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Three-peat! McClymonds makes history, dominates Garfield to capture third CIF title
McClymonds wins Division 4-A state crown, becomes first public school to capture three straight CIF titles in modern era
McClymonds head coach Michael Peters is doused with water after his team defeated Garfield-Los Angeles in the CIF Division 4-A state championship football game at Laney College in Oakland on Saturday. McClymonds defeated Garfield 32-6. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)
By CURTIS PASHELKA | cpashelka@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: December 15, 2018 at 10:56 pm | UPDATED: December 16, 2018 at 4:10 am
OAKLAND — This was the McClymonds team that wasn’t supposed to be in this position.
The Warriors had lost 18 players from last year’s team that went 14-0. Their starting quarterback then went down with a season-ending injury midway through their Oakland Athletic League schedule.
Nothing, though, was going to stop McClymonds from making history.
Behind a punishing run game, a handful of big plays from their passing game and a stifling defense, the Warriors beat Garfield-Los Angeles 32-6 in the Division 4-A state title game Saturday at Laney College to become the first public school to win three straight California Interscholastic Federation championships in the modern era.
As the clocked ticked down in the fourth quarter, McClymonds players and coaches began raising three fingers in the air. When the game ended, Warriors coach Michael Peters, still wet from the Gatorade bath he took from a few minutes before, held the state championship trophy over his head.
“It’s very special,” Peters said of his team. “This group, nobody expected us to be here.”
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McClymonds’ defense, the team’s strength all season long, held Garfield (13-2) to just 23 net yards of offense in the first half and 120 for the game. The Warriors also had two interceptions, sacked Garfield quarterback Jonathan Bautista three times and recovered one Bulldogs fumble.
Running back Jarmar Julien ran for 180 yards on 22 carries, including a 75-yard touchdown run with 18 seconds left in the third quarter to help McClymonds take a 20-6 lead. Adi Anderson had two touchdown runs, including a 20-yard run with 2:55 to go in regulation time.
They shared the spotlight on offense with freshman quarterback Dreyan Paul, who took over behind center after K’aun Green was injured in late October. Paul threw two touchdown passes, a 28-yarder to Edward Woods in the first quarter and a 26-yarder to Da’voenne Sanders in the fourth quarter, and finished 9-for-15 for 110 yards and no interceptions.
Peters felt Garfield was going to sell out to stop the Warriors’ run game. But Paul’s ability to stay cool under pressure and complete passes without turning the ball over was critical.
“He’s a kid, he’s got ice water in his veins, he made a couple of mistakes, but we roll with him,” Peters said of Paul. “We got three more good years (with him), so hopefully we can get back here again one day. To three-peat is hard.”
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The victory capped an emotional year for McClymonds, which dedicated its season to Dean Hodges, the team’s longtime manager and a 1989 graduate of McClymonds who passed away earlier this year after a long illness.
Hodges was best friends with Peters, who wore a t-shirt with Hodges’ picture on it. The McClymonds players held up a poster of Hodges after the game, and had stickers on the backs of their helmets all season long.
“We said we were going to set out and do it for him,” Peters said. “This is not my best team. But they sold out, dug deep in their heart and pulled out a win for him.”
McClymonds (12-2) became just the third team, and the first from a public school, to win three straight CIF bowl game titles. De La Salle won four straight Open Division titles from 2009-2012, and Central Catholic won three straight Division IV titles from 2012-2014 and the Small School Open Division crown in 2015.
McClymonds won the 5-A state title in 2016 and the 5-AA crown last year.
“I don’t even know how to feel right now,” senior defensive end Islee Cassidy, who has been on the varsity team for four seasons. “It’s a wonderful feeling, doing this three times in a row.”
Woods’ touchdown catch was the game’s only score in the first half, and with the way the Warriors’ defense was playing, it looked like that 6-0 lead might actually be enough to win.
But on its second drive of the second half, Garfield moved the ball 76 yards on 10 plays, with Nicholas Delgadillo capping the drive with a 1-yard touchdown run with 7:00 to go in the third quarter.
Garfield’s drive was aided by a roughing the passer call and a pass interference penalty on the McClymonds defense. Garfield also had its longest play from scrimmage on the drive, a 27-yard catch by Abel Martinez to set up Delgadillo’s run.
“The penalties got them downfield,” Peters said. “I think my defense played very well. (Garfield) came in very prepared, I think we were just a little more physical and we wore them down a little bit.”
