Big second half lifts Del Sol

Del Sol football coach Preston Goroff expected his team to win Friday, but he didn’t think a victory over Green Valley would come so easily.

Goroff’s squad recovered from a slow first half to roll over the host Gators 36-13.

Bryan Grenier rushed 19 times for 197 yards and three touchdowns to lead the fourth-ranked Dragons (5-0, 3-0 Southeast), who amassed 430 yards while holding Green Valley (2-4, 1-1) to 178.

“Halftime was key,” Goroff said. “I thought we kind of came back and wore them down a bit in the second half.”

Grenier agreed but said his offensive line deserved most of the credit.

“I think we have the best line in the state,” he said. “We feel like if we want to run, no one’s going to stop us.”

Even so, the Dragons scored their first touchdown on a pass. Matthew Burge capped Del Sol’s opening drive with a 17-yard TD completion to Timothy Lawson to finish an eight-play opening drive.

Green Valley needed less than two minutes to tie the score at 7, but Grenier’s 10-yard run late in the first quarter gave Del Sol a 15-7 lead.

Though the Gators scored on a 21-yard run by Frank Satterfield early in the second half to close their gap to 15-13, Grenier spent the remainder of the half leading several long scoring drives for the Dragons. His second touchdown of the half made the score 29-13 early in the fourth quarter.

“We came in wanting to play power football,” Goroff said. “We wanted to establish the run and play good defense, and we did.”

Del Sol’s Jonathan Kirschbaum had 10 carries for 96 yards. Satterfield rushed 15 times for 76 yards and a touchdown to lead Green Valley.

• Canyon Springs 45, Sierra Vista 14 — At Canyon Springs, Devonte Christopher threw for 355 yards and six touchdowns as the No. 3 Pioneers (4-1, 2-0 Northeast) cruised past Sierra Vista.

Christopher, who has thrown at least four touchdown passes in each of the last three games, had scoring strikes of 37, 61, 30, 39, 43 and 42 yards.

In the opening half, Christopher threw for 220 yards and three TDs as the Pioneers raced to an 18-7 halftime lead.

For the season, Christopher has 19 touchdown passes, tops among area quarterbacks.

Three of Christopher’s scoring passes went to Juron Criner, who caught five passes for 145 yards. After five games, Criner has 669 receiving yards and 13 touchdowns.

The Pioneers’ Deshawn Stewart had a 39-yard touchdown reception and an 82-yard kickoff return for a TD.

Akil Sharp and Emir Lopez each scored rushing TDs for the Mountain Lions (1-4, 1-0 Southwest). Sharp had 127 yards on 30 carries.

— Sam Leeper

• Cimarron-Memorial 42, Shadow Ridge 36 — At Shadow Ridge, Stephen Nixon scored his third touchdown of the game on a 4-yard run in overtime to lift 10th-ranked Cimarron-Memorial (4-1, 2-0 Northwest) past Shadow Ridge (2-3, 0-2).

The Spartans then stopped Shadow Ridge on fourth-and-goal from the 1 on the Mustangs’ overtime possession.

Filling in for two injured running backs, Nixon rushed for 209 yards after halftime and finished with 220 yards on 20 carries. The sophomore nearly won the game on the final play of regulation when he took off from the Spartans 40-yard line and was caught from behind at the Shadow Ridge 5, capping a wild end to the fourth quarter.

The teams combined for three touchdowns and Nixon’s near score in the final 2:22 of regulation.

Shadow Ridge took a 30-28 lead on Deantwan Miller’s 16-yard TD run and then failed on a try for a 2-point conversion.

Nixon raced 55 yards with 1:26 to play and added a 2-point conversion run to give the Spartans a 36-30 lead.

Shadow Ridge’s Chris Jones completed three passes on a 78-yard TD drive, capping it with a 12-yard strike to Preston Davis with 28.9 seconds left.

After a sack and a pair of incompletions, Nixon was stopped as time expired.

The Spartans needed only two plays — both Nixon runs — to score in overtime.

Joe Zikakis also scored three rushing touchdowns for Cimarron, which racked up 349 yards on 46 carries.

