WHERE'D THE BALL GO? Pasadena linebacker Chris Cerda (5) heads for the goal line after recovering a fumble in the second quarter against Spring Woods on Thursday night. Although the ball was ruled dead at the point Cerda's recovery, the Eagles used the turnover to cash in for an easy touchdown and a 13-3 lead.
New quarterback Daniel Delgado fired four touchdown passes -- including three to varsity veteran Uriel Hill -- as the Pasadena Eagles snapped a 12-game losing streak with a 33-3 victory over Spring Woods on Thursday night at Veterans Memorial Stadium.
The Eagles, winless last season, scored in every quarter and scored the final 33 points of the game after Spring Woods jumped to an early lead on a field goal.
Delgado, a senior, had a hand in all five Pasadena TDs. The one he didn't throw, he ran in, chewing up 11 yards midway through the second quarter to help lift his team to a 13-3 lead.
The score followed a fumble recovery by Eagles linebacker Chris Cerda, one of three lost fumbles by the Tigers.
Delgado completed 10 of 20 passes for 254 yards. Hill caught five passes for 195 yards. He scored on a 62-yard pass and scamper midway through the first quarter for the Eagles' first points of the season. He later scored on Degado passes of 4 and 50 yards. The four-yarder followed a bobbled snap on a field-goal try.
Another veteran Pasadena receiver, Metrelle Taylor, scored on an 11-yard strike from Degado with less than a minute to play in the first half, the TD following another Spring Woods fumble.
The Eagles defense held Spring Woods to only 140 yards, all of it on the ground. The Tigers failed to connect on any of their 10 pass attempts.
Quarterback Carlos Vega collected 74 yards on the ground while running back Grant Williams led all rushers with 86 yards. The two accounted for 38 of the Tigers' 40 rushing attempts.
The Eagles piled up 322 yards of offense.
The only points for Spring Woods came on a 39-yard field goal by Williams early in the game.
Delgado cut across the field on his way to an 11-yard TD run midway through the second quarter.
Eagles defensive lineman Ben Rosales (52) closes in on Spring Woods quarterback Carlos Vega on the Tigers' first snap of the game. Rosales dropped Vega for a six-yard loss.
Delgado unloads from the pocket (left) and connects with Uriel Hill (8) over the middle. Hill raced 66 yards to set up the Eagles' final TD of the first half.
Metrelle Taylor (15) gets a jump on Spring Woods defender Kelly Fields and prepares to cradle an 11-yard TD toss from Delgado late in the first half.
Pasadena junior Melvin Reyes takes off on the first play of the game, a seven-yard burst.
Eagles defensive linemen Adrian Ontiveros (57) applies pressure on Vega, forcing an incompletion. Spring Woods misfired on all 10 of its passes in the contest.
Pasadena sophomore Marwin Periera springs loose for a first down early in the game.
Pasadena linebacker Robert Blair (21) nearly gets a piece of the ball as the Tigers' Flavio Deras punts from deep in his own end of the field.
Reyes closes in the Tigers' goal-line late in the first half, helping to set up a Pasadena TD.
Eagles kicker Alfred Garibay watched his 50-yard field goal attempt near the end of the first half fall just short of the crossbar.
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