South Hills High School Varsity Football Team

COVINA – It’s not often that a quarterback will beat you with his foot, but that’s what South Hills’ Danny Sheehan did Thursday night at Covina District Field.

Sheehan’s 27-yard field goal with 10.1 seconds remaining lifted the Huskies to a 31-28 victory over visiting Los Osos in nonleague action.

Los Osos (2-3) trailed 21-0 at one point, and tied the game 28-28 with 3:17 to play when quarterback Stephen Johnson scored on a 1-yard run. Michael McNicholl ran in the two-point conversion.

South Hills, however, led by Sheehan and running back Jamel Hart, drove the ball down to the Los Osos 5-yard line before an offside penalty on South Hills pushed the ball back to the 10.

Sheehan had no problem, however, with the extra yardage, handing the Grizzlies a tough defeat.

Sheehan hit Jamie Canada on a 10-yard scoring strike to get South Hills (3-2) out to a 7-0 lead with 8:38 left in the second quarter.

Adam Goss then recovered a Los Osos fumble in the end zone, and Manny Alvarez picked off Johnson and brought it back 42 yards to give the Huskies a commanding 21-0 first-half lead.

Los Osos got its first score of the game when Victor Bolden took a reverse 15 yards for the score, but the extra- point attempt failed.

McNicholl then rumbled 33 yards for another Grizzlies touchdown to close the gap to 21-12 when another point-after attempt failed.

Hart scored on a 1-yard run to extend the South Hills lead to 28-12 with 22 seconds remaining in the third quarter.

McNicholl was able to pound the ball into the end zone on a fourth-and-goal play from the 4-yard line, and he scored the two-point conversion to get Los Osos to within 28-20.

Johnson struggled most of the night for Los Osos and finished 12 of 36 for 86 yards.

McNicholl had 61 yards and two touchdown on 11 carries, and Luke Johnson rushed for 79 yards on 12 carries for the Grizzlies.

Bolden had a game-high six catches for 42 yards for Los Osos.

Hart led all rushers with 166 yards and a touchdown on 29 carries, but he lost two fumbles in the red zone for the Huskies.

Canada not only scored the game’s first touchdown, but he also had an interception.

Sheehan completed 9 of 21 passes for 117 yards for South Hills, but his field goal and four extra points were the difference.

From: sgvtribune.com ~ Brian Baiotto, Correspondent

MONROVIA – With South Hills High School starting quarterback Vincent Hernandez taking the night off because of a lingering shoulder injury, the Huskies leaned on running back Jamel Hart.

The senior delivered, scoring two of his three touchdowns in the fourth quarter to help South Hills rally past host Monrovia 34-30 on Friday to improve to 2-2. The defending CIF-SS Mid-Valley Division champion Wildcats lost their third consecutive to fall to 1-3.

Hart, who finished with 155 yards on 30 carries, took over late in the third quarter after Wildcats quarterback Blake Heyworth hooked up with Anthony Craft for a 49-yard touchdown to take a 24-20 lead with 4:42 left in the third.

On the ensuing series, the Huskies marched 65 yards in 11 plays, with Hart carrying it nine times on the drive for 56 yards. He capped the march with a 10-yard touchdown run to move the Huskies in front, 27-24, a minute into the fourth quarter.

“That’s kind of what you want to do, score early and run the ball late to secure wins,” South Hills coach Steve Bogan said. “Jamel was able to wear them down, you can see it in the third and fourth quarters. He was getting big chunks of yards.”

After a 33-yard run later in the fourth, Hart scored again on a 4-yard touchdown to extend the Huskies’ lead to 34-24 with 9:09 left.

The Wildcats made it close on the final play of the game when Heyworth threw a 37-yard Hail Mary that Luke Williams came down with as time expired to make it 34-30.

Heyworth, who split time at QB with George Frazier, had a solid night, throwing for 236 yards and two touchdowns. Frazier, meanwhile, threw for only 69 yards with an interception.

The Wildcats had problems running the ball consistently. Marquise Bias had 37 yards on nine carries, and De’Shawn Ramirez had four carries for a net minus-two yards.

Ramirez did catch four passes for 83 yards – one a spectacular one-handed grab for a 54-yard touchdown in the first quarter that tied the score 7-7.

Even though it was a another loss, Wildcats coach Ryan Maddox thinks it will be worth it down the line.

WEST COVINA – Just another classic on Cameron Ave.

That was the feeling after West Covina survived a furious fourth-quarter rally from visiting South Hills to pull out a 35-33 victory on Friday.

The Bulldogs built a 35-14 lead going into the fourth quarter behind four touchdowns and 242 yards from Jimmy Frazier.

But the Huskies scored three touchdowns in the fourth to nearly send it to overtime.

Just when the Bulldogs were about to apply the finishing touches, the Huskies’ Vince Hernandez returned a fumble for an 83-yard score to cut the Bulldogs’ lead to 35-27 with 7:48 left.

After another Bulldogs fumble deep in South Hills territory, Hernandez hooked up with Jamie Canada for a 69-yard touchdown pass with 1:29 left to cut it to 35-33.

The Huskies, who had an extra point blocked earlier, missed the game-tying two-point conversion when Hernandez’s pass attempt came up short.

South Hills certainly had reason to feel like it let one slip away.

Hernandez threw for 389 yards and three touchdowns, but he also had three interceptions – one at the goal-line at the end of the first half, and another in the end zone early in the second half.

Canada also had an amazing night, hauling in eight receptions for 242 yards and two touchdowns, showing why he’s considered the best wideout in the Valley.

But the Huskies couldn’t stop the Bulldogs on the ground. In addition to Frazier’s 242 yards, Aaron Salgado rushed for 160 yards and a touchdown as the Bulldogs amassed over 400 yards on the ground.

But it also was Salgado who committed two fourth quarter fumbles in the red zone that kept West Covina from sealing the deal much earlier.

But it was one of those games, the Huskies with four turnovers, the Bulldogs with three and enough offense from both to produce a thrilling finish.

West Covina improved to 2-1 while South Hills dropped to 1-2.

“They had trouble stopping our run, and we had trouble stopping their pass,” West Covina coach Mike Maggiore said. “I didn’t want it to be that close, not after we were up three touchdowns. We ran the ball well, especially against a defense that knew we were going to run the ball, but we turned it over late when I thought we were going to score.

“But it works both ways. we got some breaks too. They threw a couple picks in the end zone.”

After Brayton Newton caught an 11-yard touchdown pass from Hernandez to trim West Covina’s lead to 21-14, Frazier went crazy, scoring on runs of 65 and 58 yards to close the third quarter, extending the Bulldogs’ lead to 35-14.

From: sgvtribune.com ~ Fred J. Robledo, Staff Writer