Burbank’s Darnell Williams (with ball) looks to turn the corner against Arcadia. (Photo by Doug Brown)
(Burbank)- The Arcadia Apaches arrived at Memorial Stadium on Friday night undefeated, they left defeated, 26-16, and the Bulldogs took over first place in the Pacific League.
While the contest was hard fought it wasn’t pretty and essentially a flag fest.
The Apaches turned a Burbank turnover into a field goal and an early 3-0 lead.
In the second quarter Burbank pulled ahead when Andy Reyes scored on a 6-yard run. The extra-point was lost on a bad snap.
Arcadia’s Randy Ludwig to kick a 28-yard field goal for the 3-0 lead.
Later in the quarter the Apaches were driving, aided by penalties, and reached the Bulldog s 19. But a pass completion turned into a fumble and the fumbled was recovered by Burbank’s Drew Pendleton who took it 85-yards to paydirt.
It was now 12-3, Bulldogs, with less than a minute to play but the half wasn’t done.
Arcadia advanced again to the Burbank 19. Then with four-seconds left on the clock Max Davila connected with John Freeman-Lee in the corner of the end zone. This made it 12-10 at the break.
In the third the Apaches botched a punt and turned the ball over on downs to the Bulldogs. Seconds later Darnell Williams scored on a 6-yard run. The PAT was good, and it was 19-10 in favor of The Bank.
Burbank added to its lead with 7:37 play in the third when Forest Fajardo pick-sixed Davila and returned it 29-yards to make it 26-10.
With less than four minutes left in the game, Arcadia’s Greg Carrillo answered Fajardo’s pick-six with one of his own. He snagged an aerial from Burbank’s Guy Gibbs and returned in 73-yards for a touchdown.
The win improves Burbank to 5-2, and 4-0 in the Pacific League. Arcadia falls to 6-1, 3-1 in the Pacific.
(Doug Brown provided the information for this game)
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