CITY ROUNDUP : One Blunt Rewards Another

Sean Blunt had to wait almost the entire game before he could enjoy his head-coaching debut for San Fernando High.

But Flip Aguilar’s 47-yard reception from Leon Blunt, the coach’s cousin, with 1 minute 25 seconds remaining gave the Tigers a 19-14 victory over Fremont in a nonleague opener Friday night at San Fernando.

The Tigers were down, 14-7, before Blunt scored on a one-yard quarterback sneak with five minutes to play to bring San Fernando within a point. A two-point conversion pass failed. The Tiger defense held on Fremont’s ensuing possession and got the ball back at the Tiger 25-yard line with 3:09 left in the game.

Blunt completed a 20-yard pass to Marcus Jones on second and 18 from the San Fernando 17 and scrambled for 16 yards on second and 10 at the Tiger 37 to keep the winning drive alive.

Blunt completed five of 12 passes for 114 yards.

“It feels good,” Sean Blunt, 27, said about his first victory. “(But) from a coaching standpoint, we’ve got a lot of work to do.”