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LOS ANGELES — St. Anthony mislaid bid of the Del Rey League contention Thursday night, surrendering excessively galore large plays to autumn down by treble digits, past coming up abbreviated with a precocious rally successful a chaotic 43-41 nonaccomplishment astatine Salesian.
Sone Aupiu ran for 142 yards and 3 touchdowns, Conor Hochberg threw for 202 yards and connected with Ryan Norried connected 2 scores, and Kweku Claybrook made 2 agelong kickoff returns, a 70-yarder to acceptable up a second-quarter Aupiu TD and the 2nd an 88-yard sprint to the extremity portion that started the Saints’ fourth-quarter comeback.
It wasn’t capable successful what, for each intents, was the Del Rey League title-decider and sets up St. Anthony (5-4 overall, 2-1 DRL), which would person clinched a stock of the title with a victory, for a conflict successful an Oct. 29 regular-season finale against defending league champion Harvard-Westlake (4-4, 1-1), with the victor claiming the 2nd of 2 guaranteed playoff berths. The Saints person a bye adjacent week.
If Salesian (5-3, 2-0) someway slips up adjacent week astatine Mary Star oregon the pursuing week astatine winless La Salle, St. Anthony’s’ finale could person rubric implications. Harvard-Westlake is disconnected this week and location adjacent week against La Salle.
“They got a bully shot team, and watching them connected film, we thought they were the champion squad we’ve seen since (the Sept. 3 nonaccomplishment astatine Millikan) …,” Saints caput manager Raul Lara said. “I’m arrogant of my guys. Remember, we were 0-3 astatine 1 time. And whoever thought we were going to beryllium competing for the league title? We conscionable came up short.”
The Mustangs, who possessed overmuch bigger lines, acold greater extent and much pronounced attacking dynamism and balance, were a measurement up astir of the mode and led by 16 doubly successful the 2nd fractional down Marcus Martin. The elder backmost completed 14 of 20 passes for 241 yards and 5 touchdowns, 4 of them to Anthony Redix, including a 52-yarder connected third-and-14 and a 45-yarder connected fourth-and-8 successful the 2nd quarter.
Redix, who caught 7 balls for 123 yards, besides had an 85-yard kickoff return, close aft Aupiu’s 19-yard touchdown pursuing Claybrook’s return, to nonstop Salesian into halftime with a 28-21 edge. The Mustangs past scored connected the archetypal second-half thrust to spell up by 16 — converting a 2-point conversion, yet the difference, aft the Saints were flagged for roughing the kicker connected Edwin Monterrosa’s missed PAT effort — and restored that vantage aft an Aupiu fumble arsenic St. Anthony was gathering momentum.
Aupiu’s 15-yard touchdown tally connected the Saints’ lone third-quarter thrust — 4 plays aft Hochberg connected with Darius Davis for 57 yards to the Mustangs 29 — had chopped the shortage to 36-27, and they got the shot backmost astatine their 19 to commencement the 4th fourth aft forcing a punt.
Aupiu mislaid the shot connected the adjacent play, and Martin recovered Redix successful the extremity portion for a 4-yard people connected 4th down to marque it 43-27.
Claybrook returned the ensuing kickoff for a TD, and the Saints marched 99 yards to marque it a two-point crippled with 2 and a fractional minutes to spell aft Tyler Henry wrested the shot from Jakiel Kendricks arsenic the Salesian receiver effort to bull into the extremity portion aft catching a 48-yard bomb. Henry caught a 62-yard walk to beforehand the shot to the Mustangs 26, and Norried scored connected a fourth-down reception aft Hochberg 3 three incompletions.
The Saints attempted an onside kick, but Nicholas Hidalgo recovered for Salesian, which ran retired the clock.
Salesian did a decent occupation corralling Aupiu, who had surpassed 200 yards successful his erstwhile 3 games, holding him to 3 oregon less yards connected fractional of his 22 carries. Aupui reached triple digits for the sixth clip successful 8 games to propulsion his play full to 1,381 yards.
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