San Clemente rolls to victory in Hawaii

WAILUKU, Hawaii – The San Clemente football team seems to enjoy the Island of Maui.

Travis Wilson, Jordan Micalef, Mike Elespuru and Terrell Johnson made sure of that on Thursday night.

Wilson, a junior quarterback making just his second career start, was 14 of 20 passing for 241 yards and a touchdown, Micalef caught seven passes for 131 yards, Johnson scored three touchdowns and Elespuru two to lead the Tritons to a 42-20 victory over Baldwin of Wailuku on Thursday night in front of approximately 2,000.

The Tritons, ranked 10th in the Orange County preseason poll, beat the Bears, 37-13, on a trip here in 2007.

The duo of Wilson and Micalef put a smile on the face of Coach Eric Patton.

"We love coming Maui," Patton said. "We expect (Wilson and Micalef) to have a very good year. This is Travis' junior year, but he only started one game as a sophomore and did very well. We think he is going to be a very good football player. We think he is going to be a Division I quarterback prospect, but he is still a little green. Jordan caught a lot of passes and made some good yards tonight."

For Baldwin, the 10th-ranked team in Hawaii by the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, the contest was its second nonleague game of the year. The Bears opened with a 19-10 victory over Kailua, Oahu, last week.

"That is why we get this kind of preseason game - it only makes us better," Baldwin coach A.J. Roloos said. "I just want to thank Coach Patton for coming down and giving us a ballgame here."

Wilson, a 6-foot-7, 215-pound junior, played just the first 2 1/2 quarters.

Things got crazy midway through the third quarter with three touchdowns on three consecutive plays.

After San Clemente recovered a Baldwin fumble to set up a short field for the third time in the game, Johnson scored his third touchdown of the night on a 3-yard run.

Johnson's run capped a 23-yard, four-play drive with 6:35 to go in the third quarter.

Baldwin's Ceejay Santos returned the ensuing kickoff 99 yards for a touchdown, caught his breath, and then booted the extra point.

Santos then kicked off short - he had two earlier kickoffs into the end zone for touchbacks - and San Clemente's Herbert Gamboa, an up-man in the kickoff coverage team, grabbed the ball, broke through the first line of coverage and took the ball 79 yards to the end zone for the third touchdown in 30 seconds.

That flurry made it 42-13 San Clemente, which led 28-6 at halftime as Wilson had 207 yards passing and Micalef 103 yards on six receptions.

After a Baldwin fumble on the first play from scrimmage, San Clemente took over on the Baldwin 30-yard line and scored on its fourth play, a 16-yard run by Elespuru.

On its next possession, San Clemente went 77 yards in eight plays, the final one being a 45-yard touchdown on a screen pass from Wilson to Johnson.

After Baldwin mishandled a punt, San Clemente had just 21 yards to go and Johnson capped a four-play drive with a 6-yard run with 6:24 left in the second quarter to make it 21-0.

The Tritons went 81 yards in six plays on their next possession and Elespuru scored from a yard out. The big plays on the drive were a 41-yard pass from Wilson to Micalef and a 31-yarder from Wilson to Jacob Graff.

For the game, San Clemente piled up 339 yards, and Baldwin had 294.