Dan Albano just scored a touchdown, Steve Fryer just did three good impersonations of the PA and Damian Calhoun just learned how to use his BlackBerry. My crew is wild nice.

I took a look through the program and I’m going with the Southside. Everyone is picking the North but too many of their players look like they aren’t sure if they should smile or not. Smiling is the new black. 

Kickoff is moments away at the Brea Lions North-South All-Star Game at Orange Coast College.

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Pemasa returns it 29 yards to put the Coastals at the 34.

Curtis throws a near pick and then misses an open Abbott and Boyer the next play. The Coastals are punting.

Bass enters the game and takes his third carry for a momentous 34 yards. Bass was stuffed in a pile of Coastals and Inlands after maybe five yards. Bass then, someway, somehow, broke out of it and sprinted town the sideline, nearly taking it the distance. It looked like that run by Nebraska QB Tommie Frazier in the National Championship Game 12 years ago.

Touchdown, Bass. He shot straight up the middle, cut to his right and scored from 17 yards out.

Coa 13, Inl 21

Late 3Q

We got Panda Express and Wienerschnitzel’s in the press box and Lou immediately–and irresponsibly–stops taking notes to grab some food. All I’ve eaten today is a yogurt and some Cap N’ Crunch, so I’m crayz hungry. But I care too much about my arteries to indulge.

“I think it’s raw,” Lou says after taking a bite of a hot dog. Exactly.

Still no sign of Bass on the field as Cedric Foster of J.W. North picks up 24 yards. The Inlands are inside the Coastals red zone.

Lyons sneaks it in from a yard out for a touchdown. Now they’re going for two…Posey is stopped on a reverse by Steffien.

Coa 13, Inl 14

Late 3Q

The Centennial running back might have had the finest performance I saw this season, going for more than 300 yards in the 51-37 loss to Mater Dei. The word in the box is he arrived late because he was taking the SATs. Good for him.

It’s always nice to see the coaches have some fun in these exhibitions. The Inlands began the second half with an onside kick, which San Clemente’s Kevin Murphy fielded handily. He even picked up about seven yards on the return.

Mr. Bass will have to wait.

St. Margaret’s Hunter Steffien runs twice and picks up four yards. He has four carries for six yards.

On third-and-1 Pemasa runs for no gain. The Coastals hand it to him the next play and he gets the first down. Carlsbad QB Justin Morales hits a wide open Lamont Enyard of Oceanside for a 14-yard TD.

The two-point conversion fails. The Coastals needed those points.

Coa 13, Inl 8

Mid 3Q

Shelly Lyons of Centennial/Corona completes a 36-yard pass to Silverado’s Kevin Lewis. Lyons hit him while rolling to his right and hit Lewis down the sideline. An excellent play. What’s also interesting is that Lyons is the second Centennial quarterback on the roster. Matt Scott is also here. He played in the first quarter but appeared to have suffered an injury–trainers were tending to him on the sideline. I’m hoping maybe Fox Sports’ Jackie Pickering is down there getting the 411. Whattup Jackie!

Santa Margarita’s Logan Harrell spins Barner in the backfield for a two-yard loss. On the next play Lyons evades a sack and finds teammate Marsel Posey in the end zone. Touchdown.

The Inlands go for two and get it on a double reverse pass that ended with Temescal Canyon’s Jonathan Warzecka throwing to the original QB, Tyler Hansen of Chaparral.

Coa 7, Inl 8

Halftime

Servite’s Stuart Hein strips an Inland running back and Los Alamitos’ Kameron Jones comes away with it. First down Coastals at the Inlands 30.

On the very next play Curtis throws to the middle of the field to Abbott, who breaks a tackle, looks upfield and dodgers a couple defenders on his way into the end zone. Abbott showed some great vision there.

Coa 7, Inl 0

Late 2Q

Both teams trade punts. Not much happened other than Orange Lutheran’s Ricky Pemasa saving Coach Harry Welch by picking up eight yards on a fourth-and-1 from their own 29. That was a Charlie Weis move.

San Clemente Brad Curtis is now in for the Coastal Navies. Lou says Brad told him he was starting, but that’s OK.

On his first play he throws downfield to Andrew “The” Abbott. The Mater Dei receiver appeared to make a crazy leaping one-handed catch, but the ball popped out when he came down. And the refs are ruling it a catch. That looks Warren Reuland to me.

After a Coastals punt, the Inlands returner is popped upon catching the ball and it’s recovered Pemasa recovers. Somehow I knew he would. First down Coastals inside the Inlands 20.

After a couple quarterback sneaks by Curtis that picked up one and two inches, respectively, the Coastals run a double reverse to Abbott. It goes for a loss of six.

Rancho Bernardo kicker David Seawright come sout to attempt a 31-yard field goal. This kid is 6-4, 220…it’s good but there’s a false start on the Coastals.

The second attempt, from 36 yards, is wide right.

Coa 0, Inl 0

Mid 2Q

There was no coin toss before the game. No, they decided to do it XFL style and have two kids play steal the bacon and chase after the ball. I think they also used to play this game on American Gladiators back in the day. I’m not sure if they’re doing that on the new version — I haven’t watched that one. Im no longer six years old.

The Inland Marines won the jump ball and will receive.

Kenyon Barner of Notre Dame Riverside runs for 53 yards. The Inlands are in the red zone.

On fourth and 12 the Inlands attempt a 35 yard field goal. It’s blocked by Mater Dei’s Carlo Valdes. Holla.

Coa 0, Inl 0

Mid 1Q

Will Smith would be going ballistic right now if he knew this song was being played nine years after it was terrible. The only memorable thing from the song was its video, which featured Eva Mendes before we knew who she was. Now we know very well.

I’d like to tell you about the flyover and the parachute man that was going to land on the field, but they apparently do not exist. Lou Ponsi promised. That was half the reason why I came out to the Southern California Bowl.

It’s my first time at Titan Stadium and my first impression is that it looks like the Santa Ana Bowl. A LOT. There’s those locker rooms behind one end zone, there’s the concrete stands which I’m guessing seat a similar capacity, and there’s the grassy hills behind the end zone. The only difference is the mountain backdrop. It’s the Bowl: Redux.

Since I’m feeling generous, I’d say there are maye 1,000 people here. OK, let the show begin.