The destiny of the Jordan High School football team is only partly in its own hands with two weeks left in the regular season.

For Jordan (5-4, 4-1), it has only one more regular-season contest, Friday’s 2:15 p.m. home game with Huntington Park (3-5, 1-3), to keep its Eastern League playoff hopes alive.

The Bulldogs are a game out of first place behind Roosevelt (7-1, 4-0), which faces archrival Garfield (4-4, 2-2) Friday at East L.A. College, then closes the regular season next week at South East (3-5, 2-2).

A year ago, Jordan, Roosevelt and Garfield all shared the league title. Jordan, which would need some help to be co-champion this year, lost to Roosevelt earlier this season.

Thanks to an outstanding season by senior Deshawn Beck, the Bulldogs are finishing strong again.

Beck has rushed for 1,530 yards and seven touchdowns on 134 carries and completed 51 of 98 passes for 785 yards and five scores.

In last Friday’s 13-12 victory over Bell (5-3, 2-3), Beck completed 16 of 27 passes for 246 yards and a TD and carried 14 times for 178 yards and a score.

Defensive back Patrick Wooten, who earned All-City honors as a freshman after recording a section-best 150 tackles, had nine solo tackles, assisted on five others and intercepted a pass against Bell. Defensive lineman Trayronn Archer had 10 tackles and two sacks.

Source: WaveNewspapers.com