Valley Takes Break From Tradition in 20-0 WSC Victory Over Glendale

VAN NUYS — Every time the Glendale and Valley college football teams met in recent years, the games had been well-played and close.

That’s why it was surprising to see Valley shut out the Vaqueros, 20-0, in Saturday’s Western State Conference game at Valley.

It’s not like Valley (3-0, 3-0) played great. Glendale’s performance was sloppy throughout the contest.

Glendale (1-1, 0-1) fumbled five times and had two passes intercepted while failing to generate any kind of threat.

Every time the Vaqueros came close to scoring, they committed a turnover.

Valley scored less than a minute into the game. Glendale’s Darren Jenkins fumbled the opening kickoff and Marcel Desir recovered at the Glendale 33.

Two plays later, Valley quarterback Jim Arellanes connected with Jason Leonard for a 31-yard touchdown pass play.

Later in the quarter, the Monarchs drove 69 yards in 14 plays and scored with 2:26 left in the quarter on Derick Charles’ one-yard run.

Glendale appeared to be driving toward a score midway through the third quarter. The Vaqueros moved 61 yards in nine plays, but on first and 10 from the Valley 19, quarterback Eddie Michel threw a pass right into the hands of Valley’s Doug Socha.

Glendale did not threaten after that.

Arellanes completed 12 of 25 passes for 147 yards. His second touchdown pass came on a 35-yard play to Cameron Perry with 9:29 left.

Davis Delmatoff completed four of six passes for 13 yards for Valley.

Glendale quarterback Tony Delgado completed 13 of 16 passes for 103 yards. Michel completed six of 12 passes for 68 yards.