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Grizzly wrestling takes 39-18 win against Del Oro
January 26th, 2011Granite Bay High School wrestling secured an important 39-18 win over Del Oro High School Wednesday night and in doing so took a big step towards a first-ever team league title.
GBHS took a large early lead over their perennial powerhouse opponents Del Oro, going up 24-3 with the help of a pin and a technical elimination, netting 6 and 5 points respectively.
The Del Oro team fought back to score three consecutive three-point wins, cutting the GBHS lead to 24-12, but despite this late come-back they were all but mathematically eliminated from a win.
With only 4 matches remaining and one of them being a six point forfeit to Granite Bay due to the fact that Del Oro failed to field anyone against junior Gavin Andrews, the Del Oro team could only hope for three consecutive pins for six point victories and a win via tie-breaker.
Del Oro took the first step to a nearly impossible comeback as Del Oro freshman Dylan Kainrath secured a pin for 6 points, but victory slipped away as senior Will Anderson secured a toughly fought three point decision to seal the meet for Granite Bay.
Grizzlies fall to Timberwolves in SFL opener
January 13th, 2011ROSEVILLE- January 13, 2011
The defending Sac-Joaquin Division II section champions proved to be too much for the Granite Bay High School boys’ basketball team (15-3) to handle in their first league game at Woodcreek High School, resulting in a 58-51 victory for the Timberwolves (15-3).
Momentum was exchanged quickly with the Timberwolves taking an early lead, only to see the Grizzlies respond with a 16 to 9 scoring run in the second-quarter to take a 29 to 26 lead into halftime.
Strong play by senior Robert Duncan and senior Jon Davis in the first half led to the Grizzly lead, and they finished top two in scoring for the Grizzlies with 18 and 15 points respectively.
The third quarter saw both teams equal each other with 14 points, and the Grizzlies spread the ball around with efficiency, scoring with six different players including a crowd silencing three-point shot by senior Joe Eyen, his only basket of the night.
However, the packed house did not stay quiet for long and the several hundred Woodcreek “Black Mob” fans got excited as the Timberwolves started reeling in the Grizzlies, and the crowd presence was felt by both teams.
Granite Bay struggled set up an inside or a perimeter presence and were lacking offensively through much of the second half.
Despite getting into foul trouble with four minutes left in the fourth quarter, the Timberwolves sent the Grizzles into disarray with a minute and a half left on the clock thanks largely to the 12 fourth-quarter points WHS senior John Peska contributed as he went six for six with two three-pointers.
The game ended with a breakdown as the GBHS squad failed to capitalize on several late fouls and the Timberwolves sealed the game with the help of a cherry-picked layup, much to the delight of the home crowd.
Grizzly mistakes lead to 24-21 Del Oro victory
October 23rd, 2010The Granite Bay Grizzlies vs. Del Oro Golden Eagles football game is the most hotly anticipated game of the year, and this year’s Oct. 22 match-up was no different, with Del Oro (4-4, 2-1 in SFL) sealing a 24-21 victory with a 26-yard fourth quarter field goal.
“We knew it would be a long fought game,” Del Oro football coach Casey Taylor said. “(We knew the game) would get to the fourth quarter and we’d have a chance to win and that’s what we did. Every year it goes down to the wire with these guys and (the winner is) who can make the plays in the fourth quarter.”
The Del Oro football team has not had an easy path to the emotional plateau they sit on now.
“We’ve had a rough season, we were 2-3, (had) a lot of drama off the field and a tough schedule,” Taylor said. “People were writing us off and saying we were no good.”
Del Oro should have silenced any critics with their victory over the Grizzlies, as a tough defense managed to keep the ball away from the dangerous Granite Bay High School tight end and senior Matt Kasner. According to Taylor, Del Oro focused a lot of attention on Kasner and fellow GBHS senior and running back Cory Brehm.
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Piranha 3D
September 15th, 2010What could be more hideous than a human body being ripped to shreds by hundreds of fish?
Well, in Piranha 3D the rampant objectification of women is far worse than any gore.
Directed by Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes), and starring Steven R. McQueen of The Vampire Diaries fame (and grandson of the legendary Steve McQueen), Piranha took sex and violence and ran with them, reaching unprecedented levels of both. More on those later.
The simplistic and admittedly silly plot revolves around McQueen’s character Jake Forester and his mother, (Elizabeth Shue) the county Sheriff as they deal with the newly unleashed threat of prehistoric-piranha attacking thousands of college kids on spring break. Read the rest of this entry “
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It’s their afterlife, not yours
November 17th, 2009What is it about death that sparks up such bitter and heated debate among mankind?
Why must our ideas of divinity and the afterlife be contentious, and why is it that there must only be one correct answer to a question so all-encompassing, such as the meaning of life?
From the moment man had the ability to think, he has questioned the death that surrounded him.
As soon as he learned to speak, he talked of death, of what happens, of why it happens, of what’s next.
The questions were endless and the answers were absent.
So man developed the idea of gods to answer the questions that he could not. Throughout history the numbers of gods have changed, but the questions they answer have not.
So why has so much hatred, violence and bigotry developed from a question so innocent?
Why is it that there must only be one answer to a question so great?
Why does humanity so often choose to persecute others for what will happen after they die?
How will someone’s views on the afterlife affect another’s current life?
The short answer is that it doesn’t. Why then has there been so much hatred and death because of people’s interpretation of religion — such as the Spanish Inquisition, the Holocaust, the genocide of the Kurds and the untold number of other cases throughout history.
What god would be the creator of life and condone its followers to destroy life in its own name?
Do we have the idea of religion all wrong?
The biggest mistake is the ability of an organized religion to take the responsibility out of choice. So many times I have seen someone explain an action or an opinion based on his or her affiliation with a religion.
Thoughts and choices must not be made simply because that’s what your religion believes — it should be what you believe.
Faith in a god is one thing but as soon as an organization has the capacity to take the faith a person has in their personal thought or reasoning and replace this with the organization’s own beliefs, it has crossed the line.
As soon as this responsibility is gone and the individual is given a sense of anonymity, they can commit crimes in the name of a god that they would ordinarily consider heinous, such as genocide.
These problems do not lie in religion or god; it is the people that are the root of the evil.
Those using religion as a source of power and as a means to control others are what have given religion its dark side.
But the blame is not entirely theirs.
One man can do nothing by himself, instead he must have followers, and it is the blind faith we place in the voices of preachers and other religious leaders that leads to the many atrocities committed in the name of religion throughout history.
The answer? Open your eyes. Crimes of blind faith will not be committed if we take off the blinders.
When an organization tells you how to think, how to treat others or what to believe, don’t simply accept this as law — question their statements and base your own beliefs off of what you think.
Treat others the way you would want to be treated. It seems so simple, but why do we still fail to do something we learned in kindergarten.
Would you want to be persecuted by others for your beliefs? I wouldn’t think so. Keep your beliefs to yourself; it’s their afterlife, not yours.
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