CARDINALS UPEND 2AAA; LAS VEGAS ROBERTSON STIFLES, SHOCKS ST. MICHAEL'S IN KEY DISTRICT MATCHUP.Byline: GEOFF GRAMMER The exuberant exuberant /ex·u·ber·ant/ (eg-zoo´ber-ant) copious or excessive in production; showing excessive proliferation. ex·u·ber·ant adj. Proliferating or growing excessively. hooting and hollering coming from the Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. Robertson locker Things commonly known as lockers include:
The Cardinals dominated every facet facet /fac·et/ (fas´it) a small plane surface on a hard body, as on a bone. fac·et n. 1. A small smooth area on a bone or other firm structure. 2. of Saturday's game -- gaining 217 yards of offense while holding the Horsemen to minus-14 total yards, gaining 12 first downs while allowing two, shutting out the Horsemen for the first time in 54 games and all but securing the District 2AAA AAA: see American Automobile Association. (Triple A) A common single-cell battery used in a myriad of electronic devices of all variety. Like its double A (AA) cousin, it provides 1.5 volts of DC power. When used in series, the voltage is multiplied. runner-up spot. "We were hoping to come out and squeeze out a victory," said Robertson junior quarterback/linebacker Daniel Martinez, who rushed for 124 yards, a touchdown and was one of a plethora plethora /pleth·o·ra/ (pleth´ah-rah) 1. an excess of blood. 2. by extension, a red florid complexion.pletho´ric pleth·o·ra n. 1. of Cardinals defenders putting constant pressure on Horsemen quarterbacks. "But we weren't expecting anything like this. This shocked us a little, and I could definitely see the shock in their eyes on the field as it was happening." That shock wasn't reserved for the players. "I'm embarrassed," said St. Michael's head coach Joey Joey after Joseph Grimaldi, famous 19th-century clown. [Am. Hist.: Espy, 45] See : Clowns Fernandez. "I didn't have my team ready to play. I'm disappointed because I know that we can play a lot better. I'm angry just because we didn't do what was taught. We (prepared for) everything that they did and we didn't do what we taught them to do this week." After Luis Lopez Luis Lopez or Luis López can mean:
Abreu added a second touchdown run in the second quarter for a 13-0 halftime lead. The intermission didn't change the tone of the game. In fact, the Cardinals' high-pressure defense only got better. Robertson (6-3 overall, 2-1 District 2AAA) sacked St. Michael's quarterbacks six times for minus-47 yards and allowed the highly-regarded Horsemen rushing attack to minus-37 yards. "Hopefully, we'll learn from this and, hopefully, we'll come together as a team because right now, we're not a team," said Fernandez, whose team falls to 6-3 overall, 1-2 in district. The lack of cohesion cohesion: see adhesion and cohesion. Cohesion (physics) The tendency of atoms or molecules to coalesce into extended condensed states. This tendency is practically universal. on the St. Michael's sideline sideline See on the sidelines. was a stark contrast to the culmination of more than a year's worth of rebuilding a sense of team on the Robertson sideline. The Cardinals not only catapulted to a potential top-four seeding in the Class AAA state playoffs, and a first-round tournament bye, they took another stride toward forgetting its recent past. The first memory Saturday's win helped put in the rearview mirror was one put right in their face as they walked to and from Brother Abdon Field. Hanging in the office window of Fernandez, an office window only a few feet from the entrance to the visitor's locker room, was a poster showing the 2007 AAA state football tournament bracket In programming, brackets (the [ and ] characters) are used to enclose numbers and subscripts. For example, in the C statement int menustart [4] = ; the [4] indicates the number of elements in the array, and the contents are enclosed in curly braces. . The poster showed the 27-6 St. Michael's championship win over the Cardinals. The second memory Saturday's win helped the Robertson football team distance itself from was far more painful. "After what these guys have been through and what we went through last year," said Robertson head coach Richard Martinez, "I'm hoping that with this, we can finally turn the page and move on with all our lives in Las Vegas and let this be it." Since the 2007 state title loss to St. Michael's, the Robertson football team feels it has been dragged through the mud in the aftermath of a 2008 summer hazing Hazing is an often ritualistic test and a task, which may constitute harassment, abuse or humiliation with requirements to perform random, often meaningless tasks, sometimes as a way of initiation into a social group. incident that rocked the foundation of what had been one of the state's top AAA programs. Coach Martinez was put in place to run the program less than a week before the 2008 season and the team struggled to a 2-9 record. But he never stopped rebuilding and never let the kids get caught up in what those on the outside of the program were saying. "We just worked hard, every day we worked hard," coach Martinez said. "They played like men today. They didn't come down here afraid of getting beat. That's a huge step forward and I hope some people around the state start taking notice of just how far these kids have come since our 0-2 start, and since last year." After Saturday, the Robertson football team is hard to ignore. Contact Geoff Grammer at 986-3060 or ggrammer@sfnewmexican.com. Read his blog at grammerschoolblog.com. |
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