TORREY PINES                          14
VISTA                                            24

Tinoisamoa topples Torrey | Vista senior has game for ages in Div. I final
Tom Shanahan
UNION TRIBUNE
STAFF WRITER

09-Dec-1998 Wednesday

One hundred years from now it will be time to pick the all-time team for San Diego County's second century of high school football. Maybe the prep writers making the selections then will honor an old-timer by the name of Pisa Tinoisamoa.

The Vista senior running back-linebacker -- who based on his sophomore and junior seasons perhaps should have been honored for the first century's all-time team that was chosen before the 1998 season -- led the Panthers to a third straight CIF-San Diego Section Division I title in a 24-14 victory over Torrey Pines last night at Qualcomm Stadium.

"He is really the man in San Diego County," Torrey Pines coach Ed Burke said. "You not only have to stop him with the ball, you have to know where he is on defense, too. Honestly, in my mind, he's both the offensive and defensive player of the year. He's up there with the best I've ever seen.  He's dominated for three years."

The 6-foot-1, 210-pound Tinoisamoa carried 36 times for 218 yards and two touchdowns -- making him the third running back to top 200 yards rushing in the CIF tripleheader, played before a small midweek crowd of 12,474 -- to cement his place in history.

After he capped Vista's first possession with runs of 19, 9 and then 15 yards for a touchdown and 7-0 lead, Tinoisamoa turned around and made the game's first big defensive play. He sacked Torrey Pines quarterback David Bradley for a 7-yard loss.

"He's one of the greatest high school players I've ever seen," Vista coach Steve Silberman said of Tinoisamoa. "He carried us on his shoulders. You could never replace a kid like him."

Vista, the county's preseason No. 1-ranked team, finished with a 12-1 record. Torrey Pines, expected to be in a rebuilding year, finished 10-3.  The game was a rematch of last year's final, when Torrey Pines and Vista were crowned co-champions after a 21-21 tie. The tie spoiled an unbeaten season for Torrey Pines, which finished 12-0-1.

As a sophomore in 1996, Tinoisamoa helped Vista spoil Morse's unbeaten season -- the Tigers were ranked No. 23 in the nation at the time -- with a 21-16 win.

Last night's game opened the way it was expected to, with Vista's offensive line overpowering Torrey Pines on its first possession. Vista's Mike Sullivan is the county's prized recruit among offensive linemen -- Notre Dame is chasing him hard -- but the Panthers' line features another recruit in 6-3, 280-pound Edrik Contreras. With Juan Cervantes (6-3, 240), Oscar Lopez (5-8, 227) and Steven Perry (5-10, 210), the front five averages 254
pounds.

But Torrey Pines' Burke-coached teams keep games close. The Falcons capitalized on a Tinoisamoa fumble by scoring on a 27-yard pass from Bradley to senior wide receiver John Donahoe. Tinoisamoa blocked the PAT to preserve a 7-6 lead for Vista.

Torrey Pines took a 14-10 lead in the third quarter on an 8-yard pass from Bradley to senior wide receiver Andrew McCreery.

Vista rallied behind Tinoisamoa, even though he missed the final moments of the second quarter with a twisted ankle.

Vista went ahead 17-14 on a 3-yard run by Tinoisamoa in the third quarter.  The Panthers stretched the lead to 24-14 with 8:36 remaining in the fourth quarter on a 6-yard pass from quarterback Roman Ybarra to wide receiver Michael Johnson.

"I'm pleased that I could end my career this way," Tinoisamoa said. "There are a lot of great players who have played in San Diego. Maybe one day my name can be next to theirs."
 

SEMI FINALS
RANCHO BUENA VISTA        16
VISTA                                            61

Vista ready for main course at 'Q'
By Mick McGrane
STAFF WRITER
December 4, 1998

VISTA -- And now to settle the score. The top-seeded Vista Panthers, forced to accept a tie in last year's title game, advanced to their third straightCIF-San Diego Section Division I championship game last night with a 61-16pummeling of crosstown rival Rancho Buena Vista.

