Mountain Views News          Saturday, October 27, 2012

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SPORTS

 Mountain Views News Saturday, October 27, 2012 

ST. RITA ALUM CHOSEN FOR US ARMY 

ALL-AMERICAN BOWL

Hayden Rettig to Join 
Elite All-Americans in 
January’s Game

St. Rita alum and Cathedral 
High School senior, Hayden 
Rettig, has been selected to 
play in the prestigious US 
Army All-American Bowl 
in 2013. Rettig will join the 
nation’s top 90 high school 
football players in the 
East vs. West game at the 
Alamodome in San Antonio, 
Texas on Saturday, Jan. 5.

“It’s a great honor playing 
in this game,” Rettig said. 
“These men [US Army] work 
so hard every day to provide 
for us and protect us…I can’t 
wait to show them that I can 
be one of their country’s 
great quarterbacks.”

In January, Rettig will be 
heading off to college-football powerhouse Louisiana State University (LSU), where he is 
committed to playing quarterback. His family is no stranger to football talent. Hayden’s 
older brother, Chase, is the starting quarterback for Boston College and one of the leading 
passers in the ACC.

The brothers both graduated from St. Rita, a place still close to their hearts, where Hayden 
said he developed a love of the game while playing under Coach Randy Davies. “He was a 
great coach and he always got the most out of us,” Hayden Rettig said. “He personally gave 
me the confidence to strive to be the best I could be. I will always treasure the years I played 
at St Rita and for Coach Davies.”

Both Hayden and Chase still keep 
in contact with Davies and come 
back to school to visit their old 
teachers and favorite office ladies 
whenever they get the chance. 
Cousins CJ in sixth grade and 
Holly in kindergarten attend St. 
Rita as well.

Watch for Rettig and root for the 
West Coast on January 5. The 
All-American game, in its 13th 
year, will be broadcast live on 
NBC, with an expected crowd of 
40,000 in attendance. Known as 
the nation’s premiere high school 
football game, it has been called 
a “launching pad” for future NFL 
and collegiate star football players. 

“Mark Sanchez, Tim Tebow, 
Sean Jackson…all these guys 
have played in the All-American 
game, “Rettig said. “They say 175 
are active in the NFL. That’s a big 
number for me…I want to be 
there someday.”

St. Rita School, located at 322 N. 
Baldwin Ave. in Sierra Madre, 
is a Catholic parish school with 
a championship-caliber sports 
program. Academically ranked 
fourth in the Los Angeles 
Diocese, the school focuses on 
faith, stewardship and academic 
excellence. 

SIERRA MADRE OKTOBERFEST FULL 
OF FUN AND SURPRISES

 Sierra Madre 
had a real Oktober 
surprise 
at its 5th Annual 
Oktoberfest 
Golf and Tennis 
Tournament. 
The event 
raises funds 
for the city’s 
youth program 
and included 
a Four Ball 
Scramble Golf 
Tournament 
and Round 
Robin Tennis 
Tournament. 

 In recent 
years the Tennis 
Tournament 
has been dominated 
by women 
players and 
the golf by men, 
however this 
year the tables 
turned. 

Men captured all three places in the tennis tournament and a Team of 3 women and 1 man won the 
golf tournament.

Tennis Winners for 2012 were: 

1st place – Ray Tyndall

2nd place – John Capoccia

3rd place – Rick Sosapovan

Golf Team Winners: 

Susan Henderson, Hattie Harris, Donna Burley, and Ray Burley

In addition to the golf tournament prizes were given for the Putting Contest - Marc Van Cleave, Longest 
Drive - Tully Rankin and Closest To The Pin, Pat Simcock.

 An annual side competition between two local businesses, GEM Plumbing and the Mountain Views 
News is also played annually. For the previous two years GEM has won the competition and the losing 
team has to purchase the pumpkins for the city’s Halloween activities in the name of the Sierra 
Madre Kiwanis Club. This year however, the Mountain Views Team had an incredible round and 
finished the tournament -8 with 3 mulligans to spare. 

 

The games were followed by a delicious lunch catered by Matt Denny’s, a variety of traditional Oktoberfest 
beer, a silent auction, raffles and just plain fun.


Hayden Rettig sports his All-American jersey at a press 
conference at Cathedral High last week. 

Photo courtesy Fox Sports

Mountain Views Publisher Susan Henderson (l) and team mate Hattie 
Harris proudly hold the coveted perpetual trophy for the Golf Tournament. 
Not pictured are team members Ray and Donna Burley.


IT’S TIME FOR THE TURKEY TUSSLE

MUIR VS. PHS

Thursday, November 1 

6 p.m. 

The Rose Bowl gates open for the PUSD Turkey Tussle, the annual football game 
between the Pasadena High School Bulldogs and the John Muir High School Mustangs. 
Gates open at 6 p.m. 

Kickoff is at 7:15 p.m. GO PUSD! 

Rettig poses with Barbara and Randy Davies at a 
Cathedral game. Photo Courtesy Suzy Rettig

 
DHS SPORTS STADIUM 
GRAND OPENING! 
HOMECOMING CELEBRATION