TESORO (12-0) VS. ORANGE LUTHERAN (10-2)
Site, date, time: Santa Ana Stadium, Saturday, 7:30 p.m.
TV: FSN Prime Ticket
Outlook: Tesoro went into the playoffs as the division’s No. 3-seeded team. The Titans, champions of the South Coast League, beat Los Alamitos, 23-7, in the first round, and Mater Dei, 38-35, in the second round. They had four interceptions against Mater Dei. Two of them were returned, by Brett Gudim and Preston King, for touchdowns.
Tesoro is one of three undefeated county teams in the playoffs; Laguna Hills and St. Margaret’s are the others. Tesoro quarterback Robbie Picazo has completed 64 percent of his passes for 2,440 yards and 29 touchdowns with five interceptions. King has 74 receptions for 1,145 yards. He leads the county in touchdown catches with14. Zach Mitchell has rushed for 1,073 yards and seven touchdowns.
Orange Lutheran finished in a three-way tie, with Mater Dei and Servite, for first place in the Trinity League. In the playoffs, the Lancers defeated Fountain Valley, 28-0, in the first round, and Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks, 24-14, in the second round. Lutheran’s defense has been a team strength all season, and its defensive backfield is often considered to be the top secondary unit in Orange County. Lutheran quarterback Bobby Wheatley has completed 68 percent of his passes for 1,799 yards and nine touchdowns with five interceptions. Scotty Williams has 58 receptions for 731 yards. Kyle Dravis is the Lancers’ leading rusher, with 749 yards. Exavier Edwards, slowed by illness, has rushed for 572 yards. Tesoro was No. 1 and Lutheran was No. 3 in the final county media poll.
– STEVE FRYER/OCVarsity
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Fryer,
Why dont you give credit where credit is due for once.Dravis is the leading rusher on the team period..He has less carries with more yards per carry than 99% of all other rb in orange county.Why dont you print how many games Dravis missed or any other player for that matter when you mention their accomplishments.By the way kyle also has 9 touchdowns not one.
Fryer never gets it right. Its great to tune in ocvarsity and see what he picks because he is always wrong. Fryer you are always anti O-Lu and pro MD. Whats the matter Fry head your bumbleing Monarchs are done? Go ahead and say it Tesoro should win right? Oh thats right you dont want to say anything good about Tesoro either because they tore MD a new one.
why would anyone be surprised that fryer never gets it right, he only writes about teams that are supposed to win. All season it was MD and Matt Barkley, but look at his stats he threw more catches to the apposing teams than his own. Now that they are done i am sure it will be Poly. GO O-LU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Beating a team by 3 points on your home filed and your ranked #1 equates to tearing them a new one? ok maybe you mean the cheap shot we all saw on Cox 3 that a Tesoro DB took on a MD receiver which wasn’t flagged. Ok I agree with you then. Wow get over yourself!
Hey OLU how is the player you stole from THHS Gabe Lemon working out for you? Good? Glad we could help. Hey Gabe thank for coming to watch our first round game against Valencia. Your old teamates loved seeing you.
THHS fan - The misfortunate hit on the MD receiver was a legal hit. Tesoros DB didnt move into him or even tackle him. It was not a hard hit, Just awkward. Injuries happin and saying that it was a cheap shot is wrong.
Hey THHS fan learn to spell FIELD and I will get over myself……….
Tesoro hardly tore M.D. a new one. M.D gave Tesoro 3 touch downs on turn overs and still only lost by 3. Have to admit Tesoro is stronger than I thought but the game was decided on turn overs. Tesoro played a flawlwss game M.D. didn’t. I look for OLU and Lakewood in the final.
OLU won’t spot Tesoro 21 points. and Long Beach Poly isn’t as good as everyone thinks they are.
I agree 100% to Jim H. Good analysis and recognition of facts.
Hey THHS,
This is A Pac-5 (Div. 1 ) conversation. Go back to the Jr. Midget page.
Lemon went to OLU to get a look
hahahah you kids wish Tesoro tore MD a new one. Way too close of a game to even say that, a wins a win. But ,play those two teams again and it could easily go the other way. & dove canyon… if it werent for the THHS head Varsity football Coach Negro Gabe wouldnt be at OLU because he pushed for a JR to be ALL COUNTY even though everyone thought it should be a senior. Ya last time any coach in OC will do that again.
Hey Dove Canyon Fan,
Gabe was All County Playing for us last year. I guess that does’nt get you on anyones radar screen? The RB from Brea Olinda last year was heavily recruited because he racked up yards behind a nonexistent line. Hey Aliso Viejo is a Pac 5 Team right? As for Tesoro what league were they in 4 years ago? Jr. Midget wow ! Your head hurt after thinking of that one? Hope your kid enjoys the view form the bench..
Hey TW - F-I-E-L-D got it thanks. Sorry I went to USC that why my daughter now goes to UCLA
Hey guys I didnt think the “tore a new one” was going to get so much attention,sorry.The turnovers can certainly change a game I understand.O-LU had turnover problems early in the year and thats how they dropped one to Bishop Amat. O-Lu fumbled or was intercepted on FIVE straight posessions but they seemed to have fix that problem.Im quite confident coach Kunau will have his team ready to play. I as a fan am totally impressed by the O-Lu coaching staff. The staff can really tweak their game for each different team they play. Im sure the game will be exciting to watch and we pray for no injuries.
THHSFAN:
If your school is good enough to play in Pac 5 then perhaps you can move UP next year and be the Aliso Niguel replacement. I seem to remember THHS getting worked over by Mission and Capo Valley every year.
Sportswatcher:
And us long as we clear the field behind our stadium and start an agriculture program we will be just fine. That is if the kids that are zoned to go to our school do in fact go to our school ala Mark Sanchez.
Jim H.
Mater Dei (and their all world quarterback) did not think they were going to spot Tesoro any points. The Titans are better than people think and their O line is huge. Don’t be surprised if they knock off OLu and end up facing Lakewood (who is good enough to take out Poly). I thought last years OLu team was better than this years team and remember what happened in their game with Poly….
THHSFAN:
Dont forget Jordan Palmer of Laguna Niguel - Carson’s little brother.
Yes lets look at what happen to O-Lu vs Poly last year.The final score was 2-0. How many football games have you seen that ended 2-0 ? Poly scored on a 1st Qtr bad snap that sailed 30 yards to the end zone. O-Lu in the second Qtr had 1st and goal at the 3 yrd line and put the ball over the goal line twice and the refs didnt see that way. I have the recording its a fact. They also had the ball 1st and goal at the 2 yrd line in the final 30 seconds and a missed hand off was fumbled. I can assure you if O-Lu survives Saturday night I would not want to be Poly, if they survive Lakewood. I have to differ when saying last years team was better.This team is more versitile and improving every week.
THHSFAN…if you went to USC…then why are you so bad at spelling?
“And us long?
“ala”
“Filed”
why are you even on this blog?
That would be funny for Trabuco to move up to a real division next year and they probably won’t do any better than Aliso did….
well maybe if aliso was still in the league but Trabuco would replace them. so no.
Trabuco is ranked 17 in the county…
enough said