With the Edison-Fountain Valley game being switched from Orange Coast College to CS Fullerton, that means there are more tickets to be sold, starting Tuesday.
Here's the info ....
With the Edison-Fountain Valley game being switched from Orange Coast College to CS Fullerton, that means there are more tickets to be sold, starting Tuesday.
Here's the info ....
Parents at both schools are very angry that tickets were all sold, they tell me, before students got a chance to purchase them. This is always a huge game, but is more so this year because both teams are in the top 10 and both are going into this week with 7-0 records. The game is Nov. 6 at Orange Coast College (seating capacity is 7,600 there). It is Edison's home game.
I have calls in, and left messages, to both schools' principals to find out what actually happened with the ticket sales.
Craigslist has listings of FV-Edison tickets -- $40-$55. That's a lot of money for a high school football game (I saw Led Zeppelin for $9).
For the huge Servite-Mater Dei last week, at Santa Stadium (capacity 10,000) both schools had a very intricate, well-thought-out method for distributing tickets. That method will be in the Fryer column, online Thursday afternoon at ocvarsity.com and in the print OC Register on Friday.
Come back for updates on this situation.
All the tickets are gone for the game, which is Nov. 6 at Orange Coast College.
No, they won't move it to a bigger stadium. (The capacity at OCC is 7,600). Cerritos College is taken (OLu-Servite). Cal State Fullerton is cost-prohibitive, and Angel Stadium, to play a high school game in that place, requires weeks of preparation.
Remember, the Angels were eliminated just a couple of days ago.
You will be able to keep up with the game, of course, with ocvarsity.com's live updates. There may be live video, too, from our friends at IBN Sports.
The Chargers look very eager for the season to start.
Losing that final game last season to Esperanza, then losing the coin flip that kept Edison out of the playoffs, provides plenty of motivation for what could be a fine 2009 season for the Chargers.
I will file a column on that topic and much more later today here at ocvarsity.com.
Here's my vote for the county top-10 in football going into the playoffs: