Booker Gets Lift After Five Scores

Lorenzo Booker carried St. Bonaventure High and then got carried off the field.

Booker rushed for 363 yards and five touchdowns to lead the Seraphs to their second consecutive Division XI championship with a 34-16 victory over Orange Lutheran on Saturday night at Ventura High.

St. Bonaventure is 28-0 the past two seasons.

The Seraphs intercepted six passes and held the Lancers (11-3) to 132 yards.

Booker took a beating, playing with a sore ankle and hand that forced him to leave the game early in the fourth quarter. But Booker kept hammering away at the Lancers and the Seraph defense chiseled away at Orange Lutheran’s option attack.

“This was put on my shoulders,” Booker said. “The offensive line made this happen. Without this offense line, this team is nothing.”

Booker scored three times in the second half to break open what was a four-point game at halftime. His 21-yard run with 8:54 to play in the third quarter gave the Seraphs a 21-10 lead.

His three-yard run late in the third quarter extended the lead to 28-16.

Booker added a 26-yard touchdown run after he returned late in the game.

“There’s no question [Orange Lutheran] put a beating on Lorenzo,” St. Bonaventure Coach Jon Mack said. “Our whole offensive line took a beating, but got the job done.

“Everyone knows how good Lorenzo is, now they know how good the rest of this team is.”

The Seraphs intercepted five passes by quarterback Jason Taylor.

Jashaun McCowan’s interception in the end zone in the fourth quarter killed one threat.

David Brunner had the second of his two interceptions in the fourth quarter to quell another.

“Our turnovers and that Pac-10 running back were too much for us,” Orange Lutheran Coach Jim Kunau said. “That’s what killed us.”

Booker said the mission is not done.

‘My goal is to go 42-0 in this [St. Bonaventure] uniform,” he said.

On the Seraphs’ second play of the game, Booker broke up the middle for a 47-yard touchdown run that gave the Seraphs a 6-0 lead.

Booker scored on St. Bonaventure’s final play of the first quarter.

His 80-yard run gave the Seraphs a 14-3 first-quarter lead.