Aliso Niguel football tops El Toro in high-scoring battle ...Middle East

ALISO VIEJO — Aliso Niguel’s football team outlasted El Toro in a high-scoring win, 48-35, Saturday in a nonleague game at Aliso Niguel High.

The game was originally scheduled to take place in Week 1, but was rescheduled due to a “personnel matter” involving a Capistrano Unified School District employee.

Aliso Niguel (4-1) clicked on offense throughout the game. The Wolverines scored on each of their first four possessions of the game and had 444 yards of total offense.

Wolverines quarterback Carter Vestermark completed 17 of 24 passes for 275 yards with three passing touchdowns and a rushing touchdown. It was his third game of the season with at least four total touchdowns.

“The offensive line gave me all the time in the world,” Vestermark said. “The whole team played great.”

Aliso Niguel’s defense gave up its fair share of yardage to El Toro (2-3) but forced key turnovers to stifle potential scoring drives. Carson Etnire had two interceptions for the Wolverines and recovered a fumble.

“The offense makes it easy when they put up nearly 50. It allows the defense to play comfortably,” Etnire said. “We all executed well.”

“We were fighting through injury after injury and our kids did a great job,” Aliso Niguel interim coach Pete Mitchell said. “It’s hard to win a game if we can’t get turnovers in that nature and fortunately we did.”

Aliso Niguel led 41-21 midway through the third quarter but El Toro scored 14 unanswered points in the second half.

El Toro had momentum on its side in the fourth quarter. Aliso Niguel attempted a fake punt early in the fourth quarter but El Toro stuffed the attempt to take over possession near midfield trailing 41-35.

On the next possession, El Toro was driving down the field but fumbled and Etnire recovered to give the Wolverines the ball with 6:17 left in the game.

On third down, Devin Williams broke off a 49-yard run to give the Wolverines the ball in El Toro territory. On the next play, Vestermark threw a 24-yard touchdown pass to Dane Malloy to extend Aliso Niguel’s lead to 48-35 with under five minutes left in the game.

“El Toro was playing really well stopping the run game and we saw a little bit of an avenue and we relied on a sophomore running back (Williams) and a pieced together offensive line,” Mitchell said. “They did an outstanding job.”

Etnire got his second interception of the game on the next possession to give the Wolverines the ball with 2:51 left in the game.

Makya Chee paced El Toro’s offense with 163 yards on 17 carries with three touchdowns. Wyatt Nucci threw for 212 yards with a touchdown, two interceptions and 62 yards rushing.

Aliso Niguel jumped to a 14-0 lead after touchdown runs from Vestermark and Williams in the first quarter.

El Toro responded with a scoring drive capped by a 4-yard touchdown run by Makade Romo to cut the lead to 14-7.

Vestermark led another scoring drive and threw his first touchdown pass of the game, an 8-yard pass to Andoni Galpin to give Aliso Niguel a 21-7 lead early in the second quarter.

El Toro cut the Wolverines’ lead to seven points when Chee ran for a 17-yard touchdown to make the score 21-14.

On the ensuing kickoff, Dane Malloy returned the kick 80-yards to give Aliso Niguel a 14-point lead.

Chee added another rushing touchdown for El Toro in the first half. Asher Youderian made two field goals for Aliso Niguel in the first half. Etnire intercepted an El Toro pass and returned it 56 yards to set up Youderian’s second field goal as time expired in the first half with Aliso Niguel leading 34-21.

Vestermark accounted for 215 of Aliso Niguel’s 258 total yards in the first half.

Aliso Niguel opened the second half with a 70-yard touchdown pass from Vestermark to Malloy to extend the lead to 41-21. Malloy caught five passes for 134 yards and two touchdowns.

Troy Tedtaotao led El Toro in receiving with 105 yards on six receptions. Matthew Arroyo had a touchdown reception for the Chargers. Achilles Segura, Malachi Mena and Devon Costic each had sacks for El Toro.

Cash Jackson had a sack for Aliso Niguel and Makai Patopoff had multiple tackles for a loss.

Aliso Niguel has been playing without head coach Michael Calahan the past four games who has been away from the team due to a personal matter. Mitchell, defensive coordinator Tony Tantiyawut and former Dana Hills head coach Phil Skinner have been running the team in Calahan’s absence.

“Words can’t describe how proud we are to be in the situation that we are in with everything the team has gone through,” Mitchell said. “The kids get to see the reward for all the hard work they have put in while fighting through some irregular things.”

Calahan is expected to be back on the sidelines on Friday, Oct. 3, when Aliso Niguel opens Foxtrot League play against Dana Hills.

El Toro opens Iota League play Friday, Oct. 3, at home against Canyon.

Chee ran for a school-record 383 yards with four touchdowns last season when El Toro beat Canyon 63-35.

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