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Hard to pick a better time to play your all-around complete game of the season.

Carson Palmer, the first-year Santa Margarita High coach, put it best as his players surrounded him after the clock hit zero.

“Phenomenal effort,” the former NFL quarterback and 2002 Heisman Trophy winner from USC said. “Rose Bowl bound.”

Santa Margarita (9-3) will be playing at the Rose Bowl in the Southern Section Division 1 final after an end-to-end dominating effort to take down Orange Lutheran (3-9) in a 31-6 steamroll at Orange Coast College. The Lancers only placed six points on the board as the time clicked down in the fourth quarter, following a hockey-style line change in the Eagles’ defense.

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