Steven Kwan out of Washington HS, Fremont in post season with Cleveland. Will get ROY votes but that award will be won by Julio Roderiguez/Seattle.
Great rookie season with .298 BA...

McClymonds 2023 RB Jaivian Thomas has picked up an offer from Cal. He is averaging more than 14 yards per carry and has 13 touchdowns in six games.

McClymonds 2023 DT Malik Richardson has been offered by Idaho. He was offered by Army earlier this year.

St. Francis-Mountain View 2023 LB Junior Fiaui has been offered by Southern Utah. It is his first offer.

Pittsburg 2023 DB Budha Boyd has been ofrered by Portland State. The senior has two interceptions this season.

Sheldon 2024 ATH Devin Green has been offered by Fresno State. He should be one of the Sacramento area's top recruits next season.

Granite Bay 2026 RB Isaiah Ene has been offered by Colorado. Arizona and Utah have also offered him.

Rodriguez's Leroy Bryant, Vacaville's Eric Gladney and Wood's Darrius Hickenbottom shared the Player of the Year Honors in the Monticello Empire League.

Mitch Stephens of Scorbook Live had a deeper look at the upcoming departure of Pittsburg head coach Victor Galli.

Antelope High School is hosting JV and Frosh tournament December 15th - 17th. Tournament fee is $250 per team.

Please contact me if your are looking for a JV or Frosh event.

Thanks,

Sean Chambers
Antelope High School
snchmbrs@aol.com

Campolindo 2023 wide receiver Robbie Mascheroni (6-foot-4, 200 pounds) has 45 catches for 895 yards and 13 touchdowns this season in helping the Cougars to a 9-0 record. This backs up a junior season when he finished with 70 crutches for 1,364 yards and 14 touchdowns.

Mascheroni does most of his work on routes over the middle and has the burst to run past defenders for explosive plays. He also can work along the sideline and make contested catches. Mascheroni provides a good target for his quarterback and has good footwork to freely get off the line of scrimmage.

He showed his versatility earlier this season in making a handful of key plays as a safety against a fast Acalanes receiving corp.

Mascheroni recently announced his Top 6 list of UC Davis, Cal Poly, Penn, Yale, Harvard and Dartmouth. After putting out this list, he also picked up an offer from Washington.

Victor Galli announced he will step down as Pittsburg’ as HC after this season

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Coaches, and Team Managers,
BullDawgs Basketball Club would like to
invite you to our End of Fall tournament.

Girls Divisions
4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th

Boys Divisions
3rd,4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th

• All Divisions are based on Sept 2022/2023 Grade
• $300.00 with a 3 Game Guarantee
• Multiple team discounts
• 4-8 team(s) per Division
• High School Rules
• 1st Place Team Awards
• NO SPLIT COURTS

Location: City College of SF, Terra Nova HS
Serramonte Del Rey

For Information contact:
Alfonso Joo Cell 650-267-3678
Email at alfonsojoo@yahoo.com
Register and Info on www.Dawgsclub.com

Coaches, and Team Managers,
BullDawgs Basketball Club would like to
invite you to our End of Fall tournament.

Girls Divisions
4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th

Boys Divisions
3rd,4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th

• All Divisions are based on Sept 2022/2023 Grade
• $300.00 with a 3 Game Guarantee
• Multiple team discounts
• 4-8 team(s) per Division
• High School Rules
• 1st Place Team Awards
• NO SPLIT COURTS

Location: City College of SF, Terra Nova HS
Serramonte Del Rey

For Information contact:
Alfonso Joo Cell 650-267-3678
Email at alfonsojoo@yahoo.com
Register and Info on www.Dawgsclub.com

Here are the games for this week. Picks are due by 7:00 PM on Friday. The Game of the Week is in the Northern Section between Enterprise and Foothill-Palo Cedro

Menlo-Atherton at Sacred Heart Prep
King's Academy at Sequoia
Dixon at Casa Roble
Sonora at Summerville
Del Oro at Oak Ridge
Granada at Foothill-Pleasanton
Clear Lake at Willits
Enterprise at Foothill-Palo Cedro
Bellarmine at St. Francis
Merced at Golden Valley

Campolindo senior WR Robbie Mascheroni has been one of the top receivers in NorCal this seaosn. He announced a cut down recruiting list of UC Davis, Cal Poly, Penn, Yale, harvard and Dartmouth.

