Chino football earns victory over South Hills with late TD – San Gabriel Valley Tribune

COVINA – In what may have been one of the wildest finishes in a high school football game this season, Chino cruised to a 21-14 victory over South Hills on Thursday night to remain undefeated in the Hacienda League.

The Huskies (4-4, 2-1), who trailed all night, tied the score on a 12-yard run by Messiah Luter with 1:11 to play.

That was just the beginning.

The Cowboys (3-5, 3-0) took the ensuing kickoff at their own 25 yards and needed just two plays to get the ball into the end zone.

Senior quarterback Max Barroso hit Nathan Pena for a 13-yard gain. Barrosa then hit CJ Gibson at full speed for a game-winning 62-yard scoring play with 40 seconds left.

It was Gibson’s second goal of the game.

“CJ is one of our great receivers,” Barrosa said. “I have a lot of trust in him and I knew he was going to have some kind of breakup and I just told him.”

Barrosa completed 10 of 15 passes for 233 yards and two touchdowns.

“Their DB was a mess compared to the previous game,” Cowboys coach Joey LaRosa said. “He had to come out, so we attacked that spot straight away and CJ scored. Our coaching staff just capitalized on it and took advantage of it.”

Those 40 seconds were almost enough for the Huskies to pull off another miracle comeback.

A halfback pass from Anthony Gonzales to Cesar Lizaola and a 15-yard penalty gave the Huskies the ball at the Cowboys’ 29-yard line with 13 seconds left.

After a Chino timeout, Nathan Sena intercepted a Huskies pass in the end zone and put the game on ice.

“We practice our two-minute drill every week,” LaRosa said. “We didn’t plan on giving the ball back so long before the end. We’re just happy to be 3-0 (in the league).”

The Cowboys scored first on a 13-yard keeper by Barroso.

After the Huskies appeared to score the game-winning touchdown with a fourth down pass, the ball was declared out of bounds by the referees.