Think your HOA is strict? Meet the rules of Indian Creek’s Billionaire Bunker

• September 19, 2026

By Luisa Yanez, Miami Herald

In Indian Creek Village, money can buy you a $100 million mansion, a sprawling waterfront compound and a front-row seat to one of the most exclusive enclaves in South Florida.

But you still have to follow the rules created when the village first incorporated in 1939.

Welcome to Billionaire Bunker, where some of the world’s richest people live by a surprisingly detailed set of rules.

Indian Creek Village Manager Guillermo Olmedillo said this week that the village follows state and broader municipal laws, as well as the rules contained in its 103-page Land Development Regulations, also known as the Indian Creek Village Code.

And the rules have teeth. Willfully violating the Land Development Regulations or failing to comply with them can bring a fine of up to $500-per-day. The village can also seek court-ordered enforcement or revoke a building permit.

Like in many other well-heeled communities, there are limits on height. Limits on paving. Limits on walls. Limits on guest houses. Limits on pools. Limits on generators. Limits on docks. Limits on the number, or groups, of animals you can own.

The regulations spell out what property owners can build, where they can build it and how they can use their land, among more than 100 additional requirements.

Indian Creek is not alone. The city of Coral Gables famously fought for decades to protect residential neighborhood character by restricting overnight pickup-truck parking. In 2012, voters ultimately overturned the broader ban.

The regulations govern everything from the size and height and paint of a house to fences, pools, driveways, generators, docks and accessory buildings. All are meant to keep the “quiet elegance” of the village.

Some are surprisingly specific but are likely being followed by famous billionaire residents, including Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Tom Brady, Carl Icahn, Norman Braman, Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner.

For example, you can’t allow grass to grow more than six inches. All construction sites must be covered with a layer of sod to prevent “dust and unsightliness.” House paint colors are restricted. For-sale signs must only be made of “sealed wood, signboard or sheet metal.” But there’s more: They must be primed and painted with a minimum of two coats, using gloss letters on a matte background and gloss foreground.

Now, the rules that may be hardest to explain to a billionaire arriving home from the airport:

No helicopters or helipads allowed

The regulations say that “in no instance” can a landing or storage area for a helicopter or other aircraft be allowed as an accessory use. So much for landing directly in the backyard.

Your mansion has a minimum size

To qualify as a mansion on Indian Creek, size matters. The village doesn’t just tell homeowners how big their houses can be. It tells them how small they can be.

A residential principal building, together with its accessory buildings, must contain at least 5,000 square feet of gross floor area. At least 75% of that space must be under the roof of the main house.

So yes, Indian Creek effectively has a minimum mansion size.

You can’t pave paradise

Even Village billionaires need to leave some room for grass, whether they like it or not.

The regulations limit building coverage to 25% of the building site, which means at least 55% of the property must remain landscaped or pervious open space. And that calculation isn’t simply about the footprint of the house.

Driveways, sidewalks, parking areas, swimming pools, athletic courts, terraces and other hard surfaces count, too.

Mansions can’t crowd mansions

Here’s another rule. A principal residence in the village must be at least 100 feet from the rear, or waterside, property line.

Accessory buildings must be at least 50 feet from the water. The required front setback is 50 feet and side setbacks are 25 feet.

So even when your backyard is Biscayne Bay, you can’t simply push the mansion to the water’s edge.

Where the pool can go

A swimming pool can extend into the waterfront setback, but it can’t rise more than three feet above the established yard grade.

And there’s one hard rule: No swimming pools in the front yard.

Even your guest house has rules

A property can have up to two additional structures.

The regulations list possibilities including guest houses, caretaker residences, cabanas, gyms, libraries, pool houses, boat houses and detached garages.

But there’s a catch: Those buildings generally can’t be designed to function as independent residences, except if they are for household employees.

And under the residential building standards, an accessory building is limited to 800 square feet.

Privacy has a height limit

Indian Creek is famous for privacy. But even here, there are limits on how high you can build the wall around that privacy.

Front- and side-lot fences and walls can’t exceed seven feet above the approved finished grade of the main building.

They also must be set back 10 feet from the front property line, with landscaping required in that setback to screen the wall from view. So you can have the wall. Just not an enormous one.

