GARDEN GROVE – The message from the Rancho Alamitos football team was simple: It is not going to share the Garden Grove League title this season.
The Vaqueros made that clear Thursday night.
Jacob Castro utilized all of his weapons as he threw three touchdown passes and led Rancho Alamitos to a 53-20 victory over Santiago in a Garden Grove League game on Thursday at Garden Grove High School.
The victory was revenge for last season’s 27-0 loss to Santiago which led to a three-way tie, along with Loara, for the league title.
“Our kids don’t want to share it (the league title) anymore,” Rancho Alamitos coach Mike Enright said. “They don’t want anyone else taking a piece of that pie. We still have work to do. We still have Los Amigos and Bolsa Grande. They’re going to come out firing and they want to knock us off, but our kids tonight came out focused and disciplined and they played really well.”
Rancho Alamitos (4-0) scored the game’s first 27 points, including a pair of rushing touchdowns from Oye Akerele.
Santiago (1-2) cut the lead to 20 points with a 9-yard touchdown run by Derrick Martin, but the Vaqueros returned scored again before halftime with a 9-yard touchdown catch by Seymore Brown III, his second score of the half.
Rancho Alamitos added two scores in the third quarter, from Castro and Stephan Monge, to keep the game out of reach for the Cavaliers.
Castro was 13 of 18 passing for 232 yards and three touchdowns. Stephan Monge caught three passes for 70 yards and a score to go along with two interceptions on defense, and Brown caught three passes for 56 yards and a score. He added seven carries for 69 yards and a touchdown.
“We just had to read the defense,” Castro said. “We had to be ourselves. We have to come back and win that league title with the two games we have left. This was big. We knew this was going to be a dogfight.”
Martin led the Cavaliers with 173 yards on 27 carries and two touchdowns while Isaac Hernandez led Santiago with nine tackles.
Rancho Alamitos will take on Los Amigos at Garden Grove High on Friday, April 9. Santiago plays Bolsa Grande on Thursday, April 8 on the same field.
“We have to stay disciplined,” Akerele said. “No flags, no penalties. We don’t want those. We have to keep blocking on offense and we have to keep closing them down on defense. We have to keep them at bay.
“We can do this again. We can score 53 again.”
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