ALEMANY STIRS LOYOLA AWAKE AFTER FIRST DRIVE : LOYOLA 60 ALEMANY 20.Byline: Chris Branam Daily News Staff Writer The homecoming crowd was treated to a ``Turn Back the Clock'' halftime show. Loyola took the theme literally: The proud Cubs knocked upstart Alemany into yesterday. Loyola, undefeated in six games and ranked No. 5 in Southern Section Division I, shook off an opening scoring drive by the Indians and crushed host Alemany 60-20 Friday night in a nonleague game. Alemany (4-2) came into the game ranked No. 10 in Division III and was coming off a blowout win over a very good Canyon team on Oct. 9. And it looked like the Indians would earn the Cubs' respect after a seven-play, 72-yard drive to open the game that ended in a 12-yard touchdown run by De'Andre Scott. ``That might have been the worst thing to happen,'' Alemany coach Jim Bonds said of scoring so early. ``We got a little overconfident, maybe. We thought we could handle them, I guess. They came out and hammered us from then on out.'' The the Cubs looked like they were running downhill. Taylor Williams returned Alemany's kickoff 57 yards and John Grady ran 35 yards on the Cubs' first offensive play. Two plays later, Grady was in the end zone. And so it went. The Cubs, who beat the Indians 49-0 last year, scored 28 more unanswered points in the game's next 15 minutes and led 34-7 at halftime. Grady, running easily through holes created on the right side by massive offensive linemen Nathan Archunde (6-0, 257) and Patrick Girardi (6-3, 280), piled up 129 yards and three touchdowns on just 10 carries in the first half. He twisted his left ankle on his first touchdown run and didn't play in the second half. Grady said he was expecting to grind out yards. Instead, the Cubs ended up with 14 carries of at least 10 yards, including five by Justin Wesson, Grady's replacement. ``The holes were wide open,'' Grady said. ``We prepared well. We came out and executed.'' Michael Grady, John's twin brother, scored the Cubs' only non-rushing touchdown. He caught a 13-yard pass from Chris Peterson with 8:41 left in the second quarter that made it 27-7. Alemany had no defense for the Cubs' misdirection style. Loyola, which beat Hart 23-22 last week, averaged 6.8 yards per play in the decisive first half. The Indians weren't overmatched when they had the ball; Casey Clausen completed 16 of 26 passes for 153 yards in the first half and was 26-for-54 for 321 for the game. Alemany didn't have running back De'Andre Scott in the second half. Scott, who Bonds said has a history of high blood pressure, had a rapid heartbeat and spent most of the second half in the locker room.The Cubs brushed off that performance with 413 yards rushing. Wesson had 141 on eight carries and Andrew Altman, who is from Thousand Oaks, scored three touchdowns. |
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