The win set up a rematch of last year's final between Vista and Torrey Pines, a game that ended in a 21-21 tie and prompted this remark from Falcons coach Ed Burke:
 Now it might be. Vista (11-1), co-champion of the Palomar League, and  Torrey Pines (9-2), co-champion of the Avocado League, will attempt to setttle matters in the Division I title game Tuesday night at 7 at Qualcomm Stadium. Second-seeded Torrey Pines advanced last night with a 28-14 win over Carlsbad.

 "There's really nothing more that you can say about ties except that they stink, and that one stunk," said Vista coach Steve Silberman. "It was no fun at all. It  was the most ugly feeling in the world."
The Panthers, who beat the Falcons 17-10 in Week 6 of the regular season, are in line to become the first team to claim three consecutive Division I crowns. They have lost just twice in their last 25 games.
 And at the moment, no team in the section is more aware of Vista's
 dominance than RBV. Last night's romp was the Panthers' fifth straight win over the Longhorns (9-4), who hardly needed a refresher course after being drilled by Vista 33-6 just three weeks ago.

Dominant? In the first half, Vista's defense, which had not allowed the
Longhorns more than six points in any of their previous four meetings, limited RBV to just 56 yards total offense.

Of that total, 36 came on one play, when quarterback Preston Faraimo hooked up with Andrew King to move the Longhorns into Vista territory forthe first and only time in the first half. Rancho Buena Vista posted only one first down before intermission, that coming with 7:54 left in the second quarter.

Dominant? While limiting RBV 1,000-yard rusher Arthur Orange to minus -2 yards in the first half, Vista saw its standout Pisa Tinoisamoa carry 11 timesfor 129 yards and two touchdowns, including a 50-yard run that made it 26-0  with 8:12 left in the first half. Orange finished with 11 carries for 25 yards, while Tinoisamoa finished with 13 carries for 172.

"We came into this game really pumped up, especially with it being our crosstown rival," said Tinoisamoa, who also scored the game's first touchdown on a 22-yard run. "But this just got our appetite up. Now we wan the main course."

Dominant? Vista finished with 377 yards rushing, while quarterback Roman Ybarra threw touchdown passes of 5 and 33 yards and also scored on a 1-yard sneak.

"This was just amazing," said Vista senior co-captain Mike Sullivan, a 6-foot-8, 315-pound offensive tackle. "We just have a knack for getting ourselves jacked up for this game. They took me out after we scored 54, so I guess that's what they wanted from the starters."

Meanwhile, Vista's defense, which allowed an average of just 9.2 pointsduring the regular season, continues to apply a vise-like grip to opposing offenses.
"RBV is a team that in the last two games really moved the ball well,"said
Panthers defensive coordinator Chris Hauser. "I think we're playing our best defense of the year right now, but we're going to need to continue to do that to win a championship."
 

QTR.  FINALS
WEST HILLS                            12
VISTA                                        40

Vista shakes itself in third quarter, romps
By Mick McGrane
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
November 28, 1998
VISTA -- When all-county tailback Pisa Tinoisamoa left the field with a pinched nerve in his shoulder midway through the second quarter last night, there was obvious concern on the part of the Vista Panthers.

 With such stalwarts as Bobby George and Edrik Contreras in reserve, Vista need not have been overly worried.

 George, a 5-foot-9, 170-pound junior, carried 19 times for 119 yards and Contreras, a 6-foot-3, 280-pound guard, scored on a 23-yard fumblerooskie play as the top-seeded Panthers pummeled visiting West Hills 40-12 in a CIF-San Diego Section quarterfinal game.

Defending Division I co-champion Vista (11-1) will host crosstown rival Rancho Buena Vista (9-3), a winner over Poway last night, in the semifinals at 7 p.m. on Thursday. The Panthers beat the Longhorns during the regular season 33-6.

 West Hills, which was in striking distance at the half before collapsing in the third quarter, finished the season at 8-4. The Grossmont North League champion Wolf Pack trailed just 13-12 at intermission before Vista exploded with 20 unanswered points in the third quarter.

