Football: L.A. Jordan players keep trying despite odds against them

As the losses mount and the scores get uglier, the 18 players remaining on the L.A. Jordan High football team aren’t giving up.

“We’ve been beaten up pretty bad,” Coach Darrell Divinity said of his 0-7 team. “They’re trying and fighting the best way they possibly can.”

Recent games have seen the Bulldogs fall to Garfield, 49-0; Roosevelt, 30-6; South Gate, 58-0, and South East, 72-0.

There’s five freshmen playing on varsity and no JV team. Divinity, in his second season, is hoping this year’s group of players sticks around for next season when improvement can be made after gaining a year’s experience.

There’s hope in sophomore Antonio Castellanos. He was all-league as a freshman. He lives in the Jordan Downs Housing Projects across the street from school. He’s played numerous positions this season and always volunteers to do anything he can to support the team.

“He tries hard and makes improvement almost every time out,” Divinity said.

Jordan has games against Bell and Huntington Park, and the players seem determined to finish up what they started, no matter how hard it gets.

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