By George Hernandez
Whittier] – Owen Long and Jayden Northrop combined for six touchdowns and that was more than enough for La Serna to rout Santa Fe 62-14 Thursday night at Sandy T Stadium.
Santa Fe got the ball first and only managed negative two yards and had to punt.
The Lancers came out swinging on their fourth play of the game as Long broke free for a 40-yard touchdown just under three minutes into the game.
La Serna forced another punt with the Chiefs this time getting negative four yards.
Long found the end zone again just a minute and a half later when Aiden Leonardo connected with him for a 35-yard score.
This time Santa Fe was able to get positive yards but no first down and was forced to punt on another three and out.
Lancer went for it on fourth and 21, this time Leonardo found Northrup who sliced through the Chiefs defense for a 35-yard touchdown making it 20-0 after a missed extra point.
Santa Fe then fumbled on its first play giving La Serna the ball on their nine-yard line. Three plays later Leonardo found Northrup again making it 27-0 late in the first quarter.
The Chiefs were forced to punt again but got the ball right back when Matthew Hernandez picked off a Leonardo pass.
The momentum didn’t last long because Lancer big defensive lineman Adrian Castro picked off Adrian Huguez and took it down to La Serna territory. But the Lancers turned the ball over on downs.
What looked like another Santa Fe punt was a fake and the Chiefs got their first first down of the game. Three plays later Northrup picked off a Huguez pass and took it 38-yards for the score pulling defenders with him on the way.
The Chiefs finally got on the board midway though the second quarter when Huguez hit a wide-open Sebastian Macias for a 69-yard scamper to paydirt putting the score at 41-7.
Lancers answered right back when Long hit the endzone for the third time – this one on a 60-yard run.
Santa Fe turned the ball over on downs and new La Serna quarterback, Michael Lopez, hit sophomore Zeb Bontemps on a nice 32-yard pass.
La Serna capped off its first half scoring when Bontemps picked up a Huguez fumble and sprinted 20-yards to the end zone making the halftime score 55-7.
There was a running clock the entire second half.
The Lancers punted on their first possession and Santa Fe drove down field pounding it with Tariq Bush hitting Huguez who took it in from four yards out and the game was now 55-14.
Next drive La Serna kept the ball on the ground with Drew Cobos, who was the workhorse on the drive, with Greg Silva finishing it with a dive to make it 62-14.
Santa Fe punted the last possession and La Serna lined up in victory formation.
The Lancers will now go back out of league and face Newbury Park next week while the Chiefs stay in Del Rio league play and face Cal.
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much better to be a clown than a SELLOUT… keep that
you don’t have to come on here, better yet why not put your input and separate yourself from all these anonymous post.
Who on these message boards is as excited as I am for the day we don’t have to hear @TheRanch18 anymore… Dude is a clown!
@ Bottom Line,
You’re not too bright. When multiple guys go down, it means more guys have to now play more minutes. Go back and read the article in the WDN where Medrano specifically talks about the RB rushing for over 200 yards as a great thing because it allowed his free safety to rest on offense. Unfortunately, both of those guys had season ending injuries. To say it was baked in the cake is ill founded and just wrong. ER went from having about 4 2 way players who were able to get lots of rest to almost everyone having to start both ways because of these injuries. I don’t care how good you are, when your 2 top ball carriers go out for the season, it’s a recipe for disaster no matter how your cake was baked.
LS isn’t getting 2nd place in league.
@TheRanch18
I hope LS gets 2nd place in league. That means all the El Rancho haters will get to watch LS win a CIF championship from their couches lol
“Hometown players” some of you are either blind or just plain stupid. “Does things the right way” please quit the little bible boy act.
All you haters need to chill, every LS player lives 1 block away from la Serna.
Injuries are indeed part of the game, all schools deal with them, just bad luck to get so many season ending injuries in consecutive weeks on an already young team. Sometimes the ball doesn’t bounce your way that’s football.
LOL. I was just giving SF a little credit for not quitting. 55-7 at half would be pretty demoralizing I would think.
Kudos to Coach George and his staff for having class and not trying to score 100 in these games by giving the JV players and some FR a chance to play.
Another example for coaches out there to stay classy, and coach your hometown players up and you too can build a powerhouse program that does things the right way, the La Serna way.
@LS JUGGSNAUTS
wow you only put up 7 points in second half with your own kids? lol…. guess you need them transfers after all huh … lol hahahaha
SF is going to beat cal and don’t worry about playoffs… Ls is getting second place in League
SF might get in playoffs with at=large since they will have 5 wins
The way it should be done. Coaching homegrown talent the right way. No need to even venture
south of Whittier Blvd. We just stay in Friendly Hills and Teach then hard nosed old-school
smash mouth football.
@LS Juggernaut,
ROFL, so a Varsity team tying a JV team in the 2nd half with the clock running is the bright side? And yes, all things considered the Chiefs are improving. But SF should not be on the same field as La Serna; and the same goes for Cal, El Rancho, and Whittier
Let’s get this straight: injuries are part of the game, in football more so than in any other sport. If your team is decimated by injuries, chances are HUGE that you were relying on a handful of kids that had to play 48 minutes every night. In that circumstance, your injuries weren’t due to rotten luck; they were baked into the cake from the start.
Are you sure about that? Santa Fe will have something to say about that even if LS won so easily, El Rancho is decimated with injuries, otherwise it’s business as usual.
Obviously, all the talk about the Chiefs coming alive under new man Bateman is just that: talk. Cal’s Zamora is now the Del Rio’s #2 coach, not because he’s any great stuff, but because the others are so bad. Pencil-in the Condors for a week or two of exasperating play in a double-digit division, a postseason that will be forgotten as soon as it can be played.
WOW
Combined 1st Half Score vs Santa Fe & Whittier
the last 2 weeks.
LA SERNA 99, SANTA FE & WHITTIER 7
On the bright side for Santa Fe,
2nd half score SF 7, LS 7.
Chiefs are improving. Good to see.