GOOD SPORTS: Nike was in good company for its Paris presentation celebrating its female athletes, with in attendance a number of football athletes and the eight track and field stars who walked in the Off-White show on Thursday, including Vashti Cunningham, Cecilia Yeung, Sam Kerr and Yuki Nagasato.
Joining the sports brand at the event on Friday, a nod to the upcoming Women’s World Cup 2019 in Paris next June, were three new collaborators: former Colette creative director Sarah Andelman, men’s wear designer Martine Rose, and Yoon Ahn, cofounder of Ambush and jewelry designer at Dior Men.
On display were some of the shoes from the Off-White show as well Nike DNA archive products, including soccer jerseys and running products.
The holiday 2018 season will see the launch of a men’s wear-inspired, unisex capsule by Rose celebrating the youthful attitude of London’s “street-and-sport” style, and a mainly unisex apparel and footwear capsule by Ahn also available in men’s sizing.
Rose kept shtum about her creations, but Ahn was happy to share some color. “I wanted to base it on real clothes you can actually wear. There are the performance qualities, but it’s not just for at the gym or on the field,” she said.

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You’ve heard the philosophical adage, that some people see the glass of water as half empty while others see it as half full.

Phil Taylor’s philosophy was, “Just drink the damned water!”

Taylor played football at Orange Lutheran and was a class of 2011 graduate. He died Tuesday of cancer. Taylor was 25.

Orange Lutheran head coach JP Presley was an assistant coach when Taylor was a receiver and punt returner for the Lancers. The passing of Taylor, who gave the Lancers an inspirational talk this summer when Taylor knew he did not have many days remaining, was another gut punch for Presley and the Orange Lutheran football program.

Running back and defensive back Reggie Strong two weeks ago suffered a neck injury in a win over Heritage of Romoland. Anything “neck injury” is going to be taken seriously. So Strong, a senior, is done for the season.

So is another senior, Kyle Ford, a 2017 All-Orange County receiver. Late in the Lancers’ loss to Mission Viejo last week Ford injured his right knee severely enough that surgery is required.

That loss to Mission Viejo was by two points. Orange Lutheran missed a field goal in the game’s final seconds.

Losing a game like that while losing top players is not the best way to go into your Trinity League opener against a good team like Santa Margarita.

Orange Lutheran used some duct tape, a couple drops of glue and plenty of heart to put together a 39-37 win over Santa Margarita on Friday at Orange Coast College. Logan Loya kicked the winning field goal as time expired. The Lancers, 0-5 in the Trinity League last year, are 1-0 in league and 4-2 overall.

Loya had 12 receptions for 138 yards and a touchdown, and the junior nailed the winning 27-yard field goal on the game’s final snap.

Replacing Ford will take more than players running the routes Ford would have run or making the catches Ford would have made.

“The big thing about Kyle is that he’s a constant competitor,” Presley said. “He gets us going, he’s the guy jumping around before a game. His energy is so contagious.”

Orange Lutheran senior quarterback Ryan Hilinski misses that fast, sure-handed target who through the first five games led the Lancers in receiving yards (456) and receiving touchdowns (seven). Against Santa Margarita, Hilinski still threw for 358 yards and four touchdowns and added a 9-yard touchdown run on which he blasted into a Santa Margarita defender at the goal line and had enough momentum to propel into the end zone.

It’s easy to see what South Carolina and every other college program that recruited him likes about Hilinksi.

He’s 6-3 and 215, so there’s that of course. What places him into the elite group of high school quarterbacks is how fast he launches the football. When he sees a receiver the ball is out of his hands in a flash, and the ball reaches its destination quickly and accurately.

Hilinski’s most impressive throws actually were incompletions. He perfectly threaded a ball just out of the reach of a Santa Margarita defensive back in the end zone, but the Lutheran receiver juggled the ball as he was going out of bounds. Later Hilinski, chased out of the pocket and sprinting to his left, stopped and heaved a cross-body pass that traveled 50 yards in the air with the ball glancing off of the receiver’s outstretched fingers.

Athletes and coaches talk about “character wins.” Orange Lutheran’s win over Santa Margarita certainly qualifies as one. For the pregame coin toss, Lancers players carried Taylor’s Texas Christian University football jersey.

Taylor made the TCU team as a walk-on. He was an inspiration to his teammates at TCU and to the Orange Lutheran players he visited this summer. Presley smiled when recalling Taylor’s “drink the damned water” line.

“We had some extra ‘oomph’ coming into this with the passing of Phil Taylor,” Hilinski said. “He changed my life, from a Christian standpoint after losing my brother.”

