THE BIG GAME!

Tonight Thursday at 6:00 p.m. kicks off with the Burbank High Freshman game against our crosstown rival Burroughs at Memorial Field. Tomorrow night the Junior Varsity plays at 4:00 p.m. and the Varsity plays at 7:30 p.m. Also the Homecoming Parade will be tomorrow as they leave BHS and march to Memorial Field. This is the last time as next year both BHS and JBHS all their football games will be played outside of Burbank as they add the artifical grass to both schools.

Burbank Veterans Day Ceremony

On Tuesday November 11, 2008 I attended the City of Burbank's Veterans Day Ceremony at MCCambridge Park War Memorial hosted by 1964 Burbank High School grad Mickey DePalo.Kindergartners from St. Robert Bellarmine singing the National Anthem.
The St. Robert Bellermine Kindergartners also sang God Bless America.

They really put their heart and soul into the song and were just the cutest thing.
AH! To be so young!

The Keynote Speaker was a JBHS grad Dr. Michael Gauron, Lt. Col.,USAF

Pat Walmisley sang America the Beautiful.

Anjanette McFarlin played Amazing Grace on the Bagpipes.

Burbank High grads Scott Cappiello '59 and his wife Gladys, Jon & Pam Kirkwood 1964

BHS grads Catherine Nicholls 1938, Cathy Coyle 1967 with granddaughter &

Joan Taylor Chandler, Class of 1957.

Georgia Lindsay Atwood BHS 1941

BHS 1941

Georgia Atwood

Atwood, Georgia Lindsay, passed away on November 8, 2008. She was born December 7, 1923, in Crosby, Minnesota. In 1926, she settled in Burbank, California with her parents, George and Victoria Lindsay and her sister Virginia. Georgia attended Burbank schools, graduating from Burbank High School in 1941. She attended Los Angeles City College. While in school, she was a dancer with Fanchon and Marco Studio in Hollywood and was a fashion model for designer Don Loper.

During World War II she served in the WAVES and was assigned to the San Pedro Navy Base. She met her husband, Brad Atwood, in Laguna Beach and they married in 1944. They lived in Burbank where she became a member of Alpha Mu Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi sorority and was active with the Burbank Junior Chamber of Commerce wives. When her family, including three children moved to Laguna Beach in 1963, she joined the Rivera Club and worked in Real Estate.

Her interests included golf, painting, home decorating, reading, music, theater and traveling. She and Brad were happily married for 58 years until his death in 2002. Georgia is survived by her daughter, Gale Atwood, and son-in-law, John Lindgren; son, Todd Atwood, and daughter-in-law, Cathy Atwood, and son Mark Atwood. She leaves nieces Carole Collins, Christine Cross, Barbara Soderling, Pat Barron, Rita Lindsay, and nephews George and Fred Lindsay. In lieu of flowers, scholarship gifts may be made to the Burbank High School Foundation, 818-558-4700 x57808. Pacific View Mortuary

BHS Football - Week 9

Bulldogs remain alive

FOOTBALL: Burbank defeats Arcadia, 29-22, in Pacific League game and could be in the postseason no matter what it does against
By Jeff Tully

MEMORIAL FIELD — It was a game the Burbank High football team had to win.There was no holding back for the Bulldogs in their contest against Arcadia on Friday. The locals went into the Pacific League well aware of the obvious scenario: lose and kiss the postseason good-bye.

Sparked by a touchdown in final two minutes of the game and three interceptions by Cody Cardenaz, Burbank came back to stake a 29-22 victory at Memorial Field.“This was a big game, no doubt,” said Cardenaz, who also scored a touchdown on a 12-yard pass. “We knew we had to win this one It was like a playoff game for us.”The win keeps Burbank (5-4, 3-3 in league) in the hunt for a playoff spot. Even if the Bulldogs lose to cross-town rival Burroughs in next week’s Big Game, they can still make the postseason. However, they would likely have to win a coin flip to do so.“We don’t want to have to leave it up to a coin flip,” Burbank Coach Ted Amorosi said. “We have to win it ourselves next week.”With Burbank trailing, 14-13, the Bulldogs and Apaches (4-5, 3-3) put on a thrilling show late in the fourth quarter.After Arcadia scored a touchdown and a two-point conversion with 3:08 remaining in the game to take a 22-21 lead, Burbank mounted perhaps its most important drive of the season.The Bulldogs got the ball at their own 46-yard line — set up by a nice runback on the ensuing punt by Cardenaz — with 3:00 remaining.

