You talk about the good,the bad and the ugly, and you are describing the year the Bullard Knights had. They dazzled area fans with 7 straight wins - coming back from a 2-8 record last year - all the way to a number one ranking in the Valley, number 14 in the state, and knocking off Clovis East, Clovis West, Central, and Oakland Tech (47-22 up in Oakland), and were undefeated and on a sweet roll. Then, in the next three weeks, they get trounced by Edison, 35-0, lose to Sanger by a touchdown, and then.....the Knucklehead Factor steps to the plate and the Knights lose some of their very best players for taking the rivalry game, the Battle of Barstow, against Hoover too seriously, and they are out for the season. Who knows how many? That number varried, but suffice to say some key players were gone. It was just an unfortunate thing and the players involved I'm sure would like to "get that pitch back" as they say in baseball sometimes, but their season was over. It had to be very tough on coach Don Arax and his crew after the terrific turnaround job they did this year. Anyway,the depleted Knights managed to pull off a 3-0 victory after being led by a young QB, called up from the JV team, Kerr Taubler, and he did the job for the win in a very unmemorable game. The Knights, on their successes over the bulk of the season, drew a bye in the first round of the playoffs, but this weekend face a very tough and coming on Clovis West team in the second round.

I guess the one matchup that fans are looking at with the most anticpation is the third round game between Clovis West and Edison at Sunnyside on November 23rd and KJEO-TV will be there for that one - if both the Tigers and Eagles win this week vs Liberty of Bakersfield and Bullard respectively.