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Live blog tonight: NCS football in-game updates
By Jon Becker
Friday, December 3rd, 2010 at 3:53 pm in Uncategorized.
Get in-game updates from Friday night’s North Coast Section football playoffs tonight beginning at 7 with our live blog.
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December 3rd, 2010 at 4:05 pm
J E T S JETS JETS JETS JETS
December 3rd, 2010 at 6:35 pm
Gimme a ticket on this bus. I want to sit behind the drivers, big Ben and jammin’ Jimmy and across the aisle from my favorite tour guide the restless Renegades10. Let’s get this Friday Night Lights show on the road.
December 3rd, 2010 at 7:22 pm
Is there a webcast on for the casa/concord game or a radio station the web i can find to listion to it
December 3rd, 2010 at 7:23 pm
De La up by 40 yet?
December 3rd, 2010 at 7:55 pm
No DLS up 28-3. little under two minutes until half. Granada played a really good first quarter on both sides of the ball. DLS defense woke up in the 2nd quarter and has held the Mats to consecutive three and outs.
December 3rd, 2010 at 8:54 pm
Who kicks ball at start of 2nd half in Grant Folsom game?
December 3rd, 2010 at 9:11 pm
Grant gets the ball to start 2nd half. DLS wins 49-10. First quarter Granada played well, DLS sluggish. Then DLS defense woke up and Granada didn’t get another first down until near end of the third quarter. DLS offense played pretty well, Houston had himself a good game. Backups game in on Granada’s TD drive, then DLS 2nd team 0 went on a nine minute drive in the fourth quarter before turning it over on downs near end of game.
December 3rd, 2010 at 9:12 pm
Looks like the AK Boys leave Granada never beating De La. Join the ranks of others, like Dennis Dixon from SL and Matt Leinhart from MD. The running back is stuffed again. Way too soft- hope ND and Brian Kelly watched this one. Granada was sacked by the Moors in ancient times, tonite the Spartans seige the city.
December 3rd, 2010 at 9:22 pm
Whoa YoMama….Friday night semi-finals brings out your philosopher-poet side. What’s next weeks finals gonna bring?
December 3rd, 2010 at 9:22 pm
Granada is sacked and burned. The barbarians at the gate are stopped by the Pope. 6 personal fouls against Granada.
December 3rd, 2010 at 9:24 pm
Whoa YoMama…..Friday night Semis bring out yer philospher-poet side. What’s next Saturday’s Finals gonna bring out?
December 3rd, 2010 at 9:25 pm
Concrete, I grew up in Berkeley. During my day it was Berkely Ready Mix in the cement business. Their motto on their trucks, ” Find a hole and fill it.”
There’s a big silver and green truck driving to Oakland next Sat.nite. Dr. De La is the driver.
December 3rd, 2010 at 9:32 pm
The ‘Hounds dropped a defensive battle up in Middletown tonight 10-0. Win or lose, Go Hounds! A good season fellas..
December 3rd, 2010 at 9:39 pm
It’s time Granada goes back to Livermore and wander the earth amongst the windmills like Don Quiote did in on his white charger(ATK III.) The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain(Granada). The 300 defended the pass to the man.
December 3rd, 2010 at 9:40 pm
Folsom 27-13 over Grant less than 5 to play. Any update?
December 3rd, 2010 at 9:46 pm
Someone on this blog said Cardinal Newman didn’t have any atheletes. It must have been recruiting.
December 3rd, 2010 at 9:47 pm
Sorry, Folsom 34 Grant 20, middle of 4th.
December 3rd, 2010 at 9:50 pm
Walkin’ the Dog like bird dog down Treat. Cliff Noble and The Horse is ridin’ into Oak Town next Sat.
December 3rd, 2010 at 9:55 pm
YoMama….I am in the concrete business….it was Kaiser who had the “Find a hole and fill it”. Berkeley Ready Mix had the Cal colors and logo. But you’re definitely right about next Saturday night…..now let’s see who can sling the most mud, should be fun.
December 3rd, 2010 at 10:08 pm
miramonte is joke. No running game just hoping #9 busts not the miramonte passing game i grew up watchin. But i knew when they played a good team it would happen. Fortuna analy liberty n mission san jo thats there non league. Cupcake teams is why they made the semi’s eureka san rafael or odowd would have beaten them.
December 3rd, 2010 at 10:10 pm
Uh your both wrong it was “Find a Need and Fill It”
December 3rd, 2010 at 10:12 pm
I guess the people who said that Grant was overrated are vindicated.