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Just checked MaxPreps and shows a current score of VC leading Serra by 32-9. Anyone can cofirm current score?

Come check out a weekend of basketball in early November as Prolific Prep, GSP & Napa Valley College Mens basketball host a weekend full of games at Napa Valley College. Admission for the Prolific Prep and Prolific Prep games is only $5.

Friday November 4th, 2022

3pm Western Canada Prep Academy vs. Golden State Prep (CA)

*Just one game. Napa valley college plays their event at 6pm and 8pm


Saturday November 5th, 2022

8:30pm Golden State Prep Black (CA) vs. TMG Silver (CA) ]

1pm Prolific Prep (CA) vs. Western Canada Prep Academy

11am Golden State Prep Grey (CA) vs. TMG Black (CA)

*Napa Valley College has their games at 4pm and 6pm


Sunday November 6th, 2022

5:30pm TMG Silver (CA) vs. Prolific Prep (CA)

Noon Western Canada Prep vs. Golden State Prep Grey (CA)

10am TMG Black (CA) vs. Golden State Prep Black (CA)

*Napa Valley College has their game at 3pm

Division I - https://cifsjs.org/sports/fball/FB_Brackets_D1

Division II - https://cifsjs.org/sports/fball/FB_Brackets_D2

Division III- https://cifsjs.org/sports/fball/FB_Brackets_D3

Division IV - https://cifsjs.org/sports/fball/FB_Brackets_D4

Division V - https://cifsjs.org/sports/fball/FB_Brackets_D5

Division VI - https://cifsjs.org/sports/fball/FB_Brackets_D6

Division VII - https://cifsjs.org/sports/fball/FB_Brackets_D7

So I was trying to glean some insights in the Section's seeding thinking over the last few years. Specifically, I was looking to see where they might place the Delta League champion and ran across something kind of interesting (to me, anyway).

The second and even third place team in the SFL was almost always seeded ABOVE the Delta winner. The only exceptions since 2015 were when the Delta champ was undefeated (Elk Grove 2015) and in 2021 when Jesuit's only loss was to Folsom.

Now, to be fair, the SFL winner was always the #1 seed in D1 and an SFL team won all of the D1 section championships except 2016. A Delta League team only made one final in that time period. Obviously, the SFL is the measurably stronger league.

Additionally, the lesser SFL team was never put on the same side of the bracket as the SFL winner. The SFL runner-up was always a #2 or #3 seed from 2015 on.

That being said, if past is prologue, a one-loss Oak Ridge will be seeded higher than the Delta champ (Jesuit or Elk Grove). It also indicates that the Section wouldn't hesitate to put Oak Ridge at #3 above Monterey Trail and/or Central Catholic if they win their leagues.

Not saying it will absolutely happen--just that it has in recent years.

NFHSnetwork it seems has been listing less and less games on their site recently. I was looking for Serra vs St. Ignatius and nothing there. I do know SI has some games live streamed and noticed the Serra-JV game was just posted, so maybe the game will be available there OR maybe once concluded [not sure, but will try it at 7PM]. So far this season not enjoying my $75 subscription for NFHS

https://www.siprep.org/sisports

Anyone know of any sites such as YouTube where games are available please let everyone else know & Thx!

Where are you going tonight?

I'll be at that Indy v Antelope game.

Some big rivalry games and others w/league championship and seeding on the line.

