MARTIN S. FUENTES/LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL | Foothill's Kyle Keplinger (21) carries the ball on Friday against Las Vegas. Keplinger ran for one score, caught a pass for another and had a 47-yard punt return to set up a third touchdown in a 27-20 win over the Wildcats.
POSTED: Friday November 13, 2009
Las Vegas 7 0 7 6 –20
FH—Keplinger 26 pass from Riggin (Charlton pass from Riggin).
LV—Victor 1 run (kick failed).
FH—Killebrew 22 interception return (Hui kick).
PASSING—Foothill, Riggin 30-48-1 270. Las Vegas, Henderson 16-30-1 284, Daniels 1-2-0 (minus 2).
RECEIVING—Foothill, Garner 10-115, Keplinger 8-100, Gates 6-15, Afoa 4-20, Waitkus 1-13, Charlton 1-7. Las Vegas, Butler 7-115, Major 4-99, Victor 3-20, Daniels 1-31, Rogers 1-19, Prieto 1-(minus 2).
The Falcons made the best of it Friday night, pulling off 27-20 upset victory of Northeast League champion Las Vegas in the Sunrise Region quarterfinals.
Miles Killebrew picked off a pass from Wildcats’ quarterback Hasaan Henderson and returned it 22 yards for a score with 1:03 remaining to give Foothill the victory.
Las Vegas, winners of the Sunrise Region title for the past six seasons, finished the year at 8-2.
“I probably should send Green Valley a bouquet of flowers,” Foothill coach Martin Redmond said. “Our kids believed all week that they could pull this off and — what a performance. It’s not the biggest win in school history, but it’s pretty close.”
“I got the call from the secondary and just made the play on the ball,” said Killebrew, who was untouched on the winning score. “No one gave us a chance except our team and our fans. It was certainly against all odds, and our team turned in an amazing performance.”
Las Vegas did have one final chance, after Farrell Victor’s kickoff return to the Wildcat 49. On third-and-22, Henderson found Saeveon Butler for 44 yards to the Falcon 19. Two plays later, Henderson hit Victor for 15 yards and the Wildcats were knocking at the Foothill 4 with 12 seconds left.
But Henderson, with his team out of timeouts, ran a draw and was tackled two yards shy of the end zone on the game’s final play.
“This is truly an amazing feeling,” Redmond said. “Our defense was outstanding and turned in a gutsy performance. I’m excited for these kids and for our school.”
Foothill’s Kyle Keplinger ran for one score, caught a pass for another and had a 47-yard punt return to set up a third touchdown.
Foothill (6-5) came in with a gameplan: Short passes to keep the ball away from the Wildcat offense. It worked, as the Falcons held the ball for nearly 19 minutes of the first half to narrowly trail 7-6 at halftime.
The Wildcats, who scored touchdowns on their initial possessions of each half, pushed the lead to 14-6 as Butler caught a 1-yard TD pass from Henderson. The Falcons answered by going 80 yards in seven plays, capped off by Parker Riggin’s 26-yard TD pass to Keplinger. Riggin hooked up with Connor Waitkus for the two-point conversion, tying the game at 14-14.
Early in the fourth quarter, Foothill grabbed its first lead of the night on Riggin’s 4-yard TD pass to Tyrel Garner. Victor scored from one yard out with just over eight minutes left, but Michael Flores’ missed extra point kept the score tied at 20.
Riggin completed 30 of 48 passes for 270 yards, with Garner and Keplinger combining for 225 receiving yards.
Henderson was 16 of 30 for 284 yards. Butler caught seven balls for 115 yards.
The win moves the Falcons into next week’s semifinal at Basic, a 24-17 winner over Desert Pines on Friday.
uhm, we had a touchdown, it was frkn in the field not outaa bounce. even one of the refs said so; AND HE WAS THE ONE RIGHT IN FRONT OF IT. we shoula wonnn. everyone i sjust mad cause vegas beats everyone in sports. ha. i love my school gooo cats;)
CAMPAS # 51 ALL THE WAY <33:D
GO LVHS WILDCATS! WE GOT THIS NEXT YEAR:D<33
Nevadapreps.com just made you look stupid! You better check out the small school coverage today and read the RJ sports! The rual small schools do not often get the coverage that the local city schools do. Reporters are kind of lazy and do not like to travel outside the city limits! Moapa has always had good teams they are a football school. Go to the NIAA page and see how many championships they have been to and won! Foothill had a good run this year but I sorry to break it to you but their season ends Friday night. Moapa had a really good JV team this year also. They will have good teams for a long time. You should be worried when they move up. It is a right of passage to play at Moapa! If it will make you feel better we will move to our own page, you non football playing cry baby! If I were you I would quit writing comments until you learn to write properly! If you are an example of Foothill academics then you are sad excuse!
