Constant Adversity Hasn’t Stopped El Dorado’s CIF Football Title Run
Published on November 22, 2023
El Dorado High School’s football season began in ominous fashion when standout senior running back Isaiah Quintero suffered a broken fibula early in the team’s opening game. The outlook for the Golden Hawks of Placentia, California, did not brighten when, by Coach Zack LaMonda’s recollection, injuries struck down “five or six” more starters over “the first four or five” games. Then last week, near the very end of practice two days before a CIF Southern Section Division 7 semifinal matchup against Martin Luther King of Riverside, junior linebacker Blake Vinson, one of the team’s top tacklers, went down with a broken foot....