Long Beach Poly football romps against Jordan with dominating offense and defense

LONG BEACH — Long Beach Poly is streaking toward the CIF Southern Section postseason playing its champion shot of the year, and the Jackrabbits had nary occupation dominating Jordan connected Thursday night, scoring much than 40 points for the 5th successive crippled and posting their 2nd shutout of the season.

With its 42-0 victory, Poly is connected the verge of its 24th Moore League rubric successful 26 years.

Shea Kuykendall completed 7 of 8 passes for 139 yards and 4 touchdowns, each successful the archetypal half, and the visiting Jackrabbits (6-3 overall, 4-0 Moore) conceded conscionable 28 full yards.

They scored connected their archetypal 5 possessions, added a touchdown connected a Daylen Austin punt return, and held the Panthers (5-5, 3-3) to 2 yards connected the crushed portion playing with a moving timepiece passim the 2nd half.

Kuykendall recovered Tyson Bordeaux doubly successful the extremity zone, for 13- and 30-yard scores, en way to a 35-0 halftime lead. He besides connected with Nicolas Kelly and Malik Brown for touchdowns.

Brown besides had 2 of Poly’s six sacks and a large artifact connected Austin’s 66-yard punt instrumentality midway done the 2nd quarter.

Devin Samples ran for 68 yards connected 7 carries, each successful the archetypal quarter, with a 30-yard sprint mounting up the 13-yard TD walk to Brown. Austin intercepted a walk adjacent the extremity of the archetypal half, starring to Bordeaux’s 2nd score.

“This squad is playing its champion close present …,” Poly caput manager Stephen Barbee said. “It’s astir everybody playing unneurotic and being a cohesive unit, and it’s thing we acceptable retired to bash and we did tonight.”

The Jackrabbits, who person scored 42, 45, 42 and 42 successful its league outings, fig to marque authoritative different title adjacent week against Lakewood. They’ll look acold tougher contention successful the playoffs — they’re apt to onshore successful CIF-SS Division 3 oregon 4 — than successful the Moore League, but “it’s not astir who you play,” Barbee said, quoting Poly fable Merle Cole. “It’s however you play.”

Said Brown: “We’ve travel unneurotic and played arsenic a squad much (since the commencement of league play) and are gathering the modular for Poly.” As for the playoffs, helium said, “we’re winning CIF and state.”

Poly scored connected each thrust but its past and got the last touchdown to commencement the 2nd half, with backup backmost Chase Stewart hitting Jadyn Robinson for a 29-yard people 1 play aft they hooked up for a 33-yard gain.

Jordan gained 32 rushing yards successful the archetypal 4th — 20 of that connected successive runs by Jordan Washington and Damian Henderson to the Poly 23, the farthest the Panthers precocious — and mislaid crushed the remainder of the way, astir of the shortage coming connected sacks and a atrocious snap. Their biggest summation was a 26-yard Makhi Travis-to-Henderson pass, their lone completion, successful the 3rd quarter.

“I thought we were going to effort to combat tonight, but we didn’t amusement up. We weren’t ready,” said Jordan caput manager Tim Wedlow, whose squad closed its regular play and is hopeful for a playoff berth, either done a gully if Compton beats Lakewood connected Friday nighttime to forge a three-way third-place necktie oregon an at-large invitation. “If we get successful the playoffs, we person a batch to enactment on.”