The Season: Last of 3 brothers, fantasy football and Mike Tyson's left hook

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De La Salle (Concord, Calif.) defensive coordinator Terry Eidson tried to get his team to go way back in time.

All the way to Mike Tyson and his left hook.

Tyson, of course, before he became a mega movie star — OK, a large exaggeration — was a mega boxing star, becoming the youngest heavyweight champion (20 years, 4 months) in history. Of his first 19 professional bouts — all wins — 12 came by first-round knockout.



He was relentless and tabbed "The Baddest Man on the Planet."

Well, De La Salle gave perhaps its most devastating first-round performance in its storied history last week, jumping out to leads of 42-0 with three minutes left in the first quarter and 56-0 by the middle of the second — against a very good Pittsburg team that entered 10-2 and featured up to five future FBS players.

Andrew Hernandez rushed for four touchdowns, quarterback Anthony Sweeney rushed for scores of 52 and 57 yards in the first five minutes and Antoine Custer returned a punt and interception back for touchdowns in the same span as De La Salle improved to 11-1.

Eidson's point in the locker room — captured here by Taylor Lambert of Cal-Hi Sports in his year-long series entitled "The Season," — was that De La Salle was relentless from the get-go, something they'll need to continue if it wants to claim another CIF Open Division state title.

"Pittsburg is very physical, well-coached and they have a lot of athletes," De La Salle coach Justin Alumbaugh said after the game. "They'll never lay down, either. We just put it all together. It was very gratifying as a coach. We had a lot of alumni out here for this game. They made a lot of people proud."

Waiting for De La Salle this week is Foothill, which pulled out an amazing 55-54 win over Antioch, a team that eked out a 44-2 win over Pittsburg.



If the Spartans get past Foothill, which it is expected to do, then they'll face the No. 1 team in the nation, either St. John Bosco (Bellflower) or Centennial (Corona), the No. 1 and No. 2 ranked teams in the country which face off in the Southern Section Pac 5 championship game on Saturday, tabbed the "Super Duper Bowl," of high school football.

Other material in this edition of "The Season," is a Thanksgiving Day look at Gabe Coray-Dozier, the last of three brothers who have played for De La Salle, and the fantasy league exploits of Eidson, Pittsburg coach Vic Galli and De La Salle assistant Maurice Jones-Drew, the former DLS, UCLA and NFL standout.