Titans Clinch at Least a Tie for Palomar League Title
Sharing is something we all learn to do as toddlers, but there's something the Poway High football team would rather not let anyone else have a piece of, namely the Palomar League title.
The unbeaten Titans clinched at least a tie for the crown by stopping Torrey Pines 28-9 on a wet and chilly night in Del Mar Heights. Poway's defense recorded 10 sacks and did not allow the Falcons to complete any of the four passes they did get off.
Running back Ryan Moreno rushed for just over 100 yards and three touchdowns for the Titans (8-0-1, 3-0), who can claim the Palomar title outright by beating Rancho Bernardo (5-4, 2-1) on Thursday.
Alec Moreno, Brian Guendling, Max Michaels and Jordan Lansberry each had a pair of sacks for the No. 2-ranked Titans. Quarterback Gabriel Isaak completed four of nine passes for 48 yards before Poway stayed exclusively with its running game in the second half on a tough night for passing.
Andrew Fargo ran 64 yards down the left sideline three minutes into the game to put Torrey Pines (4-5, 2-2) ahead, and after Moreno brought Poway even with a 5-yard scoring run, a bad snap resulted in a safety to give the Falcons a 9-7 lead through one period.
Where do kids get more exercise – the suburbs or the city?
The Webb and Branco families have a lot in common. Both have two working parents, two children and two cars. Both live in residential neighbourhoods, in single-family homes with back yards. But their daily routines are different, largely because of the communities that surround them. And so are the ways they get exercise.
Lianne Phillipson-Webb is perfectly happy on days that her silver Toyota Sienna doesn’t leave the driveway of her west-end Toronto home. It means she’s taken her daughters to school, shopped and managed her home-based nutrition business the healthier way — on foot.
But the same features of her neighbourhood that make it easy to walk to Brownies or bike to the store have a flip side. The grid-patterned streets and high number of intersections also mean more traffic and parked cars and fewer green spaces. You won’t find kids on the roadway in front of her house playing hockey or jumping rope. And she isn’t ready to let her daughters, Logan, 8, and Hadley, 6, make the journey to school alone.