Sep 5th, 2007
Hot fun in Vegas for Alta H.S. Football
Las Vegas during Labor Day weekend is about the last place on earth you could expect to find me, but there I was the past couple of days nonetheless.
It’s hot as Hades (103-105 degrees Fahrenheit), the city seems to be a magnet for every smoker on the planet, and the gambling mecca that says “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” does just about everything it can to make sure that what definitely stays in Vegas is one’s hard, earned cash.
But Alta High School’s football team decided it was gonna play an “endowment” pre-season game against one of the top teams in California (East Clovis High out of the Fresno area) over Labor Day weekend. So Poppa P, Momma P and our youngest daughter headed off to Sin City to watch our son Jonathan play.
As it was, Jonathan’s Junior Varsity squad ended up playing Saturday morning (9/1) against the JV team from Las Vegas’ own Bishop Gorman High at the practice field on the UNLV campus. And it was not pretty as the Alta Hawks crushed the Gaels 54-0.
That evening, the Hawks varsity took on the Silverwolves at Sam Boyd Stadium on the outskirts of town. I won’t attempt to give a play-by-play rundown of the except to say it was an exciting back-and-forth battle that wasn’t put away until late in the 4th quarter when Kaden Carli picked off a pass and ran it back for a touchdown to put Alta ahead 28-12.
For a nice write-up, check out this article in the Sunday edition of the Fresno Bee.
The Hawks are now 2-1, are ranked 2nd in Utah in the 5A standings, having only lost another heartbreaker to the Bingham Miners, last year’s 5A State Champs and holders of an 18-game winning streak.
All in all, a successful trip to the desert for the Hawks and the Politis clan, withering heat notwithstanding.
