Scores, highlights from Week 4 action in the Bay Area
In the absence of a postseason in this pandemicriddled football season, Serra coach Patrick Walsh will take the consolation prize of a blowout win over rival St. Francis on senior day. The Padres, ranked third by the Bay Area News Group, couldn’t have started faster and hardly slowed down by the time the clock began running nonstop in the fourth quarter of Serra’s 49-7 win over No. 9 St. Francis.
On their first play from scrimmage Saturday, senior receiver Isaiah Crump caught a lateral pass from senior quarterback Dominique Lampkin and heaved the ball downfield into the hands of senior receiver Kai Lim for a 73-yard touchdown strike. Lampkin added three more touchdowns before halftime, along with three more from junior running back Hassan Mahasin, who collected a fourth in the second half.
Leading 42-7 entering the fourth quarter, Walsh told his team that after they had “been through hell” waiting for this season to arrive, he was going to get as many players in as possible.
“That’s not usually something we say against St. Francis,” Walsh said. “We’ve been on the other side of that. I think it’s a testament to the fabric of our program and our community. Everything we’ve been through since March. … It was a cultural type of win today that I’m most proud of.”
NO. 1 DE LA SALLE 42, JESUITCARMICHAEL 7 >> In the final home game of his storied De La Salle career, quarterback Dorian Hale sprinted into the end zone Thursday night on his last snap. Nico Torrez had a nose for the end zone, too, crossing the goal line three times. Not bad, given that earlier in the day the senior hit a triple for the school’s baseball team.
For Justin Alumbaugh, the night marked his 100th game as De La Salle’s head coach.
With Torrez and Hale accounting for five touchdowns, De La Salle rolled over Jesuit of Carmichael, an outcome that for the seniors made postgame pictures with family all the more special.
NO. 2 PITTSBURG 55, NO. 14 LIBERTY 7 >> Pittsburg caught Liberty flat-footed on its first play from scrimmage and never allowed the Lions to recover in a running-clock win, the Pirates’ third straight in this rivalry. Senior quarterback Eli Brickhandler lateraled to senior receiver Matthew Quesada, who chucked the ball downfield to a wideopen Quatama Massaquoi, another fourth-year receiver who easily chugged across the goal line.
“The first play we cooked up a little play we like to call ‘Sugar,’” Brickhandler said after the win that improved Pittsburg’s record to 3-0. “That started our morale. It picked us up right from the start.”
Brickhandler put a bowtie on the blowout in the second quarter when he slow-walked the final five yards of a 24-yard touchdown scramble that extended Pittsburg’s lead to 28-0.
NO. 7 SAN RAMON VALLEY 31, NO. 23 CALIFORNIA 24 >> Things looked bleak for San Ramon Valley as the final minutes ticked off the clock Saturday night. The host Wolves trailed by seven against California, which has been a pleasant surprise this season in the East Bay Athletic League under new coach Dan Calcagno. Then San Ramon Valley struck quickly, scoring twice in the final two minutes to pull out a 3124 victory. A 16-yard fade route from quarterback Jack Quigley to tight end J.P. Murphy tied the score at 24, then after the Wolves got the ball back on a California fumble, Quigley hit Za’Darion Nardi from 10 yards out for the winning score with 40.8 seconds remaining.
NO. 8 CAMPOLINDO 20, AMADOR VALLEY 14 >> Campolindo scored two touchdowns in the fourth quarter to turn a seven-point deficit into a victory that kept the Cougars undefeated through four games. Max Heffernan iced the victory with a late interception. J.T. Clarke’s 1-yard touchdown run with two minutes left provided the winning margin.
NO. 10 LOS GATOS 56, MOUNTAIN VIEW 23 >> Mountain View rode into Los Gatos undefeated and looking good. The Spartans’ two victories included a rare triumph over Palo Alto and a rout of Santa Clara. It all made for what seemed like a big matchup Friday. But Los Gatos had other ideas.
The Wildcats ambushed Mountain View with five touchdowns in the first quarter and cruised to a 5623 victory that set up what will be a league championship showdown Thursday at Wilcox. Los Gatos and Wilcox are 3-0.
“I’ll tell you, this is as good a team as I’ve been around,” Los Gatos coach Mark Krail said. “We’re playing all three phases really well. Mountain View is a good team. They play hard. They’re well-coached.”
NO. 11 CLAYTON VALLEY CHARTER 21, MONTE VISTA 14>> When Clayton Valley scored on a fourth-down, 40-yard pass from Jake Kern to Alex Bush, stretching its lead to two touchdowns with five minutes left, the outcome seemed secure for the Ugly Eagles