NOV. 24
THANKSGIVING RIVALRY
La Salle 14, SJ Prep 13 (OT)
   Turkey hasn’t tasted this good since 1998.  That’s the last time La Salle was able to beat the hated rival Prep.  This game sent shockwaves throughout the city, signaling the end of a hated Empire.  On a warmer than expected day in Roughly Olney two enemies took the field for battle in the 29th year of this game on Thanksgiving and believe me, this was one for the books. We really can’t remember much of the first half but we do know that it had many ups and downs for the Explorer faithful who seemed to flock to this year’s game.  The Hawks continued their turnover-happy ways against La Salle and coughed up the ball four times.  La Salle was unable to get anything, and I mean ANYthing, going on offense. Sophomore Sensation John Harrison was unable to drive the ball downfield and the Explorer running game was not able to carry any momentum from the D. The Defense’s performance was reminiscent of the dominating squads of the 50’s, when life was much more simple and you didn’t have to waste $40 on gas just to travel a little under 20 miles, but that’s a different story.  Back to the game…the secondary was at its best, shutting down the highly touted Chris Whitney almost every play.  Whitney, who never seemed comfortable in the pocket, scrambled/rushed the ball 15 times (a mirror image of the Eagles QB, Mike McMahon).  Whitney was all over the place when trying to make a pass, escaping the constant pressure from La Salle linebackers Joe Tubolino and George Hudson.  However, Prep was able to find some offense in the running game which totaled 227 yards, 56 of those yards coming off of Ryan “5th year senior” Bradley. Even though these are decent numbers, 227 is overshadowed by 3, which is the number of fumbles Prep gave up. The Pit outnumbered the Prep’s cheering “section” and at times the Prep kids were actually sitting down but if you think about it, that’s typical behavior of fans who don’t think their team is going to win.  The Pit had its fair share of ammunition for the Prep because of the recent “occurrences” there and the Inquirer’s front page article about how Prep alums run the city (you can have this city; the government is corrupt anyway).  The Prep was the first team to score in the game and they did so on a drive that was capped off by RB Jamir Livingston. This first scoring drive was about the only drive that the Prep was able to get together.  The Explorers were, at one point, able to mount a long drive that consisted of mostly passing, and when the drive stalled on the goal line they decided to go for it on 4th & Goal. They were unable to convert and gave the ball deep into Prep territory.  The game was still up in the air at halftime with the score 7-0.   The defense to that point had been a bend but not break D that was sticking it to the Prep.  Meanwhile the offense could not get anything going, at all. It was so depressing watching the offense play that “certain” fans were yelling to just leave the in defense because, and I quote, “They could do a much better job at scoring.” Guard Brad Caglia (injured in the O’Hara game) was replaced by Bill “The Professional Backup” Castelberg.  A great number of La Salle alumni attended the game and were very vocal in the, um, off-color chants that ran throughout the game, T. Resch and C-Rell made valiant attempts to quiet the crowd but failed the first few times and just gave up. (It is reported that during later chants that these highly respected faculty members actually joined in -- ha ha). So the beginning of second half with our faces painted and the game only 7-0 the Explorers and the Hawks took the field.  The Explorers were the only team to strike in the second half.   They scored on a great pass from John Harrison to a wide open Drew “Allstate” Wilkins, who caught his 4 TD catch on the season (as seen on all the major news stations). The fourth quarter was a memorable one.  Both defenses dug in and didn’t allow either of the potent offenses to get going and La Salle D kept forcing turnovers but the offense was unable to get anything going. The lack of momentum was mainly because of many Andy Reid-type calls on third and long.  The Prep’s return man refused to return any of the punts because he too feared the crazy Joe “Special Teams” Gravinese, who was in his face on every punt.  With about 6 minutes to go the Explorers got the ball and put together a drive and seemed to be getting some momentum, but were unable to convert, giving Prep the ball with about 4 minutes left.  Now I’m not gonna say there were some awful spots during the Prep’s final drive… but there were some awful spots on the Prep’s final drive.  The Hawks got lucky on their 4 minute drive into La Salle territory especially on some 3rd and 4th downs that were given to the Prep. One prevalent one was when Prep’s Whitney was tackled for a loss but was somehow able to put the ball a good yard over the first down marker. Now you all are going to say that is our La Salle bias but one of the people working the down marker told me that they were awful spots (Fumo must have paid him off too).   