{"id":92021,"date":"2025-09-18T22:57:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T05:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=92021"},"modified":"2025-09-18T23:14:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T06:14:40","slug":"spartans-look-good-on-paper-42-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=92021","title":{"rendered":"Spartans Still Undefeated, 42-13"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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La Canada quarterback Joe Bell threw for two scores and ran for one in the rout of Maranatha. (Photo by Duane Barker).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By Tim Peterson <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Pasadena) – Joe Bell threw for two touchdowns and ran for one and Dash Paper ran for 192 yards and two scores to lead La Canada to a 42-13 win over Maranatha Thursday night at Keith Family Field.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Spartans led 21-7 at the half and then broke it wide open in the second half and had a running clock in the fourth quarter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La Canada’s Dash Paper had a big night as he ran for 192 yards and two touchdowns. (Photo by Duane Barker).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After stopping Maranatha on fourth down on their opening drive on the La Canada 35-yard line the Spartans needed just one play to score. Paper broke a couple of tackles and rumbled 65 yards for a touchdown on the first play from scrimmage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maranatha answered with a quick four-play drive of its own. Cooper Berry connected with Nico Vergara who juked a couple of defenders and weaved his way for a 69-yard score to even it at seven. La Canada reeled off the next 35 points. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

First CJ Mattmann capped a 90-yard drive with a 13-yard touchdown run to put the Spartans up 14-7. On their next possession it was another big play. Bell hit Brandon Mohaghegh for a 43-yard touchdown strike. La Canada took the 14-7 lead into the half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The onslaught continued in the second half. On the Spartans first drive of the third quarter they went 65 yards on seven plays with Bell keeping it himself for a 19-yard touchdown scamper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maranatha’s Nico Vergara 136 yards and a score receiving. (Photo by Duane Barker). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On the next series LC again went 65 yards. This time Bell tossed his second touchdown of the night with a 21-yard dart to Jakob Kim with 3:24 left in the third quarter. Just like that it was 35-7 Spartans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La Canada added one more early in the fourth to start the running clock when Paper scored on a 13-yard jaunt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maranatha scored the last touchdown of the night on a 24-yard pass from Berry to Bradley Loiacono. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paper needed just 19 carries to rack up the 192. Bell threw for 86 yards and a score and ran for 49 yards and a touchdown on five carries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Maranatha Berry threw for 186 yards and two touchdowns and Vergara had seven receptions for 136 yards and a touchdown. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the victory La Canada remained perfect improving to 5-0. The Minutemen dripped to 3-2 overall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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By Tim Peterson (Pasadena) – Joe Bell threw for two touchdowns and ran for one and Dash Paper ran for 192 yards and two scores to lead La Canada to a 42-13 win over Maranatha Thursday night at Keith Family 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":[],"class_list":["post-92021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hsfootball","category-high-school-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92021"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92030,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92021\/revisions\/92030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}