The South Delta Sun Devils quest for a AAA boys provincial championship ended last Friday in North Vancouver.
The Sun Devils dropped a 22-12 quarterfinal game to Carson Graham bringing their season to a close.
Carson Graham opened the scoring with a 1-yard TD run and converted a two-point convert to go up 8-0 after the first quarter.
South Delta answered back in the second quarter as Ryan Roberts scored on a 15-yard run. The two-point convert failed and South Delta trailed 8-6 at halftime.
Celyan Vermeulin scored his second TD of the game in the third quarter for the Eagles. The two-pointer failed, and Carson had a 14-6 lead after three.
Vermeulin scored his third TD of the game – this one on a 26-yard pass. Again, the two-point conversion failed, and it was 22-6 for Carson.
South Delta scored on a two-yard run from Dominic Dumas and failed on the two-point conversion and that finished the scoring.
Dumas finished with 110 yards passing and rushed for 37 yards while Roberts rushed for 94 yards.
“It’s disappointing, but we gave them a fight,” said head coach Ray Moon. “It was back-and-forth and a real battle. Defensively we had two interceptions, we partially blocked one punt and blocked another one. Carson had a couple plays that we had trouble stopping in the second half.”
Moon said the offence had trouble getting going all day.
“The kids gave it everything they had, but we fell just a little bit short this time, but I’m proud of all of them,” he said. “It took us a bit longer to gel during the season. We just fell short in the New West game, which I think we should have had. Then we beat Centennial, Terry Fox and both games against Seaquam, we started playing to our potential.
“Against Carson, we were just off all game and just fell a bit short.”
Vancouver College will now meet Rutland in one semifinal, while Carson Graham will play GW Graham in the other semifinal. Both games are this Saturday, Nov. 25 at BC Place with the winners playing in the final on Dec. 2.
