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Vacaville Christian rolls against North Hills By Reporter Sports Staff

Vacaville Christian’s Anthony Negrete (2) runs a kickoff back for a touchdown against North Hills in the first quarter of Friday night’s football game. (Ryan Chalk/The Reporter)
Vacaville Christian High School’s football team continued to put up big offensive numbers, but found three new ways to score during a 69-0 homecoming rout against North Hills of Vallejo Friday night.
Taylor Boe opened the scoring for the Falcons by returning an interception 30 yards for a touchdown, the first defensive score this year for Vacaville Christian. Anthony Negrete returned a Golden Eagles’ punt 75 yards for a touchdown. And kicker Kyle Welsh nailed the school’s first-ever field goal, hitting one from 18 yards out just before halftime.
Vacaville Christian scored many points the more traditional way by piling up 416 yards of total offense. The Falcons shared the rushing load and racked up 291 yards. Quarterback Ben Ojeda was 5-for-5 passing for 125 yards.
Kwuan Strong had touchdown runs of 4 and 17 yards. Trevor Moheit scored three times with runs of 9, 8 and 3 yards. Scott Goodrich got into the scoring column with a 10-yard touchdown run. Ojeda hooked up with receiver Michael Mapili on a 70-yard touchdown pass.
Strong was the leading rusher with seven carries for 81 yards.
Vacaville Christian improved to 6-1 overall and 2-0 in the Sacramento Metro Athletic League. The Falcons will host Foresthill next Friday.
“It was definitely exciting getting our first defensive touchdown, our first special teams touchdown and our first field goal,” assistant coach Bruce Pielstick said. “In the second half we played all our backups and they really stepped up.”
The Falcons led 22-0 after the first quarter and 49-0 at halftime. Vacaville Christian substituted heavily in the second half and still managed to score an additional 20 points.
Kyle Allen also had an interception. The Falcons now have 17 for the season. Vacaville Christian also recovered two fumbles.
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