 "We were really flat in the first half," said Panthers quarterback Roman Ybarra, who completed 9-of-12 passes for 142 yards and scored on runs of 9 and 22 yards. "That was not our kind of football. We'd have drives going and then just make a bunch of stupid mistakes or stupid penalties.

 "At halftime, we had to find it in ourselves to come back and play better football. We weren't going to let anything stop us; we were fired up."

 It showed. After taking the opening kickoff of the second half, Vista marched 73 yards in eight plays, the capper coming on a 6-yard scoring run by Kyle Schoonover. The drive, which featured eight straight runs, including six carries for 60 yards by George, gave the Panthers a 20-12 lead.

 "We didn't have our game face on in the first half, but the coaches really challenged us at halftime," George said. "We had to take it to them, and we did. With Pisa down, we knew we had to step it up, and we did."

 Tinoisamoa, a running back-linebacker who has been bothered by a stinger for a good portion of the season, returned to the game in the second half but did not play on the offensive side of the ball. He had 16 carries for 71 yards in the first half.

 But to overlook the Panthers defense in this affair would be a serious affront. Vista, which features the best pass defense in the Palomar League, limited West Hills quarterback Monty Duke to 101 yards on 5-of-11 passing before Duke was replaced by Tanner Engstrand with 2:45 left in the third quarter. Duke, who completed 20-of-32 for 294 yards and six touchdowns in a 39-14 win over Bonita Vista last week, was sacked five times.

 "Our defense did an outstanding job," Silberman said. "We blew one play right at the beginning of the game (when Duke hit DeAndre Harrington with an 80-yard touchdown pass), but other than that I thought we were just super. It was just a great effort.

PALOMAR LEAGUE GAMES

WEEK NO. 10
VISTA                                        33
RANCHO BUENA VISTA      6

Vista drubs rival to share league title
 

Mick McGrane
STAFF WRITER
San Diego Union Tribune

14-Nov-1998 Saturday

VISTA -- Though the holiday season may be fast approaching, don't expect the Vista Panthers to be swept up in the spirit of giving.  Last year's CIF-San Diego Section Division I co-champion, top-ranked Vista
was once again forced to share a title last night when it drubbed cross-town rival and sixth-ranked Rancho Buena Vista 33-6.

And while the win gave the Panthers a piece of the Palomar League crown, a prize shared by unranked Poway, Vista (9-1, 4-1) has just about had itsfill of co-existing as a co-champion.

"I'm really tired of being co-something," said Panthers coach Steve Silberman, whose team won its third straight league title. "I'd like tojust win it outright for a change, but we keep finding ways to mess that
up. But, given the alternative, I'd rather be `co' than not at all."

The victory was Vista's fourth straight over Rancho Buena Vista (7-3, 3-2), which entered the contest having been outscored by an average margin of20.3 points by the Panthers in the teams' last three meetings. Vista, which has lost just twice in its last 23 games, has not allowed Rancho Buena
Vista to score more than six points in any of their meetings the last four years.

As was the case a week earlier against Poway, Vista struck with alarming quickness last night, as all-county standout Pisa Tinoisamoa sprinted 80 yards for a touchdown on the first play of the game.

Just 42 seconds later, following the first of two Longhorn turnovers in the opening quarter, Tinoisamoa scored again, this time on a 2-yard run that gave the Panthers a 13-0 advantage with less than a minute gone in the game.

Tinoisamoa, who carried 11 times for 130 yards (113 of which came in the first half), also had a 60-yard touchdown run wiped out by a holding call midway through the second quarter.

"One of our goals was to get on top early and take the emotion out of the
game," Silberman said. "Because of the crosstown rivalry, there's a lot of emotion involved. When you get so up for a game like this, if things start to go wrong you can really get deflated in a hurry."

Seemingly staggered by the Panthers' startling break from the gate, Rancho Buena Vista proceeded to turn the ball over again on its second possession when Vista cornerback Johnny Hearn recorded the first of his two interceptions on the night.

But the Panthers returned the favor by fumbling on the ensuing series, a miscue that ultimately resulted in a 2-yard touchdown run by Longhorns tailback Arthur Orange, who finished with 74 yards on 13 carries.

