Having an underdog mentality gives a team a fighting chance.<\/p>\n
That belief from within this week led to Point Loma securing a 14-7 home victory over No. 2 Cathedral Catholic Friday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cNobody really believed us,\u201d said Point Loma second-year head coach Ryan Price, whose team was first among others receiving votes in this week\u2019s U-T poll. \u201cThe kids wanted to leave their statement, and they believed throughout the week. They did what we\u2019ve done all season. They played as a team, and this is a special group of kids that play for each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sealing the victory for the Pointers (7-0) came from Romeo Carter, who intercepted a pass from junior Nathan Ashmore, Cathedral Catholic\u2019s third quarterback after Brady Palmer was out with a shoulder injury and its starter, Joshua Faraimo, left the game.<\/p>\n
Carter, who also led the Pointers with seven receptions for 74 yards, said holding teams to under 10 points, no matter the opponent\u2019s quality, is always a goal.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the expectation we hold our defense to,\u201d Carter said. \u201cCoach Price is a great coach. We come out, ball out, we play our hardest and that\u2019s the results we get.\u201d<\/p>\n
Point Loma senior tight end Leo Sahd scored the go-ahead touchdown midway through the fourth quarter from 29 yards out on a pass from senior Henry Hauser, who filled in for the injured junior Ryder Watson, who was cramping.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was man coverage. I saw it was cover one,\u201d said Sahd, whose touchdown was his only catch of the night. \u201cI knew all I had to do was beat the man guy, give him a little swim move. I faded outside the free safety, and Henry put a perfect ball for me.\u201d<\/p>\n
All season long, Point Loma has prepared its offense for both Watson and Howard to produce.<\/p>\n
As a result, it has put players, such as Sahd, in a position to learn both play callers.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have to build a relationship with both of them,\u201d Sahd said. \u201cYou have to know what cadence they\u2019re on. It\u2019s weird, but I think it adds a lot of versatility to our offense, and we wouldn\u2019t be the same without them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ultimately, the Pointers held the Dons (5-2) scoreless for the final 36:58 after a 6-yard rushing touchdown from Faraimo at the end of the opening quarter.<\/p>\n
Cathedral Catholic was also without one of the top receivers in the county. Junior Honor Fa\u2019alave Johnson was sidelined with a concussion. With Palmer and Fa\u2019alave-Johnson out, the Dons were led by junior running back Willie Flores, who recorded 66 rushing yards on 24 carries along with one reception for six yards.<\/p>\n
Point Loma got on the board midway through the second quarter. On third-and-goal from the 2-yard line, Watson dropped the snap but was able to pick up the ball, go left and leap his way into the end zone to tie the game at seven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having an underdog mentality gives a team a fighting chance. That belief from within this week led to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":294330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,3549,7264,9656,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-294329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-sandiego","13":"tag-uncategorized","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115354899918425195","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}