St. John Bosco claimed the Southern Section Division 1 championship Friday night, ending Mater Dei's 29-game winning streak in the final game for Mater Dei’s 73-year-old head coach Bruce Rollinson.
The crowd of 15,955 who made it to the Rose Bowl on Friday night, some enduring an epic traffic jam trying to find a parking spot, were treated to exactly what they expected: A hard-hitting, everything-goes Southern Section Division 1 championship football game between No. 1 Santa Ana Mater Dei and No. 2 Bellflower St. John Bosco.
It was a thriller decided by a single play. Clinging to a 24-22 lead with 3:08 left, St. John Bosco needed to stop Mater Dei from converting a two-point conversion after Jordon Davison scored on a one-yard run. The Monarchs decided to give the ball again to Davison. This time, 6-foot-2 and 262-pound Vertonio Weatherton became a road block, dragging Davison to the turf short of the end zone.
“Everything we worked for since we started playing, this is it,” Weatherton told a teammate earlier in the half.St. John Bosco handed Mater Dei its first defeat since the 2019 section championship game, ending the Monarchs’ 29-game winning streak. It was the fourth championship for St.
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