Brea Still Winning, El Dorado Still Losing

Brea-Olinda High School’s 35-7 football victory over El Dorado Thursday night at Bradford Stadium ensured the worst start ever for the Golden Hawks.

El Dorado is winless in five games, its worst start since it began playing football in 1967.

Brea-Olinda (5-0) is clearly headed in a different direction. But Coach John Looney was not willing to concede satisfaction with remaining undefeated.

“I told you it wasn’t going to be pretty,” he said. “We played with very little emotion (and) we played sloppily.”

It was nonetheless enough to earn the Wildcats a 10-3-1 edge in the series.

Seniors Chad Marlow and Ryan Nicholson accounted for four of the Wildcats’ five touchdowns.

Marlow hit Nicholson on touchdown passes of 17, three and 32 yards and scored on a three-yard keeper in the first half.

Sophomore Marco Hernandez, a third-string tailback, capped the Wildcats’ scoring with a 23-yard run late in the game.

The Golden Hawks only score was a two-yard run by Brian Hayes with 5:36 left in the third quarter.