AGOURA RUNS OVER RIO MESA BRADLEY BEATS SPARTANS AT THEIR OWN GAME AGOURA 26, RIO MESA 7.Byline: ERIK BOAL Special to the Daily News AGOURA HILLS -- For a football team long recognized as possessing one of the area's most proficient pro·fi·cient adj. Having or marked by an advanced degree of competence, as in an art, vocation, profession, or branch of learning. n. An expert; an adept. passing attacks, Agoura High took great satisfaction Thursday night in beating visiting Rio Mesa of Oxnard at its own game. Instead of Rio Mesa's Malachi Lewis grinding grinding, process by which surface material is removed from an object, usually metal, by the abrasive action of a rotating wheel or a moving belt that contains abrasive grains. out yards behind a dominant offensive line, it was Agoura's Matt Bradley Matt William Bradley (born June 13, 1978 in Stittsville, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian professional hockey rightwinger. He currently plays for the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League. repeatedly following the lead of a punishing pun·ish v. pun·ished, pun·ish·ing, pun·ish·es v.tr. 1. To subject to a penalty for an offense, sin, or fault. 2. To inflict a penalty for (an offense). 3. block en route to a 193-yard, four-touchdown performance. And whenever Bradley needed to catch his breath, quarterback Doug Shumway demonstrated that the Chargers can still throw the ball, connecting with receivers on one screen pass and slant route after another, all of which added up to a 26-7 nonleague victory. ``It's a credit to the offensive line,'' said Shumway, who completed 13 of 16 passes for 174 yards in his second varsity start after taking over for Jordan Arias in last week's come-from-behind victory over Camarillo. ``When they're blocking like that, it takes a lot of pressure off my shoulders and allows me to focus on what I have to do.'' Rio Mesa (2-1) -- ranked 13th by the Daily News -- got to Shumway four times in the first half, but as the game wore on, the Spartans began to show fatigue fatigue, in engineering fatigue, in engineering, microscopic cracking of materials, especially metals, after repeated applications of stress. Fissures may be formed within pieces of metal during their manufacture when, while cooling from the molten state, up front, allowing No.16 Agoura (3-0) to ride Bradley to two second-half scoring drives. ``Rio Mesa really respects one thing, and that's a physical team,'' Agoura coach Charlie Wegher said. ``We wanted to punish pun·ish v. pun·ished, pun·ish·ing, pun·ish·es v.tr. 1. To subject to a penalty for an offense, sin, or fault. 2. To inflict a penalty for (an offense). 3. them and that's exactly what we did. I'm proud of our guys, they did a great job.'' Bradley set the physical tone early, carrying the ball sixtimes on a nine-play, 88-yard drive that he capped with a 1-yard touchdown run. Austen Jesse's fumble recovery, after Agoura's onside-kick attempt was mishandled by Rio Mesa, set up another Bradley score less than a minute later on a 3-yard run. ``He's the toughest kid I know,'' Shumway said. ``If anybody's in his way, they don't stand a chance. He usually just runs over them.'' Bradley, who also saw action at linebacker, placekicker and punter Punter 1. An trader who hopes to make quick profits. Basically, another term for speculator. 2. In the U.K., it is generally used to describe someone who gambles. It is also used to mean a client or customer of any business. , also found time to run outside, relying on misdirection MISDIRECTION, practice. An error made by a judge in charging the jury in a special case. 2. Such misdirection is either in relation to matters of law or matters of fact. 3.-1. and big holes created by his offensive line to constantly frustrate Rio Mesa, which scored its lone touchdown on a 3-yard run by Lewis, who finished with 86 yards. ``We got the momentum going early and we just followed it,'' said Bradley, who scored on a direct snap from 14 yards out and capped the scoring with a 4-yard run with 1:02 remaining. ``You've got to hand it to the offensive line. They got a great push up front and I just followed their lead.'' erik.boal@dailynews.com (818) 713-3607 CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Agoura's Matt Bradley is brought down by three Rio Mesa defenders in Thursday's game. (2) Agoura quarterback Doug Shumway escapes a tackle try from Rio Mesa's Jake JAKE Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment Herrera, right, in Thursday's game. Joel P. Lugavere/Special to the Daily News |
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