Driveways have rules, too

Even the driveway needs to give the neighbors some elbow room. The regulations require every driveway to be at least 15 feet from a side property line.

Rules for hurricane generators

Indian Creek has a specific provision governing emergency electrical generators and HVAC structures.

A generator enclosure can’t exceed: 18 feet wide by 20 feet long by 12 feet high.

And it must be set back 100 feet from the front property line, 100 feet from the water, 25 feet from the side property line and 10 feet from the main building. Those setbacks cannot be varied.

You can’t create another lot

Want to turn one piece of Indian Creek property into two?

The regulations say “No further subdivision” is permitted.

The rules generally require a residential site to have at least 200 feet of water frontage on Biscayne Bay, with specific exceptions for some existing lots.

For an island with a famously limited number of residential properties, that’s a critical rule.

The waterfront isn’t entirely yours

Owning a waterfront mansion doesn’t mean you can do whatever you want at the water’s edge.

Boat houses, boat landings, docks, piers and mooring posts must be built according to plans approved by the village council and require a Miami-Dade County environmental permit.

No marketing from mansions allowed

The regulations also put limits on how homeowners can use their properties for events.

A homeowner can’t allow the property to be used by a third party for an event or gathering — including a party — intended to promote, sell or introduce a commercial service, product, celebrity or brand.

So throw a party if you want. Just don’t turn the mansion into a marketing event.

And then there are the animals

The regulations say domestic or other animals kept in groups such as packs, herds, litters, bevies or flocks larger than three are prohibited, unless the Village approves otherwise by resolution.

So the rule isn’t simply “three dogs.” It’s written broadly enough to cover groups of animals.

Taken together, the regulations offer a revealing look at Indian Creek. The bottom line is to protect the exclusive, high-end character of the village.

©2026 Miami Herald. Visit at miamiherald.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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California Never: Why tech billionaires can’t build their new city

• September 19, 2026

I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard people flying over the vast American West for the first time exclaim: “Who says we don’t have plenty of room for millions more people? There’s nothing but empty space down there!”

Now, these are not necessarily people with master’s degrees in urban planning, to be sure. Empty space is one thing; water is another. The Mojave and Sonoran deserts don’t have a lot of it. Nor do Utah or West Texas, for that matter.

But those who came before us somehow built Los Angeles, for instance. Yes, their “Chinatown” scam famously stole the water from up north to do that, but needs must. There was a lot of water in the Eastern Sierra. Still is.

Could we build a California city today? We certainly need one—or five, or 10. There’s not enough housing for those of us here already, not to mention for our grandchildren. Civilizations have been building cities ever since we emerged from the caves. Can-do Americans can do anything we put our minds and backs to, right?

Wrong. You can’t build a new city in our state, at least not easily. A consortium of Silicon Valley billionaires calling itself California Forever has for years been trying to build a fairly large new city in the rural north near the Sacramento Delta. Once again this year, efforts to get the project going died in the state Legislature before its latest session ended this month.

“It’s just incredibly hard to do large projects in California,” Ben Metcalf, managing director of the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley, told The New York Times.

The pioneers who built the California cities in which we now live had their own obstacles to overcome. But they never encountered one as large as the bureaucracies we have created today.

The consortium trying to build in Solano County southwest of Davis is called California Forever. It proposes to put up not only a city of 400,000 residents, but also a shipyard and a manufacturing center that would create lots of jobs. The plan is flush with cash, with money from venture capitalists including LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Steve. Labor unions like it, as does Gov. Gavin Newsom.

I like it, too. But along with navigating the crazy regulatory climate that faces anyone trying to build something—anything—in California, the group has also done pretty much everything wrong.

You don’t build trust among rural landowners, including some farming families in the area that have owned their acreage for over a century, by secretly and anonymously buying up property. But that’s what the company originally did as it assembled about 70,000 acres as a start.

Since no one would say what was going on, rumors started to circulate about foreign money being involved in the mysterious scheme. Another massive PR stumble: When the Times first reported on California Forever and some landowners collectively refused to sell, the company filed suit, claiming collusion among the current owners to get a better price for their farms.

Lawsuits never win friends.

Then, two years ago, California Forever planned to win approval for the city by putting a ballot issue up for a vote in Solano County. Polling showed that the initiative would fail at the polls, so the company stopped that effort. Now, one of the newer ideas is to get a quaint incorporated town called Suisun City to annex 23,000 acres of agricultural land to make development easier.