Miller had three touchdown runs for the Mustangs. Jones was 11 of 18 for 181 yards and two touchdowns.

— Bartt Davis

• Western 44, Clark 19 — At Western, Warriors junior Reggie Bullock rushed for 194 yards and two TDs to lead ninth-ranked Western (4-1, 2-0 Southwest) past Clark (1-4, 0-2).

Bullock scored on runs of 17 yards and 1 yard and set up a third score with a 70-yard run to Clark’s 2-yard line.

Warriors senior running back Maurice Harrison scored touchdowns on runs of 46 and 5 yards. Quarterback J.D. Buonantony accounted for Western’s other two TDs, passing 25 yards to senior Phillip Payne and finishing Bullock’s long run with a 1-yard keeper.

Clark got touchdowns from senior running back Octavian Brown and junior QB Anthony Lotta, both on 1-yard runs, and from senior running back Rico Torres on a 7-yard run.

— Jeff Hoskin

• Cheyenne 43, Legacy 6 — At Legacy, the Desert Shields (3-1, 2-0 Northwest) racked up 375 yards on the ground en route to routing the Longhorns (0-5, 0-2).

Terence Brison rushed for 168 yards and a TD on 17 carries, and fellow Cheyenne running back V’son Milton had 147 yards and two TDs on 17 carries.

Cheyenne held Legacy to 88 yards of offense.

— Brian Danise

• Spring Valley 26, Durango 0 — At Spring Valley, Tracy Lide had two second-half touchdowns runs to break open a tight game, and Stefan Klein ran for 129 yards on 17 carries as the seventh-ranked Grizzlies (5-1, 2-0 Southwest) shut out Durango (1-5, 0-2).

The Grizzlies defense, which has not given up a point in Southwest division play this season, had seven sacks and held the Trailblazers to less than 100 yards of offense.

Brandon Wisenberger had two TD receptions to put the Grizzlies up 14-0 at the half, and then Lide (seven carries, 136 yards) stretched the lead in the third with scoring runs of 50 and 30 yards.

Spring Valley won despite three turnovers and 14 penalties, one of which wiped out a 75-yard TD run by Klein.

Durango leading rusher Joseph Baraga sat out much of the game after suffering an apparent head injury in the first quarter. He finished with 22 yards on 11 carries.

— Michael Dugan

• Bishop Gorman 54, Bonanza 7 — At Bonanza, Dylan Barrera threw for 262 yards and three touchdowns in the first half as top-ranked Gorman (5-0, 1-0 Southwest) cruised.

Barrera connected with Beau Orth on a 67-yard pass on the third play from scrimmage and found Kamana Kaimikaua one play later for a 5-yard touchdown pass to start the scoring. Keola Antolin scored three TDs, including a 58-yard punt return to give the Gaels a 40-0 lead at the half.

Bud Reschke had touchdown runs of 31 and 20 yards, and the Gorman defense limited the Bengals (1-4, 0-1) to 100 yards of offense.

— Adam Berchin

• Valley 39, Rancho 27 — At Valley, the Vikings (1-5, 1-2 Northeast) took advantage of three second-half special team errors by the Rams (4-2, 1-1) in their first win of the season.

Two kickoff return fumbles and a bad punt snap helped Rancho take control of a game that had several large momentum swings.

With Valley leading 19-0 after the first quarter, the game took its first turn when soon-to-be-named homecoming king Hector Salazar left the game in an ambulance with a leg injury after a 40-minute delay.

Rancho used the break, to regroup and score three-straight touchdowns for a 21-19 halftime lead. Rancho’s Erique Williams, who had 201 yards on 33 carries, had all three second quarter scores.

Valley’s Kerwin Williams scored four TDs, including an 80-yard punt return. Vikings QB Rigo Sosa ran for 123 yards and a touchdown on 13 carries and threw a touchdown pass.

— David Garrett

• Las Vegas 48, Eldorado 7 — At Eldorado, Marvin Campbell passed for three touchdowns and had a 55-yard scoring run to lead the eighth-ranked Wildcats (4-2, 2-0 Northeast) over the Sundevils (1-5, 1-2).

