Dos Pueblos High did everything it could to stop St. Bonaventure's superstar running back, Darrell Scott.

The Chargers stacked the line of scrimmage and draped his powerful 6-foot-2, 216-pound frame with as many tacklers as he could carry —which was quite a few, actually. Finally, they forced him to the sideline with a ripped jersey.

"That may have been a mistake," said Dos Pueblos coach Jeff Uyesaka. "Because the guy they brought in to replace him was, well, if (Scott) is the No. 1 back in the country, he might be No. 2."

Junior Patrick Hill was the occasional stand-in for Scott, but he didn't do much standing, scoring a 6-yard touchdown and a 70-yard catch-and-run touchdown pass as the Seraphs lived up to their No. 1 ranking in Ventura County on Friday night with a 41-17 Channel League win at Buena High.

Quarterback Casey Serna led St. Bonaventure with 95 yards rushing and also passed for 168 yards and two scores — the 70-yarder to Hill and 22-yard pass to Blayne Lewis to cap a nearly flawless two-minute drill at the end of the first half.

Scott rushed 11 times for 87 yards and a touchdown and Raphael Washington and Nolan Rodarte added short TD runs as St. Bonaventure improved to 7-1 overall and 3-0 in league. Dos Pueblos fell to 4-4, 1-2.

"We do have a lot of bullets and we want to use them all," said St. Bonaventure coach Todd Therrien. "Our game plan tonight was to throw the ball a bit more and I thought we did that pretty well."

Serna was, in fact, 10 for 12 on the game, and was 4 for 4 while marching the Seraphs 70 yards in less than a minute to answer a Dos Pueblos field goal and give St. Bonavenature a 20-3 lead at halftime.

Still, for the precision-obsessed Therrien, even that performance could be tightened up.

"We had a play in that drive where we let 19 seconds run off," he said. "We can't do that. And I was not happy with our turnovers in the first half (a fumble on a punt return and an interception by Ryan Welch of the Chargers.)"

St. Bonaventure nonetheless seemed in control from start to finish, opening the game with a 71-yard drive that ended with Washington's 1-yard run. Scott made it 13-0 midway into the second period. Cristian Mora kicked a 29-yard field goal after a 40-yard drive by Dos Pueblos with 1:16 left, only to see Serna's pass to Lewis in the end zone with 28 seconds remaining.

Hall picked his way through several Dos Pueblos tacklers and picked up a finishing block from Isaiah Burton at the 5 to notch the 70-yard score on a third-and-21 during St. Bonaventure's first possession of the third quarter.

A 6-yard score by Hall and 13-yard score by Rodarte made it 4 with 8:10 remaining in the game.