The Dana Hills High football team began its season with a low-scoring, 10-6 home victory over Las Vegas Desert Oasis High last Friday, Aug. 22.<\/p>\n
The Dolphins (1-0) leaned on senior running back Radley Geiss, who powered the offense with 212 yards on 28 carries, averaging 7.6 yards per attempt against the Diamondbacks (1-1).<\/p>\n
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Senior running back Radley Geiss powered the Dana Hills offense with 212 yards on 28 carries during the Dolphins\u2019 season-opening, 10-6 home victory over Desert Oasis High of Las Vegas on Friday, Aug. 22.<\/p>\n
Photo: Don August<\/p>\n
Senior kicker Devin Meyer Zu Drewer put the first points on the board, drilling a 38-yard field goal. Late in the second quarter, Dana Hills struck again. Sophomore quarterback Carter Anderson, making his varsity debut, launched a 60-yard touchdown pass to senior receiver James Leicester to push the lead to 10-0 at halftime.<\/p>\n
Desert Oasis answered in the third quarter with a touchdown, but the Diamondbacks\u2019 two-point attempt failed, keeping Dana Hills ahead by four. From there, the Dolphins leaned on Geiss and the defense to run out the clock.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s extremely strong and in great shape,\u201d Dana Hills head coach Tony Henney said about Geiss. \u201cFelt as the game progressed, he was just getting stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n
Geiss is coming off a 1,419-yard, 17-touchdown season in 2024 and looks poised for another big year.<\/p>\n
The quarterback position was one of the main question marks coming into the season, and Anderson won the starting job over senior Tommy Moro. Anderson completed 8 of 22 passes for 102 yards in his first start. When Dana Point Times asked Henney about his quarterback\u2019s performance, the coach said Anderson showed poise throughout the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThings really didn\u2019t go well for him \u2014 there weren\u2019t a lot of easy access throws,\u201d Henney said. \u201cBut he didn\u2019t fall apart emotionally or anything like that, so I was proud of him for that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Leicester reminded everyone why he\u2019s the Dolphins\u2019 No. 1 pass receiving option. He finished with 102 yards on four receptions, including the long touchdown that Henney called a \u201chell of a play.\u201d Leicester is coming off a 918-yard, 13-touchdown campaign and looks set to be the go-to option again.<\/p>\n
While the offense had its struggles, the defense carried the night. Linebackers junior Eduardo Castellano and senior William Reardon each recorded 10 tackles. Senior defensive back Nicholas Newsom snagged a crucial interception in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
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In his fifth season as Dana Hills High\u2019s head football coach, Tony Henney had the Dolphins ready to play during their season-opening 10-6 win over Desert Oasis High on Friday, Aug. 22.<\/p>\n
Photo: Don August<\/p>\n
\u201cOffensively, it wasn\u2019t our best night; the defense really held things together for us,\u201d Henney said. \u201cI was really proud of those guys as a group.\u201d<\/p>\n
The coach acknowledged that the team didn\u2019t play particularly well, but still took care of business.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Next up, Dana Hills will host El Modena High (0-1) this Friday, Aug. 29, at 7 p.m. The Vanguards reached the second round of last year\u2019s Division 4 playoffs and are coming off a 35-21 loss to Troy High.<\/p>\n
The team struggled on the ground, averaging 2.8 yards per carry, and relied on junior quarterback Ethan Sorenson\u2019s arm. He threw for 236 yards against the Warriors, with three receivers having more than 60 receiving yards.<\/p>\n
Henney emphasized that the team will need a sharper performance to defeat El Modena. Last season, the Dolphins rocketed to a school-record 8-0 start before losing their final two regular-season games and then advanced to the semifinals of the CIF-SS Division 6 playoffs for the first time since 1991.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dana Hills High football team began its season with a low-scoring, 10-6 home victory over Las Vegas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2049],"tags":[59997,60001,217,59999,60002,7,59998,216,251,2087,6,60000],"class_list":{"0":"post-325966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-dolphins","8":"tag-dana-hills-high-school-football","9":"tag-devin-meyer-zu","10":"tag-dolphins","11":"tag-dolphins-football-team","12":"tag-el-modena-high-football","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-las-vegas-desert-oasis-football","15":"tag-miami","16":"tag-miami-dolphins","17":"tag-miamidolphins","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-radley-geiss"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115110885869725827","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}