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DOWNEY >> Sone Aupiu ran chaotic Friday night, starring St. Anthony into the CIF Southern Section playoffs with a lopsided triumph implicit Harvard-Westlake.
Aupiu ran for 294 yards and 4 touchdowns connected 23 carries successful a small much than a fractional arsenic the Saints claimed 2nd spot successful the Del Rey League and the league’s past automatic postseason berth with a 53-23 romp astatine St. Pius X-St. Matthias Academy.
Conor Hochberg threw 2 touchdown passes and the Saints (6-4 overall, 3-1 Del Rey) recovered 3 onside oregon pooch kickoffs — 2 collected by Remy Doering — arsenic they stormed to a 39-14 halftime pb and extended it to 53-14 successful the 3rd quarter.
St. Anthony’s Kweku Claybrook (8) scores arsenic during a St. Anthony High and Harvard-Westlake High successful a Del Rey League shot crippled astatine St. Pius X-St. Mathias High School. successful Downey CA connected October 29, 2021. (Photo by Michael Goulding)
St. Anthony’s Conor Hochberg (9) stiff-arms Harvard-Westlake’s Beau Lindus connected his mode to a touchdown during a St. Anthony High and Harvard-Westlake High successful a Del Rey League shot crippled astatine St. Pius X-St. Mathias High School. successful Downey CA connected October 29, 2021. (Photo by Michael Goulding)
Harvard-Westlake’s Jason Thompson (1) pulls successful a touchdown walk during a St. Anthony High and Harvard-Westlake High successful a Del Rey League shot crippled astatine St. Pius X-St. Mathias High School. successful Downey CA connected October 29, 2021. (Photo by Michael Goulding)
St. Anthony’s Aiden Beranek (8) celebrates with St. Anthony’s Ryan Norried (1) aft scoring during a St. Anthony High and Harvard-Westlake High successful a Del Rey League shot crippled astatine St. Pius X-St. Mathias High School. successful Downey CA connected October 29, 2021. (Photo by Michael Goulding)
Jonathan Lopez 18-months was wearing a antithetic benignant of azygous for Senior Night earlier a St. Anthony High and Harvard-Westlake High successful a Del Rey League shot crippled astatine St. Pius X-St. Mathias High School. successful Downey CA connected October 29, 2021. (Photo by Michael Goulding)
Harvard-Westlake’s Alvin Holmes (3) scores during a St. Anthony High and Harvard-Westlake High successful a Del Rey League shot crippled astatine St. Pius X-St. Mathias High School. successful Downey CA connected October 29, 2021. (Photo by Michael Goulding)
St. Anthony’s Sone Aupiu (24) breaks escaped for a archetypal down during a St. Anthony High and Harvard-Westlake High successful a Del Rey League shot crippled astatine St. Pius X-St. Mathias High School. successful Downey CA connected October 29, 2021. (Photo by Michael Goulding)
St. Anthony’s Conor Hochberg (9) gets sacked by Harvard-Westlake’s Sonny Heyes (77) during a St. Anthony High and Harvard-Westlake High successful a Del Rey League shot crippled astatine St. Pius X-St. Mathias High School. successful Downey CA connected October 29, 2021. (Photo by Michael Goulding)
St. Anthony’s Kweku Claybrook (8) hauls successful a touchdown walk during a St. Anthony High and Harvard-Westlake High successful a Del Rey League shot crippled astatine St. Pius X-St. Mathias High School. successful Downey CA connected October 29, 2021. (Photo by Michael Goulding)
St. Anthony’s caput manager Raul Lara calls plays during a St. Anthony High and Harvard-Westlake High successful a Del Rey League shot crippled astatine St. Pius X-St. Mathias High School. successful Downey CA connected October 29, 2021. (Photo by Michael Goulding)
Harvard-Westlake’s Brock Getson (33) gets hauled down by his jersey during a St. Anthony High and Harvard-Westlake High successful a Del Rey League shot crippled astatine St. Pius X-St. Mathias High School. successful Downey CA connected October 29, 2021. (Photo by Michael Goulding)
St. Anthony’s Eric Sam Suluai (52) gets congratulated by teammates aft his 2nd sack of the archetypal fractional during a St. Anthony High and Harvard-Westlake High successful a Del Rey League shot crippled astatine St. Pius X-St. Mathias High School. successful Downey CA connected October 29, 2021. (Photo by Michael Goulding)
St. Anthony’s Eric Sam Suluai (52) was introduced earlier Senior Night during a St. Anthony High and Harvard-Westlake High successful a Del Rey League shot crippled astatine St. Pius X-St. Mathias High School. successful Downey CA connected October 29, 2021. (Photo by Michael Goulding)
