Heritage's regular-season winning streak ends at 40 games

Heritage running back James Phillips looks for yardage in Friday night's game against Orange Lutheran. Photo by Amber Garcia It too...

Heritage running back James Phillips looks for yardage in Friday night's game against Orange Lutheran.
Photo by Amber Garcia

It took a very good Orange Lutheran High School football team to do something to Heritage High that hadn't been done in four years.

The host Lancers jumped out to a 20-7 lead and held off a Heritage rally in the second half to score a 34-21 win over the Patriots Friday night at Orange Coast College. The defeat was Heritage's first in the last 41 regular-season games.

Heritage (4-1), which has never lost a Sunbelt League game, has dominated almost as completely in nonleague games in recent years. The last time the Patriots lost a regular-season game before Friday night was Sept. 20, 2013, when they were beaten by Great Oak, 43-40.

By the time Orange Lutheran scored its third touchdown of the game with a minute left in the first half, the Lancers led 20-7. The only Heritage score of that half came on an 80-yard touchdown run by Sherod White (Julian Gonzalez PAT) early in the second quarter.

Heritage scored first in the third quarter on a 5-yard TD run by quarterback Devan Freedland and PAT kick by Gonzalez. But less than three minutes later, late in the third quarter, Orange Lutheran increased its lead to 27-14 with another touchdown.

Ryan Hilinksi's touchdown run midway through the fourth quarter gave Orange Lutheran a 34-14 lead. Heritage's only other score came on a 35-year touchdown pass from Freedland to Rashoud Shelton with three minutes remaining.

Heritage has a bye next week before opening Sunbelt League play at home against Lakeside Oct. 6.

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