Again, however, Vista broke RBV's back with a big play, this one coming on a 66-yard punt return by Michael Johnson that gave the Panthers a 19-6 lead with 3:25 left in the half.

"Being co-champion is something we have to live with," Johnson said. "Itwas our fault that we lost to Rancho Bernardo, and we have no one else to blame. But we don't care who we have to face in the playoffs. If we come out and play solid football, then everything else will take care of itself.

"Getting a third league title is nice, but we're looking for a third CIF title, too. We're not satisfied yet."

WEEK NO. 9
POWAY                                    0
VISTA                                    38
 
 

WEEK NO. 8
VISTA                                    43
MT. CARMEL                      16

Panthers' late burst humbles Sundevils
By Mick McGrane
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

SAN DIEGO -- The top-ranked Vista Panthers have learned that the roadback to prominence -- particularly that section of road that runs through the Palomar League -- is rife with peril.  Just ask the Mt. Carmel Sundevils.
     Vista, stripped of its No. 1 ranking two weeks ago when it was ambushed by Rancho Bernardo, left destruction in its wake and the Sundevils in its rear-view mirror last night, exploding for 29 unanswered points in the fourth quarter en route to a 43-16 win.
     The Panthers, who improved to 7-1 overall and 2-1 in
league play, trailed 16-14 going into the final period.
"Our offensive line has been great, and as long as we're getting stops on defense, we know we're going to put it together on offense," said Vista coach Steve Silberman. "We made a lot of bonehead penalty mistakes that cost us early in the game, but once we settled down we started moving the ball. And let's face it, Pisa just took the game over."
     Pisa would be Panthers' all-county standout Pisa Tinoisamoa, who on this night did little to tarnish his reputation as the finest all-around player in the section.
For the record, Tinoisamoa, last year's Palomar League MVP, merely rushed 20 times for 161 yards and two touchdowns, threw a 28-yard touchdown pass and returned a fumble 27 yards for another score.
     Tinoisamoa, who is averaging 105.7 yards per game, had 17 yards at  halftime. Not surprisingly, the Panthers trailed 13-6.  "He just said, 'OK, enough of this, let's go,' " Silberman said.
     Mt. Carmel (0-3, 2-6), which lost its fourth straight, built its lead at intermission on field goals of 46 and 42 yards by Kevin Wilson and a screen pass to running back Brian Lonestar that went 58 yards for a touchdown.
     But the Sundevils, which entered the game averaging 212.6 yards rushing, the second-best mark in the Palomar League, never got their running game untracked. Mt. Carmel had 12 yards rushing at halftime and finished with just
55 for the game.
     "We had good practices all week," said Vista defensive lineman Ricky Burnside. "It was frustrating to get down like we did, but we came back. Our defense clicks like one heartbeat. There's no standout players, it's just the whole team.
     "When we were on the sideline, we told ourselves we had to stop them (in thesecond half). We had to get the intensity up."
     Vista has outscored its last two opponents 91-23 since losing for the first time in 18 games.
     "Every week is a new week," said Silberman. "It doesn't matter what you've done the week before, it's what you do tonight. I think our focus has been a lot better since the loss.  We need to maintain our consistency for four
quarters. If we do that, we can be a pretty good team."

