St. John Bosco 47 - Eagles 21
The Braves improve to 6-0 with blowout of Eagles. Price runs for 3, throws for 3 more
BELLFLOWER, CA., October 17, 2008 – The St. John Bosco High football team opened Trinity League action showing off the element that helped the Braves ramble through the nonleague portion of their schedule - a quick-hitting offense.
Quarterback Keith Price did most of the quick hitting for Coach Kiki Mendoza's team in its 47-21 victory over the visiting Santa Margarita Eagles.
Price had a hand in six of his 6-0 team's seven touchdowns - running for three and tossing three more - and accumulated 354 of his team's 460 yards in total offense.
Price and his teammates, whose past four games have come on Fr. Frank Ribotta Field, visit Costa Mesa next Friday night for what figures to be their toughest test of the season when they take on Orange Lutheran, which was No. 3 in this week's CIF Southern Section Pac-5 Division rankings.
A flurry of three touchdowns over a 33-second stretch of the first quarter - two of those coming on kickoff returns - left the Braves up, 14-7, just five minutes and 45 seconds into the game.
The Braves struck first, with Price rolling to his right and then completing a pass to Will Shamburger at the Eagles' 20. He then ran through the arms of a couple of would-be tacklers to complete a 40-yard score with 6:48 to go.
A.J. Cruz took advantage of some of some unassertive tackling by the hosts and returned Auburn Jimenez' kickoff for a 97-yard touchdown.
St. John Bosco's Leon Brooks then did Cruz one yard better.
He fielded Robert Manianci's kick at his 2-yard line, slashed by at least three Eagles in front of the Santa Margarita sidelines to put his team back up by a touchdown.
But the Eagles (who fell to 2-4 overall) were able to tie the score a little more than three minutes later, quarterback Ryan World capping a 60-yard drive with a 10-yard touchdown strike to Gavin Escobar, who did a nice of breaking free from cornerback Leon McFadden with 2:50 to go in the quarter.
Price put his team in front to stay on the first of his scoring runs, this one from 2 yards out three seconds into the second quarter.
He gave his team some cushion 43 seconds before intermission, bouncing in from five yards away, with Jimenez's kick making the score 28-14.
His best run came a minute into the fourth quarter and resulted in a 41-yard touchdown.
Price later added scoring passes of 46 yards to Shamburger and 22 to Jerrel Brown and finished 17-for-20 passing (to nine different receivers) for 257 yards while rushing for 97 yards on 16 attempts.
| St. John Bosco | 14 | 14 | 0 | 19 | 47 |
| Santa Margarita | 14 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 21 |
SJB – Shamburger 40 pass from Price (Jimenez kick)
SM – Cruz 98 kickoff return (Maniaci kick)
SJB – Brooks 97 kickoff return (Jimenez kick)
SM – Escobar 10 pass from World (Maniaci kick)
SJB – Price 2 run (Jimenez kick)
SJB – Price 5 run (Jimenez kick)
SJB – Price 41 run (Jimenez kick)
SM – Escobar 14 pass from World (Maniaci kick)
SJB – Shamburger 46 pass from Price (Jimenez kick miss)
SJB – Brown 22 pass from Price (Jimenez kick miss)
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
Rushing: SJB - Price 16-100, Mahr 9-55; SM - Cruz 7-64, Tyson 11-42
Passing: SJB - Price 18-21-0-268; SM - World 11-19-1-201
Receiving: SJB - Shamburger 3-105, Brown 2-50; Sweet 5-84, Willet 3-72, Escober 3-39
By Frank Burlison
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Long Beach Press-Telegram
