CITY INVITATIONAL BRACKET: SAN FERNANDO EXPLODES FOR 515 YARDS.

Byline: Daily News

Ninth-seeded San Fernando High amassed 515 yards while defeating eighth-seeded Eagle Rock 40-20 Thursday afternoon in a City Invitational playoff opener at Eagle Rock.

Ramon Perry, William Lang, Will Germain, Terrance Calloway and Bobby Stanley scored touchdowns for the Tigers (6-5). Stanley rushed for 138 yards on 13 carries with touchdown runs of 3 and 72 yards. His 72-yarder came one play after Eagle Rock's 12-play drive to open the third quarter stalled at San Fernando's 28-yard line.

Quarterback Ruben Nevarez completed 9 of 13 passes for 226 yards with touchdowns of 53 and 17 yards to Perry and Lang.

Germain complemented San Fernando's balanced offense with 81 yards on 14 carries, including a 10-yard score.

Torwin Session, the Eagle Rock school-record passer who is expected to sign a letter of intent with the University of Washington next weekend, completed 14 of 25 passes for 209 yards to lead the Eagles (6-5).

Session connected with Jimmy Blunt on a 29-yard touchdown in the second quarter, giving Eagle Rock a short-lived 7-6 lead. Session's favorite target was Andrew Blunt, who finished with eight receptions for 167 yards.

Nick Valencia gained 61 yards on 10 carries with touchdowns of 13 and 3 yards for Eagle Rock.

- Jack Pollon

--Chatsworth 28, Venice 27: Joe Shumpert's 5-yard touchdown run with 1:04 remaining capped a thrilling, 28-27 come-from-behind Chatsworth win over host Venice (6-4).

Venice jumped ahead of Chatsworth (4-7), 21-7, behind the running of Wale Forester, who rushed for 157 yards on 14 carries and three touchdowns. Forester had a 64-yarder midway through the second quarter.

But Chatsworth bounced back with quarterback Jason Moss, who threw a 27-yard touchdown pass to Fred Brewer and then snuck it in from 3 yards out to make it 21-14 at the half.

Chatsworth tied the game in the third quarter 21-21 when Shumpert, who tallied 129 yards on 22 carries, scored from 9 yards out. Venice moved ahead with a touchdown in the fourth quarter but failed on a crucial two-point conversion to make it 27-21 in favor of the Gondoliers.

Chatsworth got the ball with 2:27 left and drove 57 yards for the go-ahead touchdown and its first lead of the game. Moss completed 8 of 19 passes for 126 yards, including two big first-down pass completions on the final drive.

Chatsworth will next play Narbonne in the second round.

- Chris Huston 

--Canoga Park 14, Franklin 7: The Hunters posted two first-half touchdowns against host Franklin of Los Angeles (7-4), and that proved to be enough to keep their season alive.

Two personal fouls against the Panthers set up Canoga Park's second score. On third-and-one on Franklin's 10-yard line, Hunters quarterback Jeremy Egan called his own number and ran untouched into the end zone to give his team a 14-0 lead.

With less than three minutes left in the first half, Franklin quarterback Daniel Gonzalez drove the Panthers down the field by completing six straight passes. But with 23 seconds remaining in the half, Franklin running back Walter Ramirez was stopped on a first-and-goal run from the 1-yard line, and time expired before the ball was put back into play.

Midway through the fourth quarter, Franklin again drove the ball to the Canoga 1-yard line, this time scoring on a run by fullback Michael Espinoza.

Both defenses proved stingy: Canoga gained just 186 yards and Franklin totaled 209 yards.

Canoga Park was lead by a trio of runners. Emerson Landaverde rushed for 48 yards and Josh Gieger and Egan rushed for a combined 81 yards.

- Tim Conway 

--Narbonne 33, Cleveland 25: UCLA-bound Matthew Clark gained 168 yards on 27 carries with two touchdowns and Antwine Barfield threw two touchdown passes, but the Cavaliers of Reseda could not contain the Gauchos' rushing attack.