	1	2	3	4	Final
Vista	0	6	8	29	43
Mt. Carmel	10	3	3	0	16

WEEK NO. 7
VISTA                                     48
SAN MARCOS                       7

Panthers rebound with win.
Will Courtney
North County Times
VISTA--The Vista H  igh football team entered Friday night's football game in last place in the Palomar League, so it had something to prove to its homecoming crowd.
     After getting upset last week by Rancho Bernardo and subsequently losing its top ranking to the Broncos in their league opener, the Panthers took their frustrations out on San Marcos with a 48-7 whipping in a Palomar League Game at Dick Haines Stadium.
     "We know we're the best team in the county, we just need to play like it every week," said quarterback Roman Ybarra, who rebounded fro a worst-ever outing a week ago by running for three touchdowns.
      The Panthers (6-1, 1-1) flexed their muscles, showing no mercy on the Knights (1-6, 0-2) om building a 41-0 halftime lead.
     For those two quarters Vista went after San Marcos as if the Knights were a top 10 team just as the Panthers' last three opponents had been.
     The Panthers used every bit of the first 24 minutes, calling two timeouts in the final two minutes of the half and throwing three times in order to score their sixth touchdown.
     "In the middle of league we're going to go as hard as we can for the first half and the first series of the second half" Vista Coach Steve Silberman said.  "We are not out to embarass anybody.  The reserves needed to get some work in, too, and I think we got everybody in."
     The Panthers averaged over 10 yards per rush in the first half as Pisa Tinoisamoa and Ybarra each ran in two scores, and Michael Johnson and Bobby George took in one apiece.
     Johnson and Tinoisamoa participated in homecoming festivities at the half, and Johnson was crowned king.
     Knights coach Ken Broach was smiling after the game, and with good reason.  After halftime, San Marcos turned it up a notch and got running back Anthony Dupre rolling, and not just against the Vista second string.
     "The first half we played intimidate", Broach said, "The second half we started to enjoy our camaraderie and we played pretty well  in the second half."
     Dupre finished with 116 yards on 19 carries, and had a touchdown run of 48 yards in the fourth quarter.
     Tinoisamoa had 103 yards and two touchdowns on eight carries, all in the first half.  Johnson ran a reverse in from 40 yards out and George (seven carries, 51 yards) had a 6 yard TD run.
     But the player who really needed to rebound was Ybarra, who threw only eight times, completing three for 75 yards.
 

	1	2	3	4	FINAL
San Marcos	0	0	0	7	7
Vista	21	20	7	0	48

V- Tinisamoa 2 run (Stuckey kick)
V- Tinisamoa 1 run (Stuckey kick)
V- M Johnson 40 run (Stuckey kick)
V- Ybarra 12 run (Stuckey kick)
V- George 6 run (kick failed)
V- Ybarra 13 run (Stuckey kick)
V- Ybarra 1 run (Stuckey kick)
SM- Dupre 48 run (Stout kick)

WEEK NO. 6
RANCHO BERNARDO         19
VISTA                                        14
                V--Hearn 1 pass from Ybarra (kick failed)
                RB--Gorman 12 pass from Rathe (Jeffreys kick)
                RB--Willenbring 7 pass from Rathe (kick failed)
                V--Tinoisamoa 2 run (Johnson pass fromYbarra)
                RB--Willenbring 3 run (pass failed)
 
 

NORTH COUNTY CONFRENCE GAMES

WEEK NO. 5
OCT. 9, 1998
VISTA                                     17
TORREY PINES                  10

WEEK NO. 4
OCT. 2, 1998
VISTA                                    35
OCEANSIDE                        28

NON-LEAGUE GAMES

WEEK NO. 3
SEPT. 25, 1998
VISTA                                    14
MORSE                                    6

A shaky start, but usual result for Vista
Panthers' unbeaten streak goes to 15 in protecting top ranking
By Steve Brand
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
September 26, 1998

