As strategies go for getting players minds off a title game loss to its rival — and the inevitable rematch — starting a season with games against Hamilton, Highland and Brophy appears effective.
A 2024 Centennial team of three almost equal parts — senior and junior returnees from the 2023 Open Division runners up, transfers from across the state and promising players from the freshman and junior varsity teams — has to gel and focus very quickly.
Richard Taylor, still the only head coach in school history, saw promising signs from spring ball on through summer camp at Cal Lutheran University.