| ALTA
LOMA HIGH SCHOOL - March 22, 2003 |
By
Sue Kim
 Tonight’s
proceeds benefiting the associated student body
of Alta Loma as the Knights played the San
Bernardino’s Sheriff’s Department
rather than the faculty they usually play.
Hopefully the two new players to the team,
Erik-Michael Estrada from O-Town and Justin
Hartley from Passions, would help the Knights
secure a victory. Plus Trevor Penick, adorned in
his Alma Mater high school basketball uniform,
was playing at his rival. Fans and Knights alike
welcomed back Soluna as they sang tonight’s
National Anthem.
Cylk, Thad, Trevor, and Romeo were on the court
with the start of the quarter, concentrating on
gaining control of the ball as Kiko was at center
court for the tip off. The ball ended up in
Thad’s hands but within just a few seconds,
a violation was called that gave possession to
the Sheriffs. Officer number 21 was the first to
make a shot in tonight’s game with a two
point shot. Trevor soon came back for the Knights
by making a three point shot. Kiko rushed to save
the ball from going out of bounds, which ended up
with Romeo for the Knights. Sheriff number 5
missed a lay up, which gave Kiko the perfect
opportunity to make a three pointer for the
Knights with some assistance from Trevor. Arlen,
Bryan, Dejai, and Cylk are just a few of the
Knights that helped put the score at 11-38,
Knights, at the end of first quarter.
With more than half of the game left to play, it
was no team’s game. At the start of the
second quarter, Josh Keaton and Jeff Licon’s
arrivals were announced before the Knights went
at it again to keep their lead on the scoreboard.
Romeo, Thad, Kiko, Cylk, and Trevor were the
starting five for this quarter with the Sheriffs
having possession of the ball. Trevor went in for
a two point shot in which he missed but Cylk made
up for that as he made that missed two pointer
soon after. Kiko rushed down the key and
attempted to make a slam-dunk but his effort was
unsuccessful and instead went to the free throw
line for fouls he incurred in the process. Arlen
dribbled the ball down court and tripped in the
process but Justin grabbed the ball for the
Knights while making a two point shot. Eric made
a final attempt to up the Knights’ already
leading score before half time but his attempt
fell short. The Knights still had a substantial
lead going into half time with a score of 26-57.
 With the
start of the third quarter, a fan got the chance
to throw in the ball for the Knights. As Sheriff
number 5 went in for a shot, Trevor ended up on
the gym floor. Later, both Thad and Trevor were
on the floor as they tried to get the ball that
was once in Sheriff number 20’s possession.
Arlen had the Knights’ score at an even 70
after his two point shot. In the few seconds
Trevor was given the honors to give away a
skateboard all attention was on him rather than
the game as fans yelled their loudest to get his
attention. Dejai passed the ball to Eric but that
try ended up out of bounds. This time it was
Bryan that tried to make the shot at the buzzer
leaving the score at 41-74.
In the fourth quarter, the Knights tried to help
the Sheriffs catch up. Kiko was at the line to
for his free throws due to a foul but this time
he tried to make them backwards (he didn’t
make either shot). Later Erik was at the free
throw line making his shot with his eyes closed,
which ended up working. As the other Knights
played the last of the game against the Sheriffs,
Trevor and Kiko let the refs take a breather as
they assumed referee responsibilities. Trevor
took on his role as ref for the last few seconds
of the game by calling a traveling violation on
the Knights. Before the clock winded down to
zero, Stoney got off from the bench to try and
make a shot but missed. The game came to an end
with a win for the Knights, 97-101. |
By
Jeanne Flores
Saturday, March 22, 2003 was a homecoming game
for Trevor Penick as he and the rest of the
Hollywood Knights faced off against the San
Bernadino Sheriffs department and the Alta Loma
High faculty. If you looked into the stands, you
could spot Trevor’s mom holding up a sign
that read “holla” on one side and
“Let Trevor play” on the other. First
timer Justin Hartley, Erik Michael Estrada, Kiko
Ellsworth, the Goodfellas, Arlen Escarpeta, Thad
Luckinbill, Bryan Datillo, Cylk Cozart, Khleo
Thomas, Sarah Ramos, Josh Keaton, Jeff Licon, and
Vanessa Lengies were all in attendance for the
game. While the lineup for the Knights was being
introduced, “boo’s” came from the
crowd when Trevor revealed his high school jersey
from Rancho Cucamunga High School, which happens
to be rival schools with Alta Loma. Some may have
noticed during warm-ups, Trevor was sporting his
own Knights jersey. If fans remember, Trevor said
in the Burbank game “I’m really going
to try to make it to Alta Loma, because I went to
Rancho, and they were my rival high school. If I
could play in that gym, I will go to like
50.” So with the jersey that read 5+3, is
Trevor an official Knight?