Lyntrel Smith rushed for 233 yards on 17 carries and Marcus O'Keith gained 182 yards on 19 carries for Narbonne of Harbor City. Smith had a 67-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter and O'Keith had touchdown runs of 1, 19 and 7 yards.

``We missed tackles tonight,'' Cleveland assistant coach Scott Reisbord said. ``They just scored more points than us. It was a pretty good football game.''

The Cavaliers (67-5) made a nice try at a comeback when Barfield connected with Randy Bundy (four receptions for 104 yards) for fourth- quarter touchdowns of 53 and 28 yards. However, Narbonne answered each time as Cleveland gave up 424 of 493 yards on the ground.

Quarterback Monte Long completed only 3 of 9 passes for 13 yards for Narbonne, but rushed for a 1-yard score to give the Gauchos (6-5) a 21-13 lead early in the fourth quarter. The score was set up when O'Keith ran 62 yards to the Cleveland 1-yard line.

- Jack Pollon

--Fremont 21, North Hollywood 20: The fifth-seeded Pathfinders (6-5) of Los Angeles outscored the Huskies (5-6) in the second half to advance to the second round.

With 1:17 left in the second quarter, senior Derrick Brill scored on a 4-yard quarterback sneak, but Chris Melos extra point was blocked to give the Huskies a 13-7 halftime lead.

Fremont was led by junior quarterback Abe Escobar, who was 5 of 11 for 82 yards passing and scored twice on quarterback sneaks.

North Hollywood had one last shot with 6 seconds remaining, but Brill's pass fell short to Lamar Green, who finished with four catches for 46 yards.

- Bob DaCorsi

--Roosevelt 56, Van Nuys 0: It was a rough night for Van Nuys in the loss to the host Roughriders of Los Angeles.

Van Nuys (2-9), the No. 15 seed, controlled the ball early behind running back Eddie Kirakosian, who carried 25 times for 81 yards.

Luis Arreola completed 3 out of 7 passes for 50 yards.

Roosevelt (8-3), the No. 2 seed, scored 28 second-quarter points to put the game away.

The Roughriders used a punishing ground game led by a trio of running backs. Angel Cruz carried nine times for 122 yards and two touchdowns. Manuel Esparza carried eight times for 91 yards and one touchdown, and Robert Smith rushed seven times for 83 yards and two touchdowns.

The Wolves advanced the ball past the 50-yard line only three times in the game. Roosevelt led in total offense 527 yards to 207 yards.

The Wolves' defense was led by linebacker Scott Hart, who had nine tackles and a fumble recovery.

- Steve Goldstein

--Locke 26, Belmont 22: Jerry Jackson rushed for two second-half touchdowns to rally the host Saints from a 22-12 deficit. Jackson, who gained 121 yards in 19 carries, scored on a 36-yard run in third quarter and gave Locke a 26-22 lead on a 10-yard run with 9:03 remaining.

Locke's Marcus Johnson completed 8 of 15 passes, including first-quarter scoring passes of 70 and 60 yards to Richard Marshall (four catches for 98 yards) and Gerald Hall, respectively.

Belmont's Armando Velasco had two interceptions at defensive back and hauled in a 30-yard scoring pass on the Sentinels' opening drive of the third quarter for a 22-12 lead.

- Kirby Lee

--Gardena 27, Bell 14: Gardena quarterback Chris Phillips had 112 all- purpose yards and the No. 1 seeded Panthers took care of 16th-seeded Bell.

Mighty Eagles running back Melvin Wattree carried the ball 27 times for 189 yards, including a 77-yard run in the fourth quarter. Ironically Wattree's 189 yards was 3 yards less than the entire Gardena offense gained.

Bell went up early, scoring on its first drive of the game, but three interceptions and two lost fumbles kept them out of the end zone the rest of the night.

- Richard Perkins