WHITTIER — The brother duo of Jake and Owen Long combined for five of the seven La Serna touchdowns to lead the Lancers to a lopsided 49-7 nonleague win over visiting Los Osos Thursday night at California High School.
Jake Long passed for 170 yards and three touchdowns, including a 50-yard pass to his brother Owen Long, who also had seven carries for 53 yards and scored three touchdowns.
“It’s a game that we definitely needed,” said Jake Long, after a tough loss last week at Warren. “The O-line has been great the first couple of games and have only given up one sack, I think. We’re moving along as a team on offense, so that’s good.”
With the win, La Serna improves to 2-1.
The Lancers, with 11 different running backs, ran for 242 yards on the ground.
The La Serna defense held Los Osos (1-2) to 11 yards.
“We opened up the season with two tough ones and we knew coming in to this one it was important t put together a complete game,” La Serna coach Andy George said. “The goal was to put together a complete game on both sides of the football. We hadn’t done that yet.”
Los Osos was led by junior quarterback Mason Overacker with 109 yards passing with an interception. His lone touchdown pass was for 79 yards and he also ran for 15 yards.
La Serna scored on all five possessions in the opening half and only turned the ball over on downs once.
Leading the way on the ground for the Lancers was Owen Long with 53 yards and two touchdowns in the half.
The Lancers defense held Los Osos to 12 yards rushing in the opening half.
The Lancers opened the scoring with a 75-yard drive, culminating with a 5-yard touchdown run by Owen Long. Highlighting the drive was a 14-yard run by senior running back Austin Martinez (7 carries for 46 yards).
Just three minutes later, the brother connection of Jake Long to Owen Long resulted in the 50-yard score.
“Jake had a great night, along with Owen,” George said. “It was nice to see them connect on the long touchdown. No pun intended.”
The Lancers scored three more times before the Grizzlies could break the shutout.
The scores came on Martinez’s five-yard run, a Jake Long to Jayden Northrup 38-yard pass play and a one-yard run by Owen Long.
The Grizzlies lone highlight of the night came on a pump fake by Overacker for a 79-yard touchdown reception by senior wide receiver Andrew Garcia, who got behind the defense.
Adding late runs by the Lancers was junior running back Johnny Navarro (6 carries for 35 yards, 2-yard touchdown) and sophomore Elijah Blu Flores II (6 carries for 30 yards).
