DIVISION XII

Just in case nobody has noticed, Paraclete High is building a football dynasty out in the desert.

The little parochial school from Lancaster won it’s third consecutive championship and can now take its place next to the Canyon team of the mid-1980s as one of the region’s most dominant programs in the past 20 years.

The Spirits throttled Kilpatrick from start to finish and claimed a 43-6 victory before a chilled but raucous crowd at Antelope Valley College.

Paraclete (11-3) improved to 37-5 over the past three seasons and has lost only once to a Southern Section team in that time.

Sophomore running back Curtis Brown rushed for 138 yards and two touchdowns in 18 carries.

The Spirits stuffed Kilpatrick’s Jermaine Marshall, who entered with almost super-human numbers but proved all too mortal on this night.

Marshall, who entered needing only 32 yards to break the state season rushing mark, got the record but little room to run all night.

He rushed for 94 yards in 19 carries to finish a remarkable senior season with 3,586 yards and fell two touchdowns shy of the state record of 59.

The entire Paraclete defense swarmed to Marshall every time he touched the ball, with Robert Watts, Joey Rispaud, Mike Drivdahl and Brian Whisler doing much of the swarming.