Tuesday, October 15 -
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Life in Camarillo continued to move along at its own normal speed again this week.
First up was a trip to Simi Valley High School to talk to their coach Jim Benkert about his team in preparation for this Friday's Ventura County Star Game-of-the-Week podcast.
Simi Valley Pioneer
Blocking Drill
Here is the drill in action with
OL Coach Robert Richards
overseeing the Pioneers effort
Pass Blocking drill with a 10 lbs.
sand filled bag in each hand
A footwork drill with the sand bags
Wednesday after school Jacob
and I visited the Camarillo Air Museum
All things military are big
at this age
An American WWII fighter
with LOTS of decals
If award decals worked in WWII for men placing their lives on the line, then they should work for our Varese Skorpions too.
A Russian MIG fighter
Jacob flying a combat helicopter
Article in this week's VC Reporter
featuring Varese Skorpion
Ivan "Swito" Raso in the lower left corner
On Thursday I arrived at an empty
Oak Park H.S. field for an interview
with Eagles HC Casey Webb
Coach Webb had forgotten when we scheduled our interview that he had a Junior High flag football game to coach. Casey teaches at the local Junior High that feeds Oak Park.
Casey is the OC for the Junior High team
Thus we did our interview while his team, in blue, was on defense.
After the interview, I hot footed it over to Santa Clarita to take in the Moorpark College Raiders (1-4) at College of the Canyons Cougars (4-1) game
I was told that the game started at
6:00 p.m. but it really kicked off at 7:00 p.m.
I had time to kill and I was hungry so I headed to the nearby Fatburger for dinner.
Interesting new fashion look at Fatburger
Action from the MC-COC game
After playing a solid first half in which they only trailed Canyons 7-0, Moorpark eventually succumbed to the Cougars 34-7 despite giving the best effort that I've seen from the Raiders in the last two seasons.
Friday Night Lights
Simi Valley (5-2) at Oak Park (7-0)
Our son Michael accompanied me to the evening's podcast between the two Canyon League favorites on the opening night of league play.
Simi Valley was on a five game winning streak, so this figured to be a good one.
Me doing color commentary,
Kent Brown doing the play-by-play
and Anthony Placencia working the camera
Oak Park's Alex Jones
showing off his agility
Oak Park Gang Tackling
Gianni Smith had a GREAT night
at QB/K/P for Oak Park
Excellent pass rush by Oak Park's
DE Luca Sarac
What we all thought would be a close game was won easily by Oak Park by the final tally of 31-7.
Oak Park singing the Alma Mater
after their big Canyon League victory
Jacob chasing down the ball
at Saturday morning soccer
An Open Goal
Kick that thing Jacob!
Laurie and Mary at the
Santa Clara Elementary School Carnival
Mary ridding down the purple
slide on the right
She, a thrill seeker, had a blast
and rode down the slide at least
a dozen times non-stop
Jacob allowing his inner Braveheart
to shine at the Carnival
Jacob at Soup Plantation today
after school
Weekend News from EuroBall
Another HUGE game for Team Italy
last weekend
WOW!
All of the Italian American football community is both surprised and ecstatic over Team Italy's 2-0 start in the European Championship qualifying tournament!
Reading Is FUNdamental!
Never disappointed in her
Venetian crime tales
Equally contented with his
Sicilian crime yarns
The ONLY way to travel
through Tuscany!
"Why didn't we have the good luck to be born Italian, Paul? Is it something we did in a previous life? Something that led to bad karma?"
"Don't fall in love with this place," said Onesto, "Italy is a seductress. Remember that."
Agreed.
