To say issues seemed bleak for Orange Lutheran’s soccer workforce Saturday evening at Sierra Canyon was being good. Down 19 factors at halftime, the Lancers weren’t blocking, not tackling and exhibiting little power. Their bus may have began warming up for the lengthy trip residence.
By no means doubt the perseverance or pleasure of teenage athletes.
“I believed,” Orange Lutheran linebacker Talanoa Ili mentioned.
The Lancers (4-1) regrouped and scored 26 consecutive factors within the second half to defeat Sierra Canyon 33-26 of their ultimate recreation earlier than beginning Trinity League play on Oct. 4.
Sierra Canyon (2-3), dealing with its third Trinity League workforce this season, performed about in addition to it has carried out in any recreation within the first 24 minutes. Havon Finney Jr. had a 55-yard punt return for a landing. Wyatt Becker ran 19 yards for a landing. Jaxsen Stokes ran 29 yards for a landing. Jonah Nadley caught a three-yard landing go. The Trailblazers’ protection wasn’t permitting massive performs and was pressuring quarterback TJ Lateef. Madden Riordan ended the half together with his seventh interception.
However nothing went proper for Sierra Canyon within the second half. The Trailblazers twice misplaced fumbles, struggled transferring the ball and let Lateef take cost. After a 41-yard subject objective by Aiden Migirdichian, Lateef scored on a three-yard run on the primary play of the fourth quarter to chop the deficit to 26-16. Steve Chavez scored on a two-yard run with 9:12 left after a Sierra Canyon fumble. Then the Lancers took the lead with 7:50 left on a Chris Flores Jr. four-yard landing reception.
Sierra Canyon drove to the 13-yard line with 2:20 left, however on fourth down, the potential game-tying drive ended when Orange Lutheran’s Izley Manutai deflected the go for an incompletion.
“All we needed was a little confidence,” Manutai mentioned of the second-half comeback.