Nevertheless, the Prep was able to get the ball into the red zone where with 6 seconds left on the clock, the kicking team came out for the field goal.  But I guess some coaches forget how well La Salle’s special teams performs because immediately after that ball was kicked it was blocked right back, causing a huge roar to come from the Pit and shock from the Prep faithful (if you can call 'em that)…OVERTIME… I apologize to anyone that I may have hit accidentally in the Pit while moshing because I have seen some injuries that have occurred in them this season and they can be devastating.  Prep won the toss and chose to play at the other end of the field (WHAT WERE YOU THINKING??), which completely took the fans out of it. La Salle had the possession of the ball first in overtime and the first play Harrison threw it to none other than good old Jack “Boobie Miles” Forster, who used his defensive skills to rip the ball out of the Prep defender's hands. TOUCHDOWN LA SALLE!  The Extra Point was nailed by Ryan “Second Team All-Catholic ”Cain, who has been solid for Joe Colistra all season. Not only can Cain kick field goals, but he showed his speed during his celebration after the PAT (fast for a kid who is 5’5 and 200 pounds).  So now it was Prep’s turn to take the ball from the 10 yard line, and on second down, Jamir Livingston ran the ball for a touchdown. Now you would think that coach Gil Brooks would contemplate sending out his kicking team for the PAT even a little after the blocked kick, but with no hesitation the Prep special teams came stumbling out onto the field…BIG MISTAKE.  Tim “First Team All-Catholic” Edger went out, lined up the ball and somehow kicked the ball into the waiting backs of his line. GAME OVER! EXPLORERS WIN! EXPLORERS WIN!  All hell broke loose on the sidelines and in the stands, people were getting plowed over the railings and over the fence separating us from the field. I eventually get out of there by landing in a trashcan and severely injuring many lower parts of my body. Then we all made an attempt to hop the fence which took us three attempts each (because of the excitement) and a little help from one of the bigger alumni to get over. Dennis: “I landed on my face, but I could feel no pain because we had just beat the Prep” nothing was going to stop us from celebrating, yells of “holy crap we just beat prep” and “We just beat the freaking Prep” and even occasional weeping could be heard throughout the celebration. One relative of Dennis’ over on the Prep side said “It sounded like the home team had just won the World Series.”  The first player anyone saw they went up to and hugged, I (Dennis) saw Max “the Juice” Luce, and went over to him and started screaming. Everyone who was pouring out from the blue and gold stands onto the field was ecstatic.   The La Salle Alma Mater has never been sung as loud before as it was that day.   While typing this it’s hard to put into words how great this meant to everyone affiliated with La Salle, from the freshmen band members to the student council, and even to the alumni. This feeling was not only felt by La Salle faithful, but also many in the Catholic League.  The first win in the 5 game win streak on Thanksgiving Day (1999) was a 21-20 victory for the Prep, which signified the changing of the Catholic League powerhouse, and this day is the end of the empire and the changing of the Catholic League powerhouse.
GAME NOTES:
-This is for all the people who called this an upset, there are no such things as upsets because no team should ever go into a game thinking that they are going lose. That is exactly how the La Salle Explorers felt when they walked onto that field. 
-This game marks the end of the Prep winning streak on Thanksgiving Day at 5; La Salle still has the 19-10 advantage over the Prep.
-To all those Prep kids who are going to try to defend the loss by saying they didn’t start their starters (which we’ve all received comments from Prep students) and the calls could have gone both ways well I have one thing to say is that you are wrong, La Salle starters wanted that win more than the Prep starters. 
-Matt “First Team All-Catholic” Leddy was held to 0 catches which seemed to be the reoccurring theme in this game because Drew “All-State” Wilkins had an amazing game and caught at TD pass, and also how Ryan Cain’s counterpart had AWFUL kicks in the game and cost his team the game, and oh yeah to the Inquirer who seems to be all about the Prep recently(?), that wasn’t a botched snap way to make excuses for your kicker just kicking a bad kick and completely getting owned twice in the game.
-We’re still wondering when Hawk Talk will be coming back from South Africa or are they too embarrassed to show there faces…good predictions by the way guys, real good job. O WAIT LA SALLE WON.
-We would like to congratulate the La Salle soccer team who won the PCL Championship last week 2-1 against Wood.
-We apologize for not writing a report for the O’Hara game, I’ll give you guys a summary, “La Salle blows lead, O’Hara scores 28 unanswered”.  There you go.
-I (Dennis again) would also like to say that I predicted two things that happened in this game, a La Salle victory (hey Fester if you read this I would like my money) and that blocked field goal. 
