“We moved the ball the best we could…losing them just made other people step up.” “Everyone who stepped up and played tonight did the best they could,” Matys said. Along with Holland, junior Bubba Gallardo, normally reserved for defense, also carried the ball and freshman Christian Mendoza, moved up to varsity for the playoffs, got a couple of carries. Matys picked up the slack and rushed for scores of 14 and 49 yards, while sophomore fullback Josh Powell plowed ahead for 144 yards rushing on 16 carries.Īptos dipped deep into the depth chart as it started losing players. “Marcos is 70 percent of our offense,” Aptos head coach Randy Blankenship said of Reyes, who had more than 1,600 yards rushing and 18 touchdowns in the regular season. Senior running back Will Murphy gutted through a leg injury but did not carry the ball once, instead being used as a decoy. Starting corner Desmond Mendoza tried to play through an ankle injury he suffered in the first half but wound up sitting next to Wheeler with a bag of ice over his foot. We just had a lot of all-around errors on our part.”Īlready missing junior running back and linebacker Marcos Reyes and junior linebacker Silvano Lopez to injury, Aptos was stripped of several more starters as the night went on.īlake Wheeler, the team’s best receiver and defensive back, exited in the first half with a knee injury and finished the night on the bench with his helmet off and a sweater draped over his shoulders. “Our defense stepped up,” said Aptos junior quarterback Hunter Matys. The Mariners got the ball back with a little more than four minutes left but their final possession, and season, ended on an Alex Pera interception. Facing a fourth-and-goal from the 3-yard line, sophomore running back Vaughn Holland took a pitch and lunged for the end zone but came up just inches short of pay dirt with 8:56 left to play. 7 Terra Nova High but ultimately fell 24-14 in the first round of the CCS Open Division III playoffs.ĭown 10 heading into the fourth quarter, Aptos (7-4) marched down the field and into Terra Nova (6-5) territory. APTOS - With arguably the top football player in Santa Cruz County out with an ankle injury, Aptos High needed several things to go right in order to keep its hopes of winning its fifth Central Coast Section championship alive.ĭepleted of playmakers on both sides of the ball, No.
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