(Pico Rivera, CA) The El Rancho Dons hosted the Santa Fe Sentinels Friday night at Don Memorial Stadium and put on a display of defensive prowess shutting out Santa Fe 25-0 on a warm summer evening in Pico Rivera.
While holding Santa Fe to zero points, the stingy Don defense gave up a meager 169 yards of total offense to the Sentinels.
On the other side of the ball it was a solid performance by the El Rancho running back tandem of Braylon Morrison and Noah Garcia who combined for 191 yards on the ground and two scores. Morrison with 135 and Garcia with 56 and each finding paydirt.
Neither team got much going on their first two drives until late in the first quarter the Dons broke through.
Adrian Lopez found Jamie Garcia on a screen pass and Garcia did the rest winding his way 44 yards for the score. Ace Anaya booted through the extra point and with 2:34 left in the first El Rancho was up 7-0.
The Dons made it 10-0 early in the second when Anaya nailed a 30 yard field goal after a six play drive stalled at the Santa Fe 13. That would be the balance of the scoring for the remainder of the half.
With a little more than five minutes left in the third quarter, El Rancho lit up the scoreboard again with Noah Garcia scoring on an 18 yard run to cap a four play, 41 yard drive.
Anaya missed the extra point this time, but the Dons still led 16-0
Early in the final frame, another drive stalled at the Sentinel 13 and Anaya again booted through a 30-yard field goal to up the lead to 19-0.
The final point on the night came on an 11 yard run to finish off a a two play, 25 yard drive.
Up next for El Rancho is a trip to West Covina to take on the Bulldogs. Santa Fe will take next week off and prepare to host Fullerton on September 11.
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El Rancho had a RB score 4 TD’s vs South Hills… is he not enough of a player?
Watcher! Well with no claim of correctness i solidly suggest that ‘your one go to player” is exactly what a few local teams are needing. I say this because ,before the changes in league teams, there are quite a few teams ‘only if they had one more player who could be the play maker as you call out ER needs to become a more serious competitor? If Whittier had a guy like this do you think he could have made a difference during the last decade? Well they did have a very very good running back few years ago before he left to try to become a winner
One thing I’ve observed about El Rancho is that they spread the ball around. They have multiple running backs and receivers. At running back they have Braylon Morrison Sr, Jaime Garcia Jr, Peru Nolasco Jr, and Noah Garcia Jr with a freshman named Jacob Hernandez. Looks like Medrano’s philosophy of not relying on one athlete to carry the team works for El Rancho.
Typical El Rancho team. Solid, disciplined, tough and again this year trouble in the red zone. What ER needs is one reliable star. The guy that can give you five to six yards whenever you need it. The Speedster that can run back a punt or a kickoff for a touchdown. That one guy might give this El Rancho team a chance to get over that hump and be pretty good rather than just good. If that one guy is hiding in El Rancho’s huddle and can come out as a star in the next three games that would be great. West Covina Los Altos and La Mirada are no chumps and El Rancho will be hard pressed to win any of them. To do that they need to convert in the red zone and to do that against these teams they need a star.