“Oh yeah definitely! I’m golden for the
Hollywood Knights,” answered Trevor,
“I’m in it for ever second of it.”
After Soluna sung the National Anthem, the game
was on its way, with the Knights taking a stead
lead over the Braves and the Sheriffs department.
The Power DJ’s hyped up the crowd by giving
away various prizes which included passes to
Chris Rock’s new movie “Head of
State.” Like in the Burbank game, Trevor
continued to ham it up for the crowd by sitting
on a fan’s lap when he tried to save the
ball from going out of bounds.
Half time came and the girls of Soluna were asked
to sing one more time in honor for the current
war in Iraq. Soluna sang a beautiful patriotic
acapella medley of songs which consisted of
“Oh Beautiful,” “My Country Tis of
Thee,” “Glory,” “God Bless
America,” and “America.”
“We actually arranged this medley after
September 11th,” revealed Jessica (of
Soluna), “and we wanted to do something
because we were at a stand still. We
couldn’t do anything, we were actually
supposed to release our album in November, but we
couldn’t because of September 11th. So
we’ve been doing a few events, but now that
we are at war, and everything that is going on,
we still have to maintain our patriotism and
support the country.”
Following their performance was the autograph
sessions where fans scrambled to take pictures
and young kids were on the court playing some
ball with the faculty. After the hysteria,
Jillian, accompanied by her dancers, took the
court and sang “722” and
“Heartbreaker.” Finally it was back to
the game, but not without one male fan trying to
cover Trevor up with an Alta Loma
letterman’s jacket.
Mike Shaw, deputy sheriff, gave his insights on
tonight’s event, “I think it’s a
good event. It brings the community close
together. There are a lot of people out here, a
lot of kids, and that’s the most important
thing – getting the kids out here.”
As many fans know, the Knights usually play
against the school faculty, but tonight’s
game was different because the Knights played
against the sheriff’s department. Horace
Boatwright, deputy sheriff, revealed how the
sheriff’s department got involved, “We
have a promoter for our federation, and he knows
the promoter for the Hollywood Knights. So we got
together to do a charity game for the kids.”
While the game continued, fans and kids
continuously danced to music like Benzino’s
“Rock the Party,” and even caught the
attention of Trevor when he decided to dance with
the little girls to Faith Evans
“Burnin’ Up.”
The Knights took a commanding lead over the
opponents come fourth quarter. This allowed Kiko
to shoot his free throws backwards and Senior,
Junior Denson, to shoot a three pointer for the
Knights. With a blink of an eye, the
referee’s joined the faculty side allowing
Kiko and Trevor to regulate on the game. With
twelve players on the court, the game got really
interesting. Erik shot his free throws with his
eyes closed; Kiko was wearing his ref outfit
backwards; Romeo was hanging out with the fans in
the stands hoping to get a shirt from the Power
DJ’s, and one ref did a slam dunk while Kiko
was calling fouls on Stoney Jackson. The game
ended 97-101 in the Knights favor.
One on One
What have you girls been doing since your
album and single came out?
Soluna (Jessica): We were on two tours.
We opened up for Enrique Iglesias’ tour and
Mark Anthony’s tour. Now we are working on a
TV series pilot for UPN and we are hoping that it
will turn into a series. It’s a show about
our life story.