-I will be attending the Prep-O’Hara, Wood-West Catholic games and I may want to write about one of them.  I’ll give some predictions Prep-87 O’Hara-1 (the only team that can beat the Prep is La Salle, shoulda listened to me) Wood 18 WC 13.

NOV. 12
CL RED 1st-ROUND PLAYOFF
La Salle 28, Ryan 3
   It seems as if every year these two teams battle it out in the playoffs, last year it was a Ryan victory, and the year before that it was a La Salle victory.  But before we get into the game, there was a long strange journey into a place that smelled a lot like New Jersey, and that is Bristol, PA. That is home of Bristol Pike (because according to the creepy toll booth guy there never was and there never shall be a Bristol Bypass).  The game didn’t really start until about half time but here are some things that happened in the first half, I got evil death stares from the Ryan captains who seemed to take offense to me shouting “You’re going to lose, because you suck.” Ryan came out on Offense and dominated on their first drive but couldn’t get it done in the clutch and Will McFillin came in to kick a short field goal.  The rest of the half consisted of three-and-outs and little movement on both sides of the ball.  The game had the makings of a defensive battle.  At half time the score was 3-0 and things got interesting. I made sure that I got close to the Ryan players so that I could make fun of them some more.  The best thing about Truman's was that they had good food…but little did we know that since we here at “Explore this” had been bashing Truman that they attempted an assassination on us, little did we know it but those delectable hot dogs weren’t really delectable but rather hot dogs from hell that were meant for our destruction. Thankfully I was able to survive the attack but Turk (who took my hotdog and ate it) ate two and was struck with a case of food poisoning and was forced to miss school on Monday.  And after halftime it was all La Salle from there.  Even though they punted on their first drive they scored on their next three possessions.  The first scoring drive consisted of some great passes and catches, they had little trouble passing the ball and that’s when they took to the ground attack where Chris “Jesus Is My Role model” Ashley busted through the middle for a 28 yard touchdown run.  On the Raiders' next possession the La Salle defense stood strong, even without All Catholic D-linemen John "John-Jon" McBurnie. LaSalle put forth one of its best efforts of the year shutting down the Raiders offense and only allowing 177 yards of total offense and a majority of that offense was on the ground.  The Explorers' secondary, led by All Catholic DB Jack Forster, shut down the passing attack and only allowed 50 yards.  On the ensuing La Salle drive the passing attack flourished and John Harrison threw a perfect strike to Drew “Allstate” Wilkins for a short touchdown, giving him his 3rd of the season. When asked what he thought about not being first team all catholic he stated, “I don’t wanna say I was robbed…” after the interview he asked if anyone had seen his wallet.  The Raiders were pinned deep into their side of the 50 when Michael Davis threw his best pass of the day to La Salle Linebacker George “Hey Cain” Hudson.  This great pick set up a twenty yard swing pass to wide open Jr. Chris Ashley, who promptly ran the ball into the end zone (he finished 2-29 and one touchdown reception and he ran 11-60 for one touchdown.  The running game for La Salle was at its best with a combined 135 yards on the ground.   At this point the Explorers were rolling and they amassed a majority of their yards in the third quarter, they rallied off 21 points in the third. When asked what changes coach Joe Colistra made at half time, Harrison replied, “They didn’t even talk to us." Silence was golden for the Explorers, who went on to score one more time on a drive in the fourth during which for the majority of the drive the ball was given to Chris Agnew, who leaped three times and got into the end zone. He had a career day in which he ran 16 times for 78 yards and a 1 yard touchdown run that seemed to cap off a perfect half for the Explorers.  The Explorers offense stepped up and scored 28 unanswered points and one of the league's most feared defense held Archbishop Ryan to only 3 points.    These two teams like to eliminate each other during the playoffs and for the second time in three years the LaSalle Explorers beat Archbishop Ryan to go on to the next round of the Catholic League Playoffs.
Game Notes:
-- Everything else besides the fact that we won sucked.  The price of the game was 10 dollars and the ticket guy was giving us more of a problem than a Prep kid trying to get a girl's number, and the toll booth guy put some sort of voodoo curse on us only because we called it a “Bypass”…We somehow ventured into New Jersey (I knew something smelled funny) and managed to drive into oncoming traffic on the Turnpike but Chris “O am I” Grady was able to steer us out of harm's way.  Not only was there a $10 admission fee and a 40-minute drive, but there was also POISONED FOOD (ha ha). I didn’t know there were that many angry readers out there and that they actually wanted us dead.  The fan support was lacking on both sides mainly because the game was just about in New Jersey.
