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# Ready for the Ocean
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/ready-for-the-ocean/
- Published: 2007-10-12T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T03:18:57.000Z
- Author: Daniel Archuleta
- Tags: Education, Venice, #archive-import

*Samohi hopes to do well in league play*

SAMOHI Santa Monica High School began the season with great expectations, but as they head into league play tonight, the Vikings will have to fight for their postseason lives if they are going to make it past the regular season.

Following a 2-0 start to the preseason, Samohi has dropped two of their last three and are looking at Ocean League play as a chance to salvage a spot in the CIF-Southern Section playoffs. At 3-2, the Vikings maintain a pretty respectable record considering that the pair of losses came to the likes of Venice and Los Alamitos high schools. Both squads are 4- 1 and are most likely going to advance. “Our kids played well. We gave them (Los Alamitos) everything they can handle. They had a big quarterback that just wore us down. We made a couple mistakes on offense and that really set us up for the loss,” said Samohi head coach Zach Cuda. “It was a very close, one-score game.

“We had a chance to take a lead late in the fourth quarter, but we fumbled our chance away.”

Last week, junior Christian Ross filled a vacancy at tailback left by senior starter

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on October 12, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/101207.pdf?ref=smdp.com)