December 3rd, 2010 at 10:17 pm
someone give graves a full ride as a qb…i dont care hes only 5’9 he can play lower d1 fo sho or 1-aa
December 3rd, 2010 at 10:26 pm
Folsom’s victory over Grant spells bad news for Mack, Concord, PV, etc. for their bowl aspirations. Palo Alto won tonight in the CCS Open over Valley Christian which means they finish the season undefeated. So even if DLS were to lose next week, Folsom would be staying in the DII bowl. Here is how the different bowl combos would play out in the top 3 divisions:
If DLS wins next week:
Open: DLS
DI: Paly
D2: Folsom
If Cal wins next week:
Open: Paly
DI: Cal
D2: Folsom
If SRV wins next week:
Open: Paly
DI: Monterey Trail/Pleasant Grove (SJS D1 final tomorrow)
D2: Folsom
Despite the win over Grant I don’t think the committee will overlook an undefeated team this year that won the CCS Open. So the D2 bowl hopes for the East Bay schools look pretty slim now. In D3 if either MC or Encinal win the bracket they will be going bowling no questions asked. CN, despite a tough schedule could face some competition since they have 3 losses.
December 3rd, 2010 at 10:27 pm
wow…book ‘em dano!
December 3rd, 2010 at 10:31 pm
Moe11….I stand corrected, you are right…..over 30 years in the biz has increased the slump in my memory
December 3rd, 2010 at 10:32 pm
Palo Alto has had a great season but they still have not played anyone of DLS’s caliber or maybe even Cal’s. The WCAL was not as good this year as in the past.
December 3rd, 2010 at 10:41 pm
If DLS wins next week then I agree with Renegades assessment. If Cal were to win then I think Cal should go to Open, Paly to Div. 1 and Folsom to Div. 2. Undefeated season be damned.
December 3rd, 2010 at 10:50 pm
Ya but then if Cal has a case to the Open why doesn’t Folsom? It would be the same kind of deal. Avenging their only loss of the season against a highly ranked national opponent. And Grant has been higher in the majority of polls. So they could have a stronger case than Cal. Instead the committee finds the best solution by putting the undefeated team in the Open to play for the title of best team in Cali and the two one loss teams in the D1 and D2 bowls. Instead if they put Cal in, the SJS entourage and Folsom would be pretty pissed because they would have the exact same reason to be in the Open game. Same would go if Folsom was given the Open, Cal would have a reason to be pissed off. With my scenario everybody is happy.
December 3rd, 2010 at 10:54 pm
Yo Mama,
You are in full force tonight…Predictions for D1, D2 and D3 champs next week at the cavernous Oakland Coliseum? Tickets go on sale at the De La bookstore on Monday…wife is making the trek to pick our tix…looking forward to Carson!
Go silver n green!
December 3rd, 2010 at 10:55 pm
outsider you may b right bout de la but until cal srv or mv play paly i just dont know.
December 3rd, 2010 at 10:57 pm
s1lver… not so fast on Carson there. Still one more game to go. Would be nice to see them back there though that’s for sure and they do control their destiny.
December 3rd, 2010 at 11:00 pm
Regardless of who wins NCS Division I, I gotta believe that the committee will want Paly in a state bowl game. That means Folsom is pretty much buried in Division II. Its unfortunate because they made very easy work of a very good (albeit banged up) Grant team. Folsom makes a very enticing case for the Open game (assuming DLS loses), but because Paly deserves to go, Folsom will be in the D-II game regardless of what happens next Saturday.
Should Cal win, which, based on how DLS has been manhandling teams as of late, a very very tall task, I think they will go D I and Paly to open. The committee has shown to like undefeated teams for the title game. Even though Cal would have probably played a more difficult schedule, Paly was undefeated.
My prediction is that Cal wins tomorrow night, falls to DLS at the Coliseum and DLS goes to the open, Paly to DI and Folsom to DII.
December 3rd, 2010 at 11:01 pm
Cal fans need to focus on tomorrow night- SRV is going to give them a fight. Dont count your Coliseum chickens just yet…
December 3rd, 2010 at 11:03 pm
I think that Folsom has a good case for Open. I watched the Paly vs VC game tonight and neither team looked really good. Slower than DLS and weaker than Cal. I just think that Paly happened into a situation where they did not play anyone very good this season and that does not make them the best representative for NorCal.
