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Four East County teams remain in contention for CIF football titles
Grossmont South League assured of at least one championship game finalist after Steele Canyon upsets No. 2 seed Ramona, Vallhalla rolls over Western League champion Serra; Helix (Division II) and Christian (Division V) also remain alive in post-season grid-iron war
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Posted Dec. 1, 2008
Four East County teams remain in the hunt for a berth in this year’s San Diego Section football divisional championship games, with one Grossmont South League team guaranteed the opportunity to play at Qualcomm Stadium.
No. 3-seeded Valhalla (10-1) will host 10th-seeded Steele Canyon (7-5) in Friday’s Division III semifinals, with the winner advancing to meet either top-seeded Cathedral Catholic (11-0) or fourth-seeded St. Augustine (7-4) in the division championship game Dec. 12 in Mission Valley.
Third-seeded Helix (9-1-1) will get the chance to advance to the Division II title game when it faces second-seeded Eastlake (9-2) in Friday’s semifinal contest in Chula Vista while second-seeded Christian (10-1) will play sixth-seeded Bishop’s (6-6) in a Division V semifinal contest.
The Norsemen qualified for Friday’s semifinals by eliminating Western League champion Serra (8-4) in a quarterfinal match-up on Nov. 28. James Leighton scored two touchdowns and quarterback Pete Thomas passed for one score and ran for another to lead Valhalla to its 35-7 victory. Traivonne Brown rushed for 170 yards on just eight carries and scored on an 80-yard romp. Thomas passed for 165 yards while Leighton caught four passes for 74 yards. Thomas scored on a two-yard run while Manuel Parano scored on an eight-yard run to round out scoring for the winners.
The Norsemen built a 35-0 lead in the game. Ivan May had two interceptions to key the Valhalla defense, which collected four picks overall. The 10 wins are a single-season school record for the Norsemen.
Steele Canyon, meanwhile, produced the upset of the division thus far by bringing down No. 2-seeded Ramona, 24-23, in last Fridays’ quarterfinals. The Cougars used timely offense and even more timely defense to put a muzzle on the high-powered Bulldogs, who kicked off the season with seven consecutive wins and tied defending Division II state champion Oceanside in Valley League play.
Brad Boehmke threw three scoring passes, finishing the game with 154 passing yards, while Matthew Bruder kicked a 35-yard field goal. Touchdown targets include Cameron Moss (six yards in the first quarter), Jebari Robinson (28 yards in the second quarter) and Jake Wragg (73 yards in the fourth quarter). Alex Perlin rushed for 109 yards on 26 attempts while Wragg had three catches for 96 yards.
Steele Canyon never trailed in the match-up, leading by scores of 7-0, 14-7 and 24-14 before Ramona attempted a fourth-quarter rally with a touchdown and safety. But the Cougar defense denied the Bulldogs (8-2-1) a potential game-winning touchdown twice by employing a spirited goal line stand when leading 24-121 and later recovering a fumble on a kick return in Steele Canyon territory to preserve the memorable victory.
Valhalla defeated Steele Canyon, 28-3, in a Grossmont South League game on Halloween.
Grossmont South League champion Helix defeated visiting Grossmont, 54-10, behind two touchdowns apiece from Jo-Jo Phillips, Levine Toilolo and Travon Van while quarterback Ty Culver passed for a pair of touchdowns. Toilolo scored both his touchdowns on passes from Culver (144 passing yards). Van amassed 233 rushing yards on 12 carries, scoring on runs of one and 41 yards. Daniel Veal also had a successful night running the ball, gaining 137 yards on six attempts and scoring on a 66-yard run in the fourth quarter. The Highlanders racked up 502 rushing yards and 665 total offensive yards in the game.
Felipe Valdez (15-yard pass from Tyler Mutter) and Chance House (40-yard field goal) accounted for the scoring for the 11th-seeded Foothillers (5-7).
