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ORANGE – Quarterback Jason Wilkinson threw four touchdown passes and ran for a touchdown as Orange rolled to a 46-7 win over Santiago in a nonleague game on Thursday night at El Modena High.

Three of Wilkinson’s touchdown passes were over 40 yards.

The 6-foot-4, 195-pound senior said he is enjoying the opportunity to throw deep this season.

“It’s good to let my guys run,” Wilkinson said. “It makes them feel good and makes me feel good too. I’m having a blast.”

Orange QB Jordan Wilkinson loves playing with his teammates. When you win by 30 each week, it’s easy to smile. @ocvarsity #ocvupdates pic.twitter.com/ovn3rG8YpV

— Michael Huntley (@mikehuntley63) September 8, 2017

Coach Robert Pedroza is enjoying the long passes too.

“We know we can be a very explosive offense,” he said, “and that’s a tribute to all the hard work in the offseason. The kids bought in and we have become a pretty explosive offense.”

After turning the ball over on its opening series, Orange (2-0) scored midway through the first quarter on a touchdown run by JoJo Martinez.

Santiago (1-1) had the ball in the red zone early in the second quarter, but the Panthers defense forced an interception. On the ensuing play, Wilkinson threw a long touchdown pass to Jordan Schmidt.

Orange recovered an onside kick after the touchdown. Wilkinson and Schmidt connected for a touchdown shortly after to extend the Orange lead to 20.

Syrus Collins scored the first of his three touchdowns near the end of the half to put the Panthers ahead 26-0. Collins scored once on the ground and caught two touchdown passes.

Not the best quality video, but Syrus Collins scores on a long sweep for Orange. Panthers lead Santiago 26-0 at half. @ocvarsity #ocvupdates pic.twitter.com/My1sypvWap

— Michael Huntley (@mikehuntley63) September 8, 2017

Collins and Wilkinson have worked hard to build chemistry on the field.

“We work every day and all day,” Collins said. “We do late-night workouts and try to get work as much as we can.”

Santiago scored its lone touchdown early in the second half on a screen pass from Angel Tajimaroa to Dylan Ourng.

Angel Tajimaroa completes a screen to Dylan Ourng for a Santiago touchdown. Orange still leads 26-7. @ocvarsity #ocvupdates pic.twitter.com/ZTAShTD2dt

— Michael Huntley (@mikehuntley63) September 8, 2017

By MATTHEW SIMON
Correspondent

BUENA PARK — Before Thursday night’s game, Warren football coach Raul Lara said he was hoping the Bears could produce a good game against Buena Park after losing to the Coyotes the last two years.

Lara got more than that as the Bears defeated Buena Park, 51-20.

“Right now, we’re playing pretty well,” Lara said. “But (we’ve) got to continue to play well. The key for us to have a successful season is we have to stay healthy. If we stay healthy I think we’ll be pretty good.”

Warren (2-1) didn’t waste any time getting to work against Buena Park, scoring on its opening drive when quarterback Chris Venegas connected with Robbie Colenzo for a 20-yard pass to give the team a 8-0 lead after a converted two-point conversion.

Buena Park got a healthy dose of Venegas throughout the game, as the Warren quarterback threw three more touchdowns – 13, 40 and 9 yards.

The Bears’ defense stifled the offense for Buena Park (1-2).

After a turnover on downs in the first quarter, the Bears drove 70 yards to take a 16-0 lead when Justin Mendoza scored on 1-yard run with 2:20 left.

Buena Park got on the board with 6:14 remaining in the second quarter to cut the lead to 16-7.

Warren answered with a 55-yard drive that was capped when Venegas connected with Desmond Carnes for a 40-yard touchdown to take a 22-7 lead.

From there, it was all Bears as they took a 37-7 lead into halftime.

In the second half, Warren fumbled, which led to another Buena Park touchdown that cut the lead to 37-14.

From there, Warren’s defense and special teams took over. Damond Callahan had two interceptions, including one he returned for a touchdown.

Mendoza scored on a kickoff return after Buena Park was called for an offside penalty.

At this point in the season, Lara just wants Warren’s players to focus on getting better before the start of San Gabriel Valley League play.

“League is going to be tough,” Lara said. “All our league is tough, so we need to come in nice and healthy and execute and I think we’ll be OK.”

ORANGE — A man was stabbed near a homeless encampment along the Santa Ana River on Thursday night, authorities said.