December 3rd, 2010 at 11:06 pm
With the Concord and Cardinal Newman wins, you have to think the D-II final will be in the Coliseum with the D-I final. They’ve already got the #1 seed in D-II from the East Bay locked in to the championship game, and I’m not sure a win by 4th seeded Encinal would be enough to trump that. Which raises the question of where they would play a CN/Encinal championship game…
December 3rd, 2010 at 11:06 pm
@Junior-totally agree. This Cal team, however, has shown an incredible ability to focus at the game at hand. You can see this in the win over Foothill before DLS and the Berkeley game last week. Both Cal and SRV have improved a lot since they met what seems like a year ago. Nonetheless, I still feel Cal is the stronger squad.
December 3rd, 2010 at 11:08 pm
Cal first needs to take care of business (SRV) tomorrow night. Then they can start thinking ahead to the DLS game. The state bowl game should be the farthest thing from their minds right now.
And Yo Mama, while the “AK Boys leave Granada never beating De La”, they also leave never having beaten MV or Cal. They whooped us all in the 100 Meters though.
December 3rd, 2010 at 11:10 pm
If you all noticed in one of my earlier posts I said “if Cal were to win next week” not that they will win or if they will even be in that game. I am rooting for Cal but, like Renegades, am looking at this thing one game at a time. After tonight Renegades can look to the Coliseum.
December 3rd, 2010 at 11:14 pm
Gades,
You are right, I am getting a little ahead of myself there…I do not discount tomorrow night’s winner…I have this feeling that SRV could very well pull a Folsom type upset, they seem to step it up in the big games..should be good.
December 3rd, 2010 at 11:19 pm
No way Folsom has ANY case for the Open game over an undefeated DLS.
DLS beat an SJS D2 semi finalist 40-14 and Folsom will have one big loss. D2 game is their fate where they will give Serra all they can handle.
December 3rd, 2010 at 11:20 pm
I’m sure Kravitz is well aware of everything SRV is capable of, and the coaches will not let the Grizz look ahead for one second. It should be a good game tomorrow night. Cal had a healthy respect for Berkeley, but they have tremendous respect for SRV (& the utmost respect for De La).
December 3rd, 2010 at 11:21 pm
I was making the case for Folsom to go Open if DLS lost in the NCS finals. If DLS wins NCS then they are definately the team for Open.
December 3rd, 2010 at 11:23 pm
We know what you meant Outsider. Junior was just getting a little defensive. Of course DLS would get the Open if they go undefeated. I doubt they would even need to take a vote.
December 3rd, 2010 at 11:24 pm
Saw Concord tonight. They looked dominant until the game reached the 4th quarter. Mr. Lloyd threw two picks to nullify TDs (one in each half), not particularly well thrown balls.
Casa Grande made some defensive adjustments at the half, and when the Minutemen offense stalled, the Gauchos wore down the home team’s defense, literally. It reminded me of what Nevada did to Boise State (without the missed FGs), but Concord was at home, so they fended off the comeback 26-21.
It was an unusual game with at least 5 onside kicks, and only one point after try kick made (Concord went for 2 every time). If the game was played in Petaluma, no telling the result. The only other odd note was the number of flutter passes the CG QB threw: 5 or 6 lame duck passes, though 2 were completed. Strange but entertaining…and the CG fans never quit cheering in a tough game.
I am looking forward to the game at CAL tomorrow.
December 3rd, 2010 at 11:27 pm
Yes Junior, it’s pretty much accepted now (at least by the fans in NCS) that should DLS not follow in Grant’s footsteps next week they would be the very likely choice for the Open Game. As Outsider said we were discussing should Cal be the NCS champ what would happen with the Open game.
SRV is always in it with that defense. Defense wins in the playoffs, even Folsom’s win tonight can be as much attributed to their defense as their offense.
December 3rd, 2010 at 11:27 pm
Sounds as if the Concord game could have gone either way. Happened to go to Concord.
December 3rd, 2010 at 11:29 pm
prep fan – stay on ur grizz’s they have their hands full…make sure them boys dont look ahead..big mistake if they do.
not gonna matter either way tho. enjoy it while it lasts.
December 3rd, 2010 at 11:36 pm
Hey Renegades, you better talk Junior down. He practically said that even if the Grizz beat SRV this week, they will lose to DLS next week. Don’t want to get jinxed.
December 3rd, 2010 at 11:46 pm
Outsider, while the Concord game could have gone either way, Concord should have won going away. Keep the game close and they can wear down, but keeping the game close is the challenge. I would guess Concord had more than a 100-150 yard advantage on offense, but the 2 interceptions on TD attempts kept it close. It could have been 40-12, or if at Casa Grande 26-28.
