![]() ![]() This year’s keynote speaker was Sister Joo Yun Park, a Daughter of Mary Help of Christians (also known as the Salesian Sisters of St. Lawrence Parish in Tampa.Ī major part of this vocations awareness retreat is hearing from men and women who have said yes to God’s call to a priestly or religious vocation. Petersburg participated in the annual Focus 11 program February 12 -13 at St. Over 900 sixth graders from Catholic schools across the five counties of the Diocese of St. Why wouldn’t they? After all, the Braves did what SoCal football fans have been waiting for, what those fans were hoping the Braves would do, and beat up the bully.Sister Joo Yun Park, FMA speaking to the students. With more than 16,000 fans in attendance Saturday - the largest total ever for the modern CIF State Bowl Series - one can bet that local fans will be talking about this one for a long time to come. But on Saturday, the Braves represented their school, their city, and this half of the state by knocking the champs off their perch. Usually it’s the Spartans who twist their opponent’s arm like that, making them beat themselves. They also pressured the Spartans into an unheard-of four fumbles, and a string of first-half penalties that killed three De La Salle drives that looked promising to score. By taking that early lead, and suppressing the Spartans’ run game for much of the contest, they forced them to throw in third-and-long situations, which didn’t work well for De La Salle. They decided they wanted the Spartans to throw the ball, since that’s their obvious weakness-and they made them. They went up early, as the Spartans usually do. They execute flawlessly, letting the yellow hankies rain down on the other sideline, and they come at their opponent relentlessly.īut on Saturday, it was the Braves who had the upper hand. The Spartans expose a team’s offensive weakness and then back them into that corner like a skilled prizefighter. John Bosco’s Open Division state championship bowl win was how the Braves “De La Salle-d” De La Salle from start to finish.Īnyone who has watched the Spartans run over the last decade would have found the way Bosco played to be pretty familiar. With apologies to the copy editors who have to work on this column, the thing that struck me from beginning to end in St. Whether it was against the Long Beach Poly 2001 team, or the string of teams they’ve faced in the recent bowl games, they’ve always played spoiler. “Happens every year,” he said with a justifiable smirk.Īfter all, he’s right: until Saturday night, it had happened year after year after year after year. Kowalski wasn’t seeing it, though, and thought the chatter was empty. ![]() John Bosco to be the ones to reverse the trend. The talk from around this area was that fans expected St. In fact, Time Warner analyst Mike Pawlawski was having a laugh about that fact in the broadcasting booth before the cameras started rolling. ![]() That’s the chorus of Southern California high school football fans everywhere, as somebody finally gave Concord De La Salle a wedgie and a wet Willie after years of watching the Spartans knock off lauded SoCal teams.ĭLS came into Saturday night with an unprecedented string of four straight state championships, oftenīeating teams that were considered to be more talented, or more highly ranked. CARSON > Mama, you don’t have to worry about that bully anymore.
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