Guns v. fire hoses

By Nicole Giove, sports editor
Wednesday, February 6, 2008

photo credit: Titus Jahng

On Saturday, January 26, signs hung around the gym rooting on the fire and police departments to their first big showdown in the packed FVHS gymnasium. Both friends and families came to watch and cheer.

This event helped raise money for the girls basketball team. It all started last year when freshman mom Kim Anderson put an advertisement in the Fountain Valley View for fundraiser ideas. She received a call from a relative of frosh basketball coach Barry Migliorini, who said that having a basketball game between the Fire and Police departments would “bring in the bucks.”

“And it worked. We posted it to the board and they jumped on the idea,” said Booster President Judy Mayer. “We needed the money to help pay for the new uniforms to follow the CIF rules.” The press release helped spread the news along, and people from the Fountain Valley City Council came to show their support including councilman Larry Crandall.

The athletes were given six tickets each to sell. The girls frosh team sold their tickets at Ralph’s and through a couple of neighborhoods on the weekends. “We had fun, except with Coach Barry,” claimed sophomore Peaches Cavett. “He was singing embarrassing songs in front of the people we were selling to.”

Overall the game had a great turnout and brought friends and family closer to watch the men compete. The final score was 50-44, the fire department.