One week after their season-opening game against Pittsburg High was canceled due to the Caldor and Dixie Fires in Northern California, the Serra Padres unloaded on the Palo Alto Vikings. All the pent-up energy and frustration reflected the scoreboard with four minutes left in the first half. QB Dominique Lampkin with his star-studded offense scored on every single possession on the ground and in the air five total times. It would’ve been six but with a little over two minutes left in the half, with the ball just outside the 10-yard line, head football coach Patrick Walsh ordered his field general to genuflect twice to drain the game clock into halftime.
The Vikings’ offense had trouble weathering the “Padre Blizzard” in the first half. They finally got a first down with 1:06 left in the first quarter. A series of sacks and TFLs starting Soane Siolo, KC Clark, Danny Niu, Sam Goligoski, and Andrew Stewart followed right after.
After sophomore Jabari Mann scored the Padres’ first TD of the season on a screen pass from Lampkin, 3-star national recruit Hassan “The Missil3” Mahasin followed it up with three of his own including a long bomb from Lampkin from midfield that put Serra up 35-0.
Lampkin opened up the second quarter with an electrifying 60-yard TD run down the left side, a “touchdown run he’s longed for since freshman season” according to “The Missil3”.
But perhaps the biggest play of the night, that really set the tone for Serra was the pick-6 by senior CB Sione Laulea. That interception return did not just give Serra a 21-0 lead, it sent a message to the rest of their opponents to beware of the Padres’ secondary.
Enjoy the sights and sounds of Padre Football Game Day.