Burbank marched down the field and scored with 1:58 left when Nate Galles found the endzone on a seven-yard run.Galles also scored the two-point conversion on a pass from quarterback Kevin Hunter.“I’m happy with the way we responded, but we still have to clean up some things,” Amorosi said.

Burbank also received a six-yard touchdown run by Jesse Lau and a one-yard run by Leo Rodas.Burbank knocked out UCLA-bound Arcadia running back Todd Golper with just over three minutes left in the first half. He gained just three yards in five carries.“I think when [Golper] left the game, that really changed things for Arcadia,” Amorosi said.

Buddy J. Hunsinger BHS 59 passes away.

Hunsinger, Buddy J. 67, passed away peacefully at his home, October 24, 2008. He was a 1959 graduate of Burbank High School. Born November 22, 1940 in Mount Vernon, Illinois, Buddy was a U.S. Navy Vietnam War veteran and an avid member of Desert Corvette Assoc., Scottsdale Vettes and Rods and Southwest Street Rods. He will be greatly missed by his wife Joan; his daughter Kelly Lynn Moore and her husband Derek; his son Eric and his wife Mary. Graveside service with military honors were held at the National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona

Burbank Football - Week 8

Burbank High's Jose Rodriguez's intercepts a pass meant for Hoover's Elvis Fuentes. Roger Wilson/The Leader

Burbank Leader
Published Saturday, November 1, 2008

Sports
Burbank breaks out

FOOTBALL: Bulldogs get important Pacific League win by shutting out Hoover, 55-0, at Memorial Field.
By Charles Rich

MEMORIAL FIELD — The Hoover and Burbank high footballs teams were even for one quarter during their Pacific League contest at Burroughs High on Thursday night. After that, Burbank broke the stalemate while scoring at will the rest of the game on offense and defense.

In need of a victory to get back into the playoff picture, Burbank rolled to a 55-0 win.The win snapped a three-game losing streak for the Bulldogs (4-4, 2-3 in league). Hoover saw its losing skid swell to 18 by dropping to 0-8, 0-5.Burbank, which entered the game in fifth place in league and one game behind Arcadia, Burroughs and Glendale, got a pair of rushing touchdowns from sophomore running back Ulises Ochoa to get back into the postseason hunt with two games remaining in the regular season.

Linebackers William Ortega and Sam Bethany picked off passes by Hoover quarterback AJ Pule and returned them for touchdowns.“The kids made the adjustments after the first quarter,” Burbank Coach Ted Amorosi said. “They rallied up, and it’s a nice after going through three tough weeks.“We talked about getting over the hump and the seniors led us through some good practices.”Burbank took a 7-0 lead on an eight-yard run by running back Nate Galles with 11:27 left in the second quarter.

Wide receiver Anthony Cervantes then caught a nine-yard pass from quarterback Kevin Hunter to extend the lead to 14-0 with 7:04 left in the first half. Ortega then returned an interception 34 yards to make it 20-0 with 2:34 remaining.Ochoa scored on Burbank’s first possession of the second quarter on a six-yard run to make it 27-0. Hunter then made it 34-0 on a nine-yard run with 8:25 left in the third quarter before Cole Hazlewood hauled in a 30-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Adam Colman to extend the lead to 41-0.Ochoa made it 48-0 on a 37-yard run with 2:08 left in the third quarter. Bethany closed out the scoring on a 90-yard interception return with 8:45 remaining in the game.The Tornadoes, who were blanked for the first time this season and recovered a pair of fumbles in Burbank territory, never could mount a rally.