Tyler Hilinski, Ryan’s older brother who played quarterback at Upland High and at Washington State, died by suicide earlier this year.

The cancer had spread to Taylor’s stomach and colon by the time he was at Orange Lutheran’s training camp.

“But still,” Presley said, “his message was ‘I’ll continue to fight.’ ”

“How great of a viewpoint he had,” Hilinski said, “even though he knew it wasn’t going the right way.”

The season could have gone the wrong way for Orange Lutheran, after the tough loss to Mission Viejo, the loss of important players and the passing of an inspirational alum.

That glass of water? It was overflowing for the Lancers after Friday night’s win.

This is the place to find all of OCVarsity’s stories, scores, photos and more from the Orange County football games Friday.

SCORES & PHOTOS

OCVarsity Photos: The great plays, fun moments from Friday’s high school football games

Orange County football scores and stats for Friday (9-28-18)

COLUMNS

Fryer on football: Hard times come, but a big win refreshes Orange Lutheran

OCVarsity Student Section of the Week

GAME STORIES

Mater Dei stays in comfort zone as it tops Servite for seventh year in a row

Emotional Orange Lutheran football edges Santa Margarita with last-second field goal

George Holani’s four touchdowns power St. John Bosco football to win over JSerra

Western scores on TD pass in final seconds to knock off Garden Grove

Costello makes sure San Clemente football holds off Tesoro’s late charge

Los Alamitos puts on dazzling display as it routs Fountain Valley

Defense helps Huntington Beach grind out win over Newport Harbor

La Habra football unleashes passing attack against Fullerton

Roundup: Troy stops 2-point conversion in final seconds to edge Sonora

SAN FRANCISCO — Ten plate appearances can be a mirage. Twenty can be a crapshoot. When you get to 40 or so, the forensic evidence builds.

Not every Dodger was thrilled to see Madison Bumgarner glowering from the pitching rubber Friday night, particularly since the Giants lefty was originally scheduled to pitch Wednesday.

Bumgarner wanted the start pushed back to extend as little hospitality to the guests as he could. But Kiké Hernandez had reason to look forward. He was 16 for 36 lifetime against Bumgarner. He knew he would play and that he could make a difference in a game the Dodgers needed like plasma.

The Dodgers did win 3-1. And now Hernandez’s worksheet against one of the best southpaws in the game is 19 for 39, in 40 plate appearances.

He got singles in the first, third and fifth innings. The Dodgers left him hanging the first time, but he scored a tying run on a Manny Machado single in the third. The third time, Justin Turner followed with a first-pitch home run. Hyun-jin Ryu turned in six innings, five relievers saw it through, and the Giants bounced into five double plays.

The Dodgers stayed within one game of Colorado in the National League West and can clinch no worse than the second wild-card spot Saturday if they win or if St. Louis loses to the Cubs, in a game that starts three hours before the Dodgers and Giants do.

“I’ve thought all along we’ve controlled our own destiny,” Hernandez said. “I thought so when we were two and a half games ahead (of Colorado) and even though we’ve put ourselves in this position, it really hasn’t changed.”

Colorado’s win over Washington put the Rockies in the playoffs regardless. A Western Division tie causes a one-game shootout for the title at Dodger Stadium on Monday afternoon.

But two Dodger losses and two Cardinal wins would force L.A. to play a 163rd game in St. Louis on Monday. The winner would then play the top wild-card team, either the Cubs or Brewers, on Tuesday. No one should dive deeper into these scenarios without Advil.

“Obviously it’ll be a little bit nicer to win the division than it would be to go win a suicide game,” Hernandez said, “Anything can happen in one game. But as long as we keep winning we’ll be OK.”

Hernandez is a capable right-handed hitter against most, but his ownership of Bumgarner is just another blessed example of baseball’s inscrutability.

J.D. Martinez is hitting .160 against Bumgarner. Andrew McCutchen is hitting .163. Hanley Ramirez wound up at .161. Jayson Werth retired with an .097 average.

Manager Dave Roberts said Hernandez “sees him real well,” and good luck explaining that.

“We see him a lot, he’s in the division,” Hernandez said. “I watch a little video to see his last few starts, but I don’t spend any more time on him than anyone else. He’s one of the best in the game. When I started hitting against him I had some luck against his fastball, then he made some adjustments with his breaking ball and I didn’t hit him real well, and then I adjusted again.

“There’s no science out there. The first few times, the pitcher has the advantage, but then you get an idea. With guys like that, it doesn’t matter what you’ve done in the past.”

The Dodgers were off Thursday, after the Tuesday and Wednesday losses in Arizona that thinned the ice underneath their feet. It was welcome, especially when the plane from Phoenix didn’t land until 3 a.m.