December 3rd, 2010 at 11:48 pm
I’m sure he’s not the only DLS backer to have his plane ticket, hotel room and bags already packed to SoCal. If my school had won 18 NCS titles in a row, I’m sure I might be tempted to plan ahead and keep those dates open.
I was watching the video feed of that Grant-Folsom game and Shaq looked like he was afraid to go hard to the middle. I know he is injured, but he looked more like GA lll out there than one of the best most heralded backs in the state. On one 4th down try, he could have gotten the 1st by following his blockers straight ahead, but instead choose to drift outside to avoid the contact and didn’t make it. I wish I could have seen more of him before his injury, becuase he must be a harder runner than that.
December 3rd, 2010 at 11:50 pm
Paydirt,
Thanks for the clarification.
December 3rd, 2010 at 11:51 pm
dont worry outsider I will buy you a t-shirt.
December 3rd, 2010 at 11:52 pm
Is the Grant/Folsom game going to be replayed in the bay area?
December 4th, 2010 at 12:05 am
Watch Shaq when he is at full strength and he is a very physical runner. A high ankle sprain is not easy to play with. But in situations like that game, sometimes you gotta go to that place where you block it out. But I can understand how it hampered his ability to cut and such. He mainly was only able to run downhill.
Junior is a grown man I already said my piece on it, he’s gonna do what he wants. It is true that DLS usually plays better the 2nd time they see a team although for a quarter tonight, that didn’t look like it was going to hold true. Some things from tonight. GA III did not cross the 100 yard mark. Paper marked him at 14 carries for 69 yards I think and 18 yards receiving. Dunne was held under 100 yards rushing for the third time in the last four games. Horn did a good job of spying him on the night, he had two carries for losses on the first drive. DLS’ yardage though is a bit misleading because they got a number of short fields tonight due to the offense completely shutting down the Mats offense as well as some good kick and punt returns to go along with a fumble recovery deep in Mats territory. Something like four or five consecutive series without a first down.
I will say one thing though. DLS cannot and I mean cannot start off next week like they did tonight.
December 4th, 2010 at 12:17 am
I was at the game tonight and I have to say that Joe Te’O was running very hard, numerous broken tackles and tough runs all night long. I think DLS opponents have keyed in a Lucas Dunne and I expect the response from Lad to be a more balanced offense as we saw tonight..I would expect to see more passing with Williams and Shapiro and the tight ends getting in the mix…time to open things up a bit more. By the way, Houston made some nice reads on the option tonight, we will see more of that next week. Should Cal win tomorrow night, the Spartans may have to switch to a nickel package next week with 3 down and an extra DB to contain Cal’s effective scrambler.
December 4th, 2010 at 12:29 am
SRV can challenge CAL for 24-36 minutes, particularly in a wet/windy game, but I do not expect CAL to go 1&2 to end their season, unless they lose the turnover game by at least -2.
December 4th, 2010 at 1:16 am
No, I wouldn’t leave three down linemen against Cal’s line. I would leave it at four, and have Barton spy Reil. Or somehow get the DT’s to maintain good gap discipline. The reason it’s so effective against DLS is because the line tends to over pursue. It was something that was improving with Justin Walker as the season went along and if he had not gone down I don’t think Reil would have scrambled as effectively.
Te’o has been a man possessed recently. Clearly establishing himself as the 2nd back. It’s nice because he is bigger than Dunne so nice when you need those tough yards. Teams are keying on Dunne in the run game, but he is getting it done as a receiver and kick returner. But I expect him to have a big game rushing next week. You don’t keep a guy like that down for too long.
December 4th, 2010 at 1:46 am
R10 and S1lverngreen,
Just curious, were you at the Coliseum for the 1991 NCS championship? We moved to the east-bay in mid-1991, after following CCS playoffs from 1978 (we lived 2 blocks from Bellarmine, watched Marty Mornhingweg – The PA. EAGLES CURRENT OC – take Oak Grove to a lopsided CCS championship), and then we watched a then unknown scrappy silver and green team seriously challenge an athletically superior Pittsburg team in the rain at the Coliseum. 151 games later…
December 4th, 2010 at 7:09 am
Wow..according to Maxpreps headline this am, over 20,000 were at the Grant-Folsom game last night
December 4th, 2010 at 8:15 am
With Healdsburg losing I believe Encinal and Cal are my only two picks remaining to win each section:
D1 Cal is still alive
D2 Casa Grande lost to Concord (Nice win Minutemen0
D3 Encinal at MC today
D4 Healdsburg goes down and I warned everybody about that scary Middletown team five weeks ago. Wow
December 4th, 2010 at 8:23 am
Killerd, you’ll miss those 2 picks also.