Orange Police Department officers were called out to a possible assault at the riverbed near Katella Avenue at about 6 p.m. on Sept. 7, Lt. Jennifer Amat said.

When officers arrived, they found a man who had been stabbed. He was transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Amat said.

Authorities are unsure if the man who was stabbed is homeless or what may have been the motive for the attack.

The attacker is unknown at this time and an investigation is ongoing, Amat said.

IRVINE – Crean Lutheran’s football team stayed close in the early going, but Aquinas of San Bernardino took control in the second quarter and went on to capture a 42-13 nonleague victory Thursday night at Irvine High.

Aquinas, ranked No. 1 in the CIF-SS Division 9 poll, was led by quarterback Salieu Ceesay, who passed for 182 yards and two touchdowns and rushed for 96 yards. He also scored on a 67-yard touchdown run in the second quarter.

Branden Rankins rushed for 162 yards and three touchdowns for Aquinas.

Crean Lutheran Coach Matt Bowman talks about his team’s play in a 42-13 loss to Aquinas tonight. #ocvupdates pic.twitter.com/AfNA7EO2ev

— Tim Burt (@TimBurtIrvine) September 8, 2017

The game was tied, 7-7, after the first quarter but Aquinas (3-0) scored two touchdowns in the second quarter to move out to a 21-7 lead at halftime.

The second score came when Ceesay connected with Gary Ganson on a 22-yard TD pass with 22 seconds left in the first half.

“Aquinas is a good, physical team and we played hard and did what we could,” said Crean Lutheran Coach Matt Bowman, “but as a coaching staff, we need to do better with our game plan, but we will get that corrected and we will come out fighting next week (Thursday, Sept. 14, against Beckman).”

Crean Lutheran (1-2) was without two of its top offensive threats: receiver Patrick McNerney and running back Anthony Cooper, who were out injured. Bowman is not sure when they will return.

On the first series of Thursday’s game, the Saints also lost their starting quarterback, Jack Eliot, to an injury. He was replaced by junior Michael Berelowitz, who engineered a solid drive early in the fourth quarter. Berelowitz connected with Ryan O’Keefe on a 36-yard pass play which moved the ball to the 8-yard line.

Berelowitz then hit O’Keefe on a 7-yard TD pass to cut the lead to 35-13.

“I don’t know what that is, there was something in his shoulder,” Bowman said of Eliot. “I thought Michael stepped in and did a good job at quarterback in his first meaningful varsity action and I was pleased with how he performed.”

Crean Lutheran led early. Tyler Buban recovered a fumble following a pass completion at the Aquinas 40 and returned it to the 10-yard line. Two plays later, Buban scored from 5 yards out to put the Saints ahead, 7-0, with 7:14 left in the first quarter.

LOS ANGELES — Clayton Kershaw received some of his loudest applause Thursday when he grounded out to third base. As metaphors for the Dodgers’ malaise go, this was a good one. Still, it wasn’t the defining moment of the Dodgers’ latest nightmare. Not even close.

The primal scream Kershaw unleashed after his day was done echoed off the dugout wall and up to the second deck of Dodger Stadium. At last, the feeling of a team with a .717 winning percentage losing 12 of 13 games had a sound. Kershaw kicked a plastic orange cooler in the dugout and threw his glove against the wall too, but they didn’t travel as far.

Other than an injury-shortened outing in June, Kershaw’s latest start was also his shortest of 2017. He allowed four runs against the Colorado Rockies in a mere 3 ⅔ innings and suffered his third loss in 23 starts. Colorado racked up a few more runs against the Dodgers’ bullpen and won, 9-1, before an announced crowd of 51,492.

“Bad nights are going to happen pitching-wise,” Kershaw said. “I picked a really bad time to have a bad night.”

Roberts said Kershaw’s pitch count was a factor in his early exit. He threw 86 on Thursday, or 16 more than he needed to pitch six innings Sept. 1 in San Diego. That was the last time the Dodgers won a game. It was also Kershaw’s first start back after he missed all of August with a back strain.

That, plus the scoreboard, factored into Roberts’ decision to take the baseball from a pitcher who never wants to give it up.

“If you look at the first couple innings there was stress,” Roberts said. “To start that fourth inning with 71 pitches I felt he could have a quick inning and feel good about that outing. As we got up to 85, 86, I felt I just didn’t want to push him any further.”