IF YOU'RE SO GOOD, WHY AREN'T THEY WRITING ABOUT YOU ON NEVADAPREPS.COM? QUIT POSTING YOUR B.S. ON THE 1 OUT OF 2 4A SCHOOLS YOU BEAT THIS YEAR! DON'T HATE BECAUSE FOOTHILL IS STILL ALIVE IN THE CLASS 4A PLAYOFFS. GO WIN YOUR 3A CHAMPIONSHIP AND LEAVE ALL YOUR WHINY COMMENTS OFF FOOTHILL'S ARTICLES. I SWEAR, THE LAST ARTICLES WHERE FOOTHILL IS MENTIONED IN A WIN, THE SAME DUDE COMMENTS ON HOW 'MOAPA BEAT FOOTHILL' ON THE REAL, SO WHAT??? THE NIAA WONT BRING YOU UP UNTIL 2011 AND BY THEN YOUR SCHOOL WILL HAVE LOST ALL YOUR 'GREAT PLAYERS' AND YOU'LL BE KING OF 3A ONCE AGAIN.
Moapawho, Why don't you go ask the Foothill coach how good Moapa is? Go to one of their games. Moapa could beat two-thirds of the Las Vegas Teams with twice the student enrolment! You have never even seen them paly but yet you spout off about them! I bet you are not even a football player! I bet you have to pay to get into to the games and/or you are a male cheerleader not even good enough to be the teams student equipment manager! You must be the child of a politician with all the bull you write!
Moapa Valley lovers....no one believes you about how good you are, no one cares about you...and you'll never be on the level of the big boys. With all your blogs(probably the same person) about how great you think you are I'd swear you sound like a politician.
waaah waaah waaah... still crying? LAS VEGAS HIGH SCHOOL IS ON VACATION!!! Foothill is still alive. DEAL WITH IT!!!
Sorry to say but this game was just bs. One of the referees was a foothill football player father refeeing at this game. The niaa states that there should be no relative refeeing any games that a relative is involved in. Foothill should be disqualified!
Sorry to say but this game was just bs. One of the referees was a foothill football player father refeeing at this game. The niaa states that there should be no relative refeeing any games that a relative is involved in. Foothill should be disqualified!
all i can say is...i think foothill wanted it more.
vegas, your a great team, you guys have a ton of potential, but you dont live up to it.
you can blame whatever you want for loosing that game, but the fact is, you played a horrible game against a horrible team. and they rose to the occasion and took advatage of it. never in a million years did i think that would be my last football game of hs thou.
foothill..congrats... 1.. why didnt the wildcats run more?? the running game was doing great. 2..henderson needs to stay in the pocket. the oline gave him tons of time. 3..what was with that missed extra point call?? it was clearly in...4 the running back didnt step out.. he scored...5 it was rumored that the refs didnt want ot but wanted to go home due to cold temps... vegas was by far better... i give all props to foothill. you brought the fight.. it was sad to see vegas lose.. vegas vs gorman woulda been spectacular... i hope henderson and victor learned cuz these two kids have something special... hopefully the recieve proper coaching..
Hey Mr. "Its a fluke", I am niether a Moapa fan or a Foothill fan, I was at the game and Foothill got their lunch eaten that night by a 3A school! Foothill barely beat Bonanza who only won 3 games all year and the only reason they beat Bonanza was that the Bonanza runners could not hang onto the ball. I say it is a fluke that Foothill has even made it this far into the playoffs. Why would a team not play half of their players, get a big lead then put the 2nd and 3rd team in to get them some playing time? You just did not have your big running back playing that night! Moapa surprised you! Jumped out to a big lead, then your coach paniced and could not coach from behind! You are not even on the football team! You are in the PEP band! Your only contribution to the team is to try and defend them on a blog! Foothill and Moapa were playing for pride!(overall records)! Everyone plays the game to win and Moapa won that night! Quit making excuses!