It’s a sweet idea: the city would feature low-rise, three-to-five-story buildings and lots of parks. But you know who’s not so popular these days? Tech moguls.

The state desperately needs new housing. But so far, this scheme is more like California Never.

Larry Wilson is on the Southern California News Group editorial board. lwilson@scng.com.

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When the police destroy innocent people’s property, who pays the bill?

• September 19, 2026

Carlos Pena watched in horror for 13 hours as a SWAT team raided his North Hollywood print shop in August 2022. They were pursuing a fugitive who had no connection to Carlos but had barricaded himself inside his business. In the coming weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court could decide whether to take Carlos’ case seeking compensation.

A new nationwide study from the Institute for Justice (IJ), titled “Public Benefit, Private Burden,” makes clear that when law enforcement damages innocent people’s property while pursuing a fugitive, this creates genuine hardship for the property owner. At the same time, compensating the owner would have a negligible impact on government budgets. The Supreme Court should make clear that when such damage happens, the innocent property owners must be made whole.

The report studied 2,700 claims for compensation for law enforcement property damage across 222 local jurisdictions with SWAT teams. The most common claims involved residential damage caused by routine law enforcement activities, such as police breaking down a door or fence to conduct a search or respond to an emergency, and the median claim was for $1,260. Seeing as fewer than half of Americans have sufficient funds to cover a $1,000 emergency expense, this type of damage creates genuine hardship for unlucky property owners. And unlucky property owners were the largest group of claimants in the study, with 90% of claimants not being the target of the law enforcement action and 70% of those having no connection to the target whatsoever. Despite that, 41% of claims from completely innocent property owners were denied—just as happened to Carlos.

The tens of thousands of dollars in damage done to Carlos’ shop when tear gas was deployed and holes were blasted in the walls and ceiling is an outlier in terms of cost. Only about 1 in 10 claims in the study was for $10,000 or more. But Carlos’ case still highlights the fact that innocent people with no connection to the criminal suspect are often the ones left holding the bag when law enforcement damages private property in the line of duty.

After Carlos watched the business he built over 31 years get destroyed right in front of his eyes, he sought compensation from his insurance company, the U.S. Marshals and the city of Los Angeles. The insurance company told Carlos it didn’t cover “acts of government”; the Marshals, despite being on the scene during the raid, pointed him to the city, because it was the city’s SWAT team that caused the damage during the raid; and the city denied his claim.

But paying innocent property owners would be a drop in the bucket of a local government’s annual budget. The data show that even if every claim for compensation for police damage merited payment—and undoubtedly some would not—the average annual cost for a local government would be just $6,500. This undermines the argument made by some that local governments would be in financial trouble if they paid up when police damage innocent people’s property.

The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution requires the government to pay just compensation when it “takes” property for a public good. Getting dangerous criminals off the street is certainly a public good, but when innocent people’s property is damaged in the process, they must be compensated.

The U.S. Supreme Court should take Carlos’ case and ensure that public benefits are no longer private burdens.

Jeffrey Redfern is a Senior Attorney at the Institute for Justice (IJ) and represents Carlos Pena in his case seeking compensation.  

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What can Chicago tell us about real estate in Southern California?

• September 19, 2026

I’m penning this column from one of our great U.S. cities, Chicago.

The scale of the downtown area is overwhelming. Massive skyscrapers rise from the banks of the Chicago River as it meanders toward Lake Michigan. The El bangs along rickety tracks in its endless loop around downtown. Of all the major metropolitan areas in our country, Chicago may be the most impressive.

As I walked Chicago this weekend, I was struck not simply by its size, but by its resilience. This is a city built around transportation, commerce and real estate. Yet the way each of those functions today bears little resemblance to the city that produced many of the magnificent buildings surrounding me.

Which caused me to wonder. What makes a piece of commercial real estate endure?

Is it the building, the location, the infrastructure surrounding it, or simply our willingness to imagine a different use when the old one no longer works?

Commercial real estate is littered with buildings constructed perfectly for yesterday.

Chicago provides plenty of examples. The city grew because of its strategic location, first as a connection between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River system, then as a railroad hub linking eastern markets with the rapidly developing West. Commerce followed the transportation, people followed the commerce and real estate followed the people.

