By Lucas Gordon Special to the Review-Journal
August 28, 2026 - 9:17 pm
For the 2nd consecutive year, Spring Valley defeated Bonanza successful its yearly “Banner Game” rivalry and was awarded a greenish banner.
The Grizzlies easy handled a short-handed Bonanza squad with a 42-7 win, which included a moving timepiece passim the full 2nd half.
“Anytime you play a rivalry game, there’s other energy. The kids play harder and there’s thing connected the enactment much than a triumph oregon loss,” Spring Valley manager Eric Dyer said. “We’re carrying that banner, and we don’t program connected giving it up anytime soon.”
Despite the lopsided score, it took Spring Valley (2-0) a mates of drives to get into the groove of the game. On its 3rd possession, elder moving backmost Cole Baer enactment the Grizzlies connected the committee with a 28-yard rushing touchdown to marque it 7-0.
On its adjacent violative series, Baer was successful the extremity portion again arsenic helium finished disconnected a 43-yard touchdown run. Bonanza (1-1) had nary reply for the Grizzlies’ moving game, arsenic Baer ended up with 249 rushing yards and 2 touchdowns.
Baer tin convey the Spring Valley violative enactment for specified a large night. On a bulk of his runs successful the archetypal half, Baer was getting done the enactment of scrimmage untouched en way to large gains. In the archetypal fractional alone, the elder had 9 runs of much than 15 yards.
Bonanza got the people adjacent astatine the extremity of the archetypal 4th erstwhile elder Jorden Cintron returned a kickoff 80 yards for a touchdown, giving the Bengals their lone points of the nighttime and pulling them to 14-7.
Going into the 2nd quarter, Spring Valley’s passing game, down backup backmost inferior Lincoln Espiritu, got going with agelong scoring touchdowns. On the possession aft Cintron’s kickoff instrumentality touchdown, Espiritu recovered elder Ryder Villanueva for a 14-yard touchdown to marque it 21-7. The adjacent clip Spring Valley touched the ball, Espiritu connected with inferior King Kahalewei for a 53-yard touchdown to stroke the crippled open, 28-7.
Kahalewei made an interaction connected the crippled connected peculiar teams arsenic well, arsenic helium returned a punt 85 yards for a touchdown close earlier halftime to nonstop the Grizzlies into the locker country with a 35-7 lead.
Overall, Kahalewei had 2 catches for 97 yards and 2 touchdowns, including 1 successful the 2nd fractional that expanded the pb to 42-7.
On the antiaircraft broadside of the ball, the Grizzlies were not letting Bonanza determination the ball. Bonanza had 80 yards of full discourtesy successful the archetypal half.
Freshman Jameson Brooks led the defence with galore pressures connected the quarterback, including a sack. Brooks besides made an interaction connected peculiar teams, blocking a tract extremity aboriginal successful the archetypal quarter.
“This is our communicative to write,” Dyer said. “It’s our communicative to live, and I’m conscionable blessed to get a large triumph tonight.”
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