Taking a turn for the better

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What a difference four years makes.

Compton was 0-10, including an 0-6 mark in the Moore League, in 2004, Calvin Bryant’s first season as coach. The junior-varsity and freshman teams sported the same inauspicious record.

Well, let’s just say the standard has been raised.

All three teams enter their games this week with impressive 8-0 marks, including 4-0 records in league play. Read a story on Compton here that ran earlier this season.

‘When you’re coaching, you never know how it’s going to go. You have to coach from year to year,’ Bryant said. ‘I’m proud of the guys and the efforts they’ve put in in the off-season, proud of what they’ve accomplished.’

Compton’s varsity team enters its Moore League game Friday against visiting Long Beach Poly (7-1, 4-0), ranked No. 6 in the state by MaxPreps.com and sixth in the Southland by The Times, with a chance to snap the Jackrabbits’ state-record 71-game league winning streak.

In the last two years, Compton went 7-4, with a 4-2 mark in league play, in 2005, and, with three nonleague forfeit losses early on, was 5-7, including a 4-2 record in the league, in 2006.

The Tarbabes finished third in the league both seasons behind Poly and Lakewood, but if they pull off the upset Friday, they will have the inside track to their first league title in who knows how long.

Seriously, who knows how long? I’m asking...

-- Lauren Peterson