McClymonds answered back with a game-altering drive.
The Warriors moved the ball 54 yards on seven plays, with Anderson capping the drive with a 2-yard touchdown run, to take a 12-6 lead with 3:53 to go in the third quarter.
McClymonds’ Tre Larkins (42) Mark Hoching (56) pressure Garfield quarterback Jonathan Bautista (18) in the second quarter of the CIF Division 4-A state championship football game at Laney College in Oakland on Saturday, Dec. 15. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)
“That was huge,” Peters said. “Last week (against Aptos) we were down 14-0. We just had to get one more stop and I knew our guys were going to come up with some big plays.”
This year’s McClymonds team once again tested itself this season with a grueling nonleague schedule against schools with much larger enrollments.
The Warriors took on an eventual Northern California champion (Liberty), a North Coast Section finalist (Marin Catholic) and three other teams (Palo Alto, Downey-Modesto and San Leandro) that all at least reached the second round of their respective playoff brackets.
McClymonds lost to Liberty 42-14 and to Palo Alto 29-20, a game the Warriors felt they should have won. Still, they beat Marin Catholic 26-0, Downey 20-14 and San Leandro 16-0.
The move was meant to not only prepare for the state playoffs, but to also see how the Warriors stacked up against some of Northern California’s better teams.
It took some time to round into form, but once the Warriors figured it out, they were unstoppable, finishing the season on a 11-game win streak.
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“We lost 18 seniors from last year,” Peters said. “Defensively we returned nine, offensively, we were really empty, but it took the whole preseason to get us right.”
The Bulldogs came into Saturday with impressive credentials of their own, as they went 6-0 in the Los Angeles City Section’s Eastern League, outscoring opponents 292-36 along the way.
In 14 games, Garfield’s offense racked up 63 touchdowns and over 5,000 total yards and its defense allowed 10 points or fewer 11 times. Garfield’s only loss was to Narbonne-Harbor City (55-7) in the L.A. City Section title game on Nov. 23.
“We had a lot of film on them and we saw what they liked to do, and saw what they didn’t like,” Peters said. “We prepared well.”
Three-peat! McClymonds makes history, dominates Garfield to capture third CIF title
McClymonds wins Division 4-A state crown, becomes first public school to capture three straight CIF titles in modern era
McClymonds head coach Michael Peters is doused with water after his team defeated Garfield-Los Angeles in the CIF Division 4-A state championship football game at Laney College in Oakland on Saturday. McClymonds defeated Garfield 32-6. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)
By CURTIS PASHELKA | cpashelka@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: December 15, 2018 at 10:56 pm | UPDATED: December 16, 2018 at 4:10 am
OAKLAND — This was the McClymonds team that wasn’t supposed to be in this position.
The Warriors had lost 18 players from last year’s team that went 14-0. Their starting quarterback then went down with a season-ending injury midway through their Oakland Athletic League schedule.
Nothing, though, was going to stop McClymonds from making history.
Behind a punishing run game, a handful of big plays from their passing game and a stifling defense, the Warriors beat Garfield-Los Angeles 32-6 in the Division 4-A state title game Saturday at Laney College to become the first public school to win three straight California Interscholastic Federation championships in the modern era.
As the clocked ticked down in the fourth quarter, McClymonds players and coaches began raising three fingers in the air. When the game ended, Warriors coach Michael Peters, still wet from the Gatorade bath he took from a few minutes before, held the state championship trophy over his head.
“It’s very special,” Peters said of his team. “This group, nobody expected us to be here.”
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McClymonds’ defense, the team’s strength all season long, held Garfield (13-2) to just 23 net yards of offense in the first half and 120 for the game. The Warriors also had two interceptions, sacked Garfield quarterback Jonathan Bautista three times and recovered one Bulldogs fumble.
Running back Jarmar Julien ran for 180 yards on 22 carries, including a 75-yard touchdown run with 18 seconds left in the third quarter to help McClymonds take a 20-6 lead. Adi Anderson had two touchdown runs, including a 20-yard run with 2:55 to go in regulation time.
They shared the spotlight on offense with freshman quarterback Dreyan Paul, who took over behind center after K’aun Green was injured in late October. Paul threw two touchdown passes, a 28-yarder to Edward Woods in the first quarter and a 26-yarder to Da’voenne Sanders in the fourth quarter, and finished 9-for-15 for 110 yards and no interceptions.
