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By Arnie Leshin
St. Michael’s football team powered its way to a second-straight rout by overwhelming visiting Espanola Valley, 60-6, at Christian Brothers Athletic Complex Saturday afternoon.
It followed the 48-3 romp up at Taos, and the Horsemen will play at Raton next in the tilt that was previously cancelled because of coronavirus pandemic issues. The two games so far has St. Michael’s with a whooping 118-9 scoring advantage, and the contest at the Tigers will be the final one for the Horsemen in this shortened season.
This one was a mercy-rule no contest that was called in at midway in the fourth quarter after Lucas Montoya’s pick-six interception for the home team.
Junior quarterback Lucas Coriz tossed three early touchdown passes, with two going to Devin Flores in the first eight minutes. The Horsemen also added four TDs along the ground, and all were at least 30 yards, Daymon Lujan for 45, Ianandra Koomis 40, Marcus Leyba 35, and Montoya 31 in what the only game so far for Espanola, which cancelled its early home game against Capital.
At Capital, a game versus Los Lunas that was first announced on Thursday, the Tigers had no problem dominating the Jaguars (2-1), 44-7, in a game that turned to the mercy-rule that ended things in the third quarter.
Capital did get a 3-yard touchdown run from senior running back Luke Padilla with two minutes left in the opening quarter against a Los Lunas team coming off a win over 6A Las Cruces. And after yielding the touchdown, the Tigers got behind quarterback Paul Cieremans and the 5-10 sophomore engineered five-straight scoring drives in the second quarter that included two tallies in the final 90 seconds.
The 16-7 lead by the visitors was all they needed. Then it increased to 22-7, and 37-7 at halftime. In the third quarter, Los Lunas scored before the running clock wound down.
Capital will play again on Saturday by playing host to Piedra Vista in a scheduled 2 o’clockkickoff. This will be the final game for the Jags this season.
