Football: Calabasas wants to leave Marmonte League

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Dan Stepenosky, the assistant superintendent of personnel for the Las Virgenes Unified School District, has confirmed that Calabasas will request to leave the Marmonte League for football only, opening the way for Westlake Village Oaks Christian to join the league in 2010 during the next four-year sports cycle.

Calabasas has lost 44 consecutive Marmonte League football games, all by double-digit margins. The last time Calabasas won a league game was in 2002, when Oaks Christian had yet to win a league title or section championship.

The first step is for Oaks Christian to win an appeal on May 6 of its placement in a new league with St. Bonaventure, Santa Clara and Grace Brethren. Once that appeal is accepted, the Northern Area must meet again and come up with a different plan, and that’s when Calabasas would probably leave the Marmonte and be replaced by Oaks Christian.

‘That would be great,’ Oaks Christian Athletic Director Jan Hethcock said today. ‘This is what we’ve been hoping for.’

-- Eric Sondheimer