Football: CIF Quarterfinal Results

Football

CIF-SS/Ford Football Championships presented by Farmers

at Culver City 
Lompoc 49, Culver City 6
It was a JABBO. Just Another Braves Blow-Out on Helms Field at Culver City HS Friday night. The Centaurs made it mildly interesting for about half of the 1st Quarter. They had several big plays in the passing game, but couldn't make the 'BIG' play and actually stick it in the End Zone. Forswearing a pair of early opportunities to keep drives alive deep in Braves Territory, they kicked a pair of Field Goals, that would turn out to be their only tallies.

Brian Piemme covered the opening pootch kick at the Braves 40 yard line, and they quickly drove down the field. The drive stalled a bit, and after a measurement that determined them to be 2 chain links short of a 1st down, the Braves went for it on 4th down. Rafael Arrellano slipped on a muddy patch of field and ruled down. After another measurement, the ball was turned over to the Centaurs, who hit a 39 yard pass to Justin Montgomery as part of a 7 play drive that took them to the Lompoc 5 yard line. On 4th and 2 Anthony Caiseros kicked a 22 yard FG to give CC the lead. It would be brief.

Lompoc would have 9 more possessions the rest of the evening. Two would be used to run out the clock at the end of halves - the other 7 would result in TDs. The first would come just 2 plays, and 51 seconds, after the Centaur score, with Nikko Hayes breaking several tackles while rambling 53 yards. Another CC big pass play, 56 yards to Julius Wilson, soon had the them back in the red zone, but they settled for a 36 yard Caiseros FG. Three plays later Tyler Ornales hit Greg Mitchell down the west sideline for a beautiful 70 yard TD. Jose Morales hit the PAT, as he did all 7 times on Friday night.

On the Centaurs next possession, they ran 4 plays and punted, but Lompoc was called for a roughing the kicker penalty based on a performance by the kicker worthy of the Sony Studios located across town. Six plays later, aided by another 37 yard pass play to Wilson, CC would find itself with a 4th and 4 at the Braves 21 yard line. They attempted another FG, but this one sailed wide left.

Lavon Coleman got the Lompoc offense moving again with a 28 yard run followed in short order by a 19 yard TD cruise. A stiffening Braves defense forced a three-and-out, but it looked like Lompoc would also have to give the ball up, when they faked it. Taylor Cornejo took the fake and raced 28 yards to set the Braves up again. Nikko Hayes paid it off 5 plays later with a 1 yard plunge off the left side. The Braves then forced a punt and ran out the clock.

Another CC 3 & Out at the start of the 3rd period gave the ball back to Lompoc. Just 9 plays later Nikko Hayes was again celebrating in the EZ, after a 1 yard score. The Centaurs turned the ball over on downs following 4 plays of futility, and the Braves went 60 yards in 7 plays, including a 27 yard Ornelas/Cornejo/Arellano reverse. The final play was the second, and final, Ornelas pass of the night. This one also went for a TD as Ainuu Taua took a screen pass in the left flat and crushed Miriel Paschel who tried to stop him at the goal line.

Paschel received a small measure of revenge on the next series, taking a screen pass 45 yards to the Lompoc 35, and a 6 yard run to the 29 yard line. The next play, however, Johnathan Garrett made a tremendous play on the ball, and picked it in the SE corner of the end zone. The Braves took over at their own 20, and received a 1 yard run from Hays, 6 from Coleman, 13 from Cornejo, and 60 plus a TD from Austin Hayes. The Centaurs would pick up one 1st down on the subsequent drive before turning the ball back over to Lompoc. The Braves would run 6 plays and burn the last 5:11 off the clock which had been running since the TD Pass to Taua with 1:00 left in the 3rd period.

