Eagles 49 - Mayfair 3
Santa Margarita Eagles beat Mayfair and move to 4-0
LAGUNA HILLS, CA., September 14, 2017 – Santa Margarita put on another stellar offensive performance led by senior Chad Magyar's 195 rushing yards on 18 carries and three touchdowns. Continuing his impressive junior campaign, Jake Thomas rushed for 92 yards and a touchdown. The 1-2 punch of Magyar and Thomas have now rushed for a combined 816 yards (Magyar 564, Thomas 252) and 12 rushing touchdowns (Magyar 9, Thomas 3). Malone Mataele only had three carries for 18 yards, but two of those
were for touchdowns, giving him six touchdowns total for the season. Senior quarterback Josiah Norwood completed 15 of 24 passes (63%) for 246 yards and a touchdown. The leading receiver for the Santa Margarita Eagles was senior Mark Eaton who had four catches for 79 yards and a touchdown. In all, Santa Margarita had six rushing touchdowns and one receiving.
Defensively, senior Caden Fitch led all Santa Margarita Eagles with eight total tackles, sophomore Logan Schwenke had two sacks alongside Alex Kilander and Matt Lynch also recording a sack each: This stout defense is now giving up an average 2.5 points per game.
| Santa Margarita | 7 | 21 | 14 | 7 | 49 |
| Mayfair | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
SM – Magyar 24 run (Brady kick)
MAY – Lemus 25 FG
SM – Mataele 5 run (Brady kick)
SM – Magyar 4 run (Brady kick)
SM – Mataele 1 run (Brady kick)
SM – Magyar 10 run (Brady kick)
SM – Eaton 10 pass from Norwood (Brady kick)
SM – Thomas 3 run (Brady kick)
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS
Rushing: SM - Magyar 18-195, Thomas 10-92; MAY - Anderson 19-47
Passing: SM - Norwood 15-24-0-246; MAY - Calvin 8-13-0-95
Receiving: SM - Eaton 4-79, Magyar 4-41, Ebach 2-46; MAY - Adimora 3-41, Carson 2-37
Sean Zeitler
Sports Information Director
Santa Margarita lights up the scoreboard again in rout of Mayfair
LAGUNA HILLS – Running back Chad Magyar and No. 5 Santa Margarita continued to play like a boulder rolling downhill Thursday night.
Magyar picked up 214 yards and two touchdowns on the ground as Santa Margarita beat Mayfair, 49-3, on the Eagles’ homecoming night at Laguna Hills High.
“It’s just our preparation,” Magyar said. “We know exactly what we’re doing going into the game and we execute when we’re playing. It shows on the scoreboard and shows on our record.”
Santa Margarita (4-0) has outscored its opponents 201-10 in its first four games. The Eagles’ four opponents had a combined record of 8-4 going into Thursday’s game.
“No matter who we’re going against, no matter our opponent,” Magyar said, “we really fight in all stages of the game. When we come out in the second half, we don’t let up. We just keep going and I’m really proud of us for that.”
Santa Margarita was firing on all cylinders from the get-go.
Mayfair went three-and-out and Alex Kilander picked up the first of five sacks by the Eagles.
Santa Margarita coach Rich Fisher was excited about the aggressive defensive efforts and applauded his group’s ability to get all 11 players to the football.
After a punt set Santa Margarita up at the Mayfair 44-yard line, Magyar handled the ball three times on three plays and finished on a 24-yard touchdown run for the opening score.
Mayfair responded with a six-minute drive that killed time and resulted in the Monsoons’ only points of the night on a 24-yard field goal.
Eagles quarterback Josiah Norwood led the next drive and connected on four passes of 10 yards or more around a 27-yard Magyar burst to put the Eagles inside the Mayfair 10. Malone Mataele took the ball out of the wildcat format and scored on a 6-yard run.
Another Mayfair three-and-out ended on the first of two Logan Schwenke sacks, and Santa Margarita had the ball at midfield again.
Jake Thomas broke free on a run that went for 24 yards and Magyar scored from 4 yards out.
Mayfair’s next drive was again a three-and-out that ended on a sack, this one by Matt Lynch, and Santa Margarita set up in Mayfair territory.
Norwood hit Jake Ebach for 24 yards on the sideline, and Mataele carried for 13 yards and two yards to put the Eagles up at halftime, 28-3.
Magyar added his second touchdown on Santa Margarita’s opening drive of the half, and Norwood threw his only touchdown pass of the game – a 10-yarder – to Mark Eaton at the end of the third quarter.
Norwood finished 13 of 22 passing for 203 yards.
Thomas ran in a touchdown late for the final margin, 49-3. Thomas ran for 76 yards.
Despite their dominance, Santa Margarita was again plagued by penalties. The Eagles had 10 penalties accepted for over 100 yards.
Fisher said it was a problem that a lot of teams have at this stage, but it definitely needed to be corrected. With many false starts, Fisher chalked it up to an aggressive offense wanting to get going.
By Zach Cavanagh
Friday, September 14, 2017
The Orange County Register
