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BEVERLY HILLS — The stars are in Beverly Hills, but they weren't aligned with the Santa Barbara High football team on Friday night. "We made some bad decisions on offense," said Santa Barbara head coach Will Gonzales. "We stopped executing in the second half."A 28-17 third quarter lead quickly turned into a 37-28 loss for the Dons, as the Beverly Hills High Normans avenged last year's defeat at Peabody Stadium. … [Read more...]
SBCC's grueling non-conference football schedule has resulted in more than just a pair of losses. The Vaqueros lost their starting running back, Bryant Hilliard, with a knee injury in the opening minutes of a 14-10 season-opening setback to Hancock and then watched several offensive linemen go down in last week's game at No. 3 Canyons.The Vaqueros (0-2) complete their non-conference slate on Saturday when they travel to 12th-ranked Ventura for a 7 p.m. game at Larrabee Stadium. On Sept. 27, … [Read more...]
The Bishop Diego football team had a rough night in Fillmore on Friday, losing 42-3 to the Flashes. The Cardinals were able to move the ball on offense, as senior quarterback Anthony Martinez completed several passes downfield for big yardage. But Fillmore capitalized on four red-zone turnovers by Bishop, turning turnovers into points all night long. … [Read more...]
An opportunistic defense and a dramatic 32-yard field goal by senior Alvaro Garcia helped San Marcos High win its football season opener and send Valley Stadium into a frenzy Friday night. With 21 seconds remaining, Garcia, … [Read more...]
Sam McCowan scored four touchdowns in the first quarter Friday night at Peabody Stadium.The way the game was going, and the way the Oxnard High offense was clicking, it did not seem improbable that he might finish with some silly-sick numbers. As it was, McCowan touched the ball on offense only once in each of the next two quarters, finishing with 85 yards on eight carries and two catches for 27 yards.But the rest of the Oxnard offense was far from done. Jamel Smith made two electric … [Read more...]
It was 35-0 at halftime, and it didn’t get much better as the SBCC football team took a beating at College of the Canyons on Saturday, 56-6. The Cougars, who are ranked third in California, had 576 total yards with 314 on the ground, while SBCC had 252 total and only 52 rushing. … [Read more...]
Plagued by too many miscues and dominated by St. Joseph's massive defensive line, Bishop Diego's football team turned in a lackluster performance in its home opener Friday night at SBCC in a 31-13 loss to the visiting Knights. One week after an encouraging narrow loss on the road to Arroyo Grande, the Cardinals (0-2) came out "tentative and flat" according to head coach Tom Crawford. "We acted like we were overmatched," Crawford said. "We were tentative with what we we doing. It was … [Read more...]
Dos Pueblos coach Jeff Uyesaka said his Chargers "got beat by a better team" on Friday night, losing their first game of the season 27-13 on a visit to the Tigers of San Luis Obispo. "It wasn't quite a mauling like it might seem," he pointed out. "We didn't have our game plan put together well enough. We had some opportunities." Junior linebacker Shane Taylor had "a gang of tackles," according to Uyesaka, who also praised the play of running backs Dane Limosnero and Anthony … [Read more...]
Once Morro Bay's speedsters broke into the secondary, they were gone. Three sizable scoring scampers lifted the visiting Pirates over Carpinteria (1-1) at Memorial Stadium Friday, 29-11, in a contest much closer than the bizarre final score indicated. "You musn't play great defense for 28 plays and then not for two," said Warriors head John Hazelton. The lengthy scoring runs — an 86-yarder by Wyatt Gerbracht in the first, a 53-yarder by Gerbracht in the fourth and a … [Read more...]
How close was SBCC to beating Hancock in Saturday's football opener at La Playa Stadium? Tantalizingly close. After building a 10-0 first-quarter lead, the Vaquero offense went stagnant and the Bulldogs rallied to post a 14-10 victory in front of a crowd of 1,650. … [Read more...]
A stubborn Santa Ynez High defense and a nagging case of leg cramps wouldn’t deny Carpinteria quarterback R.J. Rosborough during his football team’s season opener Friday. The 6-foot-4 junior broke free for a 44-yard run in the third quarter, limped to the sidelines to sit out one play, then re-entered to score the game’s lone touchdown and help the Warriors secure a 7-0 victory at Santa Ynez. His 44-yard run keyed a 92-yard scoring drive for Carpinteria (1-0). On the … [Read more...]
New-look Cardinals hang with much-larger Arroyo Grande, 21-14ARROYO GRANDE --- Bishop Diego's record-setting offense from last season is gone, but the current contingent of Cardinals proved that the program can still hang with the big boys on Friday night.Bishop lost a 21-14 decision to the Arroyo Grande Eagles in a game that saw what season-openers often do: turnovers, drops and even a bizarre play or two... like a 4-yard punt. … [Read more...]
