Spartans erupt on offense

CONCORD >> In three games this season, De La Salle has won them all, by a combined score of 10723. None of the games have been perfect, according to the DLS coaches.

But the Spartans came pretty close on Friday night, running past a good Bishop O’Dowd team 58-16 before a crowd that included former Raiders coach John Madden, who was there to see his grandson quarterback the O’Dowd junior varsity.

Madden was gone by halftime of the varsity game, as the Spartans scored 38 points in the second quarter to turn a close contest into a 44-10 rout at the break. Twenty-three of those points came during a 2:36 stretch late in the second period, when DLS scored on a 15-yard run by Henry To’oto’o, a 21-yard interception return by Isaiah Foskey, a safety on a quarterback sack in the end zone, and another To’oto’o touchdown run, this one from two yards.

It was 21-10 when De La Salle went on its run, and the Spartans scored two more second-half touchdowns before O’Dowd running back Austin Jones turned in an electrifying 80-yard run to cap the scoring.

All three four-star recruits turned in great performances. Foskey had his pick-six, To’oto’o scored both DLS offensive touchdowns during that 23-0 run, and Jones scored two touchdowns. De La Salle junior James Coby electrified the crowd by returning the second-half kickoff 89 yards for a score.

De La Salle outgained Bishop O’Dowd 426-302. But Jones, the Stanford-bound running back and one of the top high school prospects in California, accounted for 252 of those yards.