Malachi Nelson adds his name to record book in Los Alamitos football’s rout of Huntington Beach

HUNTINGTON BEACH >> Los Alamitos backmost Malachi Nelson has entered the grounds books.

Nelson led Los Alamitos to a 49-14 roadworthy triumph implicit Sunset League foe Huntington Beach connected Friday.

The inferior backmost completed 12 of 19 passes for 214 yards and 3 touchdowns. In doing so, helium broke the Los Alamitos schoolhouse grounds for astir vocation touchdown passes with 60.

The erstwhile people of 58 was acceptable by Kevin Feterik during his clip astatine Los Alamitos from 1993 to 1995.

Nelson has kept his thoughts connected squad success.

“It feels good,” Nelson said. “I didn’t adjacent cognize that. It’s a validating feeling to travel retired present and get a win. We struggled successful the archetypal half, connected some sides of the ball. I don’t deliberation those guys should people connected us.”

Makai Lemon, who has known Nelson since childhood, caught each 3 of the quarterback’s touchdown passes and totaled 7 receptions for 119 yards overall. He besides intercepted Huntington Beach backmost AJ Perez twice.

“It’s genuinely a blessing to interruption that record,” Lemon said. “For maine to bash that for him, it’s amazing. I conscionable effort to spell retired determination and assistance immoderate mode I can.”

It looked arsenic if Huntington Beach had stifled Los Alamitos’ archetypal drive, but a roughing the passer punishment connected third-and-11 gave the Griffins a archetypal down. Then Nelson deed Lemon for a 13-yard touchdown transportation to necktie the grounds and springiness Los Alamitos (8-1, 4-0) a 7-0 lead.

Two rushing touchdowns from Nygel Osborne and 1 from Deandre Moore Jr. helped Los Alamitos widen its pb to 28-0

Nelson’s record-breaker arrived with 3:29 remaining successful the archetypal half. On archetypal down, Nelson connected with Lemon successful the level and Lemon did the rest, breaking 2 tackles and moving into the extremity portion for a 61-yard touchdown.

Los Alamitos manager Ray Fenton enjoyed seeing Nelson and Lemon marque history.

“They’ve had immoderate large quarterbacks here,” Fenton said. “It’s a existent record. To person a kid similar our feline interruption it with his champion person is beauteous special.”

Huntington Beach (4-5, 1-3) recovered the scoreboard successful the waning minutes of the archetypal half when Perez deed Jordan Castro for a 25-yard touchdown pass, cutting the Los Alamitos pb to 35-7.

Perez completed 13 of 34 passes for 217 yards and 2 touchdowns. He threw 3 interceptions.

Los Alamitos benefited from different Nelson-to-Lemon touchdown and a 47-yard Isaiah Dorsey interception instrumentality for a 49-7 pb entering the 4th quarter.

The Oilers notched the longest violative play of the crippled midway done the 4th quarter. On 3rd down, Perez looked heavy for a wide-open Tyler Moses, who caught the shot astatine midfield adjacent the Huntington Beach sideline and ran to the extremity portion for an 84-yard touchdown walk and the last people of the game.

Nelson has different schoolhouse grounds wrong reach. Jimmy Barnes holds the Los Alamitos grounds for touchdown passes successful a play with 37. Nelson has 31 this play and astatine slightest 2 games left, arsenic the Griffins look Newport Harbor successful their regular-season finale adjacent week and past statesman the CIF-SS playoffs.