Las Vegas receiver, cornerback and returner Zerrick Pryor finished with two TD catches, two interceptions and more than 100 return yards.

Eldorado stung itself with five turnovers. The only Sundevils points came on TonE Gatewood’s last-minute 1-yard touchdown plunge.

Las Vegas cornerback Michael Alexander provided late fireworks by intercepting Manuel Estrada’s final pass and returning it 45 yards for a TD.

— Gabe Whetten

• Desert Pines 25, Chaparral 14 — At Chaparral, Dalton Leilua threw for 222 yards and two touchdowns as the Jaguars (2-4, 1-2 Northeast) defeated the Cowboys (1-5, 1-2).

Desert Pines opened the scoring with a 26-yard touchdown pass from Leilua to Jonathan Johnson. Leilua then found Joshua Williams on a 53-yard pass as time expired in the half, putting the Jaguars up 16-14 at the break.

Chaparral seemed set to take the momentum, and the lead, into the locker room after two 1-yard TD runs by Quentin McCloud and Tyquise Anthony put the Cowboys up 14-6.

Desert Pines tacked on a 24-yard TD run by Eric Tuiloma.

Chaparral quarterback Tyquise Anthony ran for 109 yards and intercepted a pass.

— Nathan Stuck

• Mojave 34, Arbor View 12 — At Arbor View, Reggie Powers had touchdown runs of 69 and 4 yards and recoverd a fumble for the sixth-ranked Rattlers (5-0, 2-0 Northwest).

Jordan Cannon scored on a 46-yard TD run to open the scoring for the Rattlers.

After Powers tallied Mojave’s next two touchdowns and Justin Armstrong scored on a 2-yard run, Alex Profitt increased the Rattlers’ lead to 34-12 in the fourth quarter with a 74-yard TD run.

Powers led Mojave with 120 yards on 13 carries. Greg Gloria topped Arbor View (2-3, 0-2 Northwest) with 125 yards on 32 carries. He scored Arbor View’s two TDs on runs of 7 and 1 yards in the second quarter.

— Brian O’Hara

• Coronado 24, Liberty 21 — At Coronado, Dane Cooper booted a 25-yard field goal in overtime to lift the Cougars (2-4, 1-2 Southeast).

Liberty (1-5, 0-3) had a chance to win on its ensuing possession but netted 4 yards rushing before attempting a tying 23-yard field goal. The kick sailed wide left.

The Cougars took their first lead with 10:05 left in the fourth, as Brady McManus heaved an 8-yard TD pass to Taylor Knowles to make it 21-14.

The Patriots came back behind Ryan Doty’s 21-yard TD toss to Austin Niggemeier in the left corner of the end zone with 4:19 left in the fourth quarter that tied it at 21-21.

Liberty was driving for the go-ahead score when Darren Smith intercepted a pass for Coronado at the Cougar 10-yard line with 15 seconds left in regulation.

McManus threw for 186 yards on 10-for-19 passing and had two 6-yard TD runs for the Cougars. Doty hit on 9 of 15 passes for 154 yards, including a 69-yard TD pass to Ian Jackson.

— Tim Guesman

• Moapa Valley 44, Boulder City 14 — At Boulder City, Brad Weiss rushed for 180 yards and four TDs on 23 carries to lead the Pirates (4-2, 1-0 3A Southern League).

Weiss scored on touchdown runs of 8, 4, 12 and 20 yards.

Michael Misuraca scored both touchdowns for the Eagles (2-3, 0-1). He scored on a 10-yard run in the first quarter and caught a 56-yard scoring pass from River Frantz in the fourth quarter.

• Virgin Valley 41, Faith Lutheran 20 — At Mesquite, Colton Teerlink rushed for 169 yards and two TDs, and Doug Hafen added two rushing touchdowns to lead the Bulldogs (5-1, 1-0 3A Southern League) to victory.

David Sperry threw for 252 yards and three touchdowns to lead the Crusaders (4-2, 0-1).