Football Roundup: Livingston storms back in second half to defeat Le Grand
Eduardo Mendoza scored three touchdowns in the second half as the Livingston High football team scored 36 consecutive points to erase a 15-point halftime deficit in a 42-27 win over Le Grand on Friday night.
“It was a big win,” Wolves coach Alex Gonzalez said. “It was good adversity for our team and we recuperated well. We have a young team and it was good to finally get a win and hopefully it will carry over.”
Le Grand’s running back Carlos Iniguez finished with three touchdown runs, including runs of 3 and 39 yards that staked the Bulldogs (1-2) to a 21-6 lead at intermission.
Livingston came out and dominated the second half.
“We kept the same game plan,” Gonzalez said. “Mistakes were hurting us and killing our tempo in the first half. We got a better tempo on offense in the second half. Eddie Avila had a good game for us, carrying the ball and our defense came out in the second half and helped us turn the game around.”
Mendoza scored on runs of 1, 2 and 1 yard and added a two-point conversion. Grayson Austin broke free for touchdown runs of 26 and 49 yards to help extend the Wolves lead to 42-21.
The start of the game was moved back to 8:30 p.m. because of the heat index.
Clovis 28, Atwater 0 at Atwater – The Falcons (1-2) were shut out for the second straight week after playing a section title contender for the second game in a row.
Immanuel 17, Chowchilla 8 at Chowchilla – The Eagles (3-0) bottled up the Redskins high-powered rushing attack as they won a defensive battle.
Chowchilla’s Anthony Stewart finished with 120 yards on 19 carries. Giovanni Ruacho scored the Redskins (2-1) lone touchdown on a 7-yard run.
Chavez 46, Pacheco 43 at Stockton – The Panthers lost a shootout to fall to 1-2. Pacheco running back Deontae Smith scored on a 53-yard pass and touchdown runs of 11 and 6 yards.
Pacheco recovered a fumble with 50 seconds left in the game, but missed a game-tying field goal attempt from 40 yards as time expired.
Sonora 36, Hilmar 35 at Hilmar – The Yellowjackets fell short despite some big plays for their offense. Cody Rentfro broke free for touchdown runs of 86 and 60 yards. Alex Chavez hauled in touchdown catches from Daniel Texeira of 80 and 57 yards. Hilmar’s other score came on an 80-yard run by Josh Jennings in the third quarter.
Sonora (2-1) cut the lead to 35-34 in the fourth quarter after a 40-yard touchdown run by Kane Rogers. Sam Page then ran in the two-point conversion that was the difference in the win.
The game was moved from Sonora to Hilmar because of the fires and poor air quality in the foothills.
Delhi 69, Riverbank 15 at Riverbank – The Hawks improved to 2-0 with a rout of the Bruins. Delhi (2-0) has opened the season with a 104 points in its first two games after only scoring 199 points all of last season.
Gustine 49, Millennium 0 at Gustine – The Redskins cruised to a win to improve to 2-0. Gustine recorded its first shutout since a 12-0 win over Livingston on Nov. 7, 2008 .
This story was originally published September 12, 2015 at 1:17 AM with the headline "Football Roundup: Livingston storms back in second half to defeat Le Grand."