On a night the Dodgers needed Kershaw to reprise the streak-stopper role that’s come to define his career, the Rockies quickly got the better of the ace left-hander. The first four batters of the game all collected hits – a first for Kershaw in 288 career starts, according to ESPN Stats and Info.

When the game’s third batter, Nolan Arenado, hit a three-run home run into the Dodgers’ bullpen, the damage was done.

Advantage: Nolan. #Crushed pic.twitter.com/91jhuKFI0G

— MLB (@MLB) September 8, 2017

Kershaw (16-3) allowed six hits, walked three batters and struck out seven. His earned-run average rose from 1.95 to 2.15, still a hair in front of Max Scherzer (2.19) for the National League lead.

Though he bore the brunt of the damage, Kershaw wasn’t alone in succumbing to the Dodgers’ latest opponent.

The first pitcher out of the bullpen, Brock Stewart, allowed two runs in 1⅓ innings, including one on a passed ball that appeared to cross up catcher Yasmani Grandal.

Left-hander Edward Paredes, who hadn’t allowed a run in his first eight major league appearances, faced four batters in the seventh inning and didn’t record an out. Two scored when Josh Ravin issued bases-loaded walks.

For the Rockies, who had lost five of their last seven games, beating up on the National League West leaders reignited their bid for the NL’s second wild-card spot. Their September hasn’t gone as planned either. The Arizona Diamondbacks’ streak of 13 consecutive wins (six of which came at the Dodgers’ expense) has all but assured the Rockies of starting the postseason on the road – if they make it at all.

For the Dodgers, the game exposed a fresh wound.

Colorado starter Jon Gray allowed only four hits in six innings. The Dodgers got their only run against the right-hander when Cody Bellinger and Yasiel Puig hit doubles in the fourth inning. Gray walked two batters and struck out three.

For a team that scored only two runs while suffering a three-game sweep to the Diamondbacks, the Dodgers’ gaunt offense (averaging 2.15 runs per game over their last 13) looked familiar. Their dry spell has coincided with the absence of star shortstop Corey Seager, who returns to the lineup Friday after dealing with elbow inflammation.

“That’s a part of it,” Roberts said, “but those other seven guys still have to put forth good at-bats and find a way to get hits. Once a guy’s in the batter’s box, Corey isn’t in the batter’s box with him.”

Joc Pederson, the struggling center fielder, offered hope of a resurgence in the form of a screaming fly ball to the opposite field. Kershaw wore down Gray with a 12-pitch at-bat that ended in his meritorious groundout. Other than their only run against Gray, these were the Dodgers’ faint beacons of hope.

A much brighter beacon: Pitcher Walker Buehler, who was nearly perfect in his major league debut. The 23-year-old right-hander struck out two batters and allowed only one hit, a single, while pitching the final two innings.

Buehler got the NL batting average leader, Charlie Blackmon, to watch a sweeping curveball for a called third strike to begin the ninth inning. The next batter, Alexi Amarista, whiffed on a 98-mph fastball with two strikes. Buehler’s fastball climbed as high as 100 mph on the in-house radar gun. He said the first strikeout ball would go to his father, Tony, an avid collector.

The Dodgers’ first-round pick in the 2015 draft, Buehler has now pitched across four levels of the organization in his first full season of professional baseball. Two of those teams, the Class-A Rancho Cucamonga Quakes and the Double-A Tulsa Drillers, won without Buehler on Thursday. The Dodgers hope they can do the same soon.

Good vibes come naturally to Adam Selman. They’re a big part of his personality and his brand in a genuine and magnetic way. There’s no cloying there, even though he was a cheerleader in school. He re-upped a little of that rah-rah spirit this season on a semi-subliminal level. “I’m really focused on thinking ‘America’ is not a bad word,” he said backstage before his show. “I’m so sick of hearing ‘Down with America’ and ‘New York Fashion Week is over.’ I’m like, ‘No, no, no. We still have great talent here.’” His collection stood as proof. It was an all-American delight.
Rather than go literal with red-white-and-blue or stars and stripes, Selman focused on American ideas, beginning with Georgia O’Keeffe and her gingham shirt. “She said it’s like our only national costume,” he explained. The O’Keeffe references stopped just about there as Selman operates with none of her gravitas. Clever kitsch is his niche, and he infused it into a sexy pale blue and white gingham baby romper with a cutout back, and an adorable red and blue knit gingham trompe l’oeil wrap dress. Denim is another Selman signature and national treasure, here delivered with the airbrushed Seventies swagger that

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