2018 August PASO Magazine

BEARCAT COUNTRY
Bearcat Football
Paso Robles High School begins
the season with a fresh look — staring
down the Mountain League football
opposition and into their new
post season environment, the CIF
Central Section.
After pulling out a 4-0 league
mopping in 2017, the Bearcats have
some swagger heading into the 2018
season. Talk has it, Arroyo Grande
might have their number, but it will
be decided on the field.
Head coach J.R. Reynolds has the
team of nearly 100 players working
through the heatwaves and getting
ready for the first game of the season
coming up in a couple weeks.
Reynolds has weathered some
storms over the past couple years as
the football program worked to put
some distractions behind it. Putting
pieces in place, he said he has not
yet found his starting quarterback.
There are undoubtedly some other
questions still to be answered but at
least the schedule is out.
The Bearcats travel on Friday,
Aug. 17 to Clovis to face Buchanan
High School. The first home game
is against Frontier on Friday, Aug.
24 at War Memorial High School.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it is time
to get some new crimson swag, break
out the foam fingers, and head to the
field for some good old fashioned
sporting fun.
League begins on Friday, Sept. 28
with a road trip to Righetti High
School in Santa Maria and then
Paso hosts Arroyo Grande and San
Luis Obispo. Finally, the game of the
year up to that point will take place
in Atascadero, where the Bearcats
will be likely playing for a title, and
possible defending an undefeated
league record, against the Atascadero
Greyhounds on Friday, Oct. 26.
If you are new to the area, and you
haven’t been to a game at your local
high school yet, make this the year.
Join in the great community tradition
and get yourself some Bearcats’ gear.
Voice Of Paso
With Steve Martin’s launch of
voiceofpaso.com, and the long history
of live radio coverage given
by Jim Wiemann and a variety of
co-hosts, including his better half
during football season, Bill Stansbury,
the live on-air coverage of
local high school sports continues
to improve.
This year is no exception, as
the crew heads into fall. With the
change from CIF Southern Section,
which has played host to the local
high school postseason for many
years, the crew takes on some wider
scope of coverage, including a simulcast
of the show with coverage on
LiveStream and local KZOZ 93.3.
“It is not going to be ESPN
right off the bat, but we will do a
good job,” Wiemann said. “It’s local
small town broadcasting, the way it
should be.”
During football season, the VOP
crew travels with the team.
“We do a traveling Locker Room
in a local restaurant,” Wiemann said,
“then we do the Facebook Live and
then we will simulcast the game live
on the radio and on livestream.com.
That is game day on Fridays for us.”
But as much attention as football
gets around here, it is not all football.
“We are doing all the other
sports as well,” Wiemann said, “all
the basketball, wrestling, and track
and field.”
It isn’t even just sports that catches
their attention and voice into the
microphone.
“We did Templeton Fourth of
July Parade and Paso Pops,” Wiemann
said, “and we will do Colony
Days parade and Pioneer Day
parade.”
The crew keeps busy, and this
year Wiemann and Stansbury open
football season doing their 100th
show, and it also marks Wiemann’s
1,000th play-by-play performance.
He’s been working on it since high
school as a Bearcat himself.
For more information, look the
crew up at voiceofpaso.com, or the
Voice of Paso Facebook page.
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