From LBPOSTSports.com:
Yesterday, Lakewood’s football team officially forfeited all of its four victories this season. The decision was made after the school discovered a “clerical error” that led to a student playing while academically ineligible. The games against Crenshaw, Peninsula, Mayfair and Verbum Dei will now stand as losses, and the Lancers will go into Friday’s game against Poly, 0-4. The Lancers will also hand over the Milk Bucket trophy to Mayfair, despite their 24-7 win two weeks ago.
As inconceivable as it seems that Lakewood, a 4-0 team with the highest scoring offense in the Moore League, now has the same record as Cabrillo, CIF’s Director of Communications Thom Simmons says it’s not unprecedented.
“This probably happens once or twice a year,” Simmons told LB Post Sports on Wednesday. “Lakewood discovered [the player’s] grades were not what they thought they were, and they are voluntarily forfeiting the games. That’s under the rules, but they are doing it voluntarily.”
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Story by Mike Guardabascio and J.J. Fiddler