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M-A Football Shuts Down Bellarmine, Moving onto CCS Finals

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M-A’s varsity football team blew out Bellarmine College Preparatory 21-0 on Friday, November 18. The Bears’ defense led the way, shutting down the Bellarmine offense and producing five total turnovers, three of them occurring in scoring territory for Bellarmine. This defensive performance displayed the improvement the Bears have made throughout the season. In their first matchup against Bellarmine, the Bears’ defense allowed 34 points. This time, in the playoff rematch, the Bears blanked Bellarmine. On the offensive side, senior running back Jordan Mims, junior quarterback Aajon Johnson, and junior wide receiver Mekhi Blackmon again led the way for the Bears.

Mims finds a gap in the defense and carries the ball up the middle.

On the Bears’ first offensive series, Johnson launched a 78-yard bomb to Blackmon. M-A scored again in the first half on a Johnson rushing touchdown and then once more in the third quarter off another rushing touchdown by Mims.

Mims scores a touchdown late in the first quarter making the score 14-0 in favor of M-A.

By the end of the game, Mims had accumulated 108 yards and a touchdown on 18 carries. Johnson was equally as impressive in the ground game with 18 carries for 94 yards and a touchdown. Johnson had another efficient game through the air with six completions for 157 yards and a touchdown.

Papadakis had another influential game with an interception, a sack, and seven tackles.

Seniors JP Gray, Kevin Jaggers, Stavro Papadakis, and Blackmon led the M-A defense. Gray produced a sack, two fumble recoveries, and four tackles. Jaggers was the Bears’ leading tackler with 20 tackles. Papadakis and Blackmon both had an interception. The Bears’ defense looks to ride their exceptional defensive performance into the championship game.

The Bears played incredible defense throughout the whole game, never allowing Bellarmine to get on the scoreboard.

M-A plays Milpitas High School this Friday, November 25, in the Central Coast Section (CCS) Open Division I Finals. If the Bears win the game, they will advance to a Northern California championship game.

Senior Jake Simon is excited about being a part of the M-A Chronicle for the third straight year. This year, Jake will mainly be writing about sports which he is extremely interested in. Jake is ready to take on the challenge of being a copy editor for the sports section of the website.

John is a senior at M-A in his second year writing for the M-A Chronicle. He enjoys writing mostly sports stories but may venture into some other topics. He looks forward to having a good senior year and graduating in the spring.

My name is Jeff Keare and this is my first year writing for the M-A Chronicle. I am currently a junior and will primarily be writing sports articles. I play basketball for M-A as well as club basketball. I look forward to going to many M-A sports games this year.

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