Where’s Junior? After starting the season with...

Where’s Junior? After starting the season with five touchdowns (one on a pass reception) in a 34-20 victory over Estancia, Los Amigos running back Sauga (Junior) Leofa has been slowed by a sprained right ankle and hasn’t scored since.

Leofa injured the ankle on the first offensive series against Kennedy in the Garden Grove League opener for both teams Oct. 2 and missed the rest of that game. He sat out the La Quinta game two weeks ago and returned last Friday against Santiago but carried the ball only four times for 11 yards.

“He’s really not 100% yet,” Los Amigos Coach Steve Bolton said.

Bolton would like to get Leofa back at full strength soon, although the Lobos haven’t faltered without him. Los Amigos (3-1-2, 2-0-1 in league) tied Kennedy, 20-20, and defeated La Quinta, 31-6, and Santiago, 27-6. The Lobos are in second place in league, a half-game behind unbeaten Rancho Alamitos.

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Blowout aftermath: A few days after his team’s 61-0 loss to Rancho Alamitos in a Garden Grove League game, Bolsa Grande first-year Coach Gary Stephens was still sizzling about the score.

Stephens, who took over a team that won only one game last year and is 0-6 this season, was upset not only at the margin but also because Rancho Alamitos scored a touchdown with no time left.

The primary target of his ire was Vaquero Coach Mark Miller.

“If he’s running his offense, that’s one thing,” Stephens said. “But to more or less ridicule us by running the hurry-up huddle with 13 seconds left, that’s a little much. He didn’t even have to run a play. . . . I think it’s just common courtesy not to do that.”

Rancho Alamitos center Nestor Alvarez, who weighs 290 pounds, switched to tailback for the last few plays of the drive and scored from the four as time expired. Stephens then pulled his team from the field without shaking hands with the Vaqueros.

Miller said he was in a no-win situation and denied he was trying to run up the score.

“I looked at the clock, and I didn’t think another play would be run,” Miller said. “I couldn’t get anyone’s attention on the field. . . . If I wanted to run it up, I had numerous opportunities. I would have given (quarterback Marshall) Brown and (fullback Leon) Vickers 20 carries each. If he really looks at it, it could have been 161-0.”