{"id":61892,"date":"2017-11-09T23:37:04","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T06:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=61892"},"modified":"2017-11-10T09:15:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T16:15:16","slug":"slow-start-fast-finish-for-huskies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=61892","title":{"rendered":"Slow Start, Fast Finish for Huskies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RJ Stearns led the Huskies to a CIF Division VII first round win over Pacifica (Oxnard)<\/p><\/div>\n

By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n

(Covina) – South Hills overcame a sluggish first half and used a big fourth quarter to beat Pacifica (Oxnard) 42-21 Thursday night in the first round of the CIF Division 7 Playoffs at Covina District Field.<\/p>\n

South Hills trailed early in the second quarter 14-7 but had manged to take a 28-21 lead entering the fourth quarter. The Huskies finally put away pesky Pacifica, who finished 2-9 overall, with two quick scores. First they put together a 60-yard drive with Zion Naulls going the last 33 yards for the score.<\/p>\n

Nicholas Lariviere picked off a pass on the next series to set up another touchdown. This time the Huskies went 40 yards on a short field with Lariviere the beneficiary of a 15-yard strike from Rj Stearns to make it 42-21 with 7:11 left. South Hills scored 14 points in just under three minutes and that was the old ballgame.<\/p>\n

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The Huskies got a big night out of Zion Naulls.<\/p><\/div>\n

South Hills took the early lead courtesy of a Pacific miscue. The Tritons botched a snap on a punt attempt and the Huskies took over on the Pacific five-yard line. On the next play Stearns scored on a five-yard jaunt. Pacifica bounced back later in the first quarter on a double pass. Quarterback RJ Maria hit Alan Johnson who pulled up and fired a 62-yard touchdown pass to Miles Williams who scampered into the endzone to tie it at seven.<\/p>\n

Early in the second quarter Pacifica pieced together an 11-play, 80 yard drive that was aided by a couple of penalties to take a 14-7 lead. Savonne Perris Farmer hauled in a 22-yard TD strike from Maria to cap the drive.<\/p>\n

The Huskies tied it just before halftime courtesy of another Pacifica mistake on a punt. The boot was low and hit the back of a Triton teammate giving South Hills the ball at the Pacifica 32. Five plays later Stearns scored on an 18-yard run to make it 14-14 at the half.<\/p>\n

Naulls and Stearns both found the end zone in the third quarter on long touchdown runs. Naulls broke through the secondary for a 41-yard burst and later in the quarter Stearns scrambled out of trouble in the pocket, turned upfield and turned it into a 40-yard touchdown sprint.<\/p>\n

Pacifica had one last murmur of protest when they marched 80-yards on ten plays with Allan Johnson scoring on a six-yard run.<\/p>\n

South Hills then iced it in the final quarter.<\/p>\n

Stearns had 15 carries for 139 yards and three touchdowns for South Hills. Naulls had 105 yards and two TDs on 12 carries.<\/p>\n

Maria threw for 237 yards and a touchdown for Pacifica, but he was hurt by the interception.<\/p>\n

The Huskies now advance to the second round where they will face the winner of the Burbank-Tustin game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Tim Peterson (Covina) – South Hills overcame a sluggish first half and used a big fourth quarter to beat Pacifica (Oxnard) 42-21 Thursday night in the first round of the CIF Division 7 Playoffs at Covina District Field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12816,3],"tags":[12983,8118],"class_list":["post-61892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hsfootball","category-high-school-sports","tag-pacifica-oxnard-football","tag-south-hills-football"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61892"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61903,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61892\/revisions\/61903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}