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The Tribe celebrates its third consecutive Pacific League title.

(Arcadia)- Zander Anding had 29 carries for 349 yards and four touchdowns to lead Burroughs to a 34-7 victory over Burbank in a Pacific League match up Arcadia High.

On its first formation of the night Burroughs showed Burbank what it was going to do.

Anding taking a direct snap from center and a wild bunch of high numbers ready to drive block for him.

After 14 plays, 97 yards, and 7:27 came off the first quarter clock, Burroughs proved to Burbank it was going to work.

That's not punt formation...that's "The Ram"

Anding carried the ball 12 times, on direct snaps, on the opening march and finished it with a 7-yard run around left end to paydirt.

“That’s ‘The Ram’ we were going to come out and ram Zander right at them,” said Burroughs HC Keith Knoop. “I got the idea for it watching Stanford last Saturday.”

For most of the first half and at different times in the second half, Knoop pulled his quarterback, brought in an extra lineman, and ran this bulked up version of what has become known as ‘The Wildcat’ offense.

“We came out and established it and then later we were able to do different things with it,” said Knoop.

The Zan Warrior

Other than Teddy Arlington’s 86-yard kick-off return, followed by Daniel Martinez’s 2-yard scoring run after the Indians initial score the Bulldogs were unable to mount anything consistent on offense.

Described in linear fashion it went this way: Punt, turnover on downs, punt, punt, fumble, turnover on downs, turnover downs.

And then there was Anding…

The senior back, with totals this season that would be the envy of stock investors, scored midway through the second quarter on a 73-yard run that was a combination of something between football and Swan Lake.

At the start of the third quarter he keyed a 72 yard drive with a 52-yard run that was a combination of something between football and a bullet fired out of a gun. Anding closed the drive with a 5-yard plow through the middle of the Bank defense was a combination of something between football and an Abrams tank.

Anding has exhausted most football analogies, 30 touchdowns and 2,453 yards rushing has a way of doing that, because he is defying description on the field.

What is not defying description is the play of the linemen in front of him. The road pavers were allowing most of Anding’s initial hits to occur no sooner than the line of scrimmage and quite often well beyond.

After quarterback Brad Hunt scored on a 22-yard run in the third, Anding added the capper with a 46-yard sprint endzone…Best described as…? A surfer shooting the curl? Insert your own, just be sure to include the words: football 7 marvelous.

Keith Knoop and the key to the City of Burbank

Burroughs finishes the regular season tied with Arcadia at 6-1, but defeated the Apaches head to head to claim the top spot in the Pacific.

For Burbank it’s the end of the road, with a 3-4 record, Hector Valencia’s squad will go to work on 2012 immediately.