Lancaster Sparks Rout of Bolsa, 48-17

Football Opener

Nathan Lancaster started his senior campaign playing less than half the game but it was all he needed for a record evening. He led the Breakers to an easy thrashing of Bolsa Grande from the Garden.

Grove League in the 79^th varsity season opener Friday, Sept. 6 at Guyer Field.  Breakers snapped a 73-year old record by scoring 35 points in the first quarter on five straight possessions.

Bolsa opened the game with a kickoff going out-of-bounds giving the Breakers only 65 yards to score.

Six plays later, Lancaster ran the final 40 for the first touchdown. The senior is also doing conversions going six for six. Brandon Sarhad recovered the subsequent kick off as Bolsa mishandled Lancaster’s kickoff. He needed only one play to score and it was 14-0 with less than four minutes gone in the contest.

Bolsa looked sharp completing a 46-yard pass play on their next possession but turned the ball over on downs on the Laguna 31 yard line.  Breakers went 69 yards in six plays scoring on a 14-yard pass by Jack Simon to Sean Hampton to make it 21-0.

Breakers next possession followed three Matador plays that netted three yards. The punt was returned to a net 17 yards by Lancaster after a penalty cut 10 off his return total. Andres DeLaRosa scampered 21 yards on a good run before Lancaster finished the drive with three carries and a 28-0 lead.

After a quick three play drive by Bolsa, Laguna had one last play in the quarter, a 48-yard run by Lancaster to make it 35-0.

Lancaster participated in one more drive in the evening before retiring with Laguna in control at 42-0 with over five minutes remaining in the half.

Laguna could have shredded their single game records but gave their limited bench left plenty of play time for the remaining game. Laguna now leads 7-3 in their series with the Garden Grove school.

 

Up next: Breakers played University this past Thursday, Sept. 12, at the new on-campus stadium at the Trojan campus. Last year the schools battled to a 36-36 tie, the highest scoring tie game in school history.  Breakers are only 3-21-1 lifetime with their hosts and a very tough contest is expected. University’s enrollment is more than double that of Laguna so they carry a large roster advantage.

How good is Lancaster? He averages 13.1 yards per carry over his career (128 rushes for 1,681 yards). If he holds this pace, he will shatter Drake Martinez’s 9.7 yards per carry career mark just set last year.

 

Southern Division CIF Poll for Week 2

1 – Corona del Mar, 2 – Garden Grove, 3 – Segerstrom, 4 – Woodbridge, 5 – Katella, 6 – Los Amigos, 7 – Westminster, 8 – Northwood, 9 – Santa Ana Valley

 

2013 GAME # 1 Stats

	1st	2nd	3rd	4th
Bolsa Grande	0	3	7	7	17
Laguna Beach	35	13	0	0	48

 

L – Lancaster 40 run (Lancaster kick) 9:21 1^st Q

L – Lancaster 22 run (Lancaster kick) 9:11 1^st Q

L – Hampton 14 pass from Simon (Lancaster kick) 4:46 1^st Q

L – Lancaster 8 run (Lancaster kick) 1:25 1^st Q

L – Lancaster 48 run (Lancaster kick) 0:55 1^st Q

L – DeLaRosa 10 run (Lancaster kick) 5:38 2^nd Q

B – 27 FG  2:28 2^nd Q

L – Hampton 19 pass from Simon (Simon kick failed) 0:34.9 2^nd Q

B – 3 run (kick) 6:17 3^rd Q

B – 1 run (kick) 5:09 4^th Q

 

	LB	BG
1st Downs	19	13
Rush/Yds	40-335	25-98
Pass Yds	132	168
C-A-I	7-8-0	12-28-1
Plays/TYG	48-467	53-266
Fumbles/Lost	2-0	2-1
Return Yds	17	0
Punts/Ave	0-0	3-40.3
Penalties/Yds	5-60	4-50

 

Individual Statistics

Rushing:                                      Lancaster 13-223, French 11-51, DeLaRosa 6-46, Martinez 5-27, Chesley 1-2,

Simon 3-(14), Team 1-0

Receiving:                                    Hampton 3-45, Martinez 1-33, DeLaRosa 1-9, Chesley 1-23, Tracy 1-22

Passing:                                       Simon 7-8-0 132 yards 2 TDS, rating = 308.6

Interception Returns :              Martinez 1-0

Punt Returns:                             Lancaster 1-17

Kick Off Returns:                       none

Punting:                                       none

Passing Defense Rating:           86.1

 

Records Set:

TEAM:

Points Scored quarter: 35 (1st) (Old record 34 set 11/29/1940 vs Capistrano, tied 10/30/2011 vs. Calvary Chapel)

Individual:

Points scored quarter: 29 by Nathan Lancaster (4 touchdowns, 5 XP1)

 

Milestones

TEAM:

48 points 1st half – 4th best

467 Total offense – 13th best

 

Individual:

Nathan Lancaster

30 points second all-time (record is 32 by Drake Martinez vs Ocean View, 2011)

223 yards rush is 12th best in Laguna history, and is Nathan’s career best.

168 career points is good for 7th all-time

27 career touchdowns is good for 6th all-time

Sean Hampton stiffed and shed a Bolsa Grande defender to shred the Matadors defense with two touchdown receptions. Photo by Doug Landrum.