By Joseph Rodriguez
(Covina) – Both the Bonita Bearcats and South Hills Huskies came into this match up fresh off impressive week performances. Bonita beat San Dimas 33-13, while South Hills dominated Covina 48-7. Bonita was looking to avenge last year’s loss to South Hills, and start the season 2-0 for the first time since 2010. The well known adage, “Games are won or lost in the fourth quarter” could not have been anymore true in tonight’s contest. Down 10-7 at the end of the third quarter Bonita powered past South Hills behind a 17 point fourth quarter to win 24-17.
Both teams offensive units struggled to put together sustained drives. It was not due to both team inabilities to move the ball, but rather penalties that caused offensive drives to stall. On South Hills’ final drive of the second quarter, trailing 7-3 the Huskies were knocking on the Bearcats door with a first and ten at the Bearcats 10 yard line after a 29 yard strike from quarterback Garrett Fonseca to Adam Goss. A false start, an incomplete pass, and a holding penalty, led to a 4th and 8 from the 8 yard line. An incomplete pass in the corner of the end zone from Fonseca to wide receiver D’Angeleo Ross ruined the Huskies opportunity of possibly going into the half up, 10-7. After a defensive struggle most of the third quarter, Bonita took control in the fourth. South Hills made the game interesting by scoring with 2:03 left in the fourth cutting Bonita’s lead to seven. After a three and out, Bonita punted and gave South Hills the ball with a little over a minute remaining on their own 10. Four straight incompletions sealed the win for the Bearcats, who passed an early season test against a solid team which they hope will provide experience to build success as the season progresses.
***South Hills Quarterback Garrett Fonseca went 8 of 21 for 110 yards, Bonita Quarterback Tanner Diebold went 12 of 21 for 105 yards
***Fundamentals, Fundamentals, Fundamentals! Both teams will look at tonight’s film and see penalties, miscues, and turnovers that played a big factor into the result of the game. Glass half full: Both Bonita and South Hills have the potential to play much better ball, both have the opportunity next week to prove it.
***Bonita running back Jake Payton carried the ball 22 times for 125 yards, 2 TDs. South Hills quarterback/running back Adam Goss and running back Lawton Carney combined for 60 yards rushing.
***Although it is aesthetically pleasing to watch an elite level running back make defenders miss, and change directions effortlessly , to me there is something just as appealing as watching a running back lower his shoulder, get behind his should pads and punish the first defender who dares to challenge him on his way to the end zone. Payton made sure that anyone from South Hills who came in high against him would be not repeat the same mistake again. The dude was trucking people all night. It might have even served Bonita better to wear down South hills by pounding the ball with Payton.
***South Hills’ Carlos Delgado picked off Bonita quarterback Tanner Diebold and returned it to Bonita’s 4 yard line to set up a South Hills score to put them up 10-7 with 8:37 left in the 3rd quarter. This would be the last lead of the game for South Hills.
***Game Changer: After Bonita scored with 11:13 left in the fourth to go up to 14-10, South Hills drove down to Bonita’s 24 yard line only to have a fumble returned 72 yards for a touchdown by Bonita linebacker Noah Montoya. This put Bonita up 21-10 with 9:52 left in the 4th
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