Bishop Gorman rides aerial attack to win over Utah school

Bishop Gorman moved the shot done the aerial with easiness and rolled past Lone Peak (Utah) 35-7 connected Saturday nighttime successful the finale of the Polynesian Classic astatine Gorman.

Quarterback Micah Alejado finished 10-for-12 for 369 yards passing and 3 touchdowns for the Gaels (3-0), ranked No. 8 successful the federation by USA Today. Zachariah Branch accounted for 131 of those yards and 1 people connected 3 receptions and had a 70-yard punt instrumentality for a TD.

Lone Peak’s people came successful the archetypal 4th connected a 16-yard walk from Easton Comer to Crew McChestney. The Gaels tied the people with an Alejado 73-yard TD walk to Jeremiah Hughes to extremity the archetypal quarter.

Alejado gave Gorman a 14-7 pb aboriginal successful the 2nd 4th erstwhile helium recovered Elijah Lofton for a 15-yard TD pass.

Midway done the 2nd quarter, the Knights (2-1) appeared poised to necktie the score, but Luke Durfey’s fumble astatine the 2-yard enactment went retired the backmost of the extremity portion for a touchback.

The Gaels easy drove down the field, ending the thrust with a 4-yard TD tally by Cam Barfield for a 21-7 pb soon earlier halftime.

Bishop Gorman went up 28-7 connected Branch’s punt instrumentality successful the 3rd quarter. Branch caught the shot inches from the Lone Peak sideline, evaded a defender, reversed tract and sprinted down the location sideline for the score.

Branch recovered the extremity portion again successful the 4th fourth connected a perfectly placed 81-yard TD walk from Alejado.