At this second home game of the Fall 1989 season, the stands that overlooked the Huygens football field were not as empty as they had been for the first game. The team had last played at the Pacific Ocean Conservatory, where Caydance had sat with Mira Palacio-Earle. Today on this late September Day -- sunny, temperature in the low 70's -- Mira was on a musician's road trip, playing the flute as soloist in a San Diego Chamber Orchestra. Sitting by herself, Caydance wore gray jeans and a form fitting blue-gray sweater that Griff had given her for Christmas. It was the second quarter. The score was Diablo Mountain 10 Huygens 3.

Compared to the extraordinary Wolves quarterback, River Angelos looked like the Freshman that he was, but, Caydance observed, he was holding his own against a Defense led by an enormous tackle, whose name Wolves fans were shouting: "Tray-Joe". Lined up near the 50 yardliine Big Dog snapped the ball to River. River handed it to Gerry Sun. Gerry was noted not only for his speed but also for how aware he was of the spaces created by the men of the O-Line, whose names Caydance now knew like a line of poetry: Jamaar, Leonidas, Kyrone, Kamaha’o, "Big Dog", and the Tight End, Caesar Jose Ortega. In other games, Caydance had seen Gerry emerge previously unseen from a tunnel created by the O-Line and take off unscathed down the field. Today, this play was not only astounding, it was magnificent. Wolves 10 Huygens 10.