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PCAL Playoffs Week 1

By the way- Salinas, Monterey, Alisal, North Monterey and Hollister are on NFHS Network tonight
and Soquel at 1PMon Sat

and Palma on SHCP site tonight
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PCAL Playoffs Week 1

If Palma has to rely on any passing game, they will lose and it won't be close. Their woes in the Passing game goes beyond the soph QB.

Palma has kept the reigns on Dukes this year. If its a close game, I wouldn't surprised to see him in the 30-40 carry range.
Palma Soph Isaiah Hernandez is a really good RB as well. Fast and strong. One of the top RBs when he was in youth leagues. Dukes brother a frosh is really good. He will be a factor next season as a soph. It's all about Palma's lame offense for the current personnel. They will have the line next season but they should be using more deception ...should be running Wing T other offense that has deception. They also don't run play action enough. They also need to change up their defense. Their QB should be a level better next season. They have somespeed at WRs but they failed to incorporate the pass into the offense. Soph Driscoll at QB can make throwsbut has been inconsistent as had the WRs. All will be back next season andsomefornext two seasons.

PCAL Playoffs Week 1

SHC should be favored and it will take great game for Palma youth to win it. Their QB has actually progressed a lot and the return most of their team next season. JV and select frosh will add a lot next season. They will be in up swing next couple years.
If Palma has to rely on any passing game, they will lose and it won't be close. Their woes in the Passing game goes beyong the soph QB.

Palma has kept the reigns on Dukes this year. If its a close game, I wouldn't surprised to see him in the 30-40 carry range.

PCAL Playoffs Week 1

Of course, I think SF is better than SI -more physical. However SI defense is going to be tough on Salinas. SI o-line will be tough for Salinas defense. They are big and physical and Salinas will have to stack the box. I think it could be a good game.

SHC should be favored and it will take great game for Palma youth to win it. Their QB has actually progressed a lot and the return most of their team next season. JV and select frosh will add a lot next season. They will be in up swing next couple years.
SHC is very young...they only have 4-5 seniors. There weakness is the D-line defense so yes they would have to stack the box so to speak. The DBs are above average. If SHC can not stop the run like all season, Palma will win. SHC needs to keep the ball away from the PALMA offense too so the SHC offense needs to use up the clock with consistent long drives.
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NCP Pick'em: Playoffs Week 1

Here is the postseason playoff pick'em. Prizes will be for the weekly winner each week (no rollover scoring) will be a free month subscription to NorCalPreps.

Here are the games for this week. Picks are due by 7:00 PM on Friday. The Game of the Week is Turlock-Central Catholic. First tiebreaker is who goes the longest without missing a game (Player A's first loss came on the 6 point game and Player B's first loss is the 8 point game, Player A wins the tiebreaker). Tiebreaker #2 is the winning team's score in the game of the week. Tiebreaker #3 is the losing team's score in the Game of the Week.

Turlock at Central Catholic
Destiny Christian at Christian Brothers
East Union at Patterson
Windsor at Casa Grande
Cardinal Newman at Marin Catholic
Vintage at Liberty
Soquel at Riordan
Los Gatos at Serra
Menlo at Christopher
Shasta at Enterprise
10Serra
9Riordan
8DCA
7Windsor
6 CC
5 Liberty
4 MC
3Enterprise
2 Menlo
1 patterson

WCAL: A Final Glance

Sargent is definitely a leader and has excellent command of the offense. If Im knit-picking here, his arm strength on down field throws (30+ yards) is not elite yet. Riordan's Mitchell has that elite arm talent. If you watch his throws, he flicks it with ease. Sargent has a small windup hitch when he needs to throw deep.

Its not fair to say what he would look like at other schools. Each school is comprised differently. Some have massive offensive lines (Riordan, SI, St. Francis). Only Riordan has the WR talent and depth that is even if not better than SH. Sargent put together a fantastic offensive season with a smaller offensive line and only 1 senior with at the skilled positions. Everyone is basically back next year with hopefully a few more transfers on the OL/DL. Offensively next season they should again put up alot of points but the emphasis should be get more physical kids on that front 7 that wants to stop the run. Thats been their achilles heel the past 2 seasons. Teams ran all over them.
I think Sargent is grittier and tougher than Mitchell even tho Mitchell might have a better arm. Sargent has to improvise and use his legs more. Remember, Mitchell plays with a more complete team. It would be interesting to see Mitchell on the SHC squad playing a few snaps and then it would be a fair comparison..lol. Safe to say, Sargent would do fine with Riordan;s team.
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