The Senior Varsity South Delta Sun Devils are off to the provincial AAA football semifinals after a convincing 30-8 win over Rutland last Friday night at Burnaby Lake.
South Delta will face W.J. Mouat from Abbotsford at 4 p.m. Saturday at BC Place, while Vancouver College will face Lord Tweedsmuir at 7 p.m. in the other semifinal.
Rutland gave South Delta a battle despite what the final score looked like.
Damian Dumas opened the scoring on a well blocked run from 60 yards out.
On the next possession, Rutland was able to drive the ball deep, but a fumble at the 10-yard line stopped a promising drive.
South Delta led only 7-0 at half-time.
In the second half, South Delta’s defence stepped up limiting Rutland to only 50 yards rushing.
There was no scoring in the third.
Early in the fourth quarter, Dumas struck again with a 50-yard score to make it 14-0.
Rutland put together a drive scoring a touchdown and a two-point conversion to cut the score to 14-8 with three minutes to play.
South Delta quickly responded as quarterback Dominic Dumas hit receiver Anthony de Albuquerque from 15-yards out. A successful two-point conversion made it 22-8.
With Rutland in desperation mode, a long hail Mary pass was picked off by Dominic who ran it all the way back for a touchdown.
“No doubt we were in a battle tonight and full credit to Rutland and their team they played hard and physical,” said head coach Ray Moon. “Ultimately in a tight game like this a few plays win you the game, our offence made a couple and our defence made a couple and we kept Rutland from making those explosive plays that we had seen so often on film.”
