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After a successful ascending 3-0 start to the 2019 football season on the road, Culver City High will entertain perennial power Palos Verdes Sea Kings, in the Centaurs' home opener this Friday, September 20. The defending CIF Division 7 champions are entering the contest on the heels of a convincing 56-28 victory over the Warren High Bears last Friday in Downey. Last season the Centaurs failed to hold onto a fourth quarter lead against the Sea Kings, giving up two touchdowns in the final...
With 13 seconds to play in regulation play Culver City drove the ball 80 yards to tie the game. Quarterback Zevi Eckhaus scored on an 8-yard quarterback draw play to give Culver City the 55-52 double overtime victory. Read the full story by Culver City Observer Sports Reporter Fred Altieri in next week's print edition of the Culver City Observer or online at www.culvercityobserver.com...
The Culver City High School Centaurs beat Waren High School of Downey by a score of 56 - 28 Friday night. It was the third non-conference game of the new season that Culver City has won. Read the full story in this week's Culver City Observer by Sports Reporter Fred Altieri or online at www.culvercityobserver.com...
Culver City High School Defeated Peninsula High Friday night by a score of 60-21. Culver faces Warren High School at an away game in Downey this Friday Read the full story by Sports Reporter Fred Altieri in this week's Culver City Observer or online at www.culvercityobserver.com...
In the first football game of the season Culver City defeated West Torrance High by a score of 56-36. Be sure to read sports reporter Fred Altieri's full story in this week's Culver City Observer or online at www.culvercityobserver.com...
Culver City High School football team opened fall camp this Wednesday. They are concentrating on conditioning and basics in their offense and defense. Head coach and Culver City Jahmal Wright want the team is still accepting student walk-ons. If anybody is interested, they should come by the school field house or contact the athletic office to get more information. The Centaurs will put on pads on Saturday. The Centaurs will have their traditional Blue/White game. The junior varsity will...
Culver City hosted its first sixteen team passing tournament this past weekend. It was challenging to get a good field of teams because there were other established tournaments already scheduled, including the Mission Viejo Tournament, which attracted some of the top programs in Southern California, And the Redondo Tournament, in its 7th year, was also scheduled. But because of the hard work of Tournament Director and Centaur coach Dovie Reed and Head Coach Jahmal Wright, they were able to...
By Greg Goodyear and Larry Weiner Special to the Culver City Observer Last Saturday, June 8th, the CCHS football team took a bus to the Western High School 7 on 7 passing tournament. Culver City was missing several starters because of football camps, ACT tests, and other circumstances. In last year's tournament, the Centaurs performed exceptionally well. This year, they went 7-0 with only a few of the games being close. History repeated itself when Culver defeated Western for the second year in...
On Saturday May 18th, Culver City High football traveled to Glendale High School for the La Crescenta Valley passing tournament. Centaur head coach Jahmal Wright received a late call from the head coach at Crescenta Valley to invite the Centaurs into the tournament because they were looking for more teams. Since Culver City had played the Crescenta Valley freshman team the last few years, they have a good relationship with them. So Coach Wright decided to enter the tournament. The Centaurs had...
Culver City had not won a CIF Divisional Championship since 1978. Over the last 40 years the Centaurs have had many good teams and some of those had the ability to become CIF Champions but for whatever reason they came up short. From the beginning of spring practice and especially through the summer, the Cents won two passing tournaments, and went to the finals and lost on the last play of the game in the prestigious Bonita tournament, and they competed equally with some of the major national powers (Mater Dei, Corona Centennial and Long Beach...
The Centaurs are CIF Football Champions once again! Culver City High hit the desert road Saturday night and shifted into high gear to speed past San Jacinto High with authority, 61-21. They captured the 2018 Division 7 crown at Tiger Stadium in Riverside County. Culver City won its first CIF title 40 years ago when they beat Lompoc, 14-7, in 1978. The Centaurs rallied to lead at halftime, 28-21, after the Tigers jumped to a 14-7 first quarter lead. Led by senior wide receiver/running back Kevin...
Back at it. Culver City High advanced to the CIF Football Playoffs Semifinal round for the second consecutive year as they held off stubborn Millikan High, 43-30, on its well-worn dirt field, complete with dim lights and old-school sawed-off goal posts. It took one half of Friday night football for the Centaurs to adjust their bearings in Long Beach... then the jets kicked in. Culver City High's offense heated up in the second half running back Joshua Ford, wide receivers Kevin McGuire, Jamal...
Culver City hosts the Northview Vikings, 12-0, and the number 1 seeded team in CIF Division 7. This will be a huge challenge for the Centaurs, the Vikings being a cross between the hard charging Palos Verdes Sea Kings and the tough Lawndale Cardinals, the only teams to have defeated the Cents this season. They have the discipline and size of Palos Verdes and the athleticism of Lawndale. The Vikings have been so dominating this season that until last Friday night’s game verses Warren, the closest anyone had come to them was 18 points. In last F...
