The 2012 football schedule for Point Loma High School will feature a realigned Western League and two big home game dates. The season opens with the annual Kickoff Classic on Saturday, Sept. 1. All three Pointer teams christen PLHS’s sparkling new turf field. Mar Vista provides the opposition. The freshmen play at 10 a.m.; junior varsity plays at 12:30 p.m.; and the varsity plays at 3 p.m. The annual Homecoming game kicks off under the lights at 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 12 against long-time rival La Jolla. The league opponents will be changing this season for the Pointers, however. Leaving the league are Serra and Hoover highs, which move to the City League. Kearny’s Komets, formerly of the Central League, have joined the Western League, which shrinks from six members to five. The addition of the Komets will renew a memorable rivalry shared with the Pointers for decades, one that featured legendary Pointer coach Bennie Edens and Birt Slater, his Kearny counterpart. Over 43 seasons (1955-1997), Edens and his Pointers recorded 241 wins, 168 losses and 16 ties. He won five CIF titles (1962, 1966, 1982, 1987 and 1991). Over 18 years (1959-1977), Slater’s Komets recorded 134 wins, 42 losses and nine ties, two CIF titles (1963 and 1964). The job of reigniting the Pointers-Kearny rivalry falls to current head coaches Mike Hastings and Kenny Nears, respectively. The 2012 schedule also differs because the Pointers play 10 consecutive weeks with no byes. PLHS 2012 SCHEDULE • Saturday, Sept. 1— Mar Vista, 3 p.m. • Friday, Sept. 7 – Olympian, 7 p.m. • Friday, Sept. 14 — at Lincoln, 6:30 p.m. • Friday, Sept. 21 – Morse, 3 p.m. • Friday, Sept. 28 — Scripps Ranch, 3 p.m. • Friday, Oct. 5 – Kearny, 3 p.m.* • Friday, Oct. 12 — La Jolla, 6:30 p.m. *# • Friday, Oct. 19 — at Crawford, 3 p.m. • Friday, Oct. 26 — at Mission Bay, 3 p.m. * • Friday, Nov. 2 — at Madison, 6:30 p.m. * Home games are played on Bennie Edens Field at Pete Ross Stadium * Western League game # Homecoming