THE BIG GAME SAN PASQUAL-SAN MARCOS : Running Time No Problem For These Two

Planning to attend tonight’s San Pasqual-San Marcos Avocado League game and you have 9:30 dinner reservations? Don’t worry about it. The 7:30 game at San Marcos may be done before 9.

“The running joke up here is, you finish the game, call it in and go catch the fourth quarter of the Orange Glen game,” San Pasqual Coach Mike Dolan said.

Said San Marcos Coach Ken Broach: “This one could be played in record time.”

The reason is simple: Neither offense will be mistaken for Bobby Bowden’s at Florida State.

Both coaches love to run the ball, and they do it as well as anybody in the county.

Through six games, San Pasqual (4-2, 2-1) has five players with more than 280 yards rushing and 39 carries. Eighth-ranked San Marcos (5-1, 3-0) doesn’t spread it around as much. Senior fullback Mark Frazier (825 yards in 138 carries) gets the bulk of the work. In a 25-22 victory over Oceanside, Frazier carried 38 times for 214 yards.

Of the two offenses, San Pasqual’s is a bit more imaginative. Dolan loves to run counters, inside reverses and traps, and Broach would just as soon call dives and off tackles to Frazier all night.

Dolan said if he had a fullback like Frazier, a 6-2, 205-pound slasher, he would probably do the same thing. Frazier is the county’s seventh-leading rusher and third-leading scorer, with 13 touchdowns.

“He’s real smooth,” Dolan said. “He’s reads the holes well. It looks like he almost glides through there.”

San Pasqual’s leading rusher is halfback Darryl Hawkins (484 yards and five touchdowns), but he has company. Fullback Mike Walters has 438 yards and seven touchdowns, quarterback Billy Geddes has 353 yards and five touchdowns, halfback Jamon Buggs has 346 yards and three touchdowns and wing back DeSalle Wallace has run for 286 yards and scored seven touchdowns.

“We’ve got four kids back there who can break a big one,” Dolan said. “We usually don’t have that here. Our highlight film usually consists of 20-yard runs and guys getting tackled from behind. This year, we haven’t been tackled from behind much.”

Even though it appears Dolan and Broach might be related to Woody Hayes, they will throw the ball if tempted. Geddes has only completed 21 passes, but seven of them have gone for scores. San Marcos’ Chaise Bivin is 28 for 54 with four touchdowns and two interceptions.

Neither team has played El Camino (5-1, 3-0), so the winner still has a shot at the league title. But even the loser figures to make the 16-team playoff field in the 2-A.