By Frankie Robles
(La Puente) – La Puente took a back and forth game with Bassett 14-10 Thursday night at La Puente High School.
Both teams started off with punts on their first possession.
Bassett turned the ball over on downs on its 20-yard line and on the next play La Puente’s Ezekiel Zamora found wide open sophomore Aaron Silva for an 80-yard catch and run to paydirt making it 7-0 with one minute left in the first quarter.
On the next two possessions both teams exchanged punts and fumbles.
A blocked Warriors punt gave the Olympians a short field and they capitalized with a 12-yard run from Diego Espinoza to tie up the game.
Bassett had another blocked punt that set up a 20-yard field goal by Matthew Carrera that gave them a 10-7 lead going into halftime. Angel Valdivia recovered both blocked punts.
The Warriors took the lead back on their first drive of the second half when Dalonta Foley took a jet sweep into the end zone for a 14-10 lead.
The Olympians turned the ball over on downs and quarterback Johnny Guerrero threw a pair of picks to end the game. Aldo Silva intercepted the first one and Jose Aguirre picked off the second to clinch the game with 44-seconds left.
La Puente is now 7-1 and starts off league with a win, while Bassett fell to 5-3 and 0-1 in league.
The Warriors travel to Ganesha next week while Olympians will face off against Garey at home.
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Your sizing them up against the worst league on Southern California that has schools with 300-400 students . Workman ? Every game running clock lol I’m not judging and respect kids efforts but trying to put things in perspective in regards to coaching accomplishments. #rootingforquality
You do know that Duarte and workman are in the league starting next season. The last 5 games they played are basically league. Webb a
One loss. Temecula prep was a league champion last year going 6-0. But we must be aware of the kids in program now. They only have 40 kids. The kids on campus are not like they used to be. I hear LP had 3 teams ten years ago. We must always look into things before we judge.
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Not sure what your take on the guy is ?
LP used to play in legit league ; this schedule is ridiculous. Bassett best win , Webb only other team with pulse on schedule. Ganesha and Garey have played some ok teams and should roll them .
I don’t think they are better , just scheduling smoke and mirrors
The HATE is real. You should meet the guy. I was fortunate to meet him at a 7v7 and he told me why he left Tc. And to be honest him and the staff are doing a good job. Lp hasn’t been to playoffs, or had winning season in years.
It was a hard fought game by both teams, you could tell it was a rival game these boys were hitting and it was chippy all game long!! Unfortunately Bassett feel short!! LP got the deserved victory!!
I was kinda bummed by this result , hoping Bassett Dad could bring home victory . It’s easy to root against LP these days ; coach who abandoned TC after 0-10 season for greener (easier ) pastures at LP; then turned LP into D14 bottom feeder to gain glossy but meaningless record …ugh. Here’s hoping they get rolled by Ganesha and Garey and AQs fill the D14 ranks