Sound familiar?

Southern California developed differently, but the fundamentals are remarkably similar. Our ports, freeways, airports, population and enormous consumer base created one of the largest industrial markets in the country. Manufacturers, distributors and logistics companies needed places to make, store and move things, and an industrial real estate market grew around them.

But markets change.

Manufacturing processes become more sophisticated. Distribution becomes more automated. Companies require more power, greater clear heights, better loading and fewer employees per square foot. Buildings that were state of the art 40 years ago can suddenly find themselves functionally obsolete.

Office buildings face an even greater challenge. Remote and hybrid work have changed the amount and type of office space many companies require. A magnificent downtown tower can still occupy a great corner, offer spectacular views and sit adjacent to tremendous infrastructure, yet struggle because the original assumptions upon which it was built have changed.

So what happens next?

Some buildings will continue doing exactly what they were designed to do. Others will be renovated and repositioned. Some may find entirely new uses, while others will eventually disappear and give way to something the original developer never contemplated.

We see the same thing happening in Orange County.

Older manufacturing buildings are being occupied by advanced manufacturers whose products their original occupants could scarcely have imagined. Corporate campuses are being reconsidered. Industrial buildings are being modernized. Office owners are wrestling with what their properties should become if traditional office demand never fully returns.

Which brings me back to Chicago.

Great cities endure because they adapt. The river that once moved raw materials now carries architectural tour boats beneath skyscrapers. Elevated trains designed in another century still rumble above streets filled with people carrying smartphones and ordering rides from apps. Buildings constructed for yesterday remain valuable because the infrastructure, location and human activity surrounding them continue to matter.

Therein lies the lesson for commercial real estate owners.

We tend to think of a building as a permanent asset, but its usefulness is anything but permanent. Markets change, technology changes, companies change and the way people work changes.

The dirt, however, remains.

And sometimes the greatest value in a piece of commercial real estate isn’t what it is today, but what someone can imagine it becoming tomorrow.

Allen C. Buchanan, SIOR, is a principal with Lee & Associates Commercial Real Estate Services in Orange. He can be reached at abuchanan@lee-associates.com or 714.564.7104.

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Portola football pounces on Northwood’s early mistakes, picks up victory

• September 19, 2026

IRVINE—Two mistakes, two touchdowns, too much to overcome.

In the game that was deciding the winner of the coveted Fence Post Trophy – the Irvine city champion – Northwood dug a hole and Portola filled it.

The Bulldogs scored a 34-10 victory on Friday.

The score was a bit deceiving.

Northwood’s mistakes? They were big. A bad snap on a punt gave Portola the ball at the Northwood 7-yard line, which resulted in a touchdown.

A fumble inside the 10-yard line led to Galileo Chen’s 95-yard return, the biggest play of the game that staked Portola to a 14-0 lead.

A defensive stand at midfield resulted in a turnover on downs at midfield that set up a seven-play, 53-yard scoring drive.

All that took place in the first 16 minutes of the game.

“Coming into this game I think everyone had their eyes on Northwood even through we had won a bunch of games,” Chen said. “I felt people were doubting us. All the Northwood people were saying ‘This is their house,’ (though it’s Portola’s home stadium) and it was kind of personal to us.”

Portola improved to 4-1, and Northwood fell to 3-2.

The Timberwolves are young under first-year coach Stephen Barbee and have better days ahead. Apart from the mistakes, Northwood did a good job of moving the ball, but lacked the finishing move to put the ball in the end zone in the first half

And for good measure, Portola added another big play — a 68-yard run by Gavin Morrell that finished off any Timberwolves hopes of a fourth-quarter comeback. Morrell’s dash made it 31-10 with 11:18 remaining.

“We had to have some things happen, but they were milking the clock the whole second half,” Barbee said. “We needed some stops on defense and didn’t get them.

“We’re a young team and we fell too far behind to make up ground.”

Morrell rushed 21 times for 143 yards with two scores, including a two-yard burst for a 7-0 lead. The Bulldogs gained 233 yards on the ground.

Northwood was outgained, 297-205. Caden Jacobs led the Timberwolves offense with 154 yards passing. L.J. Ulmer carried 16 times for 141 yards.

The big plays were just too much for Northwood.