Oakdale at Manteca
Napa v Vintage (wish Napa could figure it out)
Sonora @ Summerville
Del Oro at Oakridge
Dixon at Casa
Lincoln Stk @ St Mary's
Tokay @ Lodi

There should be a round robin of Napa, Vintage, Tokay and Lodi. Winner gets some vintage grape trophy?
I wanted to add Amador and Argonaut but nobody from Amador would reply to my mass text thread, weird 😉

The use of the Calpreps.com system has grown significantly over the last few years by the CIF sections. While, it initially had garnered interest with a separate rating list that did not include MoV, the full system in all its glory is now being utilized. In the SS and LACS, as examples, the ratings are used exclusively to determine divisional separations and seeding placements, while in the CCS, they are incoporated into the seeding process. While I do agree that the system with MoV is a much more accurate algorithm than that without, it's not without issues that I believe tend to detract from the ratings for NorCal more teams than those for SoCal.

For those who have not spent a great deal of time trying to understand how it works, the ratings are based on the results of game. The system awards points based on MoV within a certain window and with some base minimum credit for a win itself. The average results (for the most part) ends up being a team's rating. There are a couple of extra facets that I will cover shortly, one of which is the focus of this post.

Specifics:

Teams get a base rating value for a win or loss based on the opponent's rating. This is to say that if Team A beats Team B and B's rating was 20, Team A's game rating value is the MoV + 20. If Team A's rating was 25, then Team B's game rating would be 25 - MoD There are limits to this and the actual values remain fluid until all of the results for the week get entered into the system.

Let's say in the example above Team A wins 24-20. There is a base 15 minimum rating boost just for winning the game, so the game rating for A would be 35, while B would get a 10. This would boost A's rating a bit and lower B's, so the numbers would not be exact, but generally this is how it would work. These game rating would remain the same even if the score was 35-20 (thus, the 15-point minimum boost/detraction). Had A won by 17, then their rating would be 37, while B's would be 8, etc.

But, let's say Team A won by a blowout, then there is a cap (30 points) after which it no longer matters. Had the score been 56-10, Team A's game rating would be 50, while B's would be -5. It could have been 100-0 and these numbers would remain the same.

A key exception to this blowout scenario would be if A's rating was more than 30 than that of B's. In this case, a blowout would have been generally expected, so the system greatly lowers the impact of the result. This is for the protection of the integrity of the ratings. If B was a program that was really struggling and had a rating of -60, it wouldn't be fair for A to receive a game rating of 0 for beating them 60-0, nor realistic for B to get a -35. These results are not considered to be significant.

There is one more specific game result scenario, but I will get to that in just a second...

Overall, a teams' ratings eventually become the general average of the year's results.

The last exception to the average result is the undefeated team rule. An undefeated team must remain rated higher than any team it's defeated. That gap typically depends on the rest of the season each team has. It could be a lot of points, but it typically has a minimum of 0.2. A perfect example of this exists with Long Beach Poly (current rating of 64.2) and Mission Viejo (64.0), due to the fact that the Jackrabbits defeated the Diablos on September 2nd. LBPs average for significant games is 63.2, while that for MV is 64.3, but Poly must remain higher because of that win.

Now for the last specific game result scenario... if Team A is rated more than 30 points higher than Team B, but does not blow them out by 30+, then that game becomes significant and it gets tallied as such in the ratings. This exact scenario played out twice in NorCal last week, and I would argue takes place more commonly in general than in SoCal. I think NorCal teams just tend not to run up scores nearly as much, particularly in tight communities. In SoCal, you typically have one continuous mass of humanity, so it's not like there is a huge culture different between the cities of Whittier and Santa Fe Springs, when it comes to football.

Serra defeated Valley Christian 36-7. The Padres' current rating (post-game) is 61.0, while the Warriors' have 10.2. This 29-point result is now considered significant because Serra simply chose not to run up the score. Granted the 30-point limit is supposed to take this into consideration, but the Padres were actually up 36-0 at the half. Could they have dropped 60 or even 70 on VC if they wanted and made the game insignificant? Yeah, probably, but that didn't happen. They clearly called off the dogs very early.

