CITY SECTION ROUNDUP: BACKUP QB RALLIES G.H. OVER CLEVELAND.Byline: Daily News Backup quarterback Jeff Rodner scored on a 1-yard bootleg with 2:07 to play as visiting Granada Hills (6-2, 2-1) rallied for a 22-21 victory over Cleveland in Valley Mission League game Friday night. Rodner's run culminated a string of 22 consecutive points in the second half for Granada Hills, which trailed 21-0 at halftime. Granada Hills sealed the victory when Sean Rogers intercepted a pass at his 10-yard line with 14 seconds remaining. Rodner, a junior who had not attempted a pass this season, was 12 of 23 for 193 yards and two touchdowns. Rodner entered the game when starter Brandon Charls was sidelined with a rib injury. Rodner hooked up with Albert De La Vega de la Vega is a common surname in the Spanish language meaning "of the plain" and may refer to: People (arranged by date of birth)
Cleveland of Reseda (1-6-1, 0-3) led 21-0 in the second quarter behind Or'Dedrick Revish, who rushed for 144 yards and two touchdowns on 13 carries. Revish, who scored on a 65-yard run on the game's first play, had 85 yards and two touchdowns on his first three carries. But Revish carried only once for 4 yards in the second half after being ejected for slamming the ball to the ground less than two minutes into the third quarter after being tackled for a loss and Cleveland ahead 21-7. -Kirby Lee In other Valley Mission League games: --Birmingham 55, Chatsworth 7: Birmingham senior tailback/defensive back Dennis Keyes rushed for three touchdowns and returned an interception 71 yards for a score as visiting Birmingham of Lake Balboa Balboa, town (1990 pop. 2,751), Colón prov., in the former Panama Canal Zone, on the Gulf of Panama. The port for Panama City, Balboa was the administrative headquarters of the Panama Canal Zone. It was also the site of a U.S. navy base (closed 1999). (6-2, 3-0) remained undefeated in league play. On his first carry, Keyes went 26 yards untouched into the end zone to give Birmingham a 7-0 lead with 8:54 left in the first quarter. Keyes finished with a game-high 202 yards on nine carries. Birmingham quarterback Ryan Lombardo completed 12 of 16 passes for 247 yards and three scores, including a 57-yard touchdown to Bennie Ward. Chatsworth's (3-5, 1-2) only score came when quarterback Sean Brubaker connected with Robert Landrum on an 8-yard TD pass. Landrum also rushed for 93 yards on 18 carries. Birmingham's defense pressured Chatsworth's quarterbacks all night, sacking sack·ing n. A coarse, stout woven cloth, such as burlap or gunny, used for making sacks; sackcloth. sacking Noun coarse cloth woven from flax, hemp, or jute, and used to make sacks Noun them nine times for losses totaling 41 yards. - P.C. Shaw --Taft 49, El Camino Real El Camino Real (Spanish for The Royal Road or The King's Highway) was the name of a series of pre-automobile highways linking the various New World colonies of Spain:
Jones gained 85 yards and two TDs on his six first-half carries, not including a 23-yard scoring sprint that was called back because of a penalty. Bell had 90 yards and three touchdowns on just 10 carries, all but one coming in the second half. Taft's defense opened the scoring. Bryan Garris, ECR's starting quarterback, took the first snap of the game and pitched it to the area his tailback tail·back n. Football The back on an offensive team who lines up farthest from the line of scrimmage. tailback Noun Brit a queue of traffic stretching back from an obstruction had just vacated. That left a rolling ball In topology, quantum mechanics and geometrodynamics, rolling-ball arguments are used to describe how the perceived geometry and connectivity of a surface can be scale-dependent. for Taft lineman Eddie Miller Eddie Miller can refer to different people:
lift out, scoop, scoop out, take up remove, take away, withdraw, take - remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something and dash the remaining six yards for a score. The Toreadors (8-0, 3-0) made it 14-0 on their first touch from scrimmage, Jones dashing dash·ing adj. 1. Audacious and gallant; spirited. 2. Marked by showy elegance; splendid: a dashing coat. See Synonyms at fashionable. through the defense for a 42-yard TD run just 1:34 into the game. Jones added a 4-yard scoring run with 15 seconds left in the first quarter to put ECR ECR Efficient Consumer Response ECR European Congress of Radiology ECR Electron Cyclotron Resonance ECR El Camino Real (Kings Highway; California) ECR Electronic Cash Register ECR East Coast Radio (South Africa) (2-6, 0-3) down 21-0. Bell then had his lone carry of the first half, a 13-yard touchdown run with 8:45 remaining. Quarterback Cary Dove capped Taft's 35-0 spurt spurt Vox populi A surge or abrupt ↑ in the size or speed of a thing. See Fat spurt, Growth spurt. with a 4-yard keeper just 37 seconds before halftime. Dove connected on 13 of 22 passes for 208 yards - 162 of those going to receiver Steve Smith, who finished with eight catches. - Gary Miereanu SUNSET SIX LEAGUE --Canoga Park 62, Hollywood 8: Noe Valencia had 170 all-purpose yards and scored three touchdowns for visiting Canoga Park (3-3, 1-2). The 5-foot-9 junior scored on punt returns In American and Canadian football a punt return is