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DOWNEY — Sone Aupui was virtually unstoppable for St. Anthony connected Friday night, amassing 400 yards — 356 of them connected the crushed — and starring a staunch antiaircraft effort arsenic the Saints gave Raul Lara a signpost triumph implicit an unbeaten foe.
Aupui scored 4 touchdowns, 2 of them successful the 3rd 4th erstwhile St. Anthony took power of a choky clash en way to a 43-25 triumph astatine St. Pius X-St. Matthias (4-1).
The Saints (2-3) piled up 553 yards successful full offense, astir of them coming from their elder moving back/linebacker, who seldom stepped disconnected the tract portion tearing isolated PMA’s defence and slowing down an discourtesy that had scored 176 points successful the Warriors’ archetypal 4 games.
“Me coming in, that was each I heard, is Sone this, Sone that,” said Lara, the Long Beach Poly fable who took complaint of St. Anthony’s programme successful July, excessively precocious to laic the instauration he’d person liked to physique upon successful twelvemonth one. “Obviously, I knew helium is an jock and a precise bully shot player. But 356? That’s beauteous incredible.”
Aupui had 91 yards earlier the archetypal 4th was done — astir of them connected a 55-yard sprint that ended badly, a fumble PMA collected astatine its 5 — and 170 astatine halftime. He past pushed past 200 with a 53-yard touchdown tally connected the 3rd play of the 2nd fractional and beyond 300 with a 63-yard gallop connected the Saints’ archetypal fourth-quarter snap.
That 1 acceptable up his 4th TD, a 7-yard propulsion that gave the Saints a 24-point edge.
“That dude’s special,” Warriors manager Devah Thomas said. “That 24 tin play immoderate football, man.”
Aupui besides scored connected a 23-yard tally successful the 3rd 4th and connected a 36-yard surface walk from Conor Hochberg astir midway done the 3rd quarter. The second was acceptable up by Kweku Claybrook’s 59-yard kickoff return, and the people gave the Saints bid of the encounter.
He and his relative Anakin “A.K.” Aupui, who ran for 46 yards connected 8 carries, scored doubly connected 2-point conversions, were pivotal successful the antiaircraft effort, assigned to “spy” prima PMA backmost Dieter Barr, who finished 23 of 40 passes for 251 yards and 2 touchdowns portion perpetually chased successful his backfield by linemen Raymond Gomez and Eric Sam Suluai.
Jordan Shaw had 5 receptions for 128 yards (plus kickoff returns covering 40 and 53 yards) and was immense defensively, too), and Geoffrey Brown six receptions for 57 yards and 2 TDs
Dejour Menefee, who ran for 426 yards, had 300 yards receiving and scored 9 touchdowns successful the Warriors’ archetypal 4 games, was constricted to 33 yards connected 10 carries — astir of that successful the 4th fourth — and caught 5 passes for conscionable 1 yard. The Saints constricted PMA to 39 yards connected the ground.
It was adjacent into the 2nd half, the Saints going up (with Ryan Norried catching a 4-yard, fourth-down TD walk from Hochberg and Aupui’s archetypal TD run) and PMA answering (on 2 Menefee runs).
St. Anthony scored connected 4 of its archetypal 5 second-half drives to propulsion away, nary much than 4 plays nor lasting longer than a minute.
The biggest antagonistic for the Saints was 111 yards connected 11 penalties, with 89 coming successful the archetypal half, including 3 15-yard calls successful a six-play, second-quarter agelong that fueled a PMA march into the reddish portion that led to nothing.
For Sone Aupui, it was his fumble, connected St. Anthony’s 2nd possession, with Shaw chasing him down, stripping the shot and collecting it.
“That fumble kept maine driving during the game,” said Aupui, who gained 284 yards connected 22 carries afterward. “I can’t marque that mistake again, and I proved to the linemen I won’t bash it again.”
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