Yup, Winton Avenue’s where I am today…

Four games coming right up:

First up is Marin Catholic vs James Logan, two teams looking for their first win of the young season.

I am interested in projections on Nor Cal teams from the Open Game on don=wn by division.

Starting in 15 minutes, we have the Campolindo Cougars facing Taft from somewhere down in SoCal

Cougs are 1-0, had a rough shooting day but held Grant to 28 while winning 52-28.

They’ll need to shoot better here…. Taft is 0-1, but the loss was by just 3 to a very good 5-1 team. The way I understand it, Taft has a 6’8” stud named Keyon Kensie jr. who put up 43 in that losing effort.

Getting an early start today with Grant-Christian Brothers in SJS Division III

Some finals from earlier this week:

Lincoln beat Balboa 44-7
Colusa beat Pierce 7-0
Fall River beat Portola 14-13

For those who are unable to make it down to Fresno for the Heart of California Basketball Classic at Save Mart Center we wanted to share the information on watching the final four games of the day on NCSTV!
*Unfortunately Save Mart Center has required that we hire union camera operators and therefore we are only able to budget the final four games of the day instead of all nine games as we originally intended.

We wanted to share the information on watching the Heart of California Basketball games LIVE from Save Mart Center this Saturday! Since most people watch on their Smart TVs, the best way to share how to locate the game is to search for 'NorCal SportsTV' on their YouTube App. A direct link does not help those who want to watch on their TVs.


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4:00PM - Bakersfield Christian vs St Joseph Boys Basketball LIVE
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5:30PM - Clovis North Valley Children's Tip-Off Tourney Championship LIVE
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7:00PM - Monterey Trail vs Granada High Boys Basketball LIVE
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8:30PM - Sierra Canyon vs Memorial Boys Basketball LIVE
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Being reported by BANG that Michael Peters could step down after this season.

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The SJ Mercury says Riordan has a junior 6-9 transfer, Lolo Taaga, from Serra in San Mateo. Who is this kid? He wasn't on the Serra varsity last year and I don't recall him listed on any of the underclassmen teams.

He is the first commit for the Beavers in the 2024 class.

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Friday Dec 2nd (admission $10)

7:30pm - Campolindo Vs Taft (Los Angeles)

9:00pm - Sheldon Vs La Costa Canyon (San Diego)

Saturday Dec. 3rd (admission $15)

5:30pm - Campolindo Vs La Costa Canyon

7:00pm - Sheldon Vs Taft

8:30pm - Modesto Christian Vs Centennial (Corona)

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Moreau Catholic beat Riordan 58-43
Salesian beat Oakland Tech 56-48
Carondelet beat St. Ignatius 53-43
Del Oro beat Lincoln 57-44
Christian Brothers beat Rocklin 54-43

Didn't have my keyboard... Wish I'd brought it!

Clayton Valley Charter and Oakland Tech went into overtime in a very physical, foul-filled battle...

CVC led all the way til the end, at one time by 13. OakTech never got a tie or a lead until under a minute in regulation.

The lead changed hands a couple time during the OT, but CVC hit a 3-ball to take the lead for good with some 20 seconds left, then held on to win by 3 as a long 3 try by OakTech bounced off the rim at the buzzer.

CVC is fast and skilled... and young. Their senior star is Jake King, a guy anyone would want to have on their side. Junior jumping jack James Moore helps him lead a young group that started a freshman and a sophomore (Vince Ellis and Elijah Perryman) tonight. They are fast and skilled, but they do lack size. CVC will be a hard out for anyone they play.

O Tech played without whom I'm told is their best player, who apparently tweaked a knee over the weekend. But they had a guy that wasn't there over the weekend, a D1 football prospect named Omar Staples. He made it very rough inside... VERY rough.

These are two good teams that'll be a factor down the road.