In Serra's case, this result is not going to really impact anything than their placement on the overall state and national list. Could they have been higher than LBP or MV this week without this result being a part of their rating average? Maybe. If they win their next two games, though, they will enter the CCS D-I playoffs as the #1 seed and pretty handily so.

For Salinas, last week's result could end up costing them a place or two during the seeding process. The Cowboys' current rating is 30.5 and they defeated Alisal (also located in Salinas, rating -12.4) by the score of 42-17. While this game was not close and was never in doubt, the 25-point margin makes the result significant. In this game, the starting Salinas QB went down with an injury, so the coaches seem to have become a little gun shy about keeping their starters in for longer than was necessary. Their last TD appears to have been scored by a reserve who didn't have even 6 carries for the entire year entering that game.

Now, I'm not suggesting that teams do run up the score late in games purposely to get past that 30-point barrier, but because of the system that the CIF sections are adopting, perhaps holding a 31-point lead may have to be considered. I do think it's very important to get your young players game time experience to help them grow for subsequent years. This is just a potential side-affect that has been introduced.

I just think that when looking at the state rating list, this should be kept in mind. I think there is a perception that the Calpreps system tends to artificially place NorCal teams lower. I think this is one of the factors in that.

One final note is that the references to the 15- and 30-point limits also tend to be fluid. It can be 14 on the low-end or perhaps 28 in the upper. Calpreps adjusts this depending on the results it sees throughout the year.

Clear as day.

Going to be tough to find "18 transfers!" as people have proclaimed on here, even going back school years.

I know it doesn't fit the narrative. If someone has evidence of all these transfers, feel free to post and provide a link.

Come join the PROLIFIC PREP CREW for our future Basketball Camps during Thanksgiving and Xmas Holiday. We made them extremely affordable during these tough times, so that everyone can enjoy some hoops during the holidays!

ThanksGiving Bball Camp:

Nov 21-23rd @ Napa Christian from 10-1pm. The camp is open to all ages and is $150 per camper. We do sibling discounts as well. Please see the flyer above. We also allow single day walk ups ($65 per day)

To sign up visit: https://store.jglove.com/thanksgiving

For more info, contact (707) 849-1212, or via email at ProlificSummerAcademy@gmail.com.

Come join the PROLIFIC PREP CREW for our future Basketball Camps during Thanksgiving and Xmas Holiday. We made them extremely affordable during these tough times, so that everyone can enjoy some hoops during the holidays!

ThanksGiving Bball Camp:

Nov 21-23rd @ Napa Christian from 10-1pm. The camp is open to all ages and is $150 per camper. We do sibling discounts as well. Please see the flyer above. We also allow single day walk ups ($65 per day)

To sign up visit: https://store.jglove.com/thanksgiving

For more info, contact (707) 849-1212, or via email at ProlificSummerAcademy@gmail.com.

Scrimmages all day!

Nov. 12, Modesto Christian hosts short games all day!

PCAL Week 10

What a great week of Football! Big Congrats to Palma for the Huge victory vs Aptos. Also, to their coach, Jeff Carnazzo, on win 200. With the win, the “Game of the Year Version III” is to be played in 2 weeks vs Salinas. Palma can clinch the title outright with a win, if the Cowboys win you would probably be looking at a 3way split. Salinas won on the field but may of loss off of it. QB1 and WR1 were hurt vs Alisal and rumors are they may not be coming back this year. Devastating blow for a team that had a chance to be special. Hollister secured its automatic playoff birth by taking care of Santa Cruz.

In the Mission, Soquel looks to finish undefeated this year in league, and their only loss to Palma, is looking better each week. The big battle this week is between Scott’s Valley and Seaside. The winner will be in the driver’s seat for the third and final playoff spot. If Seaside, wins, it will set up a great Rivalry game with Monterey in 2 weeks for 2nd place. Carmel continues to disappoint but will try to play spoilers vs Monterey this weekend.

