They’re back at Beverly Hills

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Junior quarterback Dex Lucci -- read about him and other QBs in the area here -- will be back in the lineup for Beverly Hills for the first time since Sept. 7 when the Normans host Mira Costa (1-2) in a nonleague game at 7 p.m. Friday.

Lucci suffered a sprained right shoulder early in a 15-15 tie with Palos Verdes 2 1/2 weeks ago, missed a 30-20 loss to Santa Barbara on Sept 15 and took advantage of a break in the schedule last week to recover.

He isn’t the only Beverly Hills player who has returned recently from an injury.

The Normans (0-2-1) played their opener -- a 6-2 loss to Long Beach Cabrillo on Aug. 31 -- without several starters because of hamstring problems, and a couple more saw only limited action because of other assorted ailments.

The next week, four starters were still sidelined, senior receiver Dominique Sandifer and senior running back Ramon Judkins were still slowed by sore hamstrings, and senior defensive tackle Danny Berkowitz, who has an injured right knee, may still miss several more games.

‘We started the season with the thought, ‘Let’s take things slow, get everybody healthy, and then go from there,’’ Coach Carter Paysinger said. ‘We’re trying to focus on the positives now, and we’re excited to have our team back to the way it should be, for the most part, for the first time this week.’

With Lucci in the lineup, the Normans (0-2-1) will move junior Erik Munzer back to wide receiver after he filled in at quarterback the last two games.

‘This was with no reps this summer,’ Paysinger said of Munzer. ‘He’s just a good athlete, and he was just pressed into service. He did a good job for us.’

- Lauren Peterson