Cramping controversy highlights a night of high school football madness
No one knows why cramps really happen, but the Gardena Serra-Sierra Canyon secondary school football match took the question at an unprecedented level.
The players of Serra continued to crash into defense, slowing Sierra Canyon’s offensive several times. At the end of the third quarter, Sierra Canyon coach Jon Ellinghouse had seen enough. Its 11 offensive players, in its direction, went simultaneously to the ground and engaged in false cramps.
This made that the enraged Serra coach Scott Altenberg goes to the field and be retained by others. Officials briefly interrupted the match and called 15 yards on Sierra Canyon and Serra.
Ellinghouse said after the 30-0 victory for his team, he was frustrated by repeated game stops and declining, regrets that his players are committed to false cramps.
Altenberg said he was never more angry in 27 years of coaching. He denied that his team makes cramps to influence the game. “I am not this kind of coach,” he said.
It was not the only controversy on Friday evening. Squalian scored 91 points to beat Cantwell-Sacred Heart 91-13. It was 84-7 at halftime.
Salésian coach Anthony Atkins said he started to substitute in the first quarter. There was no racing clock before the third quarter. Cantwell, the accelerated heart apparently did not ask for a race clock in the first half.
In an SMS, Atkins said: “I returned and watched the film just to make sure that there was no maliciousness or that it did not seem to try to raise the score. Honestly, there was nothing more than we could have made of our guys for the whole match.”
The match of Mira Costa-Lawndale was interrupted with Mira Costa in front of 14-0 in the first quarter due to a security threat to Mira Costa after the discovery of a ball on the campus. A volleyball tournament for girls.
In a development story, the Brady Smigiel Brady Smiel’s quarterrier from Newbury Park was injured in a match against Santa Barbara and left in the second half. Smigiel, who joined Michigan, was to take an MRI exam on one knee on Saturday.