Windsor's Hayden Anderson is the NBL-Oak MVP and St. Vincent's Kai Hall and Jaret Bosarge are the NBL-Redwood Co-MVPs

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In this morning's Elk Grove Citizen (football only):

In conversations with those “in the know” it appears as though Monterey Trail’s five-year dominance over Metro Conference football may be over. There’s one more academic school year remaining with the current league/conference setups, but the Mustangs may play football (only) next year in the Delta League.
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The other alternative would be to play an independent schedule, with the possible assurance Monterey Trail would have a spot in the playoffs. However, one issue for teams like Monterey Trail (and Elk Grove has had this issue, too) is finding opponents. Not too many schools like to schedule near-certain losses.

We may hear soon on this matter.

Little curious that he would commit on the heels of the David Shaw news, but Harris is coming off a very productive senior season

After being down by double digits. Vanden won an exiting matchup over SMS in a classic foundation game. 69-65.

Alyssa Jackson had an impressive second half finishing with 25 points.

Kara Lawson - Duke Head coach was in the building as well checking out Jordan Lee who just received an offer from there.

An interesting game to be sure and also a nail-biter for many anxious Serra fans in a game that was much closer than the score indicates.
The only thing similar to the first game between the 2 teams was the final score differential: first game Serra 35-7 [+28], second game rematch Serra 41-14 [+27].
Coming off blow-out wins of 57-7 over Palma and 57-21 over Salinas in consecutive weeks most Serra fans were expecting a somewhat easy win in a replay match with the Monarchs.
MItty coming off its 2 O/T wins vs Los Gatos & St. Francis came into the game fired-up and was even with Serra 7-7 at the 1/2 time intermission. In the first game 2 months ago between
the teams Serra led 14-0 at the 1/2, 21-0 in the 3rd and 28-0 at the start of the 4th in a more one-sided game, Mitty's only score coming in the 4th with the game decided. The rematch for the
CCS Div I title proved more difficult for the Padres and MItty gave Serra all it could handle for 3 quarters before finally wearing down. Whether it was Mitty's D or Serra's passing offense simply having an "off night" [or both] Serra was not able to get its passing game going to any degree. Not sure of any stats for Serra but I would guess the passsing yardage was well under 100 yards based on several short catches. Mitty's QB Wills Towers on the other hand was spectacular as were his 3 WR's. Towers completed pass after pass even under constant pressure and his WR's were catching anything close to them. The 3 WR's accounted for over 300+ yard receiving with Butler 106, Scudero 102 & Kim 96 yards. Kim in particular had several "replay" quality catches with defenders in close coverage. Scudero had a number of good grabs as did Butler including a beauty along the sidelines to convert a 3rd and long. Mitty converted numerous 3rd and longs under pressure and their pass game was clicking on all cylinders.

In the 2nd 1/2 with Serra receiving the Padres went to their double-wing run game and on the 2nd play broke a 61-yard TD by RB Danny Niu. What was puzzling was after finding immediate success with that formation Serra reverted back to its same offensive scheme that had struggled all evening [?]. Serra missed the PAT after Niu's long run for TD and score 13-7 early 3rd qtr. Serra's Jaden Green then broke off a 41-yard run to set up Serra's next TD with a 5-yard run by Joseph Latu to go up 20-7 [Serra's Latu had 101 yards rushing on just 10 carries for the Padres]. On Mitty's next possession Towers connected with Butler over the middle for a 65 yard pass to set up Mitty's 2nd TD to Scudero for a score of Serra 20-14 to head into the 4th where the Padres finally took control scoring 3 unanswered TD's for the final score 41-14.
This game did not resemble the Palma or Salinas games in any way and was a hard fought win for the Padres. Mitty looked good last night and looked like the #2 team in CCS.