-Play of the day came on a perfectly placed ball thrown about 30 yards and caught on the sidelines by Jack “All-World Team” Forster. He was able to somehow land in bounds and it would lead to another touchdown pass from Harrison.
-The Explorers will be traveling to Northeast High on Saturday at 7:30 to take on Cardinal O’Hara; the victor of the game will be going to the Catholic League Finals.  There is going to be a lot of people at the game mainly because it's NOT IN NEW JERSEY (whoever decided to play the game in New Jersey and made Turk get food poisoning should be punished)  The game will be a nail biter even though O’Hara defeated the Explorers, 14-0, at Springfield Montco earlier this season.  The Explorers should be able to get the passing game going again and will take this one in the late stages of the fourth quarter, 21-17.
-Also the La Salle Explorer Soccer team will be taking on Archbishop Wood’s team in the Catholic League Championship at Haverford College on Saturday at 12 o’clock.  Be there to support the school and hopefully we can bring home yet another Catholic League crown to La Salle.
- Congrats to all the Explorers who made All Catholic: OFFENSE: Sr. OL Tim Clarke, Sr. TE Drew Wilkins, Sr. WR Matt Ihlein, Soph. QB John Harrison, Jr. K Ryan Cain, Jr. P/DB Jack Forster, Jr. RB Chris Ashley DEFENSE: Jr. DL John McBurnie, Sr. LB George Hudson, Jr. DB Sean Saverio, Jr. DL Dom Baker, Jr. DE Scott Waters, and Sr. DB Jeff Liberatore, and Co-Coach of the Year: Joe Colistra.
- I still don’t know how Sophomore Sensation John Harrison wasn’t first team QB, as his passing numbers and touchdowns far exceed those of his Prep counterpart, Chris Whitney. Also somehow kids who don’t play half the season can still get first team. I can see Zeglinski getting on there because he actually played a game, but John Shaw played less than one game against a Catholic League opponent. I know he’s good but they shouldn’t give it out to people just because they were gonna be good but rather due to the numbers they put up. Other running backs in the CL were more deserving of the award.

NOV. 6
CATHOLIC RED
Roman 26, La Salle 23 (Two OTs)
   In a game that was overshadowed by the battle for first place, the battle for third in the Catholic Red was more epic than the Prep-O’Hara game.  This game included not only a field goal to tie, a goal line stand, and a block kicked, but also included two overtimes and a heartbreaking finish.  By the time we finally arrived at the game it was already 2-0 in favor of Roman; apparently there was a botched snap that went over the head of punter Jack Forster.  Later on in the first half the lethargic Explorers came to life when Chris “The Thief” Ashley ran the ball on a sweep from the one (this coming after they tried to run it up the middle three times with no gain at all and only after I went onto the field and told them to run the sweep!!). The two-point conversion failed, a play that came back to haunt the Explorers later in the game. But before that occurred Roman scored on a pass to Dom “I Like When the Girls Call Me Dominique” Joseph, leaving the score at 8-6 at half time.  The game was a defensive struggle, in which neither team was able to get much going, the La Salle defense was stingy as always with the return of DT Dom Baker, but they also suffered an injury in which run stopping specialist John McBurnie sprained his ankle.  Sr. DT Greg Crone was able to fit in nicely for the banged up D-line and provide several tackles.  I really don’t know a lot about what Roman did on defense except for the fact that they wear purple pants and they held “The Thief” to 34 yards rushing.  La Salle’s offense came to life again during the third; led by Soph. John Harrison who had passes of 18 yards to Alain Bonny and a 3 yard TD strike to Drew "AllState" Wilkins.  The game looked to be going the Explorers' way until the Cahillites (?) scored on a pass from Cory “No Relation” Jackson to Aaron Duncan, and they converted the two-point conversion giving them a 16-13 lead and suddenly they had complete momentum, until the designed “punt the ball and have them purposely fumble” play occurred and it was recovered by one of the members of the Explorer secondary.  This play, coming with less than 6 minutes left in the game, gave the members of The Pit something to cheer about.  