy Michel should be its main targets. Skylie Cid led the team in the touchdown in the first year. The sailors beat Orange Lutheran in triple extension in a tournament in Beckman during the summer, but Cook did not play.
Ava Ortman of Ventura goes into practice. Ortman launched for 6,974 yards and 110 affected while displaying a quarter of a quarter of 141.2 in 2024.
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Huntington Beach has all the offensive firepower he needs to challenge Newport Harbor for the sunset League supremacy with the return of Roxie Shaia, which launched for 7,465 yards and 99 affected in 2024, and the Taylor Savage receiver / security, which has accumulated 1,491 yards to receive.
Last fall, Ventura lost a shooting against Huntington Beach in the quarter -finals of Division 1, but the cougars could climb on the arm of Ava Ortman Senior to a deeper sequence in 2025. Statistically, it was one of the best in the section with 6,974 yards, 110 affected and a note of 141.2. In her first game on Thursday, Ventura faces Camillo, who has one of the best two -lane players from the county of Ventura in Stella Alessi (41 affected and 14 interceptions last season).
Long Beach Poly will seek three peat in the Moore League, but it will be a higher task without the quarter-Arrière All-Cf Kenzie Paimany, who has torn his anterior crossed ligament playing football. She launched 60 affected last year. The most versatile player for the Jackrabbits is the Senior Ki’ele Ho-Ching receiver, who has engaged in Oklahoma for softball.
“We hope that she will be able to return to the end of the season,” said Poly Rob Shock coach about Paimany. “We take every match as a difficult match. Nothing is given, everything is won.”
Lexi Loya de Lakewood St. Joseph led the team to a file of 22-1 and to the crown of the Santa Fe League in 2024.
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Lakewood St. Joseph only underwent one defeat in 22 games last year, however, the Jetters are about to go further with the Junior Lexi Loya signal duct (5,377 yards and 73 hit last fall) at the second year receiver Jaclyn Brennan (76 catches for 985 yards and 16 touches).
The city section represents up to 93 teams, and the one to beat seems to be Narbonne, led by his two -way faith, Faithje, Shayla Rivera and Luna Orozco.
The Gauchos beat King / Drew 7-0 for the title of Division I last year and twice beat the winner of the 2024 Banning Open Division in summer. Ugoje was chosen player of the year of division I after rushing for 1660 yards, caught 60 passes for 828 yards and marked 23 affected in the first year under the city’s city coach Sherrelle Holmes.
The crown of the Navy League is also at the double finalist of the Open San Pedro.
Teams to watch: Orange Lutheran, Jserra, Santa Margarita, Newport Harbor, Mater Dei, Huntington Beach, Northwood, Eastvale Roosevelt, Ventura, Narbonne, Lakewood St. Joseph, Aliso Niguel, Trabuco Hills, Anaheim Canyon.
