High School Football Week In Review
Week 10 games
Thursday
Middletown 19, Clear Lake 0
Kelseyville 36, lower Lake 18
Friday
Upper Lake 48, Calistoga 0
Statistical leaders
Rushing — Bradley Brackett led an Upper Lake rushing barrage in a 48-0 win over Calistoga with 186 yards on 13 carries and two touchdowns. Ward Beecher added 147 yards on 15 carries with two TDs and Joey Valdez had 111 yards on 10 carries and two TDs. Kelseyville quarterback John mark Reagan rushed for 162 of his team-leading 165 yards in the second half of a 36-18 win over lower Lake. Geno Poloni of the Knights added 157 yards on 27 carries with three touchdowns to Reagan’s two. lower Lake freshman Johnny Egger, playing in his first varsity game, had 82 yards on 14 carries with a TD.
Passing — Middletown’s Ben Pike went 8-for-13 for 147 yards and two TDs against Clear Lake. lower Lake’s Richard Tucker completed 11 of 20 passes for 219 yards and two TDs.
Receiving — lower Lake’s Alphonsos Daniels had six catches for 104 yards and a TD in the loss to Kelseyivlle. Middletown tight end Nick Dellia had two catches — both for touchdowns — for 69 yards overall against Clear Lake.
Highlights
Special teams — Kelseyville’s Chance Barrett recovered an onside kick late in the third quarter that led to a Knights touchdown. Clear Lake’s Adrian Perez blocked an extra-point try by Middletown.
Special teams JV kudos — Middletown’s Barrett Southern returned a punt 40 yards for a touchdown in a 19-3 win over the Clear Lake JVs. it was his fourth punt return for a TD this season. He had two others called back on penalties.
Defense — Kelseyville’s Devin Baker recovered two fumbles against lower Lake. Kyle Brown of Middletown had an interception, his fourth of the season, to tie Upper Lake’s Travis Coleman for the county lead.
Battle of the undefeated — St. Helena beat Willits 27-14 to clinch the NCL I championship.
Battle of the winless — Kelseyville defeated lower Lake 36-18 to avoid an 0-10 season.
Streaks — with its win over lower Lake, Kelseyville (1-9) snapped an 11-game losing streak dating back to last season. Middletown’s JVs completed a 10-0 season with their victory over Clear Lake and have now won 18 in a row dating back to last season.
Brutally efficient — Upper Lake had the ball eight times against Calistoga. the Cougars scored seven touchdowns and had the ball at the Calistoga 3 when the game ended.
The 500 club — all 500 of Upper Lake’s yards against the Wildcats came on the ground.
Batting 1.000 — Clear Lake JV coach Tom O’Rourke reported the results of all 10 of his games. Middletown’s Tony Hart was 9-for-10.
Reason to be optimistic — lower Lake finished 0-9-1 this season but the young Trojans were competitive in a handful of games and should do much better in 2012.
1-9 is good enough — Emery qualified for the Division V playoffs with a 1-9 record. Upper Lake did the same thing last year.
San Francisco 49ers — 8-1? Wow, never saw that coming.
Nice season — Upper Lake’s Bradley Brackett completed the regular season with a county-best 1,327 rushing yards. right behind him is Kelseyville’s Geno Poloni with 1,292.
Next to 1,000 — Upper Lake’s Ward Beecher, Lake County’s rushing TD leader (16) and points leader (112), needs just nine more yards to reach 1,000 for the season.
Two touchdowns in 6.2 seconds — Kelseyville scored twice in a 6.2-second span at the end of the third quarter to boost its lead over lower Lake to 36-18. after Geno Poloni scored on a 1-yard run with 6.2 seconds left in the period, the Knights recovered an onside kick. on the final play of the quarter, quarterback John mark Reagan scored on a 50-yard run.
Pretty much says it all — Middletown is having what most would consider a down year and yet the Mustangs went 6-4 in the regular season, finished third in the NCL I and qualified for the playoffs. Their down year would be a good one for a lot of teams.
Likely would have been reversed — There’s no instant replay in high school football, but a 36-yard touchdown reception by lower Lake’s Alphonsos Daniels with 0.7 seconds left in the first half against Kelseyville probably would have been called back after Daniels appeared to step out of bounds near the 5-yard line.
All over the place — Upper Lake’s David Pyle had nine tackles on defense against Calistoga. Teammates Bradley Brackett and Robert Simondi had seven apiece.
She gave it her all — Sarah Sumpter placed 28th out of 219 runners Saturday at Stanford during the NCAA West Regionals, a qualifier for the NCAA Championships in cross country. Her goal was to crack the top 25 and she missed by three seconds. she had trouble escaping the pack early in the race and it cost her. Perhaps Frank Gudmundson, Upper Lake’s defensive coordinator and a Marine Corps veteran, can teach her a few hand-to-hand combat tricks to open up a lane.
Penn State — Nittany Lions set the bar disgracefully low with their plausible deniability defense.
No NBA season — Millionaire owners and millionaire players can’t agree how to split the billions and we’re supposed to care?
JackBucked — Loosely translated in English, that means, “Turn off televsion, switch on radio instead.”
Stanford Cardinal — welcome to the Weedeater Pumpkin Bowl.
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