December 4th, 2010 at 8:24 am
wildcats-wildcats-wildcats-wildcats-wildcats- go wildcat pride!
December 4th, 2010 at 8:26 am
I had/have:
1-DLS
2-Rancho Cotate
3-Marin Catholic
4-Middletown
D2 & D4 are the toughest to decide in my opinion. Great win for the Mustangs over a legit Healdsburg team.
December 4th, 2010 at 8:28 am
I heard Salesian is leaving the hose on to wet the field like Ferndale did against Javid Best several years back. Seriously, with all the pot money in Humbolt County Ferndale’s field should be condemned by the NCS and a new field built. That would be smokin’!
December 4th, 2010 at 8:38 am
Big Joe………I will be laughing for most of the day after your Ferndale and how to fund a good field up there joke
December 4th, 2010 at 8:54 am
Old Meddling, is there an Albany bus driver driving the Jet bus across the Richmond-San Rafael today? Will you be on the bus too?
You guys should stop at Scomamas for some fried calarmari.
December 4th, 2010 at 8:56 am
The Jets should stop by Marin General, they are going to need it.
December 4th, 2010 at 9:50 am
Pay dirt,
Can’t say that I was at that game, however, back then I followed the program as an outsider in college, a jealous outsider i must admit as I was a product of a public school…one thing holds true, DLS is a program filed with great tradition and pride. I am proud to say that I have a son who attends the school and is having the time of his life.
December 4th, 2010 at 9:54 am
with the lack of atheletes CN has and winning 42-17, the jets have to play MC today, if they win then CN.
That’s a lot of Catholic to deal with. I predict an all- Catholic final.
December 4th, 2010 at 9:56 am
Shag, Blanton and me are driving up to see the jet-mc game today. we’ll let you know what we saw and think- kind of like a bsal blog.
December 4th, 2010 at 10:03 am
US Grant should of scheduled De La to toughen up for their Sac Jaq playoffs. Fully loaded, they are still 3 tds short of the Spartans. That goes for the 6 td kid from Folsom too, against the De La D he’s worth 1 score.
December 4th, 2010 at 10:06 am
the jet bloggers must be using the gps going to Marin. They have been very quite today. The weather is a typical Marin day, kind of like Alameda too.
December 4th, 2010 at 10:13 am
who ever was complaining about the AK and 1st team all-ebal must be nuts. You need to be walked.
the only all league first they are making is the
Easy Boy Attitude League.
December 4th, 2010 at 10:28 am
Dont see why DLS would want to play Grant- they cant even win their section.
Grant had their chance- I believe we might understand better why they declined to play the Spartans.
December 4th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
All the kings horses and all the kings men can’t put Grant back together again.
December 4th, 2010 at 1:17 pm
Today’s CCTimes sports page lists a replay of the Concord v. Casa Grande HS football game on “CHN.” But, CHN is not listed on the CCT TV Schedule and I can’t find it on the Astound on-screen guide.
What/where is CHN?
December 4th, 2010 at 4:49 pm
JET SPEED….BEEN SAYING IT ALL YEAR, (68) Where you at big joe ? Jets just left Marin general as there was several Marin players and parents having emotinal breakdowns.
ITS ALL good didn’t do much chatting this morning as I was busy doing it out on the field. ALL BULLSHIT ASIDE…two good teams, props to them….BUT….we silenced you doubters,went to their house and did what we had to do.Its not over but we are blessed and humble to be going to the finals.
December 4th, 2010 at 5:17 pm
Big Joe…..were you at the same game. Your boys at MC were dominated at the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball. Encinal’s little lines crushed MC’s size. Marin general might have a new patient….#58 from MC’s helmet after he slammed it on the turf following the loss.
December 4th, 2010 at 5:22 pm
My hats off to the Jets. Congrats. Didn’t think you could handle that size. Marin General will be waiting for that Marin County sissy.
December 4th, 2010 at 5:25 pm
Still an awesome game at a real cool place to play….great atmosphere.
December 4th, 2010 at 6:20 pm
Agree with Triton8, Marin Catholic’s facility was nice and the people were Great Hosts. Jet Pride and back to the Ship baby!!!