colhenrylives said:

Saturday scores:

Riordan 34, Bellarmine 7
Serra 56, Mitty 21

What we learned:

Mitty's defense is being shredded each weekend. The Monarchs have now given up 168 points in four league games. It's a disaster in cleats. They are too thin in adequate numbers and too slow overall defensively, although their offense can score. Serra's impressive collection of linemen dominated. Padres may be getting a handle on things. Finally.

Bellarmine is on pace for the ultimate nightmare campaign. At best, the Bells could go 1-9 overall, more likely 0-10. Either would be the most losses in program history. An 0-10 mark would be the worst overall log in history as well. They simply cannot score; they have a grand total of 14 points in four league games. Vultures are circling College Park. There's no sympathy.

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Bells still played tough to the end and showed great sportsmanship. Says a lot about the character of these kids.

Final Stevenson 37 Pajaro Valley 7

iamgearyblvd said:

At half, Im sure you were beating your chest and you should. Defensively it just looked like SI had all the answers and Lancers just looked stunned that they could not run the ball. 2nd half blocking adjustments took care of that, plus SI's defense wore down. Dont have the overall statistics but it sure looked like SF time of possession for the game was 80%.

And that should do it as far as WCAL POY. Kingston definitely will take those honors. In a high stakes game like this, your team's best player needs to show up. Kingston in the 2nd half was phenomenal. Hummel was pretty bad. And thats just being nice. He was 7 for 17 for 14 yards. FOURTEEN passing yards!!!

Ive watched enough of his games and sure enough, he still cant throw over the top. He only throws timed 10 yard out routes to Polk or Shelton and really good teams know that and sit on those routes. Robinson of St. Francis did that and picked him off. Hummel needs to be better or whoever is calling the plays need to call better/different plays.

Looking forward to a rematch in CCS Open.

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Heck yes I pumped to be ahead but I was never confident. Sure enough my concerns were valid. Our DB #2 was dead center with Keanaaina to make the tackle and stop that long run in 3rd Qtr. but he didn’t want any smoke and watched him run right by him.

Damn

Stevenson 30 Pajaro Valley 7, 3rd Q

We have arrived at one of the most defining week for WCAL play. The Wildcats defended and lost their top billing this weekend. This Lancer victory vindicates predictions made by a couple posters who insisted St. Francis was the best team in WCAL this year. For me, this game showed that the WCAL league is not particularly strong this year. Both Serra and St. Francis lost to DLS by double digits. And while Serra beat Folsom, this game now seems like an anomaly. Riordan lost to San Ramon Valley who just got blasted by DLS. Sure, we all know the best of WCAL teams will provide a strong defensive battle to any team but I think there is a lot of parity among the top CCS teams this year.
Here's my rankings.
1. SF - The Lancers was ready for the strong second half pattern of the Wildcats play. It was all SF in the second half at SI's home. The Lancers still have AR, VC and SHC ahead of them.
2. SI - The Wildcats couldn't get their offense going in the second half to compete with SF. They have VC, SHC and AM teams remaining.
3. JS - The Padres dispatched AM with decisiveness this afternoon. They still have BCP, AR and VC remaining.
4. VC - The Warriors seemed lackluster in their win over SHC or possibly the Irish came to play. Either way, VC maintained their hold on 4th place in WCAL. They have the top three of WCAL ahead of them.
5. AR - The Crusaders had no problem dealing with BCP this afternoon. They have AM, JS and SF still ahead.
6. SHC - The Irish made a good stand against VC but just couldn't keep them from scoring. The Irish have SF, SI and BCP on the schedule.
7. AM - The Monarchs got plenty of points on the board but just couldn't stop JS from scoring at will. The schedule holds AR, BCP and SI in the future.
8. BCP - Enough said.

aztecpadre said:

A 16 year old freshman? lol.

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If he was a 16 year old junior, it would still be remarkable, but will he even be eligible to play when he’s a senior?

A 16 year old freshman? lol.

He is a legend!! Go Eagles!!

