The lights of Friday night will make their debut in the Goleta foothills this week, as the Dos Pueblos Chargers will host Lompoc in their first-ever home game.
DP has been around since the sixties… That’s gotta be the longest road trip in sports history.
“We found out just before the season started, and it’s definitely been a big motivation in practice,” said senior linebacker Aaron Parsons through his helmet during Wednesday’s practice on the home turf.
And Chili’s is going to feed the whole team after the game, which is sure to make the big boys in the trenches happy.
The lights were installed at DP about six years ago, according to coach Jeff Uyesaka, but issues with ongoing construction on campus prevented the school from providing a suitable football venue.
“They put up the new theater and the new pool, and they dug up all the hallways, so in the past five years the school, at times, just looked like trenches,” said the coach, whose team is 1-1 after a 19-17 thriller over Cabrillo last week.
“We didn’t want anybody to get hurt or anything.”
“We just want to have a game in our house for the first time in forty years, so when we say ‘this is our house’ there’s finally some validity to it,” he said.
Lompoc looks to crash the house party at 7 p.m. Friday.
