GRANTS, N.M. - The Grants high School Pirates played a very strong game at home last week as they soundly defeated the Rio Grande Ravens 47-6.
The Pirates not only scored every quarter they held the Ravens to 6 points in that game.
“The kids played great,” said GHS head football coach Gene Riedinger.
“Our offensive line did a great job,” said Riedinger. “Our defensive line also did outstanding.”
Scoring 3 rushing touchdowns for the Pirates was Julian “JuJu” Fernandez followed by 2 touchdowns by Rey Chavira and Colin Lundstrom with 1 touchdown.
“I feel like I played great against them—could have done a lot better— got stuff to improve on though to get to better,” said Fernandez with a career high of 194 rushing yards in that game.
Freshman quarterback Antanacio Gallegos found Ryan Rael for a 25 yard passing touchdown.
“I felt pretty good about that game—we did our job. It was a good overall team effort,” said Gallegos of that game.
According to Coach Riedinger the Ravens did focus on stopping the passing game and played very hard.
The Pirates advance to 2-1 and the Ravens drop to 0-4, 0-2.
Next up for the Pirates will be a very different Albuquerque Metro team the Manzano Monarchs (1-3,1-1).
Riedinger said of the upcoming game, “They are big—it should be a good game.”
Gametime is 7pm at the Port of the Pirates.
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The Laguna-Acoma Hawks football team is 1-3 after a 22-6 loss to Santa Fe Indian School (31). Next up for the Hawks will be Crownpoint (2-2) at home on September 25.
The GHS volleyball team participated in a recent tournament and is currently 2-8 after defeating Bernalillo (3-5) 3-1on September 8 and then losing to Alamogordo (3-5) and then losing to Hobbs (35 ) by a score of 3-1 on that same day.
Next up for the Lady Pirates is a home game against Valley High School (2-5) on September 19.
The Laguna-Acoma volleyball team is 4-3 after defeating Zuni (24) by a score of 3-1 and Bosque (26) by a score of 3-1 last week.
Next up for the Lady Hawks is Zuni again at home on September 24.
The GHS Lady Pirate soccer team is 2-7 after a 2-1 loss to Gallup (1-6) on September 8 and a 3-0 loss to Bloomfield (7-0) on September 10. Next up for the Pirates Kirtland Central (4-5) on the road on September 15.
The GHS boys soccer team had their first win last week as they defeated Gallup 5-1.
Roberto Arredondo and Glade Gerber had 2 goals apiece and Eli Chavez had 1 goal. In a subsequent game on September 10 they tied 0-0 with Bloomfield (3-5-1).
Next up for the Pirates is a game against Kirtland Central (17-1) at home on September 15. Currently the Pirates are 1-5-3.