Sierra Canyon football tops highly ranked Norco
Sierra Canyon assumes responsibility for the game rapidly, demonstrates it has a place among state's ideal
CALABASAS — Usually, when a football trainer considers a misfortune a "learning experience," he isn't saying what he needs to say. However, Sierra Canyon seemed as though they took in a semester's worth in misfortunes to Corona Centennial and Servite recently.
On the two sides of the ball, for 48 minutes, the Trailblazers hauled, stuffed, surpassed, and at last outflanked Norco, overcoming them 35-21 on Friday night at Calabasas High School.
When Norco got the ball interestingly, Sierra Canyon had scored in three plays. Pioneer quarterback Daniel Duran discovered collector Dominic Arango-Serna on an intersection course that Serna transformed into a score.
Norco turned the ball over on downs on its first belonging, and the Trailblazers walked directly down the field to score once more, covered by a Jason Jones' 3-yard score run.
Norco then, at that point, drop-kicked, and Duran made a profound effort to Arango-Serna. The ball was marginally underthrown, yet Arango-Serna returned to it, shook a tackler, and surpassed the seeking after Cougars for a 80-yard score.
The score was only 21-0, however the defeat was on. Before the Norco fans had even beat the traffic on the drive in, they were down three scores and seemed outclassed.
Duran completed 10 for 15 with 247 yards passing and two scores, looking careful on the profound ball and committing negligible errors. Jones conveyed multiple times for 71 yards and the one score. Khalil Peart included a score a 2-yard run, and Stanford submit Kamari Ramsey scooped a mishandle from Norco's Kyle Crum at the Sierra Canyon 10-yard line and returned it 90 yards for the score.
Crum completed 12 for 23 and 211 yards passing. The main offense the Cougars found consistently was scrambles and guardians from Crum, who wrapped up with 58 yards on the ground with two hurrying scores. He additionally associated with recipient Grant Gray for a score in the second from last quarter to bring it inside two scores, yet it didn't feel close.
The arrangement for lead trainer Jon Ellinghouse and Sierra Canyon is to turn into a chief Division-1 force to be reckoned with in the CIF Southern Section. They've demonstrated willing to plan anybody to test their capacity, and misfortunes to Centennial and Servite set the Trailblazers straight.
Yet, no doubt about it — Norco is a Division-1 type group, as well. Coming into the ballgame, they were positioned seventh in California in the Calpreps rankings. Sierra Canyon was eighth, however probable not intended for significantly longer.
"I'm a major adherent to playing the best since it prepares you not too far off," said Ellinghouse. "This was simply one more model, and we went out and put it on them."
So the Trailblazers demonstrated they could overturn a best 10 group. Be that as it may, would they be able to dominate these matches reliably, against grant ability, week over week? That is the thing that Ellinghouse plans to discover. Mission Viejo, the Calpreps sixth positioned group, holds up the following week. The Diablos destroyed Alemany seven days prior.
By his own confirmation, Ellinghouse tempered the course of action with the Trailblazers up a few scores at half. They didn't score in the subsequent half, something he noted was not great.
"Be that as it may, the significant thing in games like this, is to get out with a success," he said.
