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Dons Dodge and upset Bid
Rally Lifts Dominguez over much-improved Colts.
By David Felton, Staff Writer

CARSON - High school football games don't get much more exciting than Friday night's Dominguez-Carson nonleague contest.

And while the Dons prevailed, 32-26 in overtime, the Colts served notice that they have come all the way back from two down seasons.

Dominguez (3-0) scored the final two touchdowns of the game, including Brandon Johnson's 3-yard run in overtime. The Dons fought back from deficits of 12-0, 18-13 and 26-19 with just 5:35 left to play. Sophomore Marcus Darden (11 carries, 134 yards) added a pair of scores, including a 34-yard run that tied the score at 26. Johnson finished with 125 yards on 20 carries and three TDs.

"Somehow the kids came through," said Dominguez coach Willie Donerson.

But Carson (2-1) fought Dominguez every step of the way. The Colts, who finished 3-8 a year
ago and lost 60-7 to the Dons, scored a pair of TDs off turnovers and received tremendous efforts from juniors Jack Sula and Dominique Blackman. Sula (194 combined yards) scored on a 6-yard run in the fourth, added a 78-yard TD reception to give histeam a 26-19 lead and even tossed a 26-yard scoring pass to Ken McRoyal on a halfback pass. Blackman passed for 224 yards and a TD and ran for another. "(Sula) is one of the best players I've ever had the chance to coach," said Carson's Mike Christensen. "He's going to give you everything he's got."

After Dominguez tied the game late in the fourth, the Colts drove to the Dons 11, well within field goal range. But a pair of penalties pushed the ball back to the 22, and Christensen didn't feel comfortable attempting a field goal from nearly 40 yards.
"From the 11 we were good," he said. "But it would have ended up being (almost) a 40-yarder. We're not that good."