Oh come on! Half their team wasn't playing? I find that a little hard to believe. So you're saying they threw the game and didn't care if the rest of Las Vegas knew about it. Come on man. No team in Vegas is gonna sit half their team and lose to a small 3A school. It just looks too bad. Lots of Vegas school wont play Moapa because they dont want to lose and hurt their rep. And you play for something every night. Come on buddy get real, Moapa took it to Foothill, you're just in denial. HA!
No way! There are cousins playing against eachother? Wow, I really want to go now! If you are going to say something like that, it better be Jamal and Ray Lewis playing against eachother.
Are you guys aware that next weeks game Basic vs Foothill has cousins playing against each other.
Quarterbacks Keplinger and Dobbins are second cousins!!
45-13 is a fluke. Foothill didn't play HALF of its starting players on both sides of the ball that night and you guys think that your win was something? Did Foothill and Moapa play for something that night? I'm confused. No, they didn't. The only reason why Moapa was even on these 4A schedules was to give your school some experience. No doubt, Moapa won but c'mon who really cares? You're playing Boulder City and Virgin Valley on the weekends... you get real. Move up to 4A, get smashed.
Hey Mr. "hmmm" last time I checked 45-13 isn't a fluke. Come on buddy get real. MV83 I couldn't agree more. I was also at that scrimmage and Moapa dominated. Can anyone say three peat? State Champs again!
What most Vegas people do not understand about Moapa Football is that it is alot like HS football in Texas. Moapa could travel 3 hours and have more fans in the stands than the home team. Moapa plays a 4A schedule during preseason against Utah and Vegas teams. Moapa is one of the most well coached and disiplined teams you will ever play! They do lose some games but they never get blown out! Moapa has several kids playing football at D1 schools. Football is not a game in Moapa it is a way of life! I saw their scrimmage against Del Sol and Bonanza this year and they man-handled both! Be careful what you wish for LV schools because these corn fed, steak eating, haybale bucking Moapa kids could embarrass you and ruin your season on any given night. They will not be a team you can take lightly! This would also include Truckee and Fernly! Virgin Valley and Boulder City will be out place in 4A but not Moapa.
Okay guys here's how it goes. Foothill beats Basic. Thats all there is to it. Foothill is comming back with revenge so prepared to get CRUSHED BASIC! And tecnically we would have tied our game, but the ref's were byest. and basic knows it.
all I can say is wow. Vegas had so much more skill than foothill and were what looked to be a way better team. But it goes to show that a team with heart will beat a cocky team any day even though they weren't as "talented" as vegas. Goodjob to foothill. Vegas needs some team reconstruction to bring heart back into the program.
aaawww how cute! foothill beat vegas! [well i do have to say congrats foothill on the win!]...but i it looks like you guys are going to come up short again when you face Basic again! and get ready to lose again!!!!!! but this time, BASIC IS GOING TO SMASH!!!!! [by the way..pay back is a b!+
It doesnt matter foothill season will com to an end! Foothill will not go to basic and beat them... The wolves are just to good this year.... Basic is 2 points away from being 11-0. Dont get me wrong foothill is a good team but basic is a great team!
Moapa would win the Sunrise this year.
here's what that means... FLUUUUKE. Moapa sucks.
Here's what this means! Move the 3A's to 4A, because Moapa has proved they belong. And stop this crazy three teered system to the state finals. With the number of schools we have, it should be a simple four way bracket. With 3 schools advancing from the south and 1 from the north.
Because football games are played by kids on football fields, not us geeks on computer keyboards telling everyone how we know everything.
ALL I CAN SAY IS THAT I AM SHOCKED AND BEWILDERED BY THIS GAME. HOW IN THE WORLD CAN FOOTHILL GETS SMOKED BY MOAPA VALLEY, BUT YET THEY BEAT THE WILDCATS?
Foothill beats Vegas. Moapa Valley smokes Foothill. What does that mean? Does that mean Moapa's win over Foothill was a fluke because their "star" RB was not playing? I'm just making an observation here. I also know that most of the comments you guys get on articles are from Moapa fans wanting respect. I think it's time to show some. What do you think?
Foothill beats Vegas. Moapa Valley smokes Foothill. What does that mean? Does that mean Moapa's win over Foothill was a fluke because their "star" RB was not playing? I'm just making an observation here. I also know that most of the comments you guys get on articles are from Moapa fans wanting respect. I think it's time to show some. What do you think?
yeah baby!!! Foothill all the way!!!
Great. Game. Foothill FTW!!
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