Though they definitely had a lot of Lucky.
Senior tailback
Lucky Sutton rushed 27 times for 435 yards and seven touchdowns as the Dons (11-2) advanced to the state bowl title game against Folsom (11-3),
a surprise 28-27 Northern California winner over De La Salle.
They also won the highest scoring game (133 points) in 15-year state-bowl history, topping the mark of 130 set in 2018 when Folsom defeated Central (Fresno) 84-46 in a NorCal regional game.
Sutton, a 6-foot-1, 205-pounder who entered with 1,945 rushing yards and 33 total touchdowns, scored on six rushing touchdowns and one receiving. All but a 2-yard run were longer than 45 yards.
Remarkably, the score was 7-0 after the first quarter in this one.
Cathedral Catholic scored all 71 of its points after the first quarter. Sutton opened his team's scoring with a 6-yard reception from
Charlie Mirer. From there, he scored on runs of 62, 45, 63, 75, 80 and 2 yards.
Teammate
Darian Whaley added a 51-yard touchdown run and Mirer added two more touchdown passes.
The Dons needed all that scoring because Orange Lutheran (10-5) had huge performances from
Desmin Jackson, who scored four touchdowns on runs of 19, 42 and 76 yards and caught a 10-yard TD pass from
Logan Gonzalez, who was 31-for-45 for 433 yards and five touchdowns, four to
Jaylen Lynch.
Orange Lutheran scored 13 more points Friday than it did in any single game this season, but lost by nine.
Lucky Sutton, Cathedral Catholic
File photo by Dennis Lee
