No. 8 La Quinta Stays Unbeaten with Romp Over Kennedy
La Quinta High School quarterback Donald Hopkins passed for 257 yards and one touchdown and ran for two more Friday night, leading the Aztecs to a 38-7 Garden Grove League victory over Kennedy at Western High.
La Quinta (7-0, 4-0) spotted Kennedy (2-5, 0-4) an early touchdown, but shut down the Irish the rest of the game. Hopkins, who completed 16 of 22 passes, tied the score with a six-yard run with 3:23 to play in the first quarter.
He then gave La Quinta the lead, scoring on the first play of the second quarter with a seven-yard run that capped a six-play, 75-yard drive.
La Quinta led at halftime, 14-7, and then put the game away with a four-yard run by George Sanchez, and a 17-yard touchdown pass from Hopkins to Walter Dawkins, making the score 28-7. Vince Church, Kennedy’s leading rusher, scored his team’s only touchdown on a two-yard run, but was injured late in the first half. Despite playing sparingly the rest of the game, he finished with 103 yards in 13 carries.
La Quinta added a 31-yard field goal by Mike Berg and closed out the scoring on Andy Cardullo’s 85-yard return of a fumble recovery late in the game.
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