Peters felt Garfield was going to sell out to stop the Warriors’ run game. But Paul’s ability to stay cool under pressure and complete passes without turning the ball over was critical.
“He’s a kid, he’s got ice water in his veins, he made a couple of mistakes, but we roll with him,” Peters said of Paul. “We got three more good years (with him), so hopefully we can get back here again one day. To three-peat is hard.”
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The victory capped an emotional year for McClymonds, which dedicated its season to Dean Hodges, the team’s longtime manager and a 1989 graduate of McClymonds who passed away earlier this year after a long illness.
Hodges was best friends with Peters, who wore a t-shirt with Hodges’ picture on it. The McClymonds players held up a poster of Hodges after the game, and had stickers on the backs of their helmets all season long.
“We said we were going to set out and do it for him,” Peters said. “This is not my best team. But they sold out, dug deep in their heart and pulled out a win for him.”
McClymonds (12-2) became just the third team, and the first from a public school, to win three straight CIF bowl game titles. De La Salle won four straight Open Division titles from 2009-2012, and Central Catholic won three straight Division IV titles from 2012-2014 and the Small School Open Division crown in 2015.
McClymonds won the 5-A state title in 2016 and the 5-AA crown last year.
“I don’t even know how to feel right now,” senior defensive end Islee Cassidy, who has been on the varsity team for four seasons. “It’s a wonderful feeling, doing this three times in a row.”
Woods’ touchdown catch was the game’s only score in the first half, and with the way the Warriors’ defense was playing, it looked like that 6-0 lead might actually be enough to win.
But on its second drive of the second half, Garfield moved the ball 76 yards on 10 plays, with Nicholas Delgadillo capping the drive with a 1-yard touchdown run with 7:00 to go in the third quarter.
Garfield’s drive was aided by a roughing the passer call and a pass interference penalty on the McClymonds defense. Garfield also had its longest play from scrimmage on the drive, a 27-yard catch by Abel Martinez to set up Delgadillo’s run.
“The penalties got them downfield,” Peters said. “I think my defense played very well. (Garfield) came in very prepared, I think we were just a little more physical and we wore them down a little bit.”
McClymonds answered back with a game-altering drive.
The Warriors moved the ball 54 yards on seven plays, with Anderson capping the drive with a 2-yard touchdown run, to take a 12-6 lead with 3:53 to go in the third quarter.
McClymonds’ Tre Larkins (42) Mark Hoching (56) pressure Garfield quarterback Jonathan Bautista (18) in the second quarter of the CIF Division 4-A state championship football game at Laney College in Oakland on Saturday, Dec. 15. (Jose Carlos Fajardo/Bay Area News Group)
“That was huge,” Peters said. “Last week (against Aptos) we were down 14-0. We just had to get one more stop and I knew our guys were going to come up with some big plays.”
This year’s McClymonds team once again tested itself this season with a grueling nonleague schedule against schools with much larger enrollments.
The Warriors took on an eventual Northern California champion (Liberty), a North Coast Section finalist (Marin Catholic) and three other teams (Palo Alto, Downey-Modesto and San Leandro) that all at least reached the second round of their respective playoff brackets.
McClymonds lost to Liberty 42-14 and to Palo Alto 29-20, a game the Warriors felt they should have won. Still, they beat Marin Catholic 26-0, Downey 20-14 and San Leandro 16-0.
The move was meant to not only prepare for the state playoffs, but to also see how the Warriors stacked up against some of Northern California’s better teams.
It took some time to round into form, but once the Warriors figured it out, they were unstoppable, finishing the season on a 11-game win streak.
CIF football: Menlo-Atherton claims first state title
“We lost 18 seniors from last year,” Peters said. “Defensively we returned nine, offensively, we were really empty, but it took the whole preseason to get us right.”
The Bulldogs came into Saturday with impressive credentials of their own, as they went 6-0 in the Los Angeles City Section’s Eastern League, outscoring opponents 292-36 along the way.
In 14 games, Garfield’s offense racked up 63 touchdowns and over 5,000 total yards and its defense allowed 10 points or fewer 11 times. Garfield’s only loss was to Narbonne-Harbor City (55-7) in the L.A. City Section title game on Nov. 23.
“We had a lot of film on them and we saw what they liked to do, and saw what they didn’t like,” Peters said. “We prepared well.”
