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Orange Lutheran football uses strong start and finish to beat JSerra in quarterfinals

November 16, 2024

COSTA MESA – Orange Lutheran scored a touchdown the first time a Lancer touched the football, and Orange Lutheran went on to a 42-20 win over Trinity League rival JSerra on Friday in a CIF Southern Section Division 1 football quarterfinal playoff game at Orange Coast College.

The Lancers (8-3) will play at St. John Bosco (10-1) in the semifinals Friday, Nov. 22. Orange Lutheran lost to St. John Bosco 28-24 in a Trinity League game at St. John Bosco on Oct. 4.

Orange Lutheran’s wide receiver AJ Campbell (12) runs the ball as JSerra’s linebacker Cash Feldkamp (44) attempts to tackle him during the quarterfinals of the CIF-SS Division 1 football playoffs at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa on Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. (Photo by Rebecca Villagracia, Contributing Photographer)

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Orange Lutheran’s previous advancement to a CIF-SS top-division semifinal was in 2008, when the Lancers lost to Tesoro in the Pac-5 Division semis.

JSerra concluded its season 6-5.

JSerra took Friday’s opening kickoff, was stopped on three plays, punted on fourth down and Orange Lutheran’s Logan Gutierrez returned that punt 58 yards for a touchdown and a 7-0 lead.

The Lancers led 28-0 lead at halftime, JSerra had a great third quarter to make it a 28-20 game and Orange Lutheran scored two touchdowns while shutting out JSerra in the fourth quarter for the 42-20 win.

Orange Lutheran senior running back Steve Chavez rushed for 125 yards and two touchdowns on 16 carries. Lancers senior quarterback TJ Lateef, who is set to go to Nebraska, completed 17 of 24 passes for 154 yards and one touchdown and rushed for 58 yards and two touchdowns.

Lancers junior running back Kamryn Shingleton chipped in 71 rushing yards. Bubba McClure, a sophomore, and freshman Anhor Johnson had interceptions for Orange Lutheran.

JSerra junior quarterback Ryan Hopkins threw for 141 yards and a touchdown and rushed for 44 yards and a touchdown. Sophomore receiver Clark Cokley had three catches for 55 yards and a touchdown. Travis Jeffrey returned an interception 38 yards for a Lions touchdown.

Orange Lutheran scored on its first offensive series on an 8-yard touchdown run by Steve Chavez that finished a 15-play, 74-yard drive. The Lancers converted twice on fourth downs, one on a fake-punt run of 21 yards by AJ Campbell and the other on a 14-yard, tackle-breaking run by Lateef.

Taking a 14-0 lead into the first quarter, the Lancers added two touchdowns in the second quarter for a 28-0 halftime lead.

In that second quarter Lateef scored on a 12-yard run – he dropped back to pass, found nobody open and popped through a large opening in the middle for the touchdown. After Orange Lutheran’s Bubba McClure made an interception in the Lancers end zone, Orange Lutheran drove 80 yards on seven plays that included a 31-yard run by Chavez and ended, with 11 seconds remaining in the half, on a 22-yard touchdown pass from Lateef to Nico Bland. Bland made a difficult leaping catch on the end zone’s right sideline.

JSerra scored all of its points in a six-minute segment of the third quarter: Jeffrey’s 38-yard interception return; Hopkins scored on a 17-yard run; and Hopkins threw a 23-yard touchdown pass to Cokley. The point-after kick after the Cokley touchdown was wide left, leaving the score at 28-20.

Chavez scored on a 2-yard run 55 seconds into the fourth quarter to make it 35-20 and Lateef found the end zone on a 4-yard run with 3:30 remaining to stretch the Lancers lead to 42-20.

Orange Lutheran defeated JSerra 23-17 in a league game on Oct. 11.

The Lions finished in a tie with Santa Margarita and Servite for fourth place in the six-team Trinity League.

Orange Lutheran lost in the Division first round last year, to Centennial of Corona.

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