Hart Delivers Punch Line, 51-0 : High school football: Indians defeat Leuzinger in a real laugher in Division II quarterfinals.

Hart High was playing on the road against a big, tough opponent in the quarterfinals of the Southern Section Division II football playoffs and the outcome was a joke:

Hart 51, Leuzinger 0.

“I’m kind of surprised,” said Domenic DeLillio, who caught two touchdown passes. “We expected a good game, because they were apparently a good team. They did something to get here.”

That something was a mystery Friday night, as the Indians (12-0) scored on seven of 11 possessions and added another score on a turnover.

Hart will play Quartz Hill in the semifinals next Saturday night at College of the Canyons.

It would be hard to say which Hart unit was more impressive--the offense or defense. Both played angry and aggressive, like they missed Thanksgiving dinner.

“This is a big surprise, because we thought they were a tough team--and a big team,” said Hart linebacker Marc Zimmerman, whose third-quarter fumble recovery set up a DeLillio touchdown that made it 37-0.

“But we were very intense in practice. This might have been the best week of practice all year for us.”

The Olympians (9-2-1) were held to 139 yards, 25 in the first half, while Hart piled up 265 of its 385 yards by intermission.

Quarterback Rob Frederickson pitched to an invisible running back at his 17 with 1:07 left in the half. Hart’s Todd Renfro fell on the ball in the end zone to cap a 30-0 two-period onslaught.

On third and 15 in Hart’s first series, quarterback Steve McKeon connected with DeLillio on a 72-yard touchdown pass play.

“In practice, we weren’t saying we were going to throw,” DeLillio said. “But everything was wide open.”

Two series later, with receiver Jeremy Seipel at the tackle position, Hart called a tackle-eligible. Left unguarded, Seipel scored on a 45-yard pass play.

After Kevin McLaughlin’s first field goal of the season, a 32-yarder, made it 17-0, Ted Iacenda dragged two tacklers into the end zone on a seven-yard scoring run.

Then came Renfro’s fumble recovery to make it 30-0.

In the third quarter, Iacenda’s 34-yard run set up McKeon’s 19-yard touchdown pass to DeLillio.

Then came the second-stringers and a 58-yard touchdown run by Tim Waddell and a one-yarder by Erick Negri.

McKeon completed seven of 16 passes for 182 yards. Iacenda rushed 13 times for 122 yards and scored his 36th touchdown.