Around the Top 25 – Orange Lutheran picks-up impressive win over Crespi

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Orange Lutheran‘s meat-grinder of a schedule took the Lancers, ranked #14 in the latest High School Football America/SoCal Top 25, to #12 Crespi Friday night.

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OLu improved to 2-0 with a 43-28 win over the Celts behind Dominik Austin‘s 160 yards rushing on just 12 carries.  Austin also scored two touchdowns.  This one was never in-doubt as the Lancers got out to a 43-7 lead.

No rest for Chuck Petersen‘s team as they will face nationally-ranked Corona Centennial at home next Friday.

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The OLu/Crespi game was one of six games Friday night that featured head-to-head match-ups between teams in the SoCal Top 25.

For the second week in a row, #3 Mater Dei took down a ranked team.  The Monarchs beat #19 Tesoro 35-14 behind running back Brandon LaMarche‘s 204 yards rushing and four touchdowns.  The game marked the debut of freshman quarterback JT Daniels, who was 8-of-12 for 146 yards and a touchdown.  Daniels entered in the first quarter after Matt McDonald suffered what Steve Fryer of the Orange County Register reports was a forearm fracture, according to Mater Dei head coach Bruce Rollinson.

#4 Bishop Amat rebounded from its Week 0 loss to Mater Dei by beating #24 Servite 28-10.  The Lancers did it without receiver Trevon Sidney.  The USC verbal commit may miss several weeks with a knee injury.

Picking-up the slack was quarterback Damien Garcia who threw for 215 yards and two touchdowns.  Tyler Vaughns, who is also a USC verbal, caught nine of the passes for 107 yards and two TDs.

#13 Norco moved to 2-0 with a 29-26 win over #17 Rancho CucamongaTanner Vanscourt scored the winning touchdown on a 44 yard touchdown run with 2:48 to go in the game.

For those of you that missed it — on Thursday night, #6 Long Beach Poly beat #7 Narbonne 20-17 in a see-saw affair with six lead changes.

The cherry-on-the-sundae of Top 25 match-ups is tonight in Oceanside at The Honor Bowl where #1 Corona Centennial plays #5 Serra (Gardena).  Before the Centennial/Serra game, #18 Oaks Christian will face Cathedral Catholic.

Related: Corona Centennial/Serra Preview

The only SoCal Top 25 team to lose Friday night was #20 Westlake, which lost 28-18 to Red Mountain from Arizona.  The Red Mountain defense held the Warriors to just 37 yards rushing.

#8 Mission Viejo improved to 3-0 with a 56-27 win over Oak Hills.  After trailing 7-0, the Diablos roared back behind Isaiah Miller who ran for 160 yards on just ten carries for four touchdowns.

#9 Redlands East Valley, opened defense of its Division II state title, with a 51-42 win over Chaminade.  It was a battle between the last two CIF Division II champs.  REV was led by junior quarterback Armando Herrera, who threw three touchdown passes and ran for one.

#10 Vista Murrieta traveled to Washington and put a hurtin’ on Ballard 71-32.  Broncos’ receiver Kyle Williams had four catches for 261 yards and three touchdowns.

#11 Alemany is 2-0 after a 42-0 win over Colony at The Honor BowlJordan Anderson and Guy Alford each had two rushing touchdowns.

#15 Santa Margarita cruised to a 59-14 win over Corona Santiago.  Standford-bound quarterback K.J. Costello was 17-of-21 for 432 yards and four touchdowns.

On Thursday, #16 Los Alamitos opened with a 49-12 win over Paramount.  The Griffins were led by Jack Telenko, who passed for 254 yards and three touchdowns.

#21 Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks rebounded from last week’s loss to Oaks Christian with a 42-6 win over Birmingham. Running back Leo Lambert scored four touchdowns.

#22 Loyola, playing its first-ever home game in 65 years, rolled by Highland 45-7.  The Cubs raced-out to a 38-0 halftime lead.

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#23 JSerra improves to 2-0 after 42-14 win over Chino HillsRiley O’Brien had two touchdown passes for the Lions.

#25 Heritage beat Los Osos 35-14

Related: SoCal Top 25 Scoreboard

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Jeff is an award-winning journalist and expert in the field of high school sports, underscored with his appearance on CNBC in 2010 to talk about the big business of high school football in America.Jeff turned to his passion for high school football into an entrepreneurial venture called High School Football America, a digital media company focused on producing original high school sports content for radio, television and the internet.Jeff is co-founder and editor-in-chief of High School Football America, a partner with NFL Play Football.