Photo: Steve Galluzzo
Playing its first home game of the season, Palisades High’s junior varsity football team took the field at Santa Monica College last Friday afternoon expecting a back-and-forth battle and that is precisely what it got. Having edged the Highlanders 16-14 at home one year ago, the Dolphins sought to set the stage for varsity and scored the initial touchdown on a swing pass. However, the Highlanders responded with 20 unanswered points before Randy Garcia-Lopez capped a long drive with a touchdown run to pull Palisades within 20-13 late in the second quarter.
Granada Hills marched 70 yards on irs first possession of the second half to pad its lead, but the Dolphins answered early in the final quarter on a pass from quarterback Oliver Attar to receiver Jessee Wolfson. The Highlanders scored again to go up 36-19. Attar connected with Wolfson again—this time on a 42-yard scoring strike with five seconds left—but Palisades fell short, 36-25, and is now 1-2.
Palisades plays Brentwood today at Brentwood’s east campus (100 S. Barrington Place). Kickoff is at 4 p.m.
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