Charles Thompson rushed for 171 yards and scored five touchdowns to lead No. 2-seeded Christian past Southern League champion Foothills Christian (10-2) by a 77-24 score in a Division V quarterfinal game. Erick Allen passed for two touchdowns, including one to Caleb Farrel (who also scored on a 37-yard run earlier in the game).
The Patriots will face a rematch of last year’s Division V championship game when they tackle the 10th-seeded Knights in Friday’s semifinals. Christian topped Bishop’s, 27-20, in a Coastal League game on Nov. 7.
The Knights advanced to face the Patriots after pulling off a successful two-point conversion to upset sixth-seeded Horizon Christian, 50-49, in last Friday’s quarterfinals at Balboa Stadium.
Garret Campbell scored three touchdowns to lead Foothills Christian, which fell behind 35-0 and trailed 56-12 at halftime.
The Grossmont North League champion El Capitan Vaqueros nearly made it to the Division III semifinals, losing 33-28, to St. Augustine at Southwestern College. El Capitan had the ball at the one-yard line with less than one minute remaining but could not score the go-ahead touchdown as the Saints pulled off a successful goal line stand.
Tanner Rust passed for 348 yards and three touchdowns while also rushing 48 yards for a touchdown in the loss for the Vaqueros (8-4). Rust may have played one of his finest games of the season, rushing 17 times for 116 yards and throwing three TD passes to Phillip Cook (nine catches, 204 yards). Jon Molzen had seven catches for 118 yards.
Evan Crower led St. Augustine with 262 passing yards and three TD strikes as the two premier signal-callers combined for 610 passing yards and six touchdowns in the game.
El Cap coach Ron Burner said his team “fought to the end.”
Titans advance to third consecutive semis
With their third consecutive trip to the San Diego Section semifinals, it's safe to declare that the Eastlake Titans have clearly arrived at the upper echelon of the region's high school football scene.
"We just need to start winning these semifinal games," said Titans head coach John McFadden after last Friday's 42-14 quarterfinal-round victory against visiting Patrick Henry.
The win over the seventh-seeded Patriots (7-5) catapulted the three-time reigning Mesa League champions to Friday's Division II semifinal match-up against Grossmont South League champion Helix. Second-seeded Eastlake is 9-2; the third-seeded Highlanders are 9-1-1.
The winner of Friday's semifinal match-up at Stan Canaris Stadium will play either top-seeded Oceanside (10-0-1) or fourth-seeded Scripps Ranch (8-3) in the division championship game Dec. 12 at Qualcomm Stadium.
The usual suspects once again carried Eastlake, which recorded its eighth straight win. All-state pick Tony Jefferson scored four touchdowns while Randall Williams and Eddie Vega each scored once and kicker Kris Almario booted all six point-after touchdown conversions.
The defense, led by Patrick Jarin and Jefferson, clamped down when it had to, forcing turnovers and dominating one of Patrick Henry's best teams in the past decade. The Titans led 21-7 at halftime and extended that lead to 42-7 before the Patriots could finally counter with their second touchdown of the game with 4:40 left to play.
Jefferson scored on runs of four, six, 17 and 11 yards while Williams ripped off an 80-yard scoring run to double the Titans' early advantage on the scoreboard to 14-0. Jefferson scored Eastlake's opening two touchdowns of the second half to effectively put the game out of reach.
"We seem to play the second half better than the first half," McFadden said. "Patrick Henry prepared well for us. I didn't think we played all that well in the first half. The guys impressed me in the second half. The first drive we scored on in the second half was the ballgame. I knew it was done at that point."
Williams returned the second-half kick-off to the Titan 45-yard line and Jefferson carried the ball into Patriot territory. After a penalty temporarily moved the line of scrimmage backward, Eastlake quarterback DeAngelo Barksdale connected with tight end Robert Graves to regain the lost ground -- and then some. Jefferson moved the sideline markers to the 28. He dazzled the sizable crowd with some flashy moves on his next carry, spinning as he broke numerous tackles en route to a 17-yard touchdown.
