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Garfield runs down South East

By RON GUILD, Sports Editor 04.OCT.07
Garfield High School’s game plan was simple for its Eastern League football opener.

Pound the ball on the ground play after play and see if host South East was up to the challenge.

The strategy worked to perfection for the Bulldogs (4-1 overall), who ran the ball on 48 of 50 plays in a 28-7 victory.

“I expected this to be a dogfight all the way through, but we were too physical for them,” Garfield coach Lorenzo Hernandez said. “I think we shocked them.

“Honestly, I was very nervous coming in because you never know what to expect from week to week in league.”

Sergio MacEdo rushed for 116 yards and a touchdown on 19 carries and Franky Diaz added 97 yards and two scores on 15 attempts for an offense that generated 296 yards on the ground. Fullback Omar Hernandez added 62 yards on 10 carries. Diaz also caught the only completed pass of the night from Javier Alcantar for 21 yards.

Alcantar scored on a four-yard run for the other Bulldog TD.

“We had typical long drives that we scored on and our only pass completion was off a bootleg,” Hernandez said.

Linebacker David Lopez led the defense with 10 tackles.

Garfield, which has a bye this week before returning to league Oct. 12 against South Gate, limited the Jaguars (3-2) to a single TD.

Julio Segura (11 tackles, 10 solos) and David Aguilar (10 tackles, seven solos) paced the South East defense.