                     VISTA -- The first two times Pisa Tinoisamoa touched the ball, he fumbled. Things could only get better for the Vista High senior.  And they did as Tinoisamoa helped rally the top-ranked
Panthers to a surprisingly close 14-6 victory last night over
upset-minded Morse at Dick Haines Stadium.  Gaining 74 of his game-high 108 yards after intermission, Tinoisamoa made sure the Panthers, ranked No. 11 in the state, would collect their third straight win this year. Although Vista hasn't lost in its last 15 games, this was not the same club that hammered two Southern Section teams by a combined 93-6 score.  Tinoisamoa certainly came to life after the inauspicious start.
     "We knew we could run on these guys, but we didn't come
to play," said the 6-1, 205-pounder whose 8-yard touchdown with 10:11 remaining in the game gave the Panthers some breathing room.
     "After I fumbled twice, everyone picked me up, kept me mentally tough. This wasn't one of our better games, but give Morse some credit, they were real tough."
     Tougher than their 1-3 record indicates. The Tigers were one big play away from being able to tie but the part of the Vista game that often goes unnoticed is a young defense that bends, yet rarely breaks.  Although Morse's Marcus Dixon gained 83 yards and scored on a 4-yard run, the rest of the team rushed for just
81 yards. And the Panthers defense limited junior quarterback Barry Harris to a 3-of-15 for 23-yard passing night.
     "That guy Dixon is just as good as he looked on film," said Vista coach Steve Silberman. "I think our first two games were so easy that no matter what we told the players, they couldn't get ready for a 1-2 team.  "This game taught us a lesson."
      In very un-Vista like fashion, the Panthers matched an early Morse score with one of their own in the first quarter.  Coming back to take a lead isn't unusual for Vista, but doing it with the pass is, especially for a team known for its ball-control, ground attack.
With a receiver like Michael Johnson, though, it's easy to see why the Panthers put it up.  Down 6-0, Johnson got behind the Tigers defenders, And when Roman Ybarra hit him on the run, there was no catching the speedy Johnson, who completed the 64-yard play.
     By halftime, Ybarra was 8 of 14 for 141 yards, half of those receptions going to Johnson for 84 yards. Getting back to the Vista offense -- running the ball -- in the second  half, Ybarra finished 9 of 16 for 177 yards.
      Morse was given two golden opportunities early and cashed in the second to open the scoring.  Tinoisamoa fumbled his first carry of the night but the Vista defense was up for the challenge. When the first team All-County player fumbled again on his second rush,
Charles Jones recovered at the Vista 46.  Staying on the ground, the Tigers used a 19-yard gain by Jay Hackett to get close and Dixon punched it in from 4 yards out, giving Morse a surprising 6-0 lead.
     "I'm not too disappointed," said Morse coach John Shacklett. "We need to work on our offense and we got tired. That number 10 (Tinoisamoa) just pounded us. But we're getting better."
 

	1	2	3	4	Final
Morse	6	0	0	0	6
Vista	7	0	0	7	14

M--Dixon 4 run (pass failed)
V--Johnson 64 pass from Ybarra (Stucky kick)
V--Tinoisamoa 8 run (Stucky kick)

WEEK NO. 2
Sept. 18, 1998
VISTA                                    51
HAWTHORNE                       6

Panthers Surprised By Ease of Win
Boyce Garrison
North County Times

     VISTA-- About the last thing the Vista High football team expected was a rout.  But that's just what the Panthers accomplished friday night.
     Vista rolled to a 51-6 win over the Hawthorne Cougars, a team expected to put up a pretty serious fight for the two-time defending CIF San Diego Section Division I champs.
     But the top-ranked Panthers (2-0) got great balance on offense-218 yards rushing, 216 yds passing- and a pretty good defensive effort against a team with some pretty good skill players to make it a rout of a Hawthorne team (1-1), which racked up 35 points in its opener,
     "I thought offensively we had a chance to execute and move the football," Vista Head Coach Steve Silberman said.  "What I wasnt sure about was whether we could control their big-play guys."
     Vista did for all but one ling play, a 55 yd run by Hawthorne's Aimchinobe Echemandu, in the second quarter.  But all that did was cut Vista's Lead to 21-6.
     The Panthers, meanwhile, were moving the ball every way they tried.  Vista QB Roman Ybarra had a big night, and got it started on Vista's first possession.  He hit Michael Johnson on a corner route and Johnson ran away from the defender for a 61 yard touchdown.
     That was the first of two Ybarra-to-Johnson TD connections.  The second came on a beautiful fade pattern into the right corner of the endzone with just 11 seconds left in the first half.
     Inexplicably, Cougars head coach, Dan Robbins called time out earlier in the drive, thinking that his team could get the ball back.  But the Panthers executed the 2 minute drill with precision.
     Between the touchdown passes, Vista also got runs of 2 yds by Pisa Tinoisamoa (13 carries 91 yds) and  1 yard from Thomas Fisher, for a 28-6 halftime lead.
     Ybarra tried just one pass in the second half, a short dump of to Tinoisamoa, who rambled 56 yds to the Hawthorne 25.  Four plays later, Fisher added his second 1 yard score of the night, and Vista was cruising, 34-6.
     Ybarra looked like anyting but a quarterback making his second varsity start,
 completing 9-of-13 for 216 yards and two touchdowns.  "I really felt comfortable behind my line" Ybarra a junior, said "Once I completed a few passes, I felt we were going to throw some more.  Everything was clicking.  I expected to beat them but I didnt expect it to be this bad"
     The Panthers added three late scores, two on 10 yard runds by the speedy Bobby George, and a 37 yard field goal by Brad Stuckey.
     The Panthers' defense added three turnovers, including interceptions by Brian Roberson and Marcus Boards.
     The Cougars got just two first downs and 69 yards in the second half after earning 10 first downs and 198 yards in the first half.
 
