Although it’s technically a home game, the Los Altos High football team will travel 9 miles to play its Sept. 23 league opener.
Not that the Eagles are complaining – the game will be at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara. Los Altos is slated to play Wilcox at 3:30 p.m., the first game of a doubleheader capped by St. Mary’s (Stockton) vs. Mater Dei (Santa Ana) at 7 p.m.
The Los Altos High football team has to hope Saturday’s opener was an anomaly and not a sign of things to come in a season that promises only to get tougher after this week.
Shorthanded Scotts Valley prevailed 35-7 over the host Eagles, who avoided the shutout with a touchdown late in the fourth quarter as the temperature topped 90 degrees.
It’s a season of change for the football teams at Los Altos and Mountain View highs, and it goes beyond their respective rosters.
The rivals have switched divisions of the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League – the Eagles were promoted and the Spartans demoted – but they will still play each other in a late-season game that could have playoff implications.
Don’t tell these guys that the result of the 43rd annual Charlie Wedemeyer All-Star Football Game didn’t matter. Exhibition game or not, local players on the North weren’t satisfied with having to settle for a 13-all tie against the South.
“I really wanted OT,” St. Francis High linebacker Dominic Graziani said.