one of the punt receiving team's options to respond to a punt. A player (usually a second or third string wide receiver or running back) positioned many yards from the line of scrimmage will attempt to catch or pick up the ball of 63 and 47 yards and also scored on a 3-yard run in the third quarter. Valencia's 41-yard punt return set up Canoga Park's first score, a 34-yard pass from Tony Egues (5 of 5, 77 yards) to Jason Egan, who caught two passes for 43 yards. Egan also scored on a 56-yard reverse and added a two-point conversion In American football and Canadian football, a team may try to score a two-point conversion (score two points) instead of an extra point (one point) immediately after it scores a touchdown. run in the third quarter. Leon Shelton scored touchdowns on runs of 1 and 10 yards late in the second quarter as Canoga Park led 40-0 at halftime. Christian Rivera returned a fumble 18 yards for a score in the second quarter and Giovanni Fuentes scored on a 20-yard run on Canoga Park's first play of the third quarter. Canoga Park held Hollywood (0-3, 0-8) to 45 yards, including minus-7 yards rushing, and forced three turnovers. Canoga Park lost its bid for a shutout when Abel Leon scored for Hollywood with less than a minute remaining in the game. - Alex Valladares --Poly 13, Verdugo Hills 7: Durrell Marzett scored two first-quarter touchdowns for host Poly (language) Poly - 1. A polymorphic, block-structured language developed by D.C.J. Matthews at Cambridge in the early 1980s. ["An Overview of the Poly Programming Language", D.C.J. Matthews, in Data Types and Persistence, M.P. Atkinson et al eds, Springer 1988]. 2. (5-3, 2-1). Marzett returned a punt 81 yards to open the scoring. Marzett finished the game with five catches for 98 yards and a touchdown. Quarterback Mark Diaz was 14 of 24 for 160 yards and a touchdown. The Poly defense was led by Juvenal Garcia, who recovered two fumbles and had two sacks. Marzett intercepted a pass at the goal line with 10 seconds left in the first half to stop a Verdugo Hills drive. Reece Apmadoc was 19 of 36 for 181 yards for Verdugo Hills of Tujunga (3-4-1, 2-1). Apmadoc scored Verdugo Hills' touchdown on a 1-yard plunge early in the fourth quarter. Verdugo Hills drove into Poly territory with less than two minutes left, but Gustavo Soberanis intercepted a pass at the 10-yard line to preserve the victory. - Steve Goldstein VALLEY MISSION LEAGUE --Reseda 24, Van Nuys 13: Matt Diaz
Matthew Edward Diaz (born March 3, 1978 in Portland, Oregon) is a Major League Baseball player with the Atlanta Braves. was 14 of 25 for 188 yards and three touchdowns for visiting Reseda (2-6, 2-1). Reseda's first score came on a 26-yard pass caught off a tip by Mario Goriscan. The other first-half score came when Reseda's Kurt Thomas Kurt Thomas may refer to:
Van Nuys (2-6, 1-2), which struggled offensively, had its first score set u by Manual Rodriguez' fumble recovery at the Reseda 35-yard line. Paul Forte capped the drive with a 1-yard run. He finished with 17 carries for 81 yards. Van Nuys' only other highlight was a fourth-quarter 86-yard pass to Adam Martinez. Quarterback Jake Ochoa rushed the final 4 yards for the score two plays later. Reseda's final score came on a 36-yard field goal by Chris Rodriguez Chris Rodriguez is an American Contemporary Christian musician. Biography Rodriguez was born in Bronx, New York, and moved to Nashville, becoming a veteran of the scene in the early 1990s. . - Brent Schackmann --Sylmar 41, Monroe 15: Sylmar running back Ryen Carew ran for 163 yards and two touchdowns at home. Carew scored on second-half runs of 46 and 25 yards for Sylmar (6-2, 3-0). Fullback Andre Dai Gre-Bunce scored on runs of 2, 4 and 2 yards to give Sylmar a 21-7 halftime lead. Monroe of North Hills (2-5-1, 2-1) was led by running back Henry Gentle, who ran for 188 yards and scored on a 27-yard run in the first half that cut Sylmar's lead to 14-7 with 2:59 remaining. Sylmar receiver Clarence Simpson scored on a 44-yard pass from Joseph Higgins to give Sylmar its final margin of victory. Monroe's final score came on a 20-yard run by backup quarterback Jose Meza with 7:29 remaining in the game. - Mark Bosteder --San Fernando 20, Kennedy 12: Trailing 20-12 with 1:03 left in the game, Kennedy's Josh Mendez had a pass intercepted by Donte Jenkins on San Fernando's side of the field, sealing the visiting Tigers' victory. San Fernando's Terrance Calloway, who rushed for 209 yards on 24 carries, led a 7 minute, 40-second drive in the fourth quarter, capped by a 1-yard touchdown run by Lorall Allen. The drive gave Kennedy little time to come back. Allen, starting his first game at quarterback, threw a 44-yard touchdown pass to Jenkins in the second quarter. Allen was later replaced by Matthew Nevarez, who was 1 of 3 for 21 yards. Mendez was 16 of 28 for 182 yards, but threw a costly interception in the second quarter that led to a San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. touchdown. - Nick Reder CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Taft's Mike Pratt can't come up with the catch with El Camino Real's Daray Davis covering. Taft won the game 49-0. Edna T. Simpson/Daily News |
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