They drove down inside the 20 where they then stalled and it then came down to Ryan “Yes I Play Football” Cain kicking a HUGE field goal to tie the game.  But before we even thought overtime, Roman was back driving. They drove to about the 3 where the Defense held strong and stopped three attempts in the end zone, leading to a kick.  This is where the game gets good, Roman’s kicking squad comes out to kick, after a load of timeouts, and a lot of shouting about how ugly the purple uni’s were, he finally kicked it and it was BLOCKED by none other than Jack “I’m Still the Man” Forster…..Overtime. In the first overtime the Explorers won and chose to play defense, and since the ball was spotted at the ten it was not hard for them to get a touchdown on a QB sneak in which they didn’t even get into the end zone, the Side judge made an awful call in which they gave the Roman QB’s the touchdown even though he was lying in the fetal position a yard and a half short of the end zone.  Nevertheless LaSalle’s quick strike offense got to work and scored immediately but a flag came out about twenty minutes later after the ref was handed a Hamilton from a fan that looked a lot like Huck (ha ha).  This put the offense back to about the 20 and it was 2 and 20.  But after two more flags and a whole lot of yelling and screaming, Harrison was able to throw a pass to the SR. Captain Mike Padgeon.   Cain’s extra point meant double overtime.  Meantime a mosh pit started by Paul “Army Sucks” Lewis* broke out in The Pit and it spilled onto the field.  But that elation was short-lived when Dom Joseph picked off a pass from Harrison early in the OT.  But the defense wasn’t gonna allow Roman to score easily.   They managed to stop them short of the goal line three times and they had to set up for another field goal, and you could see that 82 was shaking in his cleats.  After freezing him they were ready to kick the field goal from 21 yards out…..it was good right down the middle, as players ran onto the field #1 stared at us (meaning the student section) and went over and threw his towel over at the stands.  The Explorers were stunned; they had let Roman into the game after they had opportunities to shut them down.  The sad part is the game had to end, it was an epic in which both teams left it all out on the field and not only the players were drained the fans were, too. It was a 3-hour battle in which the coveted 3rd place in Catholic Red was decided.  It was a rough way for the team to end its regular season that saw the first winning season since 2002.
*Paul, here you go from Turk
GAME NOTES:
- During half time the seniors and their parents were honored, also the members of the 1955 City Championship team were on hand to celebrate their 50th anniversary of their title.
- The side judge made by far the worst calls in league history.  He made only one call against Roman in OT and made about 6 poor calls against La Salle, the first when they “scored” the Roman player was a yard from the line he had the same view as me and he made the wrong call, second he kicked Mike “The Fans' Champ” Haas off the field because he couldn’t handle the constructive criticism from him and the other fans.   The ref then went on to try and start a fight with La Salle’s athletic director, T. Resch, which was a bad mistake because T. Resch never loses, and he gave La Salle bench warnings because he couldn’t handle JoCo screaming at him (not many can).
- During the game I had a staring contest with number 1 who couldn’t stop staring at me after he didn’t hold the snap properly in the blocked kick.  He thought he was funny because after the game he walked over and threw his towel towards The Pit.  Proving how classy the men who wear purple really are.
- The next game is at Truman? (This decision is idiotic. The game will likely not draw many people at all because who wants to drive 40 minutes to a game that should be played less than ten minutes away form each school? There are plenty of sites in which the game could be played, Northeast, P-W, Germantown, Wissahickon . . . ad plenty more). At 7ish against a familiar opponent, the Archbishop Ryan “Indian/Warriors” or something like that, these two teams have eliminated the each other the past two seasons, The Explorers will conquer in this game, 21-8, the winner (La Salle) will most likely go on to play SJP, which will lead to the popular question, What to do with the Thanksgiving Day Game?

