By George Hernandez
(South El Monte)- Norwalk running back Billy Moore touched the ball four times for 157 yards and two touchdowns, to lead the Lancers over South El Monte 63-3 Friday night at “The Swamp”.
The Eagles had the ball first but on the second play of the game quarterback Mark Acosta lateraled the ball back to a receiver and it wasn’t caught, but pick up by linebacker Adrian Cortez and he took it in for the first score. The two point conversion failed, Norwalk was up 6-0.
Following three and out for South, Cortez scored again on a 52 yard run. The two point conversion failed again the score remained 12-0. A couple big touchdown runs by Moore of 30 and 65 yards opened the game wide open and gave the Lancers a 29-0 lead.
Norwalk running back Adrian Gonzalez had eight carries for 44 yards and two scores, back up quarterbacks Martin Del Castillo and Moises Acosta each ran in for a touchdown. Starting quarterback Dominque Diaz went two of two for 44 yards and a touchdown pass to Ryan Martinez covering 40 yards. Lancers kicker Manuel Corona went 4 for 5 for extra point attempts and most of his kickoffs in the endzone.
The Lancers defense led by Cortez, Elijhaa Penny, and Anthony Hernandez shut down the South offense. The Eagles were held to 71 yards rushing and Acosta was 2 of 6 for only 26 yards. South’s lone score came from a 25 yard field goal from Cristian Lopez.
“South has a lot of tough kids, and it was a hard hitting game, we know they had some kids missing but it was a good game,” said Norwalk head coach Jesse Ceniceros. “I have high expectations for my team we did good tonight but we still got to polish up some things like penalties.”
The Lancers Moore after the game gave credit to his line saying; “My line has worked hard and it paid off tonight. We want to win the Mayfair’s and Artesia’s and be CIF Champs.”
South El Monte’s next game doesn’t get any easier when they travel to San Dimas next week. Norwalk will stay on the road and visit Los Amigos.
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