Lakewood Varsity vs Tesoro

The varsity had another lost Friday night against Tesoro High. Our boys came out playing hard and took the lead pretty quick. Tesoro wasn't going to take it laying down and began to fight back. Buy the time all was said and done Tesoro had the lead, it just seems like our boys lost their drive and gave up.

The game started at 7pm which gave me a little light to shoot with during the first quarter, but by the time the second quarter started I was using my flash. I wasn't really happy with what I was getting with my flash so I just decided to shoot without the flash. I shot on manual mode at f/2.8 and 1/320 with an ISO of 3200.

Here are three shots, one from each lighting style. The first is while the sun was up, the second was with the flash, and the last was without.

Lakewood JV vs Tesoro - The pictures

It took a couple of days to go through them but I've finally finished. Here are some action shots from the game

Last year while I was shooting the games I found that the cheerleaders wanted shots of themselves, so I started to take portrait and action shots of them while they performed during the game. Here are two of my favorites from their shots.

Lakewood Jr. Varsity vs Tesoro

Last night my son had his second preseason game. They played against Tesoro at Tesoro High School in Rancho Santa Margarita. The game was scheduled to start at 3pm but didn't start until 4pm.

Now I can't post any pictures yet but hope to post some by this Saturday. I took a little more than 800 pictures during the game and will more than likely keep a bit more the 600 of them. Now about the game.

This was a tough one for our boys. John started as right offensive tackle and seems to have had a rough time with Tesoro's defensive end, who was quick, but John hung in there and did his job. That's all you can ask from your team.

We started the game receiving the kick off but couldn't do anything with it. Tesoro's defence was tough and stopped our offensive. We then punted the ball and Tesoro drove it in for their fist and only touch down followed with a field goal. For the remaining first quarter, second & third quarter that's where the scored stay. Our defence was doing a good job stopping Tesoro's offensive but our offence just couldn't move the ball. We did make a great drive at the end of the second quarter but just couldn't put it in the end zone before halftime.

So now were in the forth quarter with us being down 0-7. Tesoro has the ball and our defensive does a great job keeping them from moving the ball, resulting in a punt. Tesoro punts the ball and stops it on our one yard line, so here we are with about 8 minutes left in the game staring on our one yard line. First play Tesoro is drawn off-sides giving us a little space to work. We then preceed to drive the ball to Tesoro's 15 yard line and now have just a little more than a minute left. We run a little corner pass with one of our receiver's, who is pretty tall, to the corner of the end zone and score a touch down. Now our school is know to go for it and we did. We went for the two point conversion instead of a field goal. The two point conversion is good and now were winning 8-7. We kick the ball off and Tesoro now has the ball on their 40 with about 21 seconds left in the game. Our defence stops them with some great defensive plays giving us the win.

So this was a great game to watch. Now I spent more time taking pictures of my son John this game and not as many shots of the other players. So keep checking to see some shots of my boy soon.