Gossard

Former Crescenta Valley High football Coach Dennis Gossard made a triumphant return as the head coach for the Pasadena City College football team, guiding the Lancers to a 16-14 win Saturday against host L.A. Valley College. Gossard employed a two-quarterback system, using freshman Tremane Vaughn -- who was originally slated to be a defensive back -- on option plays and sophomore Carlos Celis on primarily passing situations. The Lancers had 299 yards of total offense, including 221 in 41 attempts on the ground.

Hamlet Nalbandyan Replacing 30 graduated seniors won't be the only concern for the Crescenta Valley High football program in 2005. The defending co-Pacific League-champion Falcons will also be without their offensive mastermind, Dennis Gossard, who resigned from his post as offensive coordinator to become the head football coach at Pasadena City College on Tuesday. Gossard, 58, had been the offensive coordinator for both the Falcons and Lancers the past eight years, but with his new duties as head coach, he will no longer be a part of Alan Eberhart's staff.

Erik Boal Even though she was competing on a sprained left ankle and battling the fatigue of playing more than 3 1/2 hours of tennis, Hana Im wasn't ready to end her reign as Pacific League singles champion. But even after experiencing intense leg cramps late in the second set of Wednesday's league final at Pasadena High, Shelly Injejikian appeared as if she was going to have to be carried off her home court before she gave in to the Crescenta Valley senior.

From Staff Reports Championship aspirations: Tom Gossard doesn't want his Crescenta Valley High girls' tennis team to sell itself short, so the ninth-year coach passed out a flier Tuesday at the Pacific League preliminaries that informed his squad of his plans for the remainder of the season. At the top, it said "Lady Falcon Tennis -- Pacific League Champions 10-0 and 17-1," but what Gossard wrote underneath was perhaps the greatest source of motivation for his athletes.

Erik Boal Preparing for the future: Tom Gossard has perhaps the deepest and most talented senior class in his nine-year career, but the Crescenta Valley High girls' tennis coach also knows that he'll have the services of players like Jenny Amin, Lauren Hawthorne, Hana Im, Nara Im, Roxy Ionescu, Katie Sullivan and Arlene Ward for seven more weeks at the most. So in an effort to make sure that the Falcons begin the 2004 campaign on the right track, Gossard has tried to get underclassmen Luana Choi, Sarah Choi, Debby Chung, Betty Ionescu and Kisa Ito as many sets as possible during the team's first eight matches.

Staff CRESCENTA VALLEY 47, MUIR 19 Muir 7 0 6 6 -- 19 Crescenta Valley 17 7 14 9 -- 47 First Quarter M-Graves 72 pass from O'Hara (Carter kick) 10:56 C-Clissold 37 field goal 7:12 C-Gossard 4 run (Clissold kick) 5:07 C-Hartoonian 5 run (Clissold kick) 0:21 Second Quarter C-Gossard 5 run (Clissold kick) 6:15 Third Quarter C-Chase 60 run (Clissold kick) 11:13 C-Hartoonian 1 run (Clissold kick) 4:28 M-Fulton 35 pass from O'Hara (run failed)

Erik Boal GLENDALE -- o7 Odds and ends from the past week in high school football:f7 Fox's featured athlete: Crescenta Valley High senior quarterback Hudson Gossard made his first of 13 television appearances this month before Saturday night's highly anticipated Long Beach Poly-Concord De La Salle football game, as he was selected as the "Featured Athlete of the Month" on Inside High School Sports, which airs on...

Edgar Melik-Stepanyan SOUTHEAST GLENDALE -- Emotionally charged and motivated by skeptics, underestimating Crescenta Valley's ability, Falcon quarterback Hudson Gossard put the naysayers to rest with a brilliant performance at Glendale High's Moyse Field in CV's season-opener against Thousand Oaks. Prior to Friday's contest, much was written and said about Thousand Oaks highly-recruited quarterback Ben Olson and few predicted the Falcons -- ranked third in the CIF Southern Section Division III preseason poll -- to hand the Lancers a loss for the second straight season.

Hamlet Nalbandyan CRESCENTA VALLEY 35, PASADENA 0 Pasadena 0 0 0 0 -- 0 CV 14 14 7 0 -- 35 First Quarter CV-Hogan 8 pass from Gossard (Clissold kick) 8:42 CV-Hogan 23 pass from Gossard (Clissold kick) 2:56 Second Quarter CV-Burkhart 2 pass from Gossard (kick failed) 9:34 CV-Moody 2 pass from Gossard (Mena run) 4:46 Third Quarter CV-Radenbaugh 69 pass from Gossard (Clissold kick) 10:24 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING: Pasadena -- Nembhard 18-49.

Mirjam Swanson CRESCENTA VALLEY HIGH -- There was a little of everything: a bit of rain, a bit of sun, a bit of wind. Granted, there wasn't much warmth, nor was there a whole lot that Crescenta Valley High girls' tennis Coach Tom Gossard could find fault with Tuesday. "You know the most frustrating thing about this is that they always forget to pick up their balls and (to change) the score," Gossard said. "But if that's all I have to worry about, that's OK."