 

	1	2	3	4	Final
Hawthorne	0	6	0	0	6
Vista	7	21	13	10	0

Individual Scoring
V- M. Johnson 61 pass from Ybarra (Stuckey kick)
V- Tinoisamoa 2 run (Stuckey kick)
V- Fisher 1 run  (Stuckey kick)
H- Echemandu 55 run (kick failed)
V- M. Johnson 8 pass from Ybarra (Stuckey kick)
V- Fisher 1 run  (run failed)
V- George 10 run (Stuckey Kick)
V- George 10 run (Stuckey Kick)
V- FG Stuckey 37
 
 

	Hawthorne	Vista
First Downs	12	18
Yards Rushing	167	218
Yards Passing	89	216
Passes	8-14-2	9-13-0
Fumbles-Lost	2-1	2-0
Yards Penalized	6-42	6-65

Individual Statistics
RUSHING- Tinoisamoa 13-91, George 7-48, Fisher 8-30, Ybarra 2-23, Moore 4-15, M. Johnson 1-11, Bride 1-0
PASSING- Ybarra 9-13-0-216
RECEIVING- M. Johnson 4-94, Roberson 2-56, Tinoisamoa 1-56, R Johnson 1-5, George 1-5.

WEEK NO. 1
Sept. 11, 1998
VISTA                                    42
RANCHO CUCAMONGA   0

PANTHERS start season with rout of Rancho Cucamonga.
Tom Saxe
North County Times.

Vista High combined a surprising varsity debut by quarterback ROMAN YBARRA with a lot of defense and a great deal of PISA TINOISAMOA on Friday night to avenge its only 1997 football loss.

Tinoisamoa rushed for 120 yds and three touchdowns on 14 carries and the two-time defending-CIF Division I Champions held host Rancho Cucamonga (0-1) to 51 yds rushing on the way to a 42-0 season opening victory at Chaffey High School.

"They obviously weren't a team they had been, but our kids really executed and played hardnosed football" Vista coach Steve Silberman said.   "I was real happy with Roman Ybarra's first varsity start.  He audibilized well, threw well, and he ran the ball well".

Vista (1-0) jumped out to a 35-0 halftime lead on a pair of 2 yd Tinoisamoa touchdown runs, a 1 yd TD run by THOMAS FISHER, GLEN MILLER'S 26 yd interception return for a touchdown and a three yd pass from Ybarra to RYAN JOHNSON.

Tinoisamoa rushed for 113 of his yards in the first half and intercepted a Rancho Cucamonga pass from his middle linebacker position for good measure.  He ran seven yards on his only carry of the second half in the third quarter to round out the scoring.

"The offensive line of EDRIK CONTRERAS, MIKE SULLIVAN, STEVE PERRY, OSCAR LOPEZ, and JUAN CERVANTES, [coached by Steve Nishimoto], really opened  the holes," Tinoisamoa said, "We had plenty of room to run."

Said defensive coordinator Chris Hauser:  "To pitch a shutout in the opener, with only 3 starters back, that was beyond my wildest dreams"

Game Summary:
 

Vista	6	29	7	0	42
Rancho Cucamonga	0	0	0	0	0