The Geeks have a special Thanksgiving-week twist on this week’s NCS playoff matchups. Break out the cranberry sauce!

Be sure to join us at 4 p.m. here on the blog for our weekly high school football chat. We’ll cover everything you’d like to know about this week’s playoff games, and Chace will share tales from the Lost Coast after taking in a doubleheader last weekend.

We’ll embed the chat here on the blog, so this is the only page you need to visit.

I hope most of you got a chance to see our football notebook today. The lead story was about Hillcrest High in Idaho, the school that former Northgate coach Darin Owens is now coaching at. Hillcrest won the Idaho 4A State Title last weekend. Hillcrest had a 23-game losing streak before picking up its first win this season in week two.

I wanted to write about Owens and his new team because of the impact he had in just one year at Northgate. Last season I drove over to Tamalpais in Mill Valley to watch Northgate’s first game under Owens and I came away extremely impressed with the Broncos’ new coaching staff. Owens, Justin Lowell, and their entire staff commanded the kids’ respect and they picked up their first win in over a year. Owens told me that he still keeps in contact with the Northgate staff at least once a week, and that he’s confident that good times will return again soon for the Broncos.

Check out this week’s photo slideshow, courtesy of multimedia guru Ray Saint Germain.

Photo gallery

Ooh baby! We got lots to talk about this week.

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Ladies and gentlemen, this is one I’ve never seen before. An Alameda County judge issued a restraining order on Friday to stop the Colfax-Oakdale football game in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division IV playoffs because Placer was forced to forfeit two games (and its playoff spot was awarded to Colfax) because of an ineligible player who transferred from Jesse Bethel-Vallejo to the Auburn school. Today, SJS commish Pete Saco goes to court to settle all of this. Read all about it on the Sacramento Bee’s web site: Injunction filed. Also, the Bee’s Ailene Voisin has a good column on the situation.

Alright everyone. Thanks for coming on the live blog tonight. It was intense, no doubt. Read below for my summary of the Ygnacio Valley game.

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You can find our Live NCS football blog tonight on our sister blog, East Bay Prep Sports. Ben Enos will be bringing you the action from the San Ramon Valley-San Leandro game tonight. He will also be providing updates from all the other action. Just click on the link below to get to our sister blog.

http://www.ibabuzz.com/eastbayprepsports/

Both of our live blogs tonight are originating at our sister blog, the Prep Corner.

Here’s the link to the California vs. Washington live blog. 

Here’s the link to the Berkeley vs. Deer Valley live blog.