Mater Dei-JSerra recap

October 24th, 2008, 10:50 pm · 3 Comments · posted by ocvarsity

SANTA ANA -- Behind a defensive shutout and another offensive gem, Mater Dei ran past visiting JSerra, 42-0, Friday night in a Trinity league game played at Santa Ana Stadium.

The No. 3 Monarchs have now kept opponents scoreless in six consecutive quarters, after blanking Servite in the second half of last week’s victory.

“Outstanding performance tonight,” Coach Bruce Rollinson said. “We played the pitch, we played the dive, and we played the quarterback well and really rallied around each other.”

Quarterback Matt Barkley came out firing in the first half, going 11 of 15 for 179 yards. Barkley tossed four touchdowns in the opening half, two going to Christian Maldonado and two going to Victor Blackwell.

-- KENNY CONNOLLY, Special to OCVarsity.com

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MDmom57 says:

October 25, 2008 at 9:40 am

As a parent of a Mater Dei student athlete, it was very sad to see the lack of fan attendance for the JSerra team. I don't even think they had enough parents in attendance to match the number of boys playing on the field! There didn't appear to be a student fan base either????No matter what their win/loss ratio is....they practice daily for the opportunity to come out and try their best on game day and SOMEBODY should be there to say "thank you for your hard work". That is what I love about MD - we support our teams win or lose...because we love our kids. Show the love for your team, JSerra.

laguna mom says:

October 25, 2008 at 10:40 am

In response to MDmom: Politics, when filtered onto the sports teams, have a negative overall influence on the student body. The power base cannot will their own children to be great athletes nor can they influence other people to support them. Politics kill school spirit and pride.

Carol Dart says:

October 25, 2008 at 11:49 am

JSerra football suffered a huge loss when they fired Coach O'Hara- parents and players realized the men running the school care more about winning AT ANY COST then school pride. These men couldn't care less about the players or their families or any of the students-