Bonan/ : i 7. Spring X alley 35October 24, 2008"Week 8 Round-1 pBy DAMON SE1TERSREVIEW-JOURNALBonanza football coach Shawn Dupris saidThursday he hoped hss team's speed couldovercome Spring Valley's size, ft couldn't. The |fifth-rank eel Grizzlies dominated the tine ofscrimmage, shutting down Bonanza s runninggame and opening holes for Jacques Adamson the way to a 35-7 home win over the IBengals on Friday night. The win ended !Bonanza's six-game winning streak. "We knew Ithis game was going to be won or lost on the jtine," said Spring Valley's Nate Hoiloway. a320-pound, two-way lineman. "I told my line,'We've got to come out and dominate." Spring !Valley (7-1. 5-1 j did just that, especially on defense. Bonanza's Antonio Seals entered the game asthe area's leading rusher with 1,446 yards, but the Grizzlies never let Seals get into the openfield. Beats Brushed with 34 yards on 14 carries He had only 7 yards on eight carries in the firsthalf. "We knew this was a realty good running bach, but we also knew that he hasn't playedagainst very good defenses," Hotloway said. "So we wanted to come out and hit him in themouth and make him not want to run anymore." After the win, Adams said showing up Sealswasn't necessarily on his mind. "I just knew our defense would stop him and he wouldn't getanything," said Adams, who downplayed his own stat line, "Our line came out and was makingall their blocks." Spring Valley coach Kelly Murphy said stopping Seals was a key to his team'sgame plan. With Beais bottled up, the Grizzfies took a J4-0 lead before Bonanza |6-3. 5-1}

" recorded a first down. But the Bengals showed life late in thefirst half, driving 46 yards for a touchdown, capped by a14-yareJ run by Aaron Simon to cut the lead to ?4>7 with 59,5seconds left in the half, But Spring Vafley responded with aback-breaking drive that was extended by a Bonanzapass-interference penalty with no time left on the clock. Thatted to an untimed down, and Anton Stallworth connectedwith Jeff Fajardo for a 30-yard touchdown pass to make thescore 20-7 at halftime, "Give credit to Spring Valley becausethey came out and played from the opening snap andoffensively, we didn't," Bonanza coach Shawn Dupris said."Our defense played well in the first quarter but they were onthe field too long and offensively we didn't take care ofbusiness."The Grizzlies added a 12-yard touchdown pass fromStallworth to Keenart Sanders in the third quarter, and Adamshad a 30-yard touchdown run with 9:38 to play. Adamsfinished with 213 yards on 2 I carries. He had a 28-yardtouchdown run in the second quarter. "Our offensive line,week in and week out, has done a good job as far as openingup holes for our running backs," Spring Valley coach KellyMurphy said. The Spring Valley line averaged 270 pounds andpunished the smaller Bengals, allowing the speedy Adamsplenty of room to run. "We pot off to a slow start, but weusually do that," HoJtoway said, "Obviously our line picked itup, and our running back took advantage." Hotloway said itwas a key victory as the team prepares for the postseason."Jacques has been running the ball like that every singleweek," Murphy said. "The biggest thing today was theoffensive Sine did its job, the receivers blocked down field and

:';':'."•".; '** we had good fakes ail the way around. We just executed well,f t vj3i a great win." Spring Valley plays at Dyrango on jThursday to close the regular season while Bonanza willhost Bishop Gorman. With a win. the Bengals can cause athree way tie for first in the conference. Kickoff fs scheduled '•for 7prn on Thursday, October 30th. The game wili be heldon Thursday due to Nevada Day being celebrated on Friday.Thursday is also Senior Wight for the Bengals, it will be the 1last home game of the season for the 2008 Bonanza |Bengals foottoli team. Come out and cheer on your Bengals |as they get ready to enter the post-season in what has been •-'*,:f -f ~t* T x™--"7f 2the bes t f o o t b t i ' l season In recent m e m o r y , 3K

Bonanza StatisticsPassing: Sterlfng Spray 5/1467

RU£Cling: Antwlo Seals 14/34, Dasean Martin 3/26, Aaron Simon 3/16 TO,f?yor» Martin 3/11* Sterling Sprau ̂ 11

Receiving: Aaron Simon 4/54, Chris Robertson 1/13