It rained, it stopped, it got colder, then colder. And it didn't matter for Memorial High in a Central Section Division II football playoffs warm-up against Mt. Whitney on Friday night.

They rang the opening bell and Buchanan High, the heavyweight favorite, threw big punch after punch after punch.

Seeing Squaw Valley in the fall, coated with the merest dusting of snow, is like glimpsing a starlet not quite made up and fully powdered, not quite red carpet-ready.

Compiled by Dave Hurley and edited by Roger George, a central San Joaquin Valley native and local fishing expert.