Monrovia’s Lawrence Spicer scoring one of his six touchdowns Friday night. (Photo by Doug Brown)
By Joe Torosian
(Arcadia)—In a contest featuring more heroes than an Avengers movie, it was Monrovia’s Lawrence Spicer who broke out of the pack with a dominate six touchdown performance to lead the Wildcats to a 60-45 victory over Arcadia on Friday night at Salter Stadium.
Spicer (357 yards on 32 carries, six touchdowns) served as the counter to several second half Apache punches by scoring four times on runs of three, 59, 51, and 80-yards. His superhero performance offset Arcadia’s dynamic duo of Nico Hillier and Raeshawn Roland.
Hillier completed 18 of 40 passes for 362 yards, four touchdowns, and two interceptions. Roland caught eight of those passes, four of them for touchdowns. Three of those scores were strikes of 72, 60, and 28-yards.
Monrovia cornerback John McKee was the mortal all alone of the island trying to stop Roland’s heroics. However, in a game full of big time moments, it was the senior who ended up making a pair of game deciding big plays.
After closing the gap to 51-45 with 5:34 to play, Arcadia’s defense delivered its only three and out in the second half. The Wildcats punted and netted just 7-yards on the boot. The Apaches took over at the Monrovia 27 and Hillier went to work.
A swing pass to Bradley Mills gained 20-yards and set up and first and goal at the seven. The very next play Hillier looked left for the receiver he’d been hooking up with all night, the receiver who had been giving McKee such a bad time all night, he fired the ball to Roland.
This time McKee made the defensive play of the night and picked off the pass in the corner of the end zone. On the next play Spicer donned his cape and lightening flashed his way 80-yards to paydirt for the back breaker.
After the kickoff McKee picked off Hillier’s next pass, on a deflection, to drop the curtain.
Arcadia’s Bradley Mills. (Photo by Doug Brown)
***Monrovia’s starting offensive line: LT: Thomas Ruble, LG: John Kitterman, C: Cesar Gutierrez, RG: Justin Crutchfield-mcneil, RT: Ty’sean Brown
***Arcadia’s starting offensive line: LT: Quin Hunter, LG: Jerry Lu, C: Leo Zamora, RG: Edward Masuda, RT: Mitch Appleton
***The Wildcats scored first on a 64-yard touchdown pass from Asaph Zamora to Aubrey Mosely with 9:29 to play in the first quarter.
***The Apaches responded with a 72-yard touchdown pass from Nico Hillier to Raeshawn Roland with 9:13 to play in the first quarter.
***Arcadia’s Raeshawn Roland caught eight passes for 215 yards and four touchdowns.
***Monrovia’s Canaan Chandler scored on a 65-yard touchdown pass in the first quarter and on a 9-yard fumble return in the second.
***The Apaches are now 0-2 on the season. They have scored 82 points and surrendered 102.
***The Wildcats are now 2-1 officially, 1-2 on the field. (Burbank forfeited its season opening victory over Monrovia)
***Arcadia’s Bradley Mills rushed for 103 yards on 15 carries and scored a touchdown.
***Monrovia’s Asaph Zamora completed nine of 13 passes for 181 yards and two touchdowns.
Summary:
1st. Qtr.
Monrovia—9:29: Zamora 64-yard touchdown pass to Mosely
Arcadia—9:13: Hillier 72-yard pass to Roland
Arcadia—4:44: Mills 23-yard run
Monrovia—3:39: Spicer 18-yard run
Arcadia—57.3: Hillier 18-yard run
Monrovia—44.2: Zamora 65-yards pass to Chandler
Arcadia 20 Monrovia 18
2nd Qtr.
Arcadia—7:44: Justin Mascorro 33-yard field goal
Monrovia—5:10: Spicer 3-yard run
Monrovia—4:57: Chandler 9-yard fumble return
Arcadia—2:22: Hillier 2-yard pass to Roland
Monrovia 32 Arcadia 30
3rd. Qtr
Monrovia—3:33: Spicer 3-yard run
Arcadia—2:59: Hillier 60-yards to Roland
Monrovia—2:12: Spicer 59-yard run
Monrovia 44 Arcadia 36
4th Qtr.
Arcadia—10:55: Hillier 28-yard pass to Roland
Monrovia—9:01: Spicer 51-yard run
Arcadia—5:34: Mascorro 40-yard field goal
Monrovia—4:00: Spicer 80-yard run
Monrovia—50.7: Gabriel Dunkle 27-yard field goal
Monrovia 60 Arcadia 45
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