In the Cypress, it looks like a 2-horse race between the un-defeated St Francis Sharks and Soledad Aztecs. Neither one of these team have played super difficult schedules, but Soledad’s only loss was 6 points to Soquel. But both teams have potential trap games this weekend, as St Francis travels to Pacific Grove and Soledad heads down south to King City. Nether team can afford to look ahead to their week 11 showdown.

RLS took control of the Santa Lucia division with their victory over Greenfield last week. But they now have a huge road game this Friday night vs Gonzales, before they can make room for their 2nd Football League title. It should be noted the RLS has been playing football for close to 50 years. Gonzales has improved, especially after a switch at QB. Meanwhile Greenfield will look to bounce back Vs Pajaro, and hope for a Gonzales victory to try and claim a part of the title. A shout out to Marina, they fell behind 23-0 to a struggling SLV team, but were inspired at the half and outscored them 38-0 in the second half to win the game.



Last week: 11-1, (Palma “upset” got me) Overall: 98-36



Gabilan:

Fri 10/28 Alisal (Salinas, CA) at Aptos (CA), 7:30pm: Over under for passes in this game sits at about 7, combined. Aptos should easily bounce back. Aptos 48-7

Fri 10/28 Alvarez (Salinas, CA) at Salinas (CA), 7:30pm: This game I believe was moved to Thursday. Despite the short week and the injuries, Salinas will have mor than enough for Alvarez. Salinas 49-12

Fri 10/28 Palma (Salinas, CA) at Santa Cruz (CA), 7:30pm: In most cases this would be a trap game for Palma. Big win last week, bigger game next week. I just don’t see Santa Cruz being good enough to compete with Palma this year. Palma 35-6



Mission:

Fri 10/28 Monte Vista Christian (Watsonville, CA) at Soquel (CA), 7:30pm- Soquel can finish off a unbeaten league campaign with a win. They then sit back and wait for playoffs. Soquel 28-7

Sat 10/29 Monterey (CA) at Carmel (CA), 2:00pm- I just cant see Carmel competing with Monterey this year. They have shown no ability to consistently maintain drives and score. Monterey is just the better team this year. Monterey 28-8

Sat 10/29 Seaside (CA) at Scotts Valley (CA), 2:00pm – This game should be good, Scott’s Valley D vs Seaside’s Offense. I think Scott’s Valley D slows down Seaside, but not enough. Seaside 14-13



Cypress:

Fri 10/28 Soledad (CA) at King City (CA), 7:30pm: It is important for Soledad to remain focus, and not look forward to next weeks big matchup. Unlike Santa Cruz, in the Gabilan, King City has the talent to ruin Soledad’s title aspirations. Soledad 24-23

Fri 10/28 St. Francis (Watsonville, CA) at Pacific Grove (CA), 7:30pm: Just like above St Francis must not overlook PG. CalPreps has this game a 3+ score differential. I think it will be closer, but you know I wont pick PG. St Francis 24-14

Fri 10/28 Watsonville (CA) at Rancho San Juan (Salinas, CA), 7:30pm: Two programs going in opposite directions. Rancho is a new school that is a up and coming football power. Watsonville, opened in 1892, is an old school with a program in decline. Rancho San Juan 28-7



Santa Lucia

Fri 10/28 Stevenson (Pebble Beach, CA) at Gonzales (CA), 7:30pm- This game scares me. RLS football is just not used to these types of games. Tennis, Golf, Lacrosse no problem. But football? Not to mention Gonzales can be an intimidating place to play on a Friday. The Spartans have rebounded after a slow start, so the stadium should be full and loud. That being said, I am going to start measuring for that 2nd league championship banner. RLS 24-21

Fri 10/28 Pajaro Valley (Watsonville, CA) at Greenfield (CA), 7:30pm- Greenfield will be scoreboard watching, and that should be ok vs an overmatched Pajaro team. Greenfield 35-6

Sat 10/29 San Lorenzo Valley (Felton, CA) at Harbor (Santa Cruz, CA), 2:00pm- Proof that Calprep’s ranking and predictions are sometime just wonky. They have SLV favored. Harbor 24-21