Harvard-Westlake’s Sonny Heyes (77) goes precocious to tackle St. Anthony’s Sone Aupiu (24) during a St. Anthony High and Harvard-Westlake High successful a Del Rey League shot crippled astatine St. Pius X-St. Mathias High School. successful Downey CA connected October 29, 2021. (Photo by Michael Goulding)
Harvard-Westlake’s Aidan Greenfield (2) scramble for a archetypal down during a St. Anthony High and Harvard-Westlake High successful a Del Rey League shot crippled astatine St. Pius X-St. Mathias High School. successful Downey CA connected October 29, 2021. (Photo by Michael Goulding)
St. Anthony’s Conor Hochberg (9) stiff-arms Harvard-Westlake’s Beau Lindus connected his mode to a touchdown during a St. Anthony High and Harvard-Westlake High successful a Del Rey League shot crippled astatine St. Pius X-St. Mathias High School. successful Downey CA connected October 29, 2021. (Photo by Michael Goulding)
St. Anthony’s Sone Aupiu (24) heads up tract for a archetypal down up of Harvard-Westlake’s Sonny Heyes (77) during a St. Anthony High and Harvard-Westlake High successful a Del Rey League shot crippled astatine St. Pius X-St. Mathias High School. successful Downey CA connected October 29, 2021. (Photo by Michael Goulding)
Parents get a changeable of their elder players earlier a St. Anthony High and Harvard-Westlake High successful a Del Rey League shot crippled astatine St. Pius X-St. Mathias High School. successful Downey CA connected October 29, 2021. (Photo by Michael Goulding)
St. Anthony’s Aiden Beranek (8) finds a spread during a St. Anthony High and Harvard-Westlake High successful a Del Rey League shot crippled astatine St. Pius X-St. Mathias High School. successful Downey CA connected October 29, 2021. (Photo by Michael Goulding)
Aupiu, who has topped 100 yards 7 times successful 9 ganes and 200 connected 4 occasions, pushed his play totals to 1,675 yards and 18 TDs connected the ground.
The Saints, who 2 weeks agone mislaid a league-title showdown astatine Salesian, volition larn their first-round duty connected Sunday.
It’s the 16th playoff quality for Saints first-year caput manager Raul Lara, who took Long Beach Poly to the playoffs 13 times successful arsenic galore seasons — winning 5 championships — and Warren to the postseason doubly successful 5 years.
The crippled was choky to start, with the teams trading touchdowns, but St. Anthony scored connected its archetypal 5 possessions — including 3 times successful the archetypal 2 and a fractional minutes of the 2nd 4th — to presume command.
Aupiu ran for 42 yards connected the Saints’ archetypal drive, the last 2 into the extremity portion for a speedy 6-0 lead, and Harvard-Westlake (5-5, 2-3) answered connected its archetypal possession, taking a 7-6 vantage connected a 20-yard Aidan Greenfield-to-A.J. Holmes surface pass.
St. Anthony was backmost successful beforehand wrong 2 minutes, Aupiu scoring connected a 5-yard tally 3 plays aft romping 45 yards to the Wolverines 19. The Saints defence past forced a 3-and-out, and the Saints drove 70 yards for a 19-7 pb arsenic Conor Hochberg ran for a 22-yard people — 3 plays aft a 29-yard Aupiu summation — connected the archetypal play of the 2nd quarter.
The Saints’ short, debased kickoff ricocheted disconnected 2 Harvard-Westlake players and was recovered astatine the Wolverines 38 by Doering. Hochberg deed Kweku Claybrook astatine the extremity enactment for a 32-yard touchdown 3 plays later, and Anakin “A.K.” Aupiu forced a Greenfield fumble connected Harvard-Westlake’s archetypal play pursuing the kickoff, with Raymond Gomez collecting the shot astatine the 33.
Aupiu scored connected a 45-yard tally 2 plays later, but a holding punishment down him brought it back, truthful helium followed with a 27-yard tally to the 13, gained 11 2 plays aboriginal and scored from the 2 successful the adjacent play to marque it 32-7.
Greenfield deed J.T. Thompson for a 55-yard people 14 seconds later, but Hochberg ran for a 2-yard TD with 10 seconds near successful the half, and the Saints scored doubly successful the archetypal 4:17 of the 3rd quarter, connected a 29-yard Hochberg-to-Ryan Norried plaything walk and, aft different Doering betterment connected the kickoff, a 38-yard Aupiu run.
Aaron Milburn added an 8-yard TD tally earlier the 4th was over, and Milo Kiddugavo kicked a 41-yard tract extremity successful the 4th fourth for Harvard-Westlake.
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