ROYAL LIKES THIS HUNT IN VICTORY HIGHLANDERS' TRANSFER RUSHES FOR 226 YARDS, TD ROYAL 24, SIMI VALLEY 21.Byline: LEE BARNATHAN Special to the Daily News SIMI VALLEY Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. -- Even as a transfer from Hackensack, N.J., Marcus Hunt recognizes the importance of a rivalry Rivalry Robbery (See THIEVERY.) Rudeness (See COARSENESS.) Brom Bones and Ichabod Crane bully and show-off compete for Katrina’s hand. [Am. Lit. game. Back East, it was Hackensack against Teanack. Here, it's Simi Valley against Royal, and he said it's bigger and better here. Hunt put on a bigger and better performance Thursday night, rushing 43 times for 226 yards and a touchdown in Royal's 24-21 Marmonte League The Marmonte League is a high school sports league primarily made up of schools from Ventura County. The Marmonte Leauge is part of the CIF Southern Section. Click here to view the league schedule. victory over the visiting Pioneers. The victory gave the Highlanders (5-5, 3-4) some hope toward making the Southern Section playoffs. Royal needs Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. to beat Newbury Park tonight to force a coin flip for the fourth and final postseason berth (Agoura also finished 3-4 by beating winless Calabasas). Simi Valley finished 3-7, 1-6. Hunt rushed for no yards in the first quarter, no doubt in part because he broke his right thumb. But after getting it taped, and after Royal switched fullbacks, Hunt turned it on with 100 rushing yards in the second quarter, including his 4-yard touchdown run that gave Royal a 14-7 lead, and 85yards in the third quarter. His value was also evident when, following Simi Valley tying the score at 21, Hunt rushed eight times for 34 yards, eating up valuable minutes and setting up Danny Jennings' game-winning 19-yard field goal with 2:43 left to play. ``We gave him the ball and let him do what he does: Let him run,'' said Royal quarterback Mike Long, who completed 9 of 13 passes for 156 yards and a 35-yard touchdown to Thomas (language) Thomas - A language compatible with the language Dylan(TM). Thomas is NOT Dylan(TM). The first public release of a translator to Scheme by Matt Birkholz, Jim Miller, and Ron Weiss, written at Digital Equipment Corporation's Cambridge Research Laboratory runs McCormick in the second quarter that opened the scoring. Long also ran in a 1-yard score. ``It makes it fun for him, too. He gets to do all the fun stuff. I wish I could run the ball that much.'' The victory was not easy, as is often the case with rivalries. After the teams combined for just 32 yards of offense in the first quarter, the offenses awoke a·woke v. A past tense of awake. awoke Verb a past tense and (now rare or dialectal) past participle of awake . Hunt was the key cog for the Highlanders, but Simi Valley 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 Langston Jackson (fourfirst-quarter yards) rushed for 79 yards in the second quarter, 41 of which came on a touchdown run just 36 seconds after Royal took a 7-0 lead. Jackson finished with 145 yards on 16 carries and a second touchdown run of 2 yards that tied the score at 14 with 7:46 remaining in the third quarter. Jackson also returned a kickoff 60 yards, but the Pioneers failed to score off of it. |
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