Week 6 high school football scores: Friday’s latest results, Week 5 player of the week vote
Sanger High refused to just slip away.
Instead, the Apaches leaned on the arm of quarterback John Pena.
He delivered and his teammates helped finish it off from there in the spotlight game of Week 6 of the CIF Central Section football season.
Pena hit Jose Lunar with a 40-yard touchdown with 2:21 remaining to tie the score Friday night against San Joaquin Memorial at 21-21.
Alan Pelayo then picked off Memorial’s TJ Hall near midfield and Sanger’s offense capitalized. Morgan Privett scored on a 2-yard run with about 25 seconds remaining in an eventual 28-21 win to clinch an outright County/Metro Athletic Conference title.
It is the Apaches’ first outright title since 2016.
It was Memorial’s first loss.
Honor for Raiders legend Tom Flores
Before the shortened 2020-21 high school football season started, the Apaches honored alum Tom Flores by placing a Raiders shield on the back of their helmets with the initials TF.
The Raiders coaching legend was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in February after a lengthy wait.
He had received the famous knock on the door at his Indian Wells home from Hall president David Baker on Jan. 31, with his wife, Barbara, by his side. A few days later, his election was officially announced.
Flores, who will be enshrined in Canton, Ohio, on Aug. 8, grew up in Del Rey and Sanger, and starred as a quarterback for Fresno City College and the University of the Pacific. He played nine years, mostly for the Oakland Raiders, in the early days of the AFL before turning to coaching and twice leading the Raiders to Super Bowl titles.
Little Big Game
Fresno and Roosevelt highs extended their longstanding rivalry, as the “Little Big Game” series resumed after COVID-19 wiped out the sports scene in 2020.
And just like 2019, the Rough Riders came out on top, defeating the Warriors 39-15 in the 91st installment to retain control of “Poncho” the bronze pig
The Little Big Game is a play on the annual Big Game between the college football teams at Stanford and Cal. The pig trophy was introduced in 1946.
Roosevelt, which won last season 36-20, has taken four straight. Fresno still leads the series 45-44-2, according to Central Section historian Bob Barnett.
NYL champions crowned
Reedley is another team that would not yield Friday.
After trailing 15-0, the Pirates rallied for a 22-15 win over Sunnyside for an outright North Yosemite League title and undefeated season.
Mike Rios scored the go-ahead touchdown.
Week 6
Thursday, April 22
Nonleague
Hanford 47, Edison 17
Friday, April 23
County/Metro Athletic Conference
Bullard 28, Madera 0
Sanger 28, San Joaquin Memorial 21
North Yosemite League
McLane 15, Hoover 8
Reedley 22, Sunnyside 15
Roosevelt 39, Fresno 15
Mountain
Righetti 33, Arroyo Grande 14
Templeton 20, San Luis Obispo 13
Ocean
Pioneer Valley 47, Atascadero 12
South Yosemite
West 21, Independence 14
Southeast Yosemite
Mira Monte 40, Foothill 12
South 22, North 13
Southwest Yosemite
Frontier 25, Centennial 13
Liberty-Bakersfield 35, Bakersfield 0
Ridgeview 32, Stockdale 6
West Sierra
Coalinga 27, Firebaugh 12
Nonleague
Shafter 41, Golden Valley-Bakersfield 14
Kern Valley 40, Arvin 34
Madera South 24, Hanford West 0
Woodlake at Orosi, canceled
Paso Robles 47, Santa Maria 7
Dos Palos 47, Immanuel 35
Player of the Week winner
Nick Anselmo of Liberty-Madera Ranchos is The Bee’s Week 5 Player of the Week.
Anselmo earned 51.2% of the votes in a readers’ poll. Mason Brosseau of Hanford finished second with 26.4%.
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Rounding out the top five were Hector Davila of Immanuel (12.7%), Daniel Ortega of Kingsburg (5.1%) and Michael Iriye of Mission Oak (2.1%).
This story was originally published April 23, 2021 at 7:10 PM.
