(Burbank, Ca) – Under-manned Burroughs jumped out to a 21-0 lead early in the first quarter and cruised to 35-12 win over Pasadena in Pacific League play.
Dalton Williams ran for 112-yards in the first half on 16 carries and scored three touchdowns to lead the Indians (4-2, 3-0) to a 3-0 record in the Pacific League.
“The secret was to run the ball,” said Burroughs head coach Keith Knoop. “We knew they would try and stop the run. Pasadena didn’t start to blitz the run until the second half and by then it was too late. We did what we practiced and the kids ran the plays to almost to perfection the first half.”
Williams set the tone on the Burroughs first possession as he carried the ball seven times for 66-yards and punctuated the drive with a 11-yard run.
The Bulldogs (3-3, 2-1) were in for a long night, as on their very first play from scrimmage, Charles Hendricks fumbled the ball away after a 10-yard run that was recovered by the Indians.
Burroughs would make Pasadena pay for the mistake as quarterback Lucas Yanez ran for a four-yard score. Yanez would go three for three on the drive for 21 yards.
Yanez would finish the night, nine of ten for 91 yards. He ran for nine times for 31 yards.
Bulldogs quarterback Aaron Simpson would get them on the scoreboard after his second effort inside the one-yard line made the score 21-6. The key play on the scoring drive was a 28-yard pass from Simpson that found Christopher Hollis.
Simpson went six of ten for 143 yards and one touchdown. He threw for two interceptions.
The game was put away by Burroughs late in the second quarter when Williams scored from two yards out with twenty-six seconds left in the half.
The Bulldogs finally broke the 100 total yards as a team in the fourth quarter when Simpson found Eugene Tripling on an 80-yard score. Tripling was able to out jump to defenders at the 33-yard line and he out ran the remaining Indian defenders.
“We were beaten any way you can be beat,” said Pasadena head coach Mike McFarland about his teams performance. “We were out coached, out-played, in every facet of the game. Far from the performance that it takes to win on the road in the Pacific league. It doesn’t get easier for us, Glendale is waiting for us next week, we got to get back to the practice field and correct the mistakes.”
Pasadena 0 6 0 6 12
Burroughs 21 7 0 7 35
SCORING:
B – Dalton Williams 11 Run (Michael Solano kick)
B – Lucas Yanez 4 Run (Solano kick)
B – Williams 2 Run (Solano kick)
P – Aaron Simpson 1 run (kick failed)
B – Williams 2 run (Solano kick)
B – Darrell Cunningham 20 run (Solano kick)
P – Eugene Tripling 80 pass from Simpson (pass fail)
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