Tustin Takes to the Air, Pummels Santa Ana, 75-0

No one can accuse Tustin of having a balanced offense, but Friday night the Tillers didn’t have much of a choice.

Santa Ana stacked its defense in hopes of stopping DeShaun Foster, but fourth-ranked Tustin answered by passing for 214 yards and three touchdowns in a 75-0 drubbing of the Saints in the Golden West League opener at Tustin High.

“We’ve been working on our passing all along and Santa Ana put 10 guys within a yard of the line of scrimmage,” Tustin Coach Myron Miller said. “Teams are doing that to us and we’ve got to throw the ball when they do it.”

That’s not to say Santa Ana’s defense was a success. Foster finished with 225 yards in 15 carries and scored five touchdowns to increase his season total to 28.

“DeShaun’s going to get his yards,” Miller said. “He’s a good receiver and he can run the ball, but he’s real unselfish. He was real excited when everybody was getting their yards too.”

Julius Williams was the Tillers’ other big playmaker, catching three passes for 126 yards and two touchdowns and running the ball three times for 76 yards and another score.

Tustin (6-0, 1-0) also scored on special teams when lineman Dale Watkins bull-rushed a Santa Ana blocker on a punt attempt, knocking him back into punter Juan Ramirez as he was kicking the ball.

The ball was deflected and Edwardo Araza scooped it up and returned it eight yards for the score.

It took Tustin only four plays to score on its first possession. Realizing Santa Ana was putting all its resources into stopping Foster, who came in with 1,243 yards rushing, Tustin quarterback Todd Scott completed a 48-yard pass to Williams for the score.

Foster then had touchdown runs of 57 and three yards in the opening quarter, before Araza’s touchdown early in the second quarter gave Tustin a 27-0 lead.

Foster then added two more touchdowns before halftime, on a 35-yard reception and a 90-yard run, which gave the Tillers a 41-0 lead at the half.

After a 39-yard touchdown reception by Williams on Tustin’s first possession of the second half, Foster went over the top on a three-yard plunge with 5:57 left in the second quarter.