By Ed Piper
Viking junior linebacker Wyatt Boczanowski literally went off in La Jolla's 48-42 win over Mira Mesa at Homecoming Oct. 1 with 14 tackles, nine of those solos.
Sophomore Leed Smoole, similarly, had one of his finest games with eight tackles, including four solos, against the Marauders.
The game took twists and turns, from the Vikings' dominating 21-7 start the first possession into the second quarter, to 21-21 early in the third quarter, opening up to a La Jolla surge to 40-21 after three full periods, before the last gasp by Mira Mesa to tighten the game in the final period.
Through it all, the Vikings had to depend on a defense that played with spirit on "HoCo23" (as one poster put it), though uneven in impact.
On the opposite side of the ball, besides superstar quarterback Jackson Diehl, who is quickly becoming the great story of La Jolla football 2023 (333 total yards in this one, 200 yards passing to go along with 133 yards rushing--four rushing TD's, 1 in the air), Hank "Triple H" Hansen came out of the shadows again to garner 91 yards on three receptions, with 23 yards on three carries, for a 114-yard total.
Running back Aidan "Carolina" McGill really warmed up to the home crowd, with 114 yards rushing--mostly between the tackles--and nine in the air for a 123 total. He, like Hansen, is only a junior.
Kai "Fuku" (pronounced "foo-koo", my nickname for him) Fukuda, who sat out the Mission Bay victory with an owee, caught three passes for 48 yards.
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