Can the fans look forward to a follow up
album?
Soluna (Aurora): Yeah! We are working on
that one right now.
Will you be performing any of your new
material at an of the future HK games?
Soluna (T): Probably yeah. We love doing
any charity event with the HK, and we support
them. I know they will be having some games in
May, so hopefully we will be able to perform a
couple of our songs.
What is it like to interact with all
these kids?
Soluna (America): It’s amazing and
it’s great to know we can come out here and
help raise money for the schools and for the
kids. It’s well worth it.
Soluna (Jessica): It’s cool
because actually T is from out here.
Soluna (T): I went to Chaffey
and I graduated in ‘99.
So what is it like to come out here to
your hometown area?
Soluna (T): I love it. A while back I
was like “We should perform at my school
because a lot of my friends are there.” So
we went to Chaffey and performed a few songs, and
it’s so hard because a lot of stuff that we
do is out in L.A. So to come out here and do
something special out here because my family
lives here, it makes things so much cooler.
Could you describe your role in the new
Even Stevens movie?
Josh Keaton: I can’t say a whole
lot about it, because I don’t want to give
away too much of the story. I will be playing
Ren’s love interest.
Can you at least give away a little bit
of the plot?
Josh: Yeah. They go on a vacation on a
reality TV show.
What have you been doing since filming
the movie?
Josh: I have been working on a solo
project. No news on it right now, but it’s
being very close on getting finished.
On the show you have to imitate the dance
moves from the past on American Bandstand. So is
there any choreography that you have to learn
prior to filming?
Venessa Lengies: Every single American
Dreams episode that has bandstand in it, the
choreographer comes in and helps Brittany Snow
(Meg Pryor) and I learn the dances. As easy as it
may seem they are really difficult especially if
you are so used to modern dancing. They
don’t want to see us bump and grind and
nothing like that, so the choreographer comes in
and teaches us the new moves. They are so silly,
you know, we feel so retarded doing it, but
that’s what they used to do. As far as the
performers that come in, their stuff is always
choreographed.
This being your first game, what do you
think of it?
Vanessa: It is my first game! The energy
is crazy, like when they were giving away that
skateboard; my ear dreams were going to burst
with the amount of girls here. I’m here to
support Arlen, and I was behind him during the
autograph signing and there are pictures of him
with his shirt off, and the table was being
pushed towards us. It was crazy and I will
probably come again because it’s contagious
energy. I like it a lot.
What has been your favorite act that has
been imitated on Bandstand?
Vanessa: B2K was just there yesterday.
They portrayed The Temptations, and they sang
“My Girl.” They were so cute and just
so adorable. It’s funny because they
reminded me of – have you seen Dumbo? You
know the crows that joke around, they reminded me
of them, and they were so cute.
Is it weird to have people recognize you
as Patty on American Dreams?
Sarah Ramos: It’s not really weird,
but it’s really cool.
What is it like to come out here and
watch Arlen play?
Sarah: It is so much fun. I think
he’s really good, but then again I
don’t know because I never played
basketball.
What was it like playing your first game?
Justin Hartley: It’s exhausting. I
haven’t worked out like that in a really
long time, and I couldn’t find the basket.
But other than that I think I did all right. I
found my uniform, and I found the floor, but I
couldn’t find the basket. That’s ok,
I’ll get better.
What was it like playing in your rival
gym?
Trevor Penick: It was absolutely
awesome, I got to say. Being in the gym seriously
brought back memories. Not only was this my rival
high school, but also I played city league
basketball when I was 10, 11, 12. So I played
basketball in that gym every Saturday, so just
the smell of that gym brought all those memories
back. It was really special, all my family and
friends were here. It was cool.
Why does your jersey read 5+3?
Trevor: Because 8 was already taken, and
8 is Kobe Bryant and Kobe Bryant is my favorite
player that walked to face of the planet. So I
had to improvise and get 8 somehow, so 5+3 =8.
| Quote
of the Knight:
“Let's give it up for the
three-footers” – Power 106 DJ
on the little girls dancing at the end of
the court |
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