High scores punctuate games

It was ‘60s night across the Southland on Friday.

Scores of high school football teams piled up 60 points or more, from heavyweight Corona Centennial (69-13 over Corona Santiago) to dot-on-a-map Boron (62-0 over Lucerne Valley).

Stadium announcers could have cued up the Surfaris’ “Wipe Out” at Wilmington Banning, where the Pilots came out on the wrong end of a 69-0 shellacking against Carson. It was more of the same at Westlake Village Oaks Christian, where the Lions feasted on Marmonte League rival Thousand Oaks, 65-0.

Temecula Chaparral even staged its own version of “That 70’s Show” during a 70-7 win over Murrieta Mesa.

Two teams scored at least 60 points — and lost.

Cerritos Valley Christian needed five overtimes to pull out a 70-64 victory over Pasadena Maranatha after Trevor Rodriguez scored on a broken play from 25 yards on the final play.

“It was supposed to be a fullback dive to the right and the fullback went the wrong way, so the quarterback scrambled, flipped Trevor the ball and he did the rest,” Coach Erick Streelman said Saturday. “I certainly did not draw it up that way.”

Maranatha seemingly had the game in hand, 40-33, when the Minutemen took over on downs with 1 minute 51 seconds left in regulation. Some spectators even started leaving.

But Maranatha missed a field-goal try with 52 seconds remaining, allowing quarterback Ryan Fronke to complete an 80-yard touchdown pass to to force overtime.

Five overtime periods later, a game that had started at 7 p.m. ended about 30 minutes before midnight.

“The longest game ever,” Streelman said.

Streelman said that after the game he sought out Maranatha Coach Joel Murphy and quarterback Andrew Elffers, who completed 31 of 57 passes for 541 yards.

“I told them it’s too bad that somebody had to lose,” Streelman said. “It’s such a great, great game.”

There was more heartbreak in Culver City, where a pass interference call on fourth down during the third overtime period gave Inglewood a first down that set up the winning score in the Sentinels’ 66-60 victory.

“I’m still not sure how we could score 60 points and lose a game,” Coach Jahmal Wright said. “It’s going to take a while.”

The teams combined for more than 1,200 yards and set a record for total points in an Ocean League game.

Patrick Onwuasor was the hero for Inglewood, scoring four touchdowns and blocking a field-goal try in the first overtime. Onwuasor hauled in a 38-yard touchdown catch in the third overtime to give the Sentinels a lead that Andrew Moore preserved with a game-ending interception.

Wright gave his players a well-deserved day off Saturday.

“I think it would have been torture to bring them in and watch film like we normally do,” Wright said.

ben.bolch@latimes.com