After an interception by Patriot defensive back Joshua Kubischta, the Titans recovered a fumble at the Patrick Henry 11. Jefferson promptly made the Patriots pay for the errant pitch by scoring on an 11-yard run.
The Titan defense came up big once more by stopping a fake punt, giving the ball to the Eastlake offense at the Patrick Henry 1-yard line after an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty was assessed to the visitors. Vega got the honors of scoring with 10:26 left in the fourth quarter.
Both teams began to sub players at this point. The Patriots closed out scoring on a six-yard run by William Dabbert. Patrick Henry's first touchdowns came in the second quarter on an 18-yard pass play.
Jefferson finished the game with 113 yards on 12 carries, averaging 9.4 yards per rushing attempt. Williams touched the ball four times in the backfield and racked up 101 yards -- an average of 25.2 yards per carry.
For the season, Jefferson has scored 23 touchdowns and rushed for more than 1,000 yards while Williams has scored 13 touchdowns to rank second in team scoring.
McFadden said the Titans gained a higher seed over the Highlanders despite Helix owning a better record because Eastlake played a tougher schedule. McFadden rated the Titans' 2008 schedule the fourth toughest in the section. The teams had two common opponents: Otay Ranch and Steele Canyon. The Scotties and Mustangs tied 19-19 on Sept. 26 while Eastlake blitzed Otay Ranch, 38-7, on Oct. 31. Helix de-clawed the Cougars by a 42-13 score on Nov. 7 while an under-manned Eastlake squad scored a 21-14 win over Steele Canyon on Sept. 26.
Helix defeated 11th-seeded Grossmont, 54-10, in last Friday's quarterfinals. The Highlanders have won seven games in a row and are 8-0-1 since dropping a 19-17 non-league contest at Mira Mesa on Sept. 12. The Scotties finished regular season play ranked third among section teams. The Titans ended regular season play ranked eighth.
"It should be a great game between us and Helix," McFadden said. "If we show up, we can play against anybody around. It's going to take everything we have to beat them."
Lineman Owen Breedon concurred with his coach's assessment. "We get out slow but we always start up in the second half," he said. "We've got to start out fast in the first half against Helix. We've got to play four quarters of football if we want to get to Qualcomm."
Travon Van leads Helix with 14 touchdowns but the Highlanders' defense has been the story this season.
Carlsbad 34, Chula Vista 21
The host Spartans rallied from a 21-6 deficit to tie the game at 21-all in the third quarter but the fifth-seeded Lancers broke the deadlock with the last two touchdowns of the game. Chula Vista, seeded fourth, ended its season 7-4. Carlsbad (7-5) advances to meet top-seeded La Costa Canyon (9-2) in Friday's Division I semifinals.
The Spartans never led in the quarterfinal match-up. An interception by Ashton Barbour set up the visitors' opening touchdown -- scored by Barbour on a two-yard run with 8:48 to play in the opening quarter. Chula Vista responded with a touchdown of its own on its next possession, with key passes from quarterback Victor Perez to Josh Leon, Darian Phillips and Anthony Stanislaus moving the ball to the Carlsbad 14-yard line. The Spartan rushing attack took over from there, with Taimi Tutogi bulling in on third-and-goal from the 2-yard line with 14 seconds remaining in the first quarter. The Lancers blocked the ensuing PAT conversion, leaving the hosts trailing 7-6 on the scoreboard.
Carlsbad scored on its next two possessions to go up by 15 points. Jon Tapia hauled in a fourth-and-goal pass from three yards out while Michael Taele later ripped off a 55-yard scoring run. The Spartans responded with a nine-yard TD run by Stanislaus to cut Carlsbad's halftime lead to 21-13.
Chula Vista brought its fans to their feet by scoring the first points of the second half. Perez hit Phillips on a 34-yard scoring pass to trim the Lancers' lead to 21-19. The Spartans then elected to attempt to tie the score on a two-point conversion and did just that as Thomas Tutogi passed to Taimi Tutogi.
