The Fremont High football team forfeited Saturday’s varsity and junior varsity season-opening football games against Chowchilla.
Tigers coach Isamu Falevai said Fremont athletic director Darlene Miller informed Chowchilla last week that the Tigers were forfeiting the games because they did not have enough eligible players. Falevai said it was a combination of players who had not fulfilled academic requirements and players who had not yet participated in the 10 days of practice required by the California Interscholastic Federation to play in a game.
Some players got their physicals late in the summer and that prevented them from participating in enough practices, Falevai said. He expects to have enough eligible players for Fremont’s Sept. 10 game against Galileo-San Francisco.
“We’re working hard on building it up so that we get more numbers,” Falevai said.
The junior varsity team will forfeit at least its first two games, possibly more, Falevai said.
A reminder to all of you to check us out and like us on Facebook. We’ll be posting poll questions throughout the year. The latest allows you to predict the winner of Thursday’s season opener between Concord and Cardinal Newman. Check it out.
One question we got early in the process was to work on an alumni watch, so we figured a brief update on our last two recruiting classes might be in order. Jimmy will handle the Cream of the Crop class of 2010, I’ll take 2011.
Ashley was a two-time All-East Bay first-team selection while at O’Dowd, helping the Dragons reached the California Interscholastic Federation Division III state championship game the past two seasons. He battled Lutheran-La Verne’s Grant Jerrett, also an Arizona commit, in last year’s state title game. He outplayed Jerrett, but the Dragons lost 64-59, their second straight heartbreaking state title game defeat.
Ashley had narrowed his four finalists to Arizona, UCLA, Oregon and Kentucky. He had earlier narrowed a top seven that included Georgia Tech, Syracuse and Texas, with Cal not making the cut in the recruitment of the East Bay’s top prospect.
As you’ve seen the league previews pop up in your newspapers, you’ve seen three games to watch from each league. Now, Ben and I are going to each pick three games we’ve got our eyes on this season.
Our prep football preview package begins in tomorrow’s paper. Much of the stuff is already up online. Here’s a short video I compiled to go along with our centerpiece story.
- East Bay Prep Corner
