Saturday was the latest unrelenting effort from St. John Bosco, who led the Braves to the program’s fourth CIF Open Division state championship with a win over San Mateo Serra. The secret to its historically dominant year? It’s not a high school defense.
Poof. Gone. Vanished. His bright-yellow pants were drowned by a sea of Bellflower
They blitzed. They crunched. They draped. Saturday night was the latest unrelenting effort from defenders for aunit that’ll stand at the top with any unit in California high school history, a defense that operates two and three steps ahead of every offensive attack. And with their 45-0 domination of Serra at Saddleback College, the Braves secured the program’s fourth CIF Open Division state championship and put the final stamp on a claim they’ve made since the beginning of the season.
In 2018, Bosco switched to a scheme that resembled the ones run by college powers Georgia and Alabama in almost all respects. And it’s taken life this season through a defensive concept called “simulators,” per defensive coordinator Chris King. It’s almost a trick: a safety or linebacker is brought up to blitz, giving the quarterback the impression that Bosco’s defense is pressuring — except only four players rush as others drop back into coverages.“They’re running it in college, so just imagine running it in high school,” Frausto-Ramos said. “Offensive coordinators don’t know what’s happening.
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