But that was as close as Chula Vista would get. Carlsbad regained the lead at 28-21 before the third quarter was finished as Barbour passed (a wobbly) 32 yards to Mark Miranda on a fourth-and-five play. The Lancers iced the game when Connor Sodano recovered a fumble in the end zone in the fourth quarter.
The trick play score by Barbour to Miranda clearly changed the momentum of the game, coming with just 37 second left in the third quarter and the teams tied 21-all. Taele led the Lancers with 98 yards on 16 carries.
Mission Bay 37, Mater Dei 10
The Crusaders' winning streak ended at three games as the visiting Buccaneers rang up a quick 14-0 lead and closed out the Division IV quarterfinal-round affair with the final 13 points. In between, the teams battled to a 10-10 stalemate.
Third-seeded Mater Dei ends its season 5-6 while sixth-seeded Mission Bay (6-4-1) advances to meet undefeated Madison (11-0) in the division semifinals.
USC-bound Dillon Baxter led the way for the Bucs by rushing 13 times for 128 yards and three touchdowns and completing seven of nine passing attempts for 104 yards. Baxter's 41-yard scamper in the third quarter made the score 24-7. He scored on a 30-yard burst in the fourth quarter to up the score to 30-10.
The multi-dimensional junior standout averaged 9.8 yards per carry, often weaving through defensive traffic while bouncing off would-be tacklers.
To compound matters for the Crusaders, Mission Bay's Sam Metu finished with 158 yards on 21 carries and scored twice. The visitors rolled up 339 rushing yards in the game.
Matt Martinez halved the Bucs' early advantage to 14-7 when he scored on a three-yard run in the second quarter. Jason Myers booted a 23-yard field goal in the third quarter to make the score 24-10.
Marcel Pitre led Mater Dei with 82 rushing yards on eight carries -- averaging 10.2 yards per carry -- and quarterback Jake Marrion gained 58 yards on eight rushing attempts for a 7.2 yard per carry average. Marrion also passed for 117 yards (completing 12 of 24 attempts) but was intercepted twice.
Will Stewart had seven catches for 90 yards for Mater Dei while Ben Adams caught two passes for 74 yards for Mission Bay.
The Bucs had four sacks. Dorian Howard and C.J. Todd were each credited with picks.
Mission Bay advances to the division semifinals for the fourth consecutive season.
College Football:
Poinsettia Bowl tabs WAC opponent in back-up plan
Posted Ocr. 30, 2008
San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl officials recently announced they have signed a contingency agreement with the Western Athletic Conference that impacts the 2008 and 2009 bowl games.
The contract stipulates that if the bowl’s agreement with the Pacific-10 Conference doesn’t yield a bowl eligible team with six or more wins, then the Poinsettia Bowl will get a team from the Western Athletic Conference.
The bowl’s primary agreement with the Pac-10 calls for the San Diego post-season game to receive the seventh place team. The WAC agreement is activated only if that seventh place Pac-10 team fails to reach the required six wins.
Currently, UCLA occupies seventh place in the Pac-10 standings with a 2-3 conference record, 3-5 overall.
The Pac-10 or WAC participant will face a team from the Mountain West Conference. The bowl receives the second selection from the MWC; the Pioneer Las Vegas Bowl picks first.
"The WAC looks forward to returning to San Diego and hopefully playing in the Poinsettia Bowl this December,” WAC Commissioner Karl Benson said. “There is so much history and tradition with the 'red coats' dating back to the ’80s and ’90s. I know our teams and fans are very excited with this possibility."
The WAC participated in 18 of the first 20 Pacific Life Holiday Bowls. The Holiday and Poinsettia Bowls are produced by the same organizers, the “red coats.”
“We are really excited about this partnership,” 2008 Poinsettia Bowl President Larry Baber said. “This contingency plan assures us a great matchup and creates a natural and necessary regional tie.”
The fourth annual San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl kicks off at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 23 at Qualcomm Stadium. The game is televised on ESPN. For ticket information, visit www.PoinsettiaBowl.net or call (619) 285-5061.