Power outages to prevent wildfires force postponement of football games
On Friday morning, with a power outage at Simi Valley High in effect out of concern that power lines could ignite a wildfire to erupt because of strong Santa Ana winds, Simi Valley football coach Jim Benkert was frantically checking locations available to help keep on schedule a homecoming game against Newbury Park on Friday night.
But with Ventura County facing increased outages, the Simi Valley home game has been moved to Saturday at 3:30 p.m. Another change involves St. Bonaventure hosting Oaks Christian at 1 p.m. on Saturday.
Southern California Edison warned about possible shutoff of electricity because of the wind. Simi Valley students remained in classes on Friday because the school has emergency generators.
Westlake coach Rick Clausen said his team’s game at Ventura High remains on because the school has generators if power is cut off.
The Valencia-Canyon game has been moved to 4 p.m. at Canyon High on Friday due to possible power outages.