OCT. 29
CATHOLIC RED
La Salle 13, Ryan 0
   Let’s start this thing out by saying it was pretty cold at the game.  The wind was howling and the sky was grey, perfect football weather and La Salle took complete advantage of it by beating a better than expected Ryan squad.  Coming to the game we were estimating how many points we had already scored, but when we finally got there it was still 0-0. Ryan received the opening kick off then after shutting down Ryan Chris Ashley fumbled in LaSalle territory.  La Salle’s Dominant D-Line led by Jr. DT John McBurnie came out pumped and stopped Ryan on a Fourth and 1.  La Salle’s high powered offense stepped to the field and dominated.  The long methodical drive that took up the rest of the first quarter and into the second featured running backs Chris “The Thief” Ashley and Alain “Ezel Jenkins” Bonny.  The drive was capped off by a 4 yard run up the middle.  This was Bonny’s first touchdown of the year.  The game remained at 7-0 until the Explorers manufactured another long drive mixing up the passing attack led by John “I’m Not the Paperboy” Harrison, who at one point took a huge hit from one of the Ryan defenders but delivered a Peyton Manning like throw to his receiver.  The drive was concluded when Chris Ashley, with the ball in one hand and a Peanut butter and Jelly sandwich in the other, rumbled into the end zone to give LaSalle a 13-0.  On the point after, one of the La Salle faithful just got done talking about how we hadn’t missed an extra point all season and immediately after this Ryan “Yes I Play Football” Cain missed it.  The La Salle defense was suffocating in the second half going into the locker room with a shut out.  At the end of the first we continued to acknowledge that it was still really cold and the line for food was too long so we went back to our area and waited to see what the second half had in store.  The game looked like it had all of the makings of a LaSalle blowout but an early La Salle fumble by Chris Agnew. Mike Varanavage on Ryan continued to celebrate a little too much and therefore we put him in his place by yelling “Hey you, number 11 you’re still losing” and immediately he stopped.  Later in the drive, after being blitzed heavily, Michael Davis threw the ball up and Jeff “Mad ups” Liberatore jumped about 4 feet into the air to deflect a touchdown saving pass.  Later on the drive Kevin "I'm Not Tim" Ulrich stepped in front of a Ryan receiver (who most likely would not have caught it) and intercepted the pass.  On the ensuing drive Harrison had all the time to throw and spotted a very tall Matt Ihlein in stride for a large gain.  The pressure was nonexistent on Harrison as his O-Line was as strong as ever with Sr. Captain, Jim “Big Cat” Gehringer blocking defenders like no other, but the Explorers failed to capitalize on the good play and punted.  The CL Red’s leading defense was as stingy as ever, the DB’s were denying passes and the linebacker crew was solid as usual supplying constant pressure on Ryan.  The Ryan offense seemed as if they couldn’t do anything right.  They had a few long drives but the La Salle defense tightened and Ryan wasn’t able to capitalize nor could they in the red zone failing to score on both of their attempts. One huge drive killer was on fourth down when Ryan’s center (who needs to spend a little less time in the weight room) snapped the ball 5 feet over the really tall Ryan QB’s head who eventually after scooping up the ball was run into the ground by a group of Explorers.   The game ended on a similar note when the La Salle defense recorded a sack, a forced fumble and another tackle for loss and another Forced Fumble recovered by the defense.
GAME NOTES:
-The play of the day would have to have gone to Drew “Allstate” Wilkins, since neither of us could properly put the play into words we had Mike “The Peoples Champ” Haas give us a recap, “Drew Wilkins shows us his soft as a babies bottom hands by leaping 6 feet into the air getting his feet taking out from under him while landing on his head and still coming down with the ball”
-After being completely psyched out by Jack “I’ve Got Too Many Nicknames” Forster during a punt in which the returnee, Forster let the ball bounce and then quickly ran to it faking the bejesus out of Greg Williams, and Williams answered by “getting all up in his face” and while Jack walked away you could clearly see him laughing.
-Harrison finished 12-17 for 130 yards and 0 touchdowns; marking only the third time this season he failed to throw a touchdown pass.  Just another little tidbit for those Hawk Talk guys…he may be small but he still leads the league in passing yards and touchdowns... around 80 more yards and 2 more touchdowns than your Chris Whitney… 
-This win marked the most wins since 2002 for the Explorers who have an overall record of 7-2
-Coming up for the Explorers is a battle for third place in the Catholic Red against the Roman Catholic Cahillites (which isn’t even a word) …predictions for the game are a 27-13 La Salle Victory and La Salle will clinch third in the division.

OCT. 26
CL's TOP FIVE TEAMS WEEK 8
1. SJ Prep (7-1) - Coming off a huge win over LaSalle, it finally looks as if Livingston can fill in for the injured Shaw.
2. O’Hara (7-1) - After dominating Bonner, O’Hara looks ready to take on a rising Roman squad who has turned it around from a disappointing start.
3. La Salle (6-2) - lost heartbreaker to Prep in a typical game between the city's most heated rivals.  They are looking forward to take their aggression out on the Zeglinski-less Raiders at GW.
4.  West Catholic (7-1)- Subduing the surge of contention from the rest of the CL Blue division in the first eight weeks, West looks to take on the two respectable squads of Carroll and Wood.  If their defense is as suffocating as it has been in past weeks they should be able to win both.
5.  Roman (5-3)- After being annihilated by Prep, Roman has come back with a vengeance winning four in a row, carrying much of their momentum into the up coming match up with number two O’Hara.