Coming off an 0-10 football season, Westlake High unveiled a new look, a new coach and a freshman quarterback in a 38-14 win over Golden Valley in the Warriors\u2019 season opener.<\/p>\n
Most impressive was the play of freshman quarterback Ford Green, who moved here from South Carolina. He\u2019s also a baseball player and A student. He started with an A game, completing 15 of 18 passes for 218 yards and four touchdowns.<\/p>\n
First-year Westlake coach Rick Clausen, who played quarterback in college along with brothers Casey and Jimmy, said of Green: \u201cMe, Casey and even Jimmy weren\u2019t doing the stuff we were asking him to do, making checks at the line, getting people in places. He managed the game well. He did a really good job getting us in and out of the huddle. The game was not too fast for him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Clausen had been an assistant for 14 years, so it was his first win as a head coach. But he was more focused on getting his players to experience success for the first time in a long time.<\/p>\n
\u201cKids were happy. Kids were excited,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s really important for them to get confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n
Next up is a road game against Agoura on Friday night.<\/p>\n
This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports. To submit any news, please email eric.sondheimer@latimes.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coming off an 0-10 football season, Westlake High unveiled a new look, a new coach and a freshman…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":182376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[102712,102709,1582,276,2871,102708,102710,1910,45953,102711,628,18996,2961,224,5337,3546,50647,98285,31121,2030],"class_list":{"0":"post-182375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-baseball-player","9":"tag-brother-casey","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-college","13":"tag-freshman-qb-ford-green","14":"tag-freshman-quarterback","15":"tag-game","16":"tag-golden-valley","17":"tag-impressive-debut","18":"tag-jimmy","19":"tag-kid","20":"tag-la","21":"tag-los-angeles","22":"tag-losangeles","23":"tag-people","24":"tag-touchdown","25":"tag-warrior","26":"tag-westlake","27":"tag-win"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115106336509706058","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}