GOSSARD SACKS SPARTANS CRES. VALLEY 34, GLENDALE 0.Byline: Dave Shelburne Staff Writer GLENDALE - Visiting La Canada High did its best to slow down Crescenta Valley's Homecoming Homecoming Odyssey concerning Odysseus’s difficulties in getting home after war. [Gk. Myth.: Odyssey] You Can’t Go Home Again revisiting his home town, a writer is disillusioned by what he sees. [Am. Lit. celebration Friday night. The visiting Spartans opened the game with a successful onsides kick and went on to sack Falcons quarterback Hudson Gossard 10 times. Unfortunately for La Canada, that was end of the good news, except for their game-long hard effort, as Gossard and the Falcons of La Crescenta enjoyed the kind of performance usually reserved for exaggerated retellings of ancient Glory Days. Gossard, showing the resilience resilience (r  ·zilˑ·yens),n of one of those bounce-up clown clown, a comic character usually distinguished by garish makeup and costume whose antics are both humorously clumsy and acrobatic. The clown employs a broad, physical style of humor that is wordless or not as self-consciously verbal as the traditional fool or jester. toys that is impossible to keep down, shook off 56 yards in sacks to complete 24 of 27 passes for 267 yards and three touchdowns as Crescenta Valley The Crescenta Valley is a small inland valley in Los Angeles County, California. Its name derives from its crescent-like shape, with the convex portion facing roughly northeast and the concave portion southwest. (4-0) lived up to its No. 5 ranking with a 34-0 nonleague win at Glendale High. The 5-foot-9 senior completed his first 19 passes, finished his third consecutive game without an interception - he has not thrown one since the first series of his first game - and for good measure, his girlfriend was named Homecoming Queen. It was almost as good for the rest of the Falcons, who rode their captain's hot hand to finish off a dominating performance against a La Canada team (2-2) that entered the game ranked No. 1 in Southern Section Division X. Crescenta Valley's defense intercepted La Canada quarterback Eric Young Eric Young can refer to:
Sean-Paul Ceja (46-yard reception), Richard Mendoza (3-yard reception) and Shara Hartoonian (13-yard reception) caught the scoring passes from Gossard, who has eight TD passes, 1,138 yards passing and a 66.4 percent completion rate this season. Hartoonian, who led Falcons receivers with six catches for 54 yards, also had a 3-yard scoring run, and Brent Clissold kicked a pair of 37-yard field goals for Crescenta Valley, which used a 21-0 second quarter to build a 28-0 halftime lead. But the Falcons didn't have all of the big plays Friday night. And no one - not even Gossard - had a better game than La Canada linebacker Tommy McGuinness Tommy “The Boiler” McGuinness is a former inter-county Irish Gaelic footballer for County Meath in Ireland. He enjoyed much success play inter-county football from around 1929 to the early forty’s on the Meath team. , who sacked sack 1 n. 1. a. A large bag of strong coarse material for holding objects in bulk. b. A similar container of paper or plastic. c. The amount that such a container can hold. 2. Gossard eight times to take some of the sting out of a game in which his Spartans were outgained 299-175 in total yards. CAPTION(S): photo, box Photo: no caption (Hudson Gossard) Box: GOSSARD GAME-BY-GAME |
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