By: benos

benos — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 18:49:35 +0000

The Dizzy catches flak for dissing West County but I’ve seen West Co. games all year and I’m telling you right now that any kudos he may give to the “other side of the hill” (as we call it out here), are justified. If anyone should be saying west county gets dissed, it would be me. But let’s face it, the ACCAL and BSAL were not super good this year. Now, in the words of Darrell Waltrip, let’s go racin!

(5) YV over El Cerrito
I saw EC’s win over Berkeley last week, and it wasn’t pretty. They did, however, show a lot of heart in sticking with the Yellow Jackets, but I’m not too comfortable saying it was a great win when Berkeley’s RB Dwayne Adams goes down in the 1st Quarter with an injury. That said, run, run, run for the hills and watch Coach I’s boys emerge victorious. Dizzy, you might want to play tonight for the Gauchos…

(4) Hayward over SRV
I’m not buying this underdog theme today. If I had to pick the Farmers to cover a spread, I’d go with SRV. But, I’m going with the Farmers in a squeaker.

(3) San Leandro over Pittsburg
SL is a machine right now. Yes, I know Pitt is playing well with Taylor getting the ball, but San Leandro dominated a somewhat decent HAAL. Maybe I’m just picking against the Dizzy on all of these to make up points?

(2) Clayton Valley over Las Lomas
I too have a hard time picking against coach Longero’s bunch. If you had to buy a ticket to any game this weekend, wouldn’t it be this one? These two teams locked up in a game for the ages two years ago and these coaches will see to it that the intensity is there again.

(1) California over Foothill
I have no idea here. Pick Em. I’m picking Cal.

(Swing) Salesian over John Swett
I’ve seen both of these teams this year and I think this is a mismatch. Both teams will start the game looking to run with three of West County’s best backs in Jahvid Best, Jake Haskell and Santario Carson. But, the difference will come when David Singleton and Andre Wells continue their dominance of smaller defensive backfields for the Chieftains.

And for kicks, I’ll follow the trend and try to redeem my horrific season in one fell swoop:

DLS over James Logan

Monte Vista over Amador: I’ll pay money to see MV and DLS at the end.

Bishop O’Dowd over Acalanes: Give my team Louis Arnold and watch us run for 400 more yards.

Dublin over Encinal

Pinole Valley over Granada: This is going to be a shootout.

Alameda over Irvington

Justin-Siena over St. Mary’s: Another game I’d pay to see at the end – Salesian v. Justin Siena

Miramonte over Piedmont

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