Selected Stats
Lompoc
Rushing 53-378, 5 TD.  Coleman 20-113, N.Hays 15-95, Cornejo 5-57, Arellano 2-27, A. Hays 2-69, Florez 3-11, Fronteras 3-6.
Passing (all Ornelas) : 2-2-0 2TD 75 yards. Receiving - Mitchell 1-70 TD, Taua 1-5 TD.
Total Yards  55- 453 7 TD

Culver City
Rushing 15 - (-29) [6 Sacks - (-56)] Xan Cuevas 8- (-46), Akili Skannal 4-13, Donovan Davis 2-(-1), Miriel Paschel 1-5.
Passing (all Cuevas) 18-35-1 0TD 275 yds. [1H: 11-21-0 206. 2H: 7-14-1 69 (Inc. 1 45y screen pass)]
Receiving Julius Wilson 4 [8] -123 (all 1st half); Justin Montgomery 5 [10] - 82 (1-3 2nd half); Stanley Norman 3 [6] - 4; Miriel Paschel 2 [4] -51; Sydney Dorsey 2 [2] -17, Brandon Hassan 1[2] - (-2); Akili Skannal [2]; Donovan Davis [1].

[#] = Times thrown to.

Friday, 16 November 2012: 11 Man Quarterfinals Results

And then there were ...7. Only 9 area (Tri-County) squads entered the weekend still in contention, but the majority have advanced to the semifinals. Both losses came in the Western Division, where the Lompoc Braves rolled, but the Morro Bay Pirates and the Camarillo Scorpions fell hard to teams from the vaunted Mission League. Perhaps the story of the round is the #16 Seeded Atascadero Greyhounds knocking off yet another contender and keeping PAC-7 hopes alive. Area teams remain alive in 6 divisions.

The Teams still in it are -
Santa Barbara County - * Lompoc, * Bishop Diego
San Luis Obispo County -  Atascadero, * Mission Prep
Ventura County -Nordhoff, * St Bonaventure, Thacher
* = #1 Seed

Western [IV] Division (LPL/Channel/Pac. View)
#1 Lompoc 49, at Culver City 6
Santa Monica 6, at #4 Serra (Gardena) 58
#3 Camarillo 25, at Cathedral (Los Angeles) 28
#2 Chaminade (West Hills) 61, at Morro Bay 7

NORTHERN [III] PLAYOFFS (PAC-7)
Canyon (Canyon Country) 14, at Atascadero 30
Mira Costa (Manhattan Beach) 42, at West (Torrance) 49
#3 Palos Verdes (Palos Verdes Estates) 49, at Hart (Newhall) 28
#2 Valencia 42, at Quartz Hill 7


NORTHWEST [X] PLAYOFFS (Tri-Valley)
** #1 Bishop Diego (Santa Barbara) 28, at Village Christian (Sun Valley) 14
,#4 North (Torrance) 42, at Gladstone (Covina) 34
Centennial (Compton) 14, at El Segundo 10
Whittier Christian (La Habra) 28, at #2 Nordhoff (Ojai) 51
 

** Bishop Diego fell afoul of CIF Regulations. The sentence ?  Play all of their playoff games on the road. 

NORTHEAST [XIII] PLAYOFFS  (Freelance - Mssn Prep)
 #1 Mission Prep (San Luis Obispo) 49, at Flintridge Prep (La Canada) 14
Bishop Union 0, at #4 Salesian (Los Angeles) 35
#3 Boron 16, at St. Monica Catholic (Santa Monica) 19
#2 Rio Hondo Prep (Arcadia) 47, at Desert (Edwards AFB) 0

PAC-5 [I] PLAYOFFS (Marmonte)
 #1 St. Bonaventure (Ventura) 27, at Santa Margarita (Rancho Santa Margarita) 21 [OT]
Alemany (Mission Hills) 42, at #4 Mater Dei (Santa Ana) 53
Notre Dame (Sherman Oaks) 17, at #3 St. John Bosco (Bellflower) 24
Poly (Long Beach) 21, at #2 Mission Viejo 16

Friday, 16 November 2012: 8 Man Semifinals Results

8 Man Division I
Thacher (Ojai) 52, at Calvary Chapel (Downey) 14

Excelsior (Victorville) 78, Mojave 43