At long last, the streak is over.
After nearly two and a half seasons without a victory, the Live
Oak High football team finally got back into the win column on
Friday night, dominating Alvarez 28-0 at Richert Field.
At long last, the streak is over.
After nearly two and a half seasons without a victory, the Live Oak High football team finally got back into the win column on Friday night, dominating Alvarez 28-0 at Richert Field.
As players and fans cavorted on the field after the big victory, Live Oak coach Glen Webb watched with a celebratory glint in his eye.
“I almost forgot what that felt like,” Webb said. “You’d think we won CCS. This was just a great team effort. They did a great job executing. They did a great job getting out from under a black cloud.”
Senior safety Andrew Cummins, who had two interceptions and returned one of them for a second-half touchdown, said the win was a tribute to the Acorns’ determination to start a new chapter at Live Oak. Cummins played on last year’s winless squad, and his father Mark is the Live Oak Athletic Director.
“We really believed we could do this,” Cummins said. “We’re going to win a lot of games. Our goal is to win league and CCS now.”
Cummins helped lead a stellar defensive effort that held the Eagles to just 60 yards in the first half (130 total) and forced seven turnovers, including three interceptions of Alvarez sophomore quarterback Adrian Estrada. Alvarez couldn’t penetrate Live Oak territory until the last drive of the game.
It was the Live Oak defense that kept the game close in the first half as the Acorn offense was squandering scoring opportunities. Three first-half Acorn drives ended inside the Eagles red zone with no points after two missed field goals and an incomplete pass on fourth down at the Alvarez 18.
After the frustrating first half, the Acorns began their scoring string on running back Doug Porras’ 19-yard TD scamper up the gut with 6:24 left in the third quarter.
Live Oak added another score on senior receiver Shaun Standridge’s 11-yard run with 10:02 to play, then tallied another TD on Cummins’ interception return from the Eagles 14 a little more than four minutes later. The Acorns capped the scoring on sophomore back Victor Kalata’s five-yard TD run with just 2:13 left.
