Game of the Week : Banning Snaps Dorsey’s Six-Game Win Streak, 38-13

Dorsey, which had won its first six games this season after finishing 2-6 last year, had its express-train start derailed Friday night in a 38-13 Pacific League loss at Banning.

The Dons, who went back and forth between William Williams and Scott Sims at quarterback, had their star running back, Tommy Jackson, held to 69 yards in 9 carries. Banning, meanwhile, looked much more streamlined on offense, especially with the ground game, as Earl Saunders ran for 114 yards and Eric Sharp added 112 for the third-ranked Pilots.

Banning, which has won three of its last four games after starting the season 1-2, scored the first two times it had the ball and went on from there. The key was the rushing attack, the same one that had the Pilot offense barely chugging along a month ago.

Saunders, who rushed 19 times, did most of his work in the first half, when he had 104 yards and a 37-yard touchdown in 12 carries as Banning built a 14-7 lead. Sharp, with only 23 yards at halftime, took over for the final two quarters, going for a 28-yard score that made it 31-13.

Banning did some damage through the air, too. Split end Leonard Hernandez had two scoring receptions, the second one a 17-yarder from backup quarterback Marlon Primous that gave the Pilots their final 38-13 advantage.

Fourth-ranked Dorsey got a 66-yard scoring pass play from Williams, the starter, to split end Sean Foster in the first quarter, but little else. Foster did continue to get open, finishing with 5 catches for 114 yards, but Dorsey wasn’t able to string the big plays together. Sims, who first came off the bench late in the second quarter, passed for 106 yards and had two passes intercepted.

Jackson, the star in a win over Gardena last Friday, had only 19 yards in the first half. Runs of 21, 14 and 13 in the final two quarters, and a score from two yards out, made his statistics a bit more respectable.