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End of the Road
The Centuars Fall to Lompoc For most of the past two and a half months, the Culver City High football team’s season has been something of a roller coaster ride. But just as the ride seemed to be getting really interesting, it came to an abrupt h...
Powerful Lompoc Stands In Culver’s Way
Centaurs To Host Playoff Game Could it be 2011 all over again for the Culver City High football team? Just like last season, the Centaurs came into the playoffs having had to win their final game just to make it to the postseason. Then when it...
Can Culver Repeat Playoff Success?
Like last year, Centaurs Barely Qualify With its collective back against the wall, the Culver City High football team responded with one of its best efforts of the 2012 season. Facing a must-win situation to make the CIF-SS playoffs, the Centaurs...
Despite Injuries, Centaurs Are Hopeful
Third Place Is At Stake Friday The breaks aren’t exactly going the Culver City High football team’s way right about now. The Centaurs lost their first- and second-string centers last Friday against Morningside, and the third-stringer is the sta...
Centaurs’ Playoff Berth At Stake
Loss To Santa Monica Mars Hopes Instead of getting better, it seems as if the Culver City High football team’s offense is getting progressively worse. And the Centaurs’ playoff hopes are progressively getting bleaker. In one of its worst off...
Culver Loses, Awaits Santa Monica
Key Game Is Friday Night In a season that started out with so much promise, the Culver City High football team’s motto is quickly becoming “what could have been.” In each of the Centaurs’ losses this season, they have had myriad opportu...
Centaurs Open League With Win
Hawthorne Routed, 47-0 Coming off a tough loss to Southern California power Bishop Amat two weeks ago, the Culver City High football team was in need of a confidence-boosting game. The Centaurs got just what they needed in their Ocean League opener...
A Missed Opportunity
Centaurs Flub Chances In Defeat In only its second matchup against a team from the CIF-Southern Section’s highest division, the Culver City High football team had every opportunity to pull off a big upset. Instead, the Centaurs beat themselves as m...
Centaurs Await The Big Test
They Warm Up With a 51-0 Win The only thing that West Adams Prep provided the Culver City High football team with last Friday was a chance to have a glorified practice before the real test. Playing against a clearly overmatched team, the Centaurs...
Whew --- Centaurs Barely Hold On
Backups Stumble But Culver Wins Last Friday’s game against Redondo almost seemed like three games in one for the Culver City High football team. There was the first quarter, when the Centaurs fell behind 6-0 and did little offensively. Then there w...
Centaurs Lose Opener
First Time In Nine Years It was an unusual beginning to the 2012 season for the Culver City High football team. And that’s a big reason why the Centaurs’ first game ended with such an unfamiliar feeling. Culver City rallied from deficits of 14-0 and...
NICE TRY, CULVER CITY
NICE TRY CULVER CITY Centaurs Lose In CIF Finals The remarkable playoff run put together by the Culver City High football team didn't have the happy ending the Centaurs were hoping for. After stunning No. 1 seed Serra on the road in its playoff...
FIRST CHAMPIONSHIP GAME IN 33 YEARS
Culver To Play At Arroyo Grande Five weeks ago, when the Culver City High football team was beaten by Santa Monica on its home field, the Centaurs’ season was hanging by a thread. But since then, the Centaurs have stitched together an improbable C...
IT'S CULVER-SANTA MONICA AGAIN
The Culver City High football team’s CIF-Southern Section playoff run might be a surprise to some, but if you listen to Centaurs coach Jahmal Wright explain, it makes perfect sense. “At the time of year the playoffs start, a lot of teams are ban...
A SHOCKING UPSET
Culver Eliminates Top-Seeded Serra It didn’t seem like this was possible. Not with the Culver City High football team facing the No. 1 seed in the CIF-Southern Section Western Division playoffs, on the road. Not with the Centaurs facing a Serra t...
With Injuries, Mistakes, Centaurs Lose
Inglewood Takes Advantage, 30-10 The Culver City High football team was already hurting before last Friday’s game against Inglewood, with several key players hampered by injuries. The pain only got worse during the game. Much of it was due to s...
Culver Absorbs First Loss
Ocean League Games Begin Friday The things that the Culver City High football team was able to get away with in their first four games were the things that cost them against Narbonne last Friday...
Unbeaten Centaurs Await Major Test
Narbonne To Visit Friday Night So far, Culver City High football coach Jahmal Wright likes what he sees from his team. The Centaurs are 4-0 this season after a 52-0 rout of Leuzinger last week, and...
Centaurs Settle Down To Win Opener
Mistakes Eliminated In Second Half For the first two quarters of the Culver City High football team’s 2011 opener against West Torrance last Friday, the Centaurs looked a little shaky, even though t...
Culver's Armstrong Picks Hawaii
Ever since he was 10 years old, watching college football games on TV, Ijumaa Armstrong wanted to play football for the University of Hawaii. Armstrong got that wish granted last week when the Culver City High safety signed a letter-of-intent to...
Culver Gets 19th Win Playoffs Are Coming Up
Culver City High boys’ basketball coach Jonathan Chapman wasn’t all that surprised with how last week went for the Centaurs. Culver City lost both of its games last week, Ocean League contests to Sant...
Centaurs' Playoff Test Will Be Severe
The roller coaster ride that has been the Culver City High football team’s 2010 season is on the rise. The Centaurs, who have been up and down all season, hit a high point last Friday when they defeated Beverly Hills 49-34 in their regular-season f...