When asked about his team’s biggest weakness, Live Oak head coach Jon Michael Porras responds instantly: “maturity.”

“Our team needs to find its leaders,” Porras says, “and we need to grow as a family.”

As the season begins, Live Oak is returning just five starters combined on offense and defense. The majority of the team will be lacking the big-game experience that last year’s team definitely had when they went to the middle-sized school CCS Championship against Riordan.

It took a lot of heart for Live Oak to even get there. In the final game of the regular season, against Saratoga, the offense staged a rlentless drive in the fourth quarter. Then junior placekicker Jeff Blean kicked an Adam Vinatieri-like field goal with two seconds left on the clock to win.

The Centennial Recreation Center in Morgan Hill has a teen center and computer lab -- great for kids who want to play a game of ping pong with their friends in between homework assignments. They also have an X-Box that teens can use instead of annoying their parents at home by taking up the TV.