D.J. Uiagalelei passes No. 1 St. John Bosco past No. 2 Mater Dei

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A day after a very rare Southern California lightning storm postponed the most anticipated high school football game of the season, D.J. Uiagalelei showed what a rare talent he is.

The 6-foot-5, 245-pound St. John Bosco (Bellflower, Calif.) junior quarterback threw four first-half touchdown passes and added a fifth late in the fourth quarter leading the top-ranked team in the nation to a 41-18 Trinity League win over No. 2 and defending national champion Mater Dei (Santa Ana, Calif.) Saturday at the Santa Ana Bowl.

The win secured the No. 1 national ranking for the Braves (8-0) and ended Mater Dei's 22-game win streak on the field. The Monarchs (6-2) beat Bishop Amat to open the season but used an ineligible player and was dinged with a defeat.

This was only the eighth meeting between the nation's top two ranked teams since 2001.

Uiagalelei, the top-rated junior quarterback in the country by 247Sports, connected with Jake Bailey twice (10 and 25 yards), George Holani (27 yards) and Kristopher Hutson (24 yards) on first-half scoring strikes lifting the Braves to a 27-10 halftime lead. .

Holani (12 carries, 123 yards) then just about clinched it with his 75-yard run on the first play of the second half, breaking through a hard would-be tackle before sprinting the final 60 yards untouched. 

Another 5-star junior quarterback, Mater Dei's Bryce Young threw for 311 yards and two touchdown passes, a 5-yarder to Bru McCoy and a 20-yarder to Mike Martinez, the latter cutting the lead to 34-18 early in the fourth quarter.

But Uiagalelei (15 of 22, 279 yards) put an exclamation point on his night with a 30-yard TD strike to Bailey, his third touchdown catch of the night, with 2:02 remaining. Bailey had six catches for 161 yards.

The 18 points was the lowest Mater Dei has scored in a game since 2015 and the 41 allowed was 10 more than the Monarchs had give up the six previous weeks combined. Young, who entered with a 77 completion percentage, was 23 of 41 and was sacked three times.

Bosco was the last team to defeat Mater Dei on the field, 42-28 in the 2016 Southern Section finals. The two teams could face off again, in the Southern Section Division I playoffs.