Pomona was glad to have Darreon Lockett back at quarterback. (Photo by Steven Mercado)
By Steven Mercado
(La Puente)- The Pomona Red Devils carried their explosive offense into the first week of league play and left the La Puente Warriors in the dust with a 74-14 rout at McIntosh Field Friday night.
Junior Red Devil QB Darreon Lockett led the demolition by completing 18-of-21 passes for 325 yards and six touchdowns. He also ran the ball six times for 41 yards and a touchdown. Seven different Pomona players crossed the goal-line, led by senior WR Shawn Wilson, who had five receptions for 155 yards and three touchdowns, a 75-yard kickoff return for a touchdown and an interception.
La Puente got its homecoming game started well with a 10-play, 80-yard drive down the field that was capped off with a 36-yard touchdown pass from senior QB Erick Morales to sophomore WR Jordan Fisher.
Pomona answered with three touchdowns before the first quarter ended. All of them were passes from Lockett to Wilson and they added up to 131 yards. The Red Devils continued to pummel La Puente’s defense and stretched their lead to 60 points before the Warriors scored again.
Five of the 11 touchdowns scored by the Red Devils were for 50 yards or more and consisted of players zooming past the Warriors’ defenders.
With the win, Pomona heads into a bye week with a 1-0 league record. La Puente falls to an 0-1 league record and will hit the road next week as they face Garey, who won their first league game against Ganesha 19-7.
*** Pomona scored a touchdown on every offensive possession in the game besides the final possession, in which they fumbled.
*** La Puente finished with 278 yards from scrimmage and Pomona finished with 635.
*** Lockett threw seven touchdown passes, doubling the amount he averaged per game prior to Friday night.
*** Morales went into the game against Pomona averaging 215 passing yards per game with 19 total passing touchdowns and only one interception. On Friday night, he completed 7-of-19 passes for 69 yards, a touchdown and two interceptions. He also carried the ball 11 times for 78 yards and a score.
*** Wilson averaged 89 receiving yards a game prior to Friday night. His three-touchdown performance matches the amount of touchdown catches he grabbed in Week 2 against Don Lugo.
*** Pomona senior WR Desmond Bobo, the Red Devils’ leader in receptions, receiving yards and receiving touchdowns, caught four passes for a season-low 44 yards and a touchdown.
*** The Red Devils’ 74 points is their highest amount of points scored in a game in the last decade.
*** Lockett, Wilson, Bobo, senior RB Dequon Earl, senior WR Kele Scott, junior WR Antonio Hayward and senior WR Kheenyon Woods all scored touchdowns for Pomona.
*** Pomona head coach Aaron Jamieson said there are “holes everywhere that we have to pick up,” and regardless of what the score is, the game is not over until the clock reads zero: “It’s all about action — that’s all we worry about. Go do it, stop talking about it, no matter what anybody else says, just be about that action. Go out there and execute. If we do our job, we’re happy.”
*** Lockett is ready to continue working hard every week this season: “We practice hard. Our season right now had been going bad, so everybody thinks we’re not that good, so we practiced hard and proved everybody wrong.”
*** Wilson said he is part of an all-around great team and that was they key to their success: “We’ve got such a great quarterback, such a great defensive team and such a great team overall. They’re great at blocking, they opened the lane, I see the lane, I took it and I hit it. Speed kills, like they say.”
*** Pomona’s starting offensive line: Senior LT Alex Arroyas (#56), senior LG Manuel Colbert (#53), senior C Nicholas Meza (#55), junior RG Christopher Mendez (#78) and sophomore RT Joel Trujillo (#71).
*** La Puente’s starting offensive line: Junior LT Adrian Rodriguez (#74), sophomore LG Andrew Cilia (#75), senior C Raul Montiel (#57), senior RG Julio Espinoza (#54) and senior RT Aldo Galindo (#56).
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