By Darrel Wheeler
Tiger Nation had a decent football weekend winning 4 of their 7 football challenges. The Tigers have seen better days and plan on recapturing their glory days, one game at a time.
On Saturday, Skyline got off to a great start with a shutout, a 19-0 victory over Oceanside by Skyline’s flag team, the Tiny Mite Tigers won a defensive struggle against Oceanside 6-0. Skyline’s 12–U Tigers captured their first win of the season with a 46-6 blowout over O’Sides Warriors. O’Side had to except another ‘’ L’’ against Skyline’s (14-U) Tigers 38-20. Skyline’s Mighty-Mite, JPW and PW’s were unsuccessful in their bids for victories.
The big showdown between Balboa’s PW Raiders and Skyline, both with identical 3-1 records were eager to see who had the right stuff.
“They were talking all kind of junk on Facebook about what they were going to do to us. I wasn’t even tripping off them. I’m thinking about Eastlake and Los Toro’s teams like that,” Raider Head Coach Ray Logan shared. “I don’t usually I get involved in that stuff but they talked all that smack and couldn’t back it up, they can’t even score.”
The Raiders led from beginning to end, ruled through intimidation and total domination “squeaking” by the Tigers scoring 41 unanswered points.
“We knew we were better than them. They were just talking that’s all.” said Raider Damien Whitfield. “We played a good game today. Our defense was hitting hard, and we played a discipline game Curtis Rodgers, Giovanni Burns, Jorden Colo’n and Jayden Green had good games today,” Raider Damion Whitfield shared.
The Raiders will see if they can continue their winning vs the 3-1 Buccaneers of Bonita next Saturday. The Tigers will also hit the road to challenge the 3-1 Wolverines.
”I really thought we could beat Balboa. I guess some of the kids didn’t feel the same way,” Skyline Head Coach Andre Logan said. “It seemed like some of my players were intimidated by Balboa. When they scored their first touchdown, they felt like they knew we were going to lose and gave up, but some of the players played hard regardless of the score.”
