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Santa Clarita High School Football Recap – October 21, 2016

Santa Clarita High School Football on KHTS-AM 1220 October 21, 2016, Week Seven. Valencia hands Saugus its first loss of the season and moves to 3-0 in the Foothill League on its way to an eighth straight Foothill League title with a 28-7 win and Golden Valley defeats Canyon for the second straight season to earn first league win.

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Week Six football scores:

KHTS High School Football Game of the Week

Final

Saugus 7

Valencia 28

Moises Haynes scored his 12th touchdown of the season to open the scoring in the first quarter.

Centurions forced Aaron Thomas into two first-half interceptions but couldn’t capitalize on the Valencia mistakes.

With under a minute to play in the first half, Aaron Thomas threw a 40-yard TD pass to Brendan Adam.

Early in the fourth quarter the Centurions finally converted a Valencia turnover, a fumble off of a punt, and Nate Eldridge threw a 61 yard TD strike to Daniel Gilmartin, Gilmartin’s seventh on the season to cut the lead in half.

Valencia responded with a 92-yard TD drive after the Saugus touchdown and then intercepted Saugus on the very next play, scoring quickly. Two touchdowns within a minute pushed the score to 28-7.

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Golden Valley 31

Canyon 23

Josh Valano connected with Jalin Lewis for the first touchdown of the game and Gabriel Coronado added a field goal to give Golden Valley an early 10-0 lead.

Miles Fallin found Camden Apsay for a short touchdown pass to get Canyon on the board in the second quarter.

Golden Valley opened the game with 17 unanswered points and Canyon answered with 17 unanswered points of their own after Brandon Wilson scored from 49 yards out on the opening drive of the third quarter.

Tai Brown helped the Grizzlies pull away in the second half with two of his three touchdowns to put the Grizzlies up 31-17.

Miles Fallin got the Cowboys to within one score, but could not complete the comeback. For the second consecutive year Golden Valley knocks off Canyon.

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West Ranch 7

Hart 38

Nick Moore scores on a 10-yard scamper for his fifth straight rushing touchdown to put the Indians on top and added a 42-yard touchdown pass to Chase Garcia to extend the lead to 14-0 in the second quarter.

Wyatt Egat got the Wildcats on the board in the third quarter with a seven yard touchdown pass.

Nick Moore throws two more touchdowns in the second half as the Indians cruise to a big win over West Ranch.

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Saturday’s schedule:

Rio Hondo Prep vs Trinity Classical Academy

Fairmont Prep vs Santa Clarita Christian

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Santa Clarita High School Football Recap – October 21, 2016

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About Justin Powell

Justin moved to the San Fernando Valley from the Inland Empire in 2011 to complete his BA of Communications degree at California State University, Northridge. Just a few months after getting his degree he moved to Valencia and started as an intern at AM-1220 KHTS, and was promoted to Sports Reporter within a year. Though Justin is still relatively new to the Santa Clarita Valley, he is an avid sports fan and passionate about building the sports department at KHTS into a special source for local high school sports.