All season, high school football coaches advise their players to stay focused and not look ahead. Then there\u2019s what happens before, during and after the Garfield vs. Roosevelt football game is played.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been hearing about this game since January,\u201d Roosevelt coach Ernesto Ceja said. \u201cI get the texts, the phone calls, \u2018Are you guys going to beat Garfield?\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018Let me put a team together, then I\u2019ll get back to you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The annual East L.A. Classic, in its 90th year, has a double homecoming and usually produces the largest regular-season crowd of the football season. It is set for 7:30 p.m. Friday at East Los Angeles College. The JV game is at 4 p.m., followed by a girls\u2019 flag football game, then the varsity. DJ Mustard will be part of halftime festivities.<\/p>\n
In this time of concerns about ICE raids in Los Angeles, East L.A. College officials say every entrance will be watched by L.A. County Sheriff\u2019s deputies, campus police or private security. The school hosted 11 high school graduations last summer with no incidents and believes fans should feel comfortable attending. Tickets are available at GoFan.co<\/a><\/p>\n Garfield is on the verge of winning the Eastern League title with a 6-2 record and 5-0 league mark. Roosevelt (4-4, 3-1) has won three straight league games since switching to the double-wing attack.<\/p>\n Garfield principal Regina Marquez Martinez told a gathering of media, players, cheerleaders and band members on Wednesday at East Los Angeles College: \u201cThis community, these schools, we\u2019re as American as apple pie and pan dulce.\u201d<\/p>\n Said LAUSD board member Rocio Rivas: \u201cLet\u2019s go East L.A. Let\u2019s go Boyle Heights.\u201d<\/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":"All season, high school football coaches advise their players to stay focused and not look ahead. Then there\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":326416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[162615,1582,276,162612,115986,162611,2449,2961,224,2444,5337,16430,162614,9323,111832,6391,162613,11645,5950,15613],"class_list":{"0":"post-326415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-band-member","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-east-l-a-classic","12":"tag-east-los-angeles-college","13":"tag-garfield","14":"tag-ice-raid","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-los-angeles","17":"tag-los-angeles-times","18":"tag-losangeles","19":"tag-medium","20":"tag-p-m-friday","21":"tag-player","22":"tag-prep-talk","23":"tag-roosevelt","24":"tag-roosevelt-football-game","25":"tag-school","26":"tag-season","27":"tag-wednesday"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115423386397255678","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326415","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=326415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}