SOUTHERN SECTION FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS

By Matt Hamilton

Dec. 2, 2001 12 AM PT

Van Nuys Montclair Prep 14, Twentynine Palms 7--The Mounties advance to a section final rematch against Paraclete with a Division XII victory at Twentynine Palms.

Montclair Prep (9-1-1) scored all its points in the fourth quarter. With 10:11 to play, Daniel Abikasis connected with Anthony Davis for a 51-yard pass play. The Mounties missed the conversion kick.

Abikasis set up the game-winning score late in the fourth quarter when he hit Marques Franco for a 74-yard pass play to put Montclair Prep on the Wildcat one-yard line. After two penalties, Dal Johnson scored on a six-yard run.

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Matt Hamilton

Matt Hamilton is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. He won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting with colleagues Harriet Ryan and Paul Pringle and was part of the team of reporters that won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the San Bernardino terrorist attack. A graduate of Boston College and the University of Southern California, he joined The Times in 2013.

SOUTHERN SECTION FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS

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