The heart of the Bear River JV defense brings down a Lincoln ball carrier in action from last Friday's Pioneer Valley League game in Lincoln. The visiting Bruins used a touchdown in the last minute to pull out a 14-8 win and improve to 3-0 in league action. obfoto.com
Oct. 26, 2011
Area Grid Teams Brace For Stretch Run
The stretch run of the football season is at hand for area JV and Frosh teams. In the next two weeks, league titles will be on the line in both the Pioneer Valley and Sierra Foothill leagues.
Here’s a recap of last week’s action:
JVs
Colfax 41 Placer 19 - Tim Rawlins got the Colfax High JV football team off to a rousing start last Friday night in Auburn and the Falcons used his big special teams play to get on their way to a 41-19 Pioneer Valley League win over Placer.
Rawlins, a call-up from the freshman squad three weeks ago, took last Friday’s opening kickoff back 77 yards for a touchdown and the Falcons never looked back in dousing the host Hillmen.
Colfax followed its good start to build a 21-7 halftime lead and then after Placer closed the gap to 28-19 in the third quarter, the Falcons put the hammer down with a pair of fourth quarter touchdowns.
Colfax was led on offense by several different players as the Falcons spread the wealth around. Tanner Kane carried the ball 11 times for 80 yards and scored a pair of touchdowns on runs of four and three yards. Meanwhile, in the air, Colfax quarterback Michael Wilson, who went over the 1,000 yard passing mark two weeks ago, hit on 23 of 30 passes for 273 yards and three touchdowns.
On defense, Colfax was led by Rawlins and Chas Reisinger from the safety spots, linebackers Jack Baldoni and Jake Mederios and Mario Margherita in the trenches.
Colfax, now 7-1 on the season and 3-0 in Pioneer Valley League games, faces a tough Lincoln team on Friday at 5:30 p.m. The Zebras are 2-1 in PVL games with wins over Foothill and Placer and a last second 14-8 loss to Bear River last Friday.
Bear River 14 Lincoln 8 – The Zebras used a last minute touchdown pass from Nick Mertens to Hunter Cramer to pull off a 14-8 PVL win at Lincoln. The Bruins are now 7-1 on the season and 3-0 in PVL action. Bear River travels to Foothill on Friday.
Roseville 42 Nevada Union 15 – The visiting Tigers proved to be too much for the Miners as NU fell to 5-3 overall and 1-2 in SFL games. Gareth Noxon (11x57) scored both NU touchdowns while Jake Berger (13x113) and Jason Murray (11x74) also had strong games. Defensively, NU received top efforts from Sam Hayward, Kai Woo, Taylor Hart and Murray.
Del Oro 38 Granite Bay 7 - Putting its wealth of depth on display, the shorthanded Golden Eagles overcame a bevy of obstacles to have enough in the gas tank to handle Granite Bay’s Grizzlies to the tune of 38-7.
The win kept the Golden Eagles perfect on the season with a record of 8-0. More importantly, the victory boosted Del Oro’s Sierra Foothill League record to 3-0 and sets up Friday’s battle with second place Roseville (6-1, 2-1). Roseville stayed in the SFL title hunt by blasting Nevada Union, 42-15, last Friday.
Del Oro entered Friday’s game with several key performers on the sidelines nursing injuries and when the visiting Grizzlies returned a Golden Eagle pass 45 yards for a touchdown in the second quarter for a 7-0 lead things looked bleak early on for the Black and Gold.
On its ensuing possession after Granite Bay’s ear;y score, Del Oro caught fire as Jahann Nargussi, who would later depart because of an ankle injury, took a wildcat snap and went 60-yards for a score. Mason Humes booted the extra point to knot the game at 7-7-.
Quarterback Michael Moore then got into the act for the Golden Eagles as he scored on a 17-yard touchdown run and then had another 31-yard scramble that led to a clutch 40-yard field goal just before halftime by Humes that made the score 17-7.
In the second half, hard running from Johnathon Tuttle and Shane Peterson kept the Del Oro momentum rolling which helped lead to am 18-yard scoring aerial from Moore to Daniel Becker.
Peterson then was in the spotlight as he scored Del Oro’s next two touchdowns – one on a fumble recovery after Granite Bay botched a Golden Eagles kickoff and the other on a 63-yard run.
Defensive standouts for the Golden Eagles included Peterson, Jake Noah and Brian Leveille.
SFL JV
Football
W L
Del Oro 3 0
Roseville 2 1
Rocklin 2 1
N. Union 1 2
G. Bay 1 2
W.creek 0 3
Last week’s Results
Del Oro 38 G. Bay 7
Roseville 42 N. Union 15
Rocklin 33 Woodcreek 14
Frosh
Placer 48 Colfax 14 – Leading just 16-14 late in the third quarter, the Hillmen busted open a close game by scoring 32 points over the final 12 minutes to hand the Falcons their first loss of the season.
A strong Placer running game piled up 368 yards on the ground as Cole Blackwell (15x120, Logan Markstein (12x115) and Austin Hess (8x100) all reached the century mark in rushing.
Blackwell scored three TDs for the Hillmen while Hess ran for a score and caught a pass from Clark Petrimonaco for another six points. On defense it was the work of Tyler Gums, Robby Queen, Brett Meeker and Johnny Capra that kept the Falcons in check.
Colfax was led by Avo Shahabian who scored both his team’s touchdowns. Colfax (7-1, 0-1) hosts Lincoln Thursday at 5:30 p.m.
Lincoln 28 Bear River 14 – The Zebras used a late pass interception for a touchdown to seal the win over the Bruins. Lincoln remained undefeated in Pioneer Valley League games with a 2-0 record while Bear River fell to 1-1. Lincoln travels to Colfax on Thursday while Bear River plays at Mesa Verde at 3:30 p.m.
Roseville 27 Nevada Union 12 - The visiting Tigers used a strong ground game to hand the Miners their third straight SFL frosh setback. NU plays at Woodcreek Thursday.
Granite Bay 35 Del Oro 22 - The Golden Eagles played well despite losing the services of starting QB Bryce Beauchamp to an injury in the second quarter. Ben Hart had an 83-yard touchdown run for the Golden Eagles (2-5). Dustin Edwards and Tanner Robison also scored for the Black and Gold who host Roseville Thursday.