IRVINE – The finest of margins will define Buena Park’s campaign in this final week of the regular season.
The Coyotes trailed by one point at half, went up by one point and held onto a one-score lead with an interception in the end zone in the dying seconds at University High on Thursday night.
Buena Park denied Woodbridge, 22-14, to tie the Warriors for third place in the Omicron League and keep its CIF-SS playoff hopes alive into Friday.
The final automatic CIF-SS berth from the league will now be decided on this same field on Friday night, when University (3-6, 1-3) hosts Katella.
If University wins, it will force a three-way tie. With each team beating the other, Woodbridge (2-8, 2-3) will earn the automatic CIF-SS playoff bid thanks to a league coin flip that was held earlier in the week.
If University loses, Buena Park (5-5, 2-3) earns the automatic CIF-SS playoff spot with the head-to-head over Woodbridge.
Even if this ends up as the final game of the season for Buena Park, the resiliency the Coyotes showed in the second half and the fight to the finish stood out for first-year Buena Park coach Mauricio Carmona
“I’m proud of these kids,” Carmona said. “A lot of Buena Park kids got a stereotype or whatever, but they deal with a lot outside of football. So when you coach here, you got to understand it’s not just football and all that, but it’s the home life and dealing with that, single parents. The only male role models they have is in football, and I just try to give them life lessons: how they deal with adversity and things like that, because that’s going to happen in life.”
“No one’s going to give you anything. You got to go earn it, and I’m very proud of these kids because they could have came and just given up, and it’s the last game, but it mattered to them, and I’m very proud of these kids.”
Trailing by one point at halftime, 7-6, Buena Park scored on its first three possessions of the second half to take the lead and never look back.
Pedro Azpeitia hit a 17-yard field goal to put the Coyotes ahead, 9-7, and on the ensuing drive, Qwantino Ornellas intercepted Woodbridge to put Buena Park back in control.
On the short field, Elias Chavez pounded in the three-yard touchdown for a two-score lead, 15-7.
With a 26-yard burst from David Bosley and a three-yard touchdown run by Waylon Stone, Woodbridge put up an answer and elected for the point-after kick to cut the deficit to one point, 15-14.
Buena Park came right back with a 25-yard run by Chavez and a 19-yard touchdown run by Jacob Morales to stick ahead, 22-14.
Woodbridge’s next drive carried into the fourth quarter, but the Warriors were stopped on fourth down.
The Warriors got the ball back with just over three minutes remaining. Woodbridge converted a fourth down in its own territory, and two Buena Park pass interference penalties gave the Warriors a few shots at the end zone.
However, Nathan Arellano pulled in an interception for Buena Park in the final seconds to end the Woodbridge threat.
Buena Park set the tone to open the game with a relentless pass rush and a sturdy ground attack.
The Coyotes’ defense racked up four sacks in the first half from Joshua Santillan, Giovanni Villegaas, John Hernandez and Joshua Penaloza.
On the ground, Buena Park drilled down on nine straight runs on its opening drive, and Azpeitia nailed a 22-yard field goal for the lead, 3-0.
The Warriors finally broke through with a quick-strike catch and run from Stone to Bosley for a 58-yard pass, and the pair followed up on a 9-yard touchdown to take the lead, 7-3, with just under 10 minutes remaining in the first half.
Buena Park later took a short field, and Azpeitia nailed a 40-yard field goal to cut the lead to one point, 7-6, with 1:42 left in the half.
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