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Congratulations to Twelve Bridges
on their 51-34 victory over Placer,
a couple of plays was the difference in this game…a pick 6 by TB early in 1st qtr following a td on opening drive by TB on a defensive breakdown putting Placer dn 14-0 within 2 minutes.The pick 6 and a fake TB 4th and 2 at the TB 40 yd line that kept drive alive and culminated in another TB td was brutal for Placer,with TB Coach Chris Beane saying “he did not want to give Placer Coach Joey Montoya the ball back”.Both offenses looked like juggernauts as both Defenses had a tough time getting off the field without giving up a td or fg.There’s a very good chance these two teams will see each other again next month in the D4 playoffs….we’ll see how it all breaks down in the seeding.Again congratulations to TB on their victory!!

Adam007 said:

Good win by the Lancers. I’d love to see that offense get with current times. In my years following Saint Francis Ball, there was never a shortage of good athletes there. Always tall strong armed quarterbacks who could chuck it with the best of them, great athletic speedy receivers yet they’re so focused on just pounding the ball. I love nothing more than physical football but I feel their run offense could develop more than archaic packages like I formation etc. if they could tweak that offensive a bit by still doing what they like in running the ball but introducing more passing packages, they could give teams like de la Salle, and even out of region teams more consistent run for their money.

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I think this is NorCal in general

St Francis
Serra did for a long time
And De la salle still does


Outside of Folsom, St Mary and a few others. It's more of a run the ball control the clock football game here.


Southern California
Texas
Florida
Georgia

More passing the ball and spread offense.

I mean at least that what it seems Folsom got a 5 star QB but I think most of NorCal doesn't have a 2 star or a highly touted QB


Down south and then other states are heavy on the QB and speed

Good win by the Lancers. I’d love to see that offense get with current times. In my years following Saint Francis Ball, there was never a shortage of good athletes there. Always tall strong armed quarterbacks who could chuck it with the best of them, great athletic speedy receivers yet they’re so focused on just pounding the ball. I love nothing more than physical football but I feel their run offense could develop more than archaic packages like I formation etc. if they could tweak that offensive a bit by still doing what they like in running the ball but introducing more passing packages, they could give teams like de la Salle, and even out of region teams more consistent run for their money.

The DLS I watched last night looked like the clear #1 in Norcal. The speed of DLS is something else.

Niklas227 said:

Hats off to St. Francis and the best RB in Northern California Kingston Keanaaina.

He is the real deal!

SI had the script flipped on them tonight and it was tough to watch.

Our QB Soren Hummel was outplayed by St. Francis' QB Aaron Knapp. No Cardiac Cats tonight!

Good luck to St. Francis the rest of the season!

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At half, Im sure you were beating your chest and you should. Defensively it just looked like SI had all the answers and Lancers just looked stunned that they could not run the ball. 2nd half blocking adjustments took care of that, plus SI's defense wore down. Dont have the overall statistics but it sure looked like SF time of possession for the game was 80%.

And that should do it as far as WCAL POY. Kingston definitely will take those honors. In a high stakes game like this, your team's best player needs to show up. Kingston in the 2nd half was phenomenal. Hummel was pretty bad. And thats just being nice. He was 7 for 17 for 14 yards. FOURTEEN passing yards!!!

Ive watched enough of his games and sure enough, he still cant throw over the top. He only throws timed 10 yard out routes to Polk or Shelton and really good teams know that and sit on those routes. Robinson of St. Francis did that and picked him off. Hummel needs to be better or whoever is calling the plays need to call better/different plays.

Looking forward to a rematch in CCS Open.

SFL
Oak Ridge 71 Davis 0. Davis please for the love of god get out of this league. If you aren't the worse team in America I don't know who is.
Jesuit 34 Del Oro 14- No surprise here. Jesuit too big and physical up front was able to run pretty easily. Long year for DO.
Rocklin 35 Granite Bay 21- I thought this was the game of the week in SFL. It was 21 all and Rocklin pulled away. Rocklin is the clear #2 in the SFL.
Folsom 69 and Whitney 7. Yeah no bueno. Folsom is just really so much better than anybody else.

Pretty crappy SFL this year. I guess we've been spoiled recently.

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Newman looked really good last night. Jumped out to 28-0 Halftime lead and dominated the "Ranch." I thought the play calling was much better on the offensive side of the ball with letting Jentry use his speed to break a few runs which allowed "LT" to get comfortable throwing. Oregon State got a good one in Jesse Myers.

In other key games, Windsor looked really flat early against San Marin which did them in. I think maybe emotional letdown after that tough loss to newman. San Marin travels to Newman next week which will be a good game but I stil think the league is Newmans to lose at this point.