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Kalani Takase | ScoringLiveNovember 26, 2021, 11:45pm
Fri, Nov 26, 2021 @ Waialua [ 7:00 pm ]
WAIALUA — Still get chance.
Sefo Feesago passed for 227 yards and three touchdowns to lead Pearl City to a 22-17 road win over Waialua at Toshiyuki Nakasone Field Friday night.
With the win the Chargers (4-3 overall, 4-2 league) remain within a game of second-place Radford (5-1) with two weeks remaining in the Oahu Interscholastic Association Division II regular season.
The Bulldogs (2-4) lost for the fourth time in their last five games.
The home team scored first midway through the first quarter with a 35-yard field goal by Lasse Stolten, but the visitors turned the tide with a 16-point second stanza, including a pair of 10-yard Feesago touchdown passes.
Pearl City's first score began with a big defensive play when Dorian Payton-Sherman sacked Waialua quarterback Tyson Apau for a 14-yard loss on the final play of the first quarter; it was also the opening play of the drive for the Bulldogs, who went three-and-out and punted.
After a 13-yard punt return by Josiah Calderon to cross midfield, Feesago got to work. He completed a 8-yard pass to Bradley Kansou on first down. After a dropped pass on second-and-2, Feesago connected with Joshua Gleason for a 4-yard pick-up and a third-down conversion.
Feesago scurried for 11 yards on a quarterback draw and then completed his next two passes — both of them to Kansou — for gains of 1 and 13 yards to set-up first-and-goal from the 10. On the very next play, Feesago found Gleason on a post pattern for a 10-yard touchdown with eight minutes and 23 seconds left in the second quarter.
The Chargers mishandled the snap on the extra point and Ryan Littlejohn's impromptu pass fell incomplete. Their 6-3 lead was answered by the Bulldogs, who drove 80 yards in just six plays on their ensuing possession, which culminated with Ezekiel Sheridan's 58-yard touchdown run. Stolten's PAT made it a 10-6 lead for Waialua with 5:53 until halftime.
Pearl City then orchestrated a 10-play, 78-yard drive that took nearly five minutes off the clock and included three third-down conversions. Feesago's 10-yard TD pass to Kansou in the back of the end zone came on third-and-8. After Marcus Rodriguez added the extra point, the Chargers lead was 13-10 with 48 seconds on the clock.
Not only did Waialua go three-and-out on its ensuing drive, it had the misfortune of an errant long snap over the head of Sheridan, the punter, and result in a 14-yard loss. As a result, Pearl City got the ball in the red zone — on the 18 — with three seconds left.
After a timeout to discus their options, the Chargers opted to send Rodriguez out for a 35-yard field goal from the right hash. Rodriguez, who missed from 42 yards in the first quarter, made good on his second attempt to give his team a 16-10 lead at the intermission.
"That field goal was big," Pearl City coach Robin Kami said. "I think it was fourth down and we called a timeout so hopefully we could get a punt return or we were gonna try a last-second Hail Mary, but since the bad snap, that gave Marcus a chance to go make a field goal."
Waialua got a 38-yard return from Sheridan on the kickoff to open the second half and set-up shop from midfield. It picked up a pair of first downs and got to the Chargers' 27-yard line before Apau was intercepted by Pearl City's Jake Ginoza at the 15; He returned it 14 yards to the 29-yard line.
On the very next play after the change of possession, Feesago completed a short pass just beyond the line of scrimmage to Gleason, who raced down the right sideline and turned it into a 31-yard gain. Three play after that, the same pair hooked up for a 9-yard pass to move the chains on third-and-5. Feesago then found a wide-open Rodriguez for a 26-yard TD pass on the ensuing play. The two-point conversion was no good and Pearl City held a 22-10 lead with 6:33 left in the third quarter.
"That was big because the momentum changed," Kami said of the takeaway-turned-touchdown. "They were driving on us and we stopped the drive and then we scored on them."
Waialua made it a one-possession game again with Blazen Benz's 1-yard TD run on fourth-and-goal with 7:49 to play in the game. After the 13-play, 65-yard scoring drive, Stolten tacked on the PAT to pull Waialua within 22-17.
The Bulldogs forced a punt and got the ball back at their own 18-yard line with 2:47 left. They drove to the Chargers' 30-yard line and appeared to have scored the go-ahead touchdown with under 10 seconds to play on a deflected pass from Apau that found the hands of Benz in the end zone, but it was negated by a penalty for an ineligible receiver downfield. That backed them up five yards, where they had two chances from the 35. Apau's first pass fell incomplete and left 1.1 second on the clock.
On the final play of the game, Apau lined up in the shotgun and in an empty set with three receivers to the left of the formation and two right. He looked right as he dropped back, before he fired a pass to the left in the direction of both Gino Coyle and James Zara, but there were also four defenders in the area and Apau's pass fell incomplete to preserve the win for Pearl City.
Kami said it was just the type of game he expected out of the Bulldogs.
"Oh yeah, it's Division II, it's always a tight game down to whoever has the ball last, the last series and every time we play Waialua we always get down to the last series of the game," he said.
Pearl City finished with 316 yards of total offense. Gleason recorded eight catches for 129 yards, while Feesago finished 18-of-26 passing without an interception; His three TD passes were to three different receivers.
"Sefo is actually a defensive end, but he's a clutch quarterback," Kami said. "He reads the defense well, he plays smart, he's conservative, so he tries to maintain the game and run the clock."
Caleb Kaai ran for a 71 yards on 13 carries for the Chargers, who tallied 19 first downs. They were 5 of 11 on third downs and 1 of 2 on fourth downs.
Waialua posted 266 total yards and was 4 of 12 on third downs, 2 of 4 on fourth downs. Twelve of its 18 total first downs came after halftime.
The teams combined for just nine penalties: Pearl City was flagged five times for 40 yards and Waialua drew four penalties for 30 yards.
The Chargers will host McKinley Friday and Kalani on Dec. 10 and must win both games — and get some help from some other teams — to keep their playoff hopes alive.
"Yeah, pretty much do or die. I mean, you never know, we still get chance," Kami remarked. "Everybody gotta win out and then we gotta do our part, so we couldn't worry about nobody else, but we just had to win out as Pearl City."
The Bulldogs will play at Nanakuli Friday before closing against Kaimuki at Farrington's Edward ‘Skippa' Diaz Stadium on Dec. 10.
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