Portola was the beneficiary of a snap over the punter’s head, which gave the Bulldogs’ offense possession at the Northwood 7. Three plays later, Morrell busted up the middle for a lead less than seven minutes into the game.

Northwood drove from its 32 to the Portola 10, but a tie score wasn’t going to happen. A fumble at the five-yard line was returned 95 yards by Chen, who had no trouble finding the end zone in a sprint that was never really challenged.

Portola’s defense held on fourth down to give the Bulldogs possession at their 47. The defending CIF champion drove the necessary 53 yards in seven plays, with Chen catching Orion Suttle’s pass for a 10-yard touchdown pass. Andrew Chea’s third PAT of the half made it 21-0 at 8:31 in the second quarter.

Northwood got on the scoreboard on its next possession, settling for a 30-yard field goal from Dillan Low after an impressive drive petered out at the eight-yard line. Portola led, 21-3.

“That’s what we asked our guys to do, get out there and do their jobs,” Portola coach Peter Abe said. “When you get the opportunity, you have to make the play. That’s how you win these big games, and they did it.”

Northwood finally reached the end zone with a minute left in the third quarter on a picture-perfect pass from Jacobs to Elliot Kwon to make it a two-score game, 24-10.

But with 11:18 left in the game, Morrell peeled off his 68-yard response that essentially ended any comeback hopes.

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OCVarsity’s football wrap-up: Stories, scores, photos from Friday’s games

• September 19, 2026

All of OCVarsity’s stories, photos, scores and more from the Week 4 high school football games Thursday and Friday.

More Orange County football coverage coming Saturday and in the days ahead.

FRIDAY’S GAMES

SCORES

High school football: All of the scores from Friday’s Week 4 games

PHOTOS

Photos: Top shots from Friday’s Week 4 high school football games

GAME STORIES

Mater Dei football struggles in all areas in loss to Bishop Gorman

Santa Margarita football shuts out Norco with ‘incredible’ defense

Orange Lutheran football loses to Sierra Canyon after rough start

JSerra QB Hayes Cloutier takes over in 2nd-half comeback to beat Bishop Amat

Late TD lifts Huntington Beach football to victory over Yorba Linda

Troy football routs Segerstrom behind Mason Mays’ record night

Portola football pounces on Northwood’s early mistakes, picks up victory

THURSDAY’S GAMES

High school football: Scores from Thursday’s games, Sept. 17

Corona del Mar football strikes late to beat La Serna in thriller

El Modena football finally gets offense going, beats El Dorado

Loara football pushes past La Quinta to stay unbeaten in Tango League

DID YOU SEE THIS?

Judge denies Austin Attalah’s varsity football bid at Orange Lutheran

Villa Park and Tustin to play Bravo League football game at SoFi Stadium

Extra practice paying dividends for Yorba Linda football

Orange County football Top 25: Undefeated Santa Margarita remains No. 1

Dan Albano’s biggest stunners from Week 3 in Orange County football

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Troy football routs Segerstrom behind Mason Mays’ record night

• September 19, 2026

FULLERTON — Troy quarterback Mason Mays tied a school record by throwing five touchdown passes in a 42-0 win over Segerstrom on Friday night at Troy High.

The Warriors (3-1) also recorded their second-consecutive shutout in the victory with three turnovers and a blocked field goal in the third quarter that preserved the zero on the scoreboard.

Troy coach Michael Echaves is happy with the schematic approach and the way his team has executed thus far.

“Very proud of the effort, very proud of the attitude, the preparation that we put into this,” Echaves said. “Now it’s about winning some battles that could cost us big in the war, and so that’s what we got to focus on now.”

Echaves confirmed that Mays tied a school record for TD passes in a game, held by Rudy Alcala and Thomas Bacerra.

“He’s a special talent, and he’s proven that tonight,” Echaves said. “He’s taken what the defense has given us and he’s making them pay for it and we love it.”

Troy wasted little time getting on the board as they needed just four plays to go up 7-0 on Chandler Lieberman’s 19-yard catch.

Lieberman added a 50-yard TD reception on the Warriors next drive and Andrew Green made it 21-0 with his 43-yard touchdown grab.

Green finished with six receptions for 145 yards and two touchdowns while teammate Lieberman scored every time he touched the ball as he caught three passes for 102 yards and three TDs.

