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On Shadow Ridge’s archetypal violative play Friday night, moving backmost Jaquieze Holland rushed for 16 yards … and fumbled.
Las Vegas High rapidly capitalized by scoring and taking a two-touchdown pb not adjacent 2 minutes into the game.
Holland and his teammates would not beryllium deterred, however. He bounced backmost to unreserved for 209 yards and 3 touchdowns, helping to pb the Mustangs to a 65-37 triumph implicit big Las Vegas successful the Class 4A authorities semifinals.
“He’s a pugnacious a kid arsenic I’ve ever coached,” Shadow Ridge manager Travis Foster said of Holland. “His 2nd effort, his intelligence toughness, he’s remarkable.”
Shadow Ridge (9-2), which outscored Las Vegas 29-0 successful the 4th quarter, volition play Silverado connected Thursday astatine Allegiant Stadium for the authorities championship.
“It’s awesome,” Holland said. “It volition consciousness similar I’m successful the NFL.”
Quarterback Coen Coloma ran the Mustangs’ triple-option discourtesy to adjacent perfection, rushing for 183 yards and 3 touchdowns. The Mustangs arsenic a squad had 567 yards connected the ground. Coloma had 1 authoritative walk effort — a 29-yard touchdown was called backmost due to the fact that of holding — that fell incomplete.
“It’s hard to incorporate that offense,” Las Vegas manager Erick Capetillo said. “You’ve got to get a fewer stops versus that offense. You evidently don’t ideate an discourtesy similar that successful a shootout, but astatine the extremity of the day, if you can’t halt them, you’ve got to support scoring.”
The Wildcats surely gave it a changeable with their high-tempo dispersed attack. Las Vegas freshman backmost Elijah Espinoza completed 30 of 47 passes for 476 yards and 4 touchdowns. All 4 TDs were successful the archetypal half.
But it was 2 antiaircraft plays that turned the crippled Shadow Ridge’s mode successful the 4th quarter.
With Shadow Ridge clinging to a seven-point lead, Devon Woods recovered a botched handoff. With the assistance of a fourth-and-2 conversion, the Mustangs turned the takeaway into a two-possession pb connected Maddyx Valenzuela’s 11-yard touchdown with 6:46 left.
Then Jonah Ruiz returned an interception 65 yards for a touchdown with 4:21 remaining for a 59-37 lead, putting to remainder immoderate questions astir the result of this game.
“The pick-six was huge,” Foster said. “We genuinely believed they were going to springiness america one, and we were conscionable fortunate capable to marque that play.”
It was a crippled of large plays, and arsenic galore arsenic Las Vegas (7-4) made, it didn’t marque enough.
Capetillo told his squad aft the crippled “to retrieve that feeling due to the fact that we’ll beryllium backmost adjacent twelvemonth for sure.”
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