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Warriors seek road victory at Hoover

The Fallbrook High football team recorded its lone victory of the 2016 season when it handily defeated Hoover High 48-0 at Fallbrook Stadium. Friday (Sept. 29), the Warriors travel to San Diego in hopes of securing their first win of the 2017 campaign against the Cardinals.

The injury-riddled Warriors were without seven starters in their most recent game, a 38-0 home loss to San Pasqual in a Valley League opener played Sept. 22. Fallbrook enters its non-league game against Hoover, which is 1-3, with an 0-5 mark.

Although it didn't show up on the scoreboard ¬– mainly due to costly turnovers – the Warriors had a much improved offensive effort in their game against San Pasqual. Fallbrook moved the ball well but had a pair of scoring drives thwarted by fumbles.

Junior running back Jalen Webb capitalized on some solid blocking to rip off some impressive runs, including carries that resulted in 15- and 23-yard gains.

"He played really well for us," said Fallbrook head coach Darius Pickett of Webb.

Christian Cruz continued to show improvement at quarterback, a position he was forced into after starting quarterback Jake McBroom went down with a fractured collarbone in the third game of the season.

Cruz, appearing comfortable operating out the shotgun formation, had completions of 23 and 12 yards to wide receiver Jared Casillas as well as a 15-yard completion to Will Gross.

"It was a better offensive showing than in the past, so that was a positive," said Pickett. "We were able to move the ball; we just had a lot of fumbles. We got in the red zone a couple of times and the turnovers killed us, and we had a field goal blocked."

The Warriors defense held San Pasqual to 10 points in the first half but then surrendered 21 points in the third quarter and seven in the fourth.

Pickett said he is seeing progress from his team but acknowledges there is a lot of work to do.

"The offense improved and the defense is playing better," said Pickett. "I think we’re going in the right direction. We just have to stop beating ourselves and I think we’ll be OK. We need consistency – to string together a series of plays – to finish a drive offensively, and we have to stop giving up the big plays on defense."

The Warriors look to continue their progress against Hoover, a team which Fallbrook figures to match up well with.

 

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