“Green is a guy that has so much talent and we’re just continuing to have him focus on the small details to get better,” Echaves said. “And he’s listening. He’s getting so much better and becoming more coachable and so that every week we feel like we’re going to see a better version of him and he’s really showing up.”

“Chandler is a baseball guy and he was considering not playing football this year and we kind of convinced him, hey, come out, man, and do it,” Echaves continued. “And he’s really made a huge impact for us and we’re very proud of him.”

The Jaguars (2-3) struggled to sustain drives. Their best scoring opportunity came on their first drive in the second half where Adrian Cervantes and Eddie Anuu led the ground attack to a first-and-goal at the Troy 9-yard line.

The drive stalled and then Joshua Martinez had his 23-yard field goal attempt blocked.

Troy will face a tough test on the road next week at El Dorado as it wraps up nonleague play

“The thing that I’m really excited about is it’s just going to be a great experience, local school with a lot of pride, a lot of tradition, and so I’m really, really excited to face them,” Echaves said of El Dorado. “La Monda does a great job over there, so it’s going to be a great game and a great test for us to prepare for the league.”

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Orange Lutheran football loses to Sierra Canyon after rough start

• September 19, 2026

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CHATSWORTH — Orange Lutheran’s football team concluded a challenging nonleague schedule Friday with a trip to the San Fernando Valley to face its toughest opponent so far.

And if taking on Sierra Canyon wasn’t a steep enough task, the Lancers encountered former Orange Lutheran standout Marcus Fakatou.

Orange Lutheran showed its potential in the second half but fell to a fast-starting and physical Sierra Canyon 28-10 in a penalty-filled game at Sierra Canyon High.

The Trailblazers (4-0), ranked sixth in the nation by MaxPreps and third in California by hsratings, led 21-0 after the first quarter and 28-3 at halftime.

Orange Lutheran (3-2), ranked third in Orange County and eighth in the state, showed progress in the second half.

Chris Flores Jr. caught a 5-yard touchdown from Ezrah Brown on the opening possession. Anthony McClure had an interception and Cory Panapa recorded a sack.

The Lancers also committed only one penalty in the second half after going to intermission with 11 for 115 yards.

“The second half showed that we can play, for sure,” first-year Orange Lutheran coach Ray Fenton said. “The first half was just kind of like finding our legs underneath us. This is Game 5 for us as a program.”

“We did a lot really good things,” the coach added. “We did some things that really hurt us. We got two weeks to clean those things up.”

Sierra Canyon led 28-3 at halftime behind four rushing touchdowns, including two by Jaxsen Stokes.

The senior running back scored on a 13-yard touchdown run early in the first quarter after the Trailblazers recovered a muffed punt at the Lancers 13.

On the next Sierra Canyon possession, Stokes broke a season-long 73-yard touchdown run for a 14-0 lead.

Stokes, who is committed to Cal, finished the first half with 134 of his 166 yards.

The Trailblazers added a 19-yard TD run by wide receiver Sir Homer King Webb and 7-yard scoring run Faruq Muhammad.

Sierra Canyon employed defensive linemen Fakatou, Kasi Currie and Stephan Harrison as tight ends in a physical blocking scheme.

On defense, Fakatou fueled a strong pass rush that collected five sacks.

The senior, who is committed to Ohio State, contributed to Sierra Canyon’s goal-line stand on the final play of the first half.

The Lancers fumbled a run from the Trailblazers 1 and Fakatou wrapped up the ball carrier.

Fakatou finished with 1 1/2 sacks.

“They’re a Trinity (League) level team,” Fenton said of Sierra Canyon, which beat JSerra 42-21 earlier this season.

Sophomore Ryan Christianson was bright spot for Orange Lutheran. He rushed for 101 of his 127 yards in the first half en route to his third consecutive 100-yard rushing game.

Christianson had four catches for 42 yards.

Sierra Canyon finished with 15 penalties for 165 yards.

Orange Lutheran held its own against one of the most difficult nonleague schedules in the nation.

After opening with a one-point loss against Miami Central of Florida, the Lancers defeated Cathedral Catholic, Basha of Arizona and Serra.

Next week, Orange Lutheran takes its bye before opening the Trinity League against Servite on Oct. 2 at Orange Coast College.

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