By David A. Willauer-Contributing Writer-John Carroll Stadium-Oceanside High School-Oceanside, CA-Friday, November November 8, 2024: In last year's CIF Playoff contest the Nighthawks of Del Norte defeated the visiting Pirates of Oceanside at by a 26-11
It was a different scenario Friday night on the facilities of Oceanside High as the Pirates at 7-4 took an early 21-0 lead on Joe Vinup's 142 yards passing threw a 39 yard pass to teammate Ayden Goodwin, followed by leading rusher Nick Letulli's 106 yards rushing scored his first touchdown on a 32 yarder. Dave Daniels followed on a 97 yard run for a TD.
The NIghthawks of Del Norte 7-4 came back to cut the lead at 7 to 21-14 as quarterback Diesel Taylor threw for 184 yards and 2 touchdown passes 1 of 6 yards to Anthony Taylor along with a 31 yards to Braxton Jones (68 yards receiving)
The Pirates went up at 28-14 as Joe Vinup threw a 27 yard pass to Kymani Nua (32 yards receiving). Diesel Taylor for Del Norte connected on a 31 yarder to Anthony Taylor (180 yards receiving) who scored his 2nd touchdown to cut the Pirate lead at 28-21.
It was a run and gun offense for both squads as Oceanside scored their last touchdown as tailback Kyman Nua scored on a 3 yard run put the Pirates up 35-21.
All the rest was for Del Norte as David Taylor connected to teammate Anthony Taylor for the third time for 21 yards cut the Pirate lead within 7.
Ryan Remegio 106 yards rushing scored 2 touchdowns of 13 yards each including the game winner made the final score 42-35 in favor of the Nighthawks.
Former Green Bay Packers and current Del Norte head football coach Nick Barnett "A great job by our defense they stepped up for, we didn't play the way we wanted to at the beginning, we found a way on how to pick up the win and we did."
"We keyed in on NIck Letulli as Oceanside has an excellent ballclub and we knew it was going to be a battle as I tell my guys if we go down we still have to fight and to keep going for us to win." "For us to play San Marcos next round we have to prepare ourselves like we do for every contest is to work hard
Del Norte will travel to San Marcos in a Division I quarter final game on Friday
It was a different scenario Friday night on the facilities of Oceanside High as the Pirates at 7-4 took an early 21-0 lead on Joe Vinup's 142 yards passing threw a 39 yard pass to teammate Ayden Goodwin, followed by leading rusher Nick Letulli's 106 yards rushing scored his first touchdown on a 32 yarder. Dave Daniels followed on a 97 yard run for a TD.
The NIghthawks of Del Norte 7-4 came back to cut the lead at 7 to 21-14 as quarterback Diesel Taylor threw for 184 yards and 2 touchdown passes 1 of 6 yards to Anthony Taylor along with a 31 yards to Braxton Jones (68 yards receiving)
The Pirates went up at 28-14 as Joe Vinup threw a 27 yard pass to Kymani Nua (32 yards receiving). Diesel Taylor for Del Norte connected on a 31 yarder to Anthony Taylor (180 yards receiving) who scored his 2nd touchdown to cut the Pirate lead at 28-21.
It was a run and gun offense for both squads as Oceanside scored their last touchdown as tailback Kyman Nua scored on a 3 yard run put the Pirates up 35-21.
All the rest was for Del Norte as David Taylor connected to teammate Anthony Taylor for the third time for 21 yards cut the Pirate lead within 7.
Ryan Remegio 106 yards rushing scored 2 touchdowns of 13 yards each including the game winner made the final score 42-35 in favor of the Nighthawks.
Former Green Bay Packers and current Del Norte head football coach Nick Barnett "A great job by our defense they stepped up for, we didn't play the way we wanted to at the beginning, we found a way on how to pick up the win and we did."
"We keyed in on NIck Letulli as Oceanside has an excellent ballclub and we knew it was going to be a battle as I tell my guys if we go down we still have to fight and to keep going for us to win." "For us to play San Marcos next round we have to prepare ourselves like we do for every contest is to work hard
Del Norte will travel to San Marcos in a Division I quarter final game on Friday