Hernandez said he also got a pickup when he read a quote from St. Louis pitcher Adam Wainwright.

“He said that you have two choices,” Hernandez said. “You can choose to lay down or you can go out there and play like your hair’s on fire. I liked that a lot. It was a little different way of looking at it, and it was the mentality I came out with tonight.”

Ryu’s only blemish was a home run by Nick Hundley in the second inning, and Manny Machado got that run back with an RBI single in the third. Ryu left after six innings, which left it up to the bullpen, and it might or might not have been a coincidence that some rowdy Dodgers fans got into it with the local authorities and were escorted out of AT&T Park. Anxiety medication doesn’t mix well with alcohol in late September.

But the relievers actually pacified the area, giving up one walk and two hits in three innings. The Giants had runners on first and second with nobody out in the seventh, and Pedro Baez struck out two and handed off to Alex Wood, who faced pinch-hitter Chase d’Arnaud.

Wood is not in the bullpen by choice, although he’s been there before. “It doesn’t take me a long time to get ready,” he said. “It is what it is. We’re trying to win the division.”

Wood struck out d’Arnaud on a changeup, and Kenta Maeda and Kenley Jansen pitched the eighth and ninth.

As a starter, Wood was an All-Star in 2017 and finished ninth in the Cy Young Award vote. This year he still put in 150 innings, and his dropoff hasn’t been cataclysmic. But, in the perpetual quest for improvement, Wood has gone to a quicker tempo.

“It’s helped my stuff a lot,” he said. “It probably is the best stuff I’ve had all year. Unfortunately, you don’t get to see it that often, and that’s the frustrating part. But you’re always playing with things, trying to find something.”

The Dodgers aren’t seeing the playoffs as well as Hernandez sees Bumgarner. On Friday night the fog began to lift.

HUNTINGTON BEACH – Los Alamitos only needed one play to make its presence felt Friday night in a 69-0 win against Fountain Valley at Huntington Beach High.

Oscar Brown V took the opening kickoff 85 yards for a touchdown as the Griffins deflated the Barons’ homecoming crowd just 15 seconds into the contest.

Caoch Ray Fenton had fun watching his team’s players showcase their talent in their Sunset League opener.

“We have some really athletic kids on our team and OB (Brown) got the chance to catch the ball in some space and showed everybody who he is and what he can do,” Fenton said.

Kenui Huey reminds everyone to that studying film is a must. Huey scored 3 TDs in the Griffins 69-0 win over Fountain Valley. @ocvarsity @LosAlFootball @kenuihuey6 #WatchTheTape pic.twitter.com/Nu499DS1HA

— David Delgado (@DavidDelgado_OC) September 29, 2018

Los Alamitos (5-1, 1-0) played a flawless first half and was able to move the ball with ease and score in a myriad of ways.

The Griffins scored through the air, on the ground, returned an interception 102 yards for a touchdown in addition to the special teams TD on the first play.

“Tonight was just one of those games where everything went our way,” Fenton said. “I think our kids executed really well on our side of the ball.”

Quarterback Cade McConnell’s performance in Los Alamitos’ 34-point first quarter was sensational. He ended up up completing nine of 10 passes for 189 yards and four TDs.

Los Al QB Cade McConnell directed the offense in a 69-0 victory over Fountain Valley. @ocvarsity @LosAlFootball @cade_mcconnell pic.twitter.com/lJwZwGPNbQ

— David Delgado (@DavidDelgado_OC) September 29, 2018

“I think the game is slowing down for him and he has some talented receivers around him,” Fenton said of the junior.

One of those talented receivers, Kenui Huey, caught four passes for 86 yards and two TDs and his pick-six in the second quarter went 102 yards. Huey’s defensive score was one of two by Los Al, the other one coming on a 46-yard interception return by Bobby Blandino.

Fenton was proud of Huey’s hard work and commitment and how it has produced plays like his pick-six.

Midway through the second quarter, the Barons (4-2, 0-1) were facing a fourth-and-goal from the 2 when Brandon Krause took a pitch and then attempted to find an open receiver. Huey read the play and intercepted the pass and returned it for a touchdown.

Zack Wagoner added a pair of rushing touchdowns late in the second quarter to give Los Alamitos a 62-0 lead at halftime.

Fountain Valley had another chance to avoid the shutout in the fourth quarter as Jackson Weddle forced a fumble and recovered it at the Griffins 4.

Los Alamitos’ defense kept the Barons out of the end zone after four unsuccessful plays to preserve its first shutout of the season.