Amir Evans looks for running room.
(Pasadena) The La Salle Lancers scored on offense, defense and special teams in a 63-7 domination of the Maranatha Minutemen Friday night on the campus of Maranatha High school.
La Salle started their scoring barrage midway through the first quarter when Israel Lacy capped a five play 75-yard drive on a 19-yard run. Chris Rabine added the extra point for the 7-0 lead. Lacy finished the night with four carries for 72-yards and two touchdowns.
Maranatha came back to tie the score with 4:32 left in the opening stanza when a hobbled Andrew Elfers hit Nick Scanlan from the second play from scrimmage on a drive that started on the Lancer 36. The drive was set up when Lacy muffed a Reid Pike punt.
From there it was all La Salle as the Lancers reeled off 49 unanswered points.
The Lancers teams accounted for one of the scores when Maranatha was lined up for their third punt of the evening deep in Minuteman territory. The punt was blocked and Bobby La Salle scooped up the loose ball and rumbled into the endzone.
Eli Snyder and Andrew Elfers were under constant pressure all night.
With 9:09 left in the 2nd quarter it was the defense’s turn to put point on the board. Minuteman Eli Snyder in for the injured Elfers and in shotgun formation saw a snap sail over his head and get snatched out of the air near the 17-yard line by Ryan Cimino. Cimino outraced the chasers from Maranatha to the endzone to take the score to 35-7.
Three more scores, a two yard run by Bryce Harvey, a 13-yard pass from Austin Wallis to Jaylen Gray and a 47-yard run by Lacy capped the scoring for the first half. The stunned Maranatha faithful looked up and saw a 56-7 score going into halftime. Wallis fire the ball 10 times completing seven for 139-yards and two touchdowns.
“The kids were really focused. We had a good week of practice and it really showed tonight. We thought they were young up front and saw they graduated a few guys last year. We took advantage of that youth tonight” commented Lancer head coach Russell Gordon after the game.
La Salle called off the dogs in the second half and couple that with a running clock produced only one more score on the night. Snyder rolled right for the Minutemen and looked down field for an open man. Just as Snyder was ready to fire, he was drilled from behind by a La Salle defender. The ball squirted forward out of Snyder’s hand and into the waiting arms of Lancer Matthew Cina. Cina raced nine yards to paydirt.
“I have to give all the credit to Russ and his staff. They just outplayed us in a three phases. Those are a lot of the same players that we beat 20-3 last year so it was very impressive what they did tonight” said Maranatha head coach Pete Karavedas when asked his opinion on the game.
La Salle will get back to work preparing for Westchester while Maranatha will travel to the Swamp in South El Monte to take on the Eagles possibly without Elfers.
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