T-Minus one and counting. For only the third time in school history Culver City High has reached the CIF Football Playoff Finals. The Centaurs put the finishing touches on previously top-ranked Northview High, 40-14, in the Division 7 Semifinal match. The 11-2 Centaurs will travel to the desert to take on San Jacinto High (12-1) on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. for the CIF Southern Section Championship. "A very big win for us. We've been working towards this goal all season. After getting to that point...
Culver City High's offense heated up in the second half as the Centaurs advanced to the 2018 CIF Football Division 7 Playoff Semifinals with a determined 43-30 victory over the Millikan High Rams in Round 2 on a slightly cool Friday night in Long Beach, November 9. Running back Joshua Ford and quarterback Zevi Ekhaus led the Centaur attack. Ford had 190 yards rushing for 270 total yards and one touchdown. Eckhaus threw for 250+ yards, four touchdowns and no interceptions. "It was a very big...
All three phases were front and center for the Centaurs as they dominated visiting Santa Barbara High, 55-7, in Round 1 of the 2018 CIF Football Division 7 Playoffs. An aggressive Culver City High defense set the tone early. The special teams scored and constantly pressured the Dons kicking and return units while a high-octane offense revved up in the second quarter before accelerating into the Friday night lights. The win means the Centaurs (9-2) will travel to Millikan High (8-2) in Long...
History was on the Centaurs' side as they wrapped up the 2018 Ocean League schedule with a record-setting 70-6 victory at Beverly Hills High. The win was punctuated as head coach Jahmal Wright equaled Culver City High athletic director Tom Salter's lifetime wins by a head coach, both with 73-36 records in 10 years of coaching each. The Centaurs (8-2) set the school record for most points scored in a game that was held by the 2006 team. Led by quarterback great Derrius Banks, the 2006 Centaur...
The Santa Barbara Dons were no match for the Culver City Centaurs Friday in the first round of the CIF playoffs. The Santa Barbara Independent said it all in the following news story, "A road trip to Culver City was more like an ambush for the Santa Barbara High football team. "The Dons had no answer for the shear number of elite athletes that Culver City possessed on both sides of the ball and suffered a season-ending 55-7 loss on Friday night." Read the full story and the upcoming playoff game this week in Fred Altieri's story online and in...
Culver City High football continued to roll through the 2018 Ocean League schedule as they dominated Hawthorne High, 62-14, to improve their season record to 7-2. With one game remaining on the Ocean League schedule, the Centaurs are preparing for a deep run in the CIF Playoffs beginning next weekend. "The team is clicking on all cylinders right now and playing with a lot of confidence," said Centaur head coach Jahmal Wright as the team secured second place in the league behind first place...
When lightning strikes, even the football gods listen. Culver City High's 2018-19 Homecoming Game and Senior Night was ushered away early by lightning storms in the area on Friday, Oct. 12. The Centaurs still registered a shutout over the visiting El Segundo Eagles even though the game was suspended four minutes into the second quarter. "I've been coaching 19 years and I've never seen that before. The lightning actually hit the speaker posts and ruined the system. The game was postponed as we wa...
When lightning strikes, even the football gods listen. Culver City High’s 2018-19 Homecoming Game and Senior Night was ushered away early by lightning storms in the area on Friday, Oct. 12. The Centaurs still registered a shutout over the visiting El Segundo Eagles even though the game was suspended four minutes into the second quarter. “I’ve been coaching 19 years and I’ve never seen that before. The lightning actually hit the speaker posts and ruined the system. The game was postponed as we w...
The Culver City Centaurs are hosting the El Segundo Eagles, and it’s a very important night. Not only are the Cents most likely playing for second place in the Ocean League and a playoff berth, but tonight is also Homecoming and Senior Night. Since it is Homecoming, it is interesting to note that El Segundo head coach Steve Shevlin will feel right at home because he is a Culver High alum. Both teams will feel the pressure to do well in this game because the stakes are high as the results will go a long way in determining the playoff p...
The Culver City High Centaurs blanked El Segundo High Friday night by a score of 28-0. Read all the details of the game from Sports Reporter Fred Altieri in this week's Culver City Observer newspaper or online at www.culvercityobserver.com...
It was a Centaur family affair worth celebrating. The 2018 Culver City High football team trounced rival Santa Monica High, 54-14, on Friday, Sept. 28 to open the Ocean League season. It was a fitting tribute to the returning members of the school's 1978 CIF Football Championship team who were honored at halftime. "Actually, Coach (Warren) Flanagan from the 1978 championship team spoke to our team before the game. He's been following us and he's proud of how we're representing Culver City High...
It wasn't the kind of Pacific Ocean sunset that the Centaurs wanted last week, but hope the night will treat them better when they play the Downey Dons on Friday. Culver City High's 12-point lead evaporated in the fourth quarter at Palos Verdes High as the Sea Kings rallied for two late touchdowns to clip the Cents, 37-36, on a warm Friday afternoon football game in the South Bay peninsula. "It was a tough pill to swallow, being up by 12 points with under 10 minutes left in the game," said...
