Said first-year coach Carson Palmer: \u201cTo come out and just physically dominate \u2026 we just keep getting better and better. We\u2019re playing real good right now and unfortunately have only one game left.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mosley broke the game open with his 91-yard touchdown reception on a screen pass at the outset of the third quarter after Santa Margarita\u2019s defense stuffed Centennnial on fourth-and-one play from the Eagles\u2019 seven-yard line. The fourth quarter was played with a running clock.<\/p>\n
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Santa Margarita High coach Carson Palmer, center, hoists the Southern Section Division 1 championship plaque overhead after a dominating win over Corona Centennial on Friday night at the Rose Bowl.<\/p>\n
Palmer played twice at the Rose Bowl when he was the quarterback for USC while winning a Heisman Trophy. Walking on the field and leaving as the head coach of his high school alma mater and Division 1 champions left him trying to figure what he was feeling.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s totally different but even more special and I don\u2019t know why yet,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
In his first season as a head coach, Palmer put together an all-star coaching staff of former NFL players, survived playing the toughest schedule in the Southland and had his team peaking at the right time with no drama and total focus.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t be surprised if Palmer is suddenly mentioned for college or even NFL jobs, but he seems to love being a high school coach.<\/p>\n
The Eagles\u2019 offense struggled at times early in the season but has executed in the playoffs. The line protected Johnson when he needed the time, and Centennial had no answer for Mosley.<\/p>\n
\u201cMosley is awesome,\u201d Centennial coach Matt Logan said. \u201cPlaying against him as a sophomore he was great. He\u2019s even better as a senior.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Isaia Vandermade of Santa Margarita recorded three sacks against Centennial quarterback Dominick Catalano.<\/p>\n
(Craig Weston)<\/p>\n
Mosley was injured in the team\u2019s 7-6 opening loss to Mission Viejo and didn\u2019t play in Santa Margarita\u2019s 33-27 overtime win over Centennial during the regular season. The Eagles took their time letting Mosley recover, but he came back in an upset win over Mater Dei and has kept getting faster and more explosive each week.<\/p>\n
Now the Eagles get a bye next week before they are expected to face Concord De La Salle in the CIF Open Division state championship bowl game on Dec. 13 at Saddleback College. Official pairings will be announced on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Looking comfortable and confident playing catch on Friday night at the Rose Bowl more than 90 minutes before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4472,43494,10952,43492,42870,30313,43495,43496,48,52,51,5814,43493,47,50,49,10448,10365,278,1539,72],"class_list":["post-74737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ball","tag-catalano","tag-catch","tag-centennial","tag-championship-game","tag-field-goal","tag-huskies-momentum","tag-keawe-browne","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lead","tag-logan","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-mater-dei","tag-santa-margarita","tag-season","tag-yard","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74737","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=74737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}