PALOS VERDES ESTATES\u00a0\u2013 After a week away from the Friday night lights, Palos Verdes football returned for its first home game since August, showing no signs of slowing down after a bye week.<\/p>\n
The extra week of preparation paid off, as the Sea Kings rolled past Long Beach Millikan 42-7 to remain unbeaten and close out the nonleague schedule before Bay League play begins next week against Inglewood.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a hard-fought game,\u201d senior quarterback Ryan Rakowski said.<\/p>\n
But before Palos Verdes could turn their attention to Bay League play, it had one final nonleague test to take care of.<\/p>\n
Rakowski and the offense wasted no time establishing control, scoring on its first two possessions after running back Christian Reis ran in an 8-yard run, followed by Rakowski\u2019s quarterback sneak at the goal line to put the Sea Kings up two touchdowns.<\/p>\n
Millikan (0-6) responded with quarterback Jonah Tuaniga lobbing a 20-yard touchdown pass to Gabriel Reichard to make it a 14-7 game at halftime.<\/p>\n
In the second half, PV\u2019s rushing attack gashed the Millikan defense, sending the home crowd with deafening screams of celebration after Rakowski scrambled to escape a Rams defense for a 60-yard gain to set up running back Christian Reis for a 5-yard rushing touchdown. The two-play, 35-second drive covered 65 yards, allowing the Sea Kings to start pulling away and extend their lead by 14 points.<\/p>\n
However, Millikan coach Romeo Pellum said missed calls by the officials also played a role in the Rams\u2019 inability to keep pace with the Sea Kings.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were two blocks in the back that the officials didn\u2019t throw. That\u2019s a big, big play. That\u2019s a momentum changer,\u201d Pellum said.<\/p>\n
Reis finished the night with nine carries for 117 yards and three touchdowns. Travis Tomaro, who contributed to the Sea Kings\u2019 (6-0) ground attack with a 17-yard score said Reis\u2019 physical running style also played a factor into the Palos Verdes success.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe runs the ball hard \u2013 if you give him the rock, you know good things are going to happen,\u201d Tomaro said.<\/p>\n
Running back Caleb Munoz stamped his team\u2019s nonleague victory with a 3-yard score after Reis recorded back-to-back runs with a 21-yarder, followed by a 43-yard touchdown one drive before.<\/p>\n
With the nonleague schedule now behind them, Palos Verdes will turn its attention to next week\u2019s opener against the Sentinels. Tomaro knows the matchup carries added significance.<\/p>\n
\u201cTwo years ago, we go into their place, and we got smacked. Last year, we got a little get back, and we\u2019re looking to continue that,\u201d Tomaro said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PALOS VERDES ESTATES\u00a0\u2013 After a week away from the Friday night lights, Palos Verdes football returned for its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2043,2044,131,133,132,136915,189386,127],"class_list":["post-483689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-high-school-football","tag-high-school-sports","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-palos-verdes-peninsula-news","tag-pv-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}