“We knew coming in that we had a chance to move the ball,” said Hoover first-year Coach Chris Long, who saw Pule complete 11 of 47 passes for 120 yards and two interceptions. “We had guys wide open in the first quarter, but we overthrew the wide receivers.“We always have chances, but we just have to learn how to score.”Adam Ochart had five catches for 40 yards for Hoover.Burbank will next compete in another league contest at 7 p.m. next Friday against host Arcadia.

BHS Football - Week 7

Burbank High's Sam Bethany, right, intercepts a pass during a Pacific League game against Glendale. (Roger Wilson/The Leader).

Burbank Leader

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Bulldogs come undone

FOOTBALL: Burbank can’t get anything going in the second half in a 37-14 league loss to host Glendale.
By Gabriel Rizk

GLENDALE — In need of a turnaround to bolster its playoff hopes, the Burbank High football team was undone by two costly second-half turnovers instead.Going head-to-head with a Glendale squad that is one of several other teams bunched near the middle of the Pacific League ladder, the Bulldogs slipped a rung on Thursday night, losing, 37-14, to fall to 1-3 in league with three games left.

“I don’t want to take anything away from Glendale’s effort, but we beat ourselves pretty bad tonight,” said second-year Burbank Coach Ted Amorosi, who formerly coached the Nitros. “We dropped five passes and had nine penalties in the first half alone.“[The Nitros] continued to convert on third-and-long situations when [our defense] had done a great job on first and second down. We don’t convert.”Glendale (4-3, 1-3 in league) was seven of 12 on third down, while the Bulldogs (3-4 overall) were just two for 12 and did not score over the final 29-plus minutes of the game.Burbank’s opening drive of the third quarter moved 52 yards to the Nitros’ 8-yard line, but stalled on third and goal with a sack of quarterback Kevin Hunter by Aaron Baykov for an eight-yard loss at the 4:22 mark.The Bulldogs came up wide left on the ensuing 33-yard field goal attempt and remained behind, 24-14.With just under three minutes left in the third quarter,

Burbank defensive lineman Justin Maroldi recovered a fumble by Nitros quarterback Moises Chavez on the Glendale 47-yard line. But on the very next play, Burbank was unable to hold onto the football and lost a fumble right back to the Nitros’ Jean Khajarian.Glendale then drove 45 yards for a score and a 30-14 lead on Chavez’s 26-yard pass to Jordan Bradshaw with just over 1:00 left in the third quarter.“That was it,” Amorosi said. “If we had been able to turn that one into eight points, then we’re right back in the game within one score.“We were actually gonna go for the onside kick to start it off, but handing it right back to them is not the way to win a football game.”A missed point-after attempt on Glendale’s touchdown allowed Burbank to stay within two possessions and the

Bulldogs had the ball with 8:00 to play in the game.But a Baykov interception of a tipped pass at the 7:39 mark of the fourth quarter sealed the win for Glendale.That turnover led to the Nitros’ final touchdown, a two-yard hookup between Chavez and Bradshaw at the 4:48 mark.Chavez passed for a career-high 331 yards and five touchdowns, with four of those caught by Bradshaw, who finished with 224 receiving yards.Burbank scored first, on a nine-yard run by Darian Walker that capped off a 61-yard drive with 12 seconds left in the first quarter.Glendale went up, 14-7, during a four-minute span in the second quarter that saw the Nitros score on a 12-yard pass form Chavez to Charles Crosby, recover an onside kick and score again on a 34-yard Chavez-Bradshaw connection.An interception of Chavez and 39-yard return by Sam Bethany set up Burbank with first and goal on the Nitros’ 6-yard line. Bethany then scored on a one-yard run at the 5:21 mark of the second period to tie the game at 14.

“We need to win our football game this Thursday against Hoover,” said Amorosi, whose team was coming off a 47-7 loss to Muir and closes out the season against Arcadia and archrival Burroughs. “That’s the only thing we can control right now.”