El Segundo Jr. Pee Wees Becomes Runner Up PCC Champions After Surrendering A Late Fourth Quarter Touchdown.
December 1, 2009
Our Jr. Pee Wees took their twenty one game winning streak and their defending Mighty Mites Championship into the PCC Championship game on Saturday morning. They matched up against the the Lakewood Spartans. The Spartans was last years runner up champs when we defeated them in triple overtime to be the reigning champs. Earlier this year we matched up with the Spartans in a regular season game in which our Jr Pee Wees prevailed in a 20-6 win. That game was more competitive than the final score. So our head coach knew going in to this rematch that we needed to be on our “A” game even more then our usual workmen like play. As predicted the Spartans proved to be a reputable advessary as they knocked on the door at least three times for a score. Our stingy defense however, did not allow a single yard when the touchdown was on the line. One time a goal line stance. The second time turn overs on downs. And the third time an interception in the end zone to close out the first half with the score remaining 0-0. Not only did Lakewood have a good defensive strategy but our explosive offense didn’t seem to be their normal selves that day. The Spartans held the possession of the football for most of the third quarter. The feisty Eagles defense fought off their assaults again. By spending most of our time fighting off the Spartans our offense just could not establish any good field positions. That turned out to be the determing factor of the game. For our mighty defense finally gave up a touchdown in the latter minutes of the fourth quarter. The Spartans mades the first and only score of the game. The offense tried to get it going but their defense made great tackles all over the football field all game. You have to give credit to our Eagle fans because we didn’t sit on our butts and let us go down quietly. We cheered. We screamed. We showed our boys that we loved them. Its realized that in any sport whether Professional, College, or Youth Football, its just not that easy to win twenty two games in a row. We respected you before this game started and loved the Jr. Pee Wees even more for being daring to be all that they could be. The Board of El Segundo Youth Football and Cheer salutes the 2009 Runner Up Jr. Pee Wee Champions!!!!! We wish that you gentlemen start a new streak next week as they get ready for the Jr. Rose Bowl Tournament! Thank you all for coming out and cheering our boys on. They really appreciated you there. The Eagles will continue to roll on!
