One wonders how southern calif High School teams keep generating that talent that in most cases, the North has to struggle when the North meets the south. But then you have Del Oro who didn't rise from the ashes, but just never quit...The team coached by Casey Taylor just kept the kids focused and proved that it can be done when things don't look too good. And then we have the battle royal between DLS and Centennial as the final game of the schedule where there was no let down and the Spartans just kept playing away until plays began to work in a hard fought game by both teams to finish off a five game playoff.
Del Oro.....07.....03.....00.....06.....16
Camarillo..00.....00.....06.....07.....13
A tough defense kept the Cam team from doing any thing until the second half, but in the mean time it was Mason Hurst' 58 yard run that jump started the Golden Eagles and again it was the DO defense that really came thru, as this was a team effort as every body came to play..
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Bells...................00.....00.....00.....00.....00
Mission Viego....00.....12.....12.....00.....24
When the Diablo's, took the opening kickoff and went to work on the Bells left side , racking up three first downs in a row...At the time, it didn't seem like the beginning of the end, but it was a story of things to come as the Bells could never get their offense rolling until the second half, but that was only brief periods....when the first half ended, the Bells were minus 17 on running and minus 2 passing as Mission Viego' defense was stand up and kept the Bells off balance all day...It was one of those games where you ran into some one that had your number...
Narbonne.....07.....07.....14.....00.....28
CVC.............07.....00......07....00.....14
The Eagles opened the game with a 13 play 79 yard drive which included only one of two passes by Ken Peralta of 29 yards and the hard running of Jackson that gave CVC their first score...but with out CVC' first and second string QB out, it was up to Peralta to carry on the load, and he was a real work horse with one keeper after another and Jackson in between, plugging away, but it just wasn't enough as Narbonne's defense was up to the task and was holding the CVC offense to short yardage runs...but it was Jackson who broke thru the Narbonne defense with a 60 yard gallop that was the only high lite for the Eagles...For Narbonne, QB Roman ale Sean Riley and Denmark's combination that kept the Gaucho's on the move...Narbonne racked up 169 yards running, and 117 passing while CVC ran for 270 yards, but only 29 in passing and Jackson had 139 yards of the 270 that the eagle generated...
Central Catholic.....07.....14.....28.....07.....56
San Marino............00......14....07.....00.....21
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The Raiders didn't waste any time as the offense opened up with a 74 yard pass play with 11:10 on the clock, as Petlanski hit Santino with a bomb and the Raiders were off and running.But things got worse for San Marino, as Petlanski hit his brother on a 24 yard pass and followed up with another pass to Novarro for 49 yards...but then San Marino opened up with a 69 yard pass from by QB wick and then a one yard dash by wick with 017 left in the first half which made the score CC 21 SM 14......Now the SM QB was very good with his deception on hand offs and pass plays in the first half, but with the opening of the second half, it was Rice with 17 yards, a pick off by Bland for 44 yard return and then Rice again with 38 yards, but not to be out done, Bland stepped in again with anther pickoff for 39 yards and the Raiders had racked up 28 points....But in the fourth Quarter, Bland went up the middle for two yards, capping off the Raider scoring
DLS..............07.....00.....14.....07.....28
Centennial...00.....07......14.....00.....21
The Spartans opened up the scoring with a drive that had Sweeny, Hernandez and Custer grinding away against a nasty Huskie defense which include a 15 yard pass to Asiasi and it was Sweeney with a five yard jaunt over the left side for the score capping off a 17 play drive that ate up almost six and a half minutes. For the Huskies, running back Taylor became the work horse. on a shuffle pass from Catalano, Taylor ripped thru the middle of the Spartan defense for the Huskies first score...Now DLS had a big gap between the tackles, and the Huskies were taking advantage of it as the four man Spartan defense had a gap about four feet wide and it took some adjusting to plug up the hole that was now covered by the LB and a line tightened up. In the third quarter all hell broke loose as Catalano hit Saunders on a 10 yard pass, but Sweeney came right back with a 56 yard pass to Harvey, but it wasn't over as Catalano hit McKinley with a 12 yard pass and the Huskies took the lkead for about 18 seconds when Custer broke loose on a 56 yard run and the game was tied..Going into the fourth quarter, both defense' were playing hard nosed defense but a big interception by Lopez returned the ball 30 yards and it was Sweeney with a 32 yard run over the left side that was the wining score. But again, it was the defense and the three remaining TO's that Centennial had to use to gain a chance to tie the game, but it didn't work and DLS held on for the win...