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Stumbled across this looking at the matchups this week. Pretty cool accomplishment. Any other coaches that have taken this many different teams to a setion final. I'm sure I'm missing a few of them

Joe Cattolico might be at 3 if he took a team in the CCS
Mark Cooley is at least 2 in the Northern Section

Wednesday

NS Division IV: Colusa vs. Pierce 7:00 PM
NS Division V: Portola vs. Fall River 7:00 PM

Thursday

AAA Championship: Balboa vs. Lincoln at Kezar Stadium 11:00 AM
NS Division III: University Prep vs. Orland

Friday

SJS Division III: Christian Brothers vs. Grant at Hughes Stadium 1:00 PM
SJS Division I: Folsom vs. Oak Ridge at Hughes Stadium 6:00 PM
SJS Division VII: Ripon Christian vs. Woodland Christian at St. Mary’s Stockton HS 6:00 PM
NCS Division I: Clayton Valley Charter vs. Pittsburg at Heritage HS 7:00 PM
NCS Division II: San Ramon Valley vs. Campolindo at Dublin HS 7:00 PM
NCS Division III: El Cerrito vs. Windsor at Benicia HS 7:00 PM
NCS Division V: Miramonte vs. San Marin at Rancho Cotate HS 7:00 PM
CCS Division I: Serra vs. Mitty at San Jose City College 7:00 PM
CCS Division V: Palo Alto vs. Monterey at Sequoia HS 7:00 PM

Saturday

SJS Division IV: Vanden vs. Capital Christian at Hughes Stadium 1:00 PM
SJS Division VI: Summerville vs. Hughson at St. Mary’s Stockton HS 1:00 PM
CCS Division IV: Branham vs. Santa Teresa at San Jose City College 1:00 PM
SJS Division II: Manteca vs. Granite Bay at Hughes Stadium 6:00 PM
SJS Division V: Escalon vs. Sonora at St. Mary’s Stockton HS 6:00 PM
OAL Championship: McClymonds vs. Castlemont at Laney College 6:00 PM
NCS Division IV: Marin Catholic vs. Cardinal Newman at San Rafael HS 7:00 PM
NCS Division VII: St. Vincent vs. Clear Lake at Rancho Cotate HS 7:00 PM
CCS Division II: St. Ignatius vs. Bellarmine at San Jose City College 7:00 PM
CCS Division III: Menlo vs. Hollister at Rabobank Stadium 7:00 PM
NS Division II: Pleasant Valley vs. Foothill-Palo Cedro 7:00 PM


NCS Division VI: Justin-Siena vs. Pinole Valley TBD

Scoring:

Each week, there will be 10 games to pick. You pick the winners and assign a confidence rating for every game. Your most confident pick is given the 10 point spot. The next most confident pick is for 9 points and all the way down to your least confident pick for 1 point. A perfect week will get you 55 points.

Games will be posted on Sunday night and will be for the following Thursday, Friday and Saturdays. The format will be slightly different each week with preseason tournaments the first month, but the games to pick will always be up on Sunday night.

We will play through the end of the regular season.

Prizes:

1st Place: $100 gift card
2nd Place: $50 gift card
3rd Place: $25 gift card

If you play every week, you will be entered into a drawing for a $10 gift card (anyone who finishes in the Top 3 are not eligible).

Games this Week (Picks are due by 9:30 AM on Saturday)

9:30 AM #4 Granada (Livermore) vs #12 Vanden (Fairfield)

11:00 AM #9 Dougherty Valley (San Ramon) vs #11 Oakland Tech

12:30 PM #14 Campolindo (Moraga) vs #17 Grant (Sacramento)

2:00 PM #20 Oakland vs #13 Monterey Trail (Elk Grove)

3:30 PM #2 Riordan (San Francisco) vs Weston Ranch (Stockton)

3:30PM - Coronado vs. #8 Salesian

5:00 PM - Bishop Gorman vs. Bishop O'Dowd

5:15 PM #6 Dublin vs #7 Inderkum (Sacramento)

7:00 PM #3 Archbishop Mitty (San Jose) vs Clovis North (Fresno)

8:30 PM #1 Modesto Christian vs Notre Dame (Sherman Oaks)

We have run a contest like this on the football side for a number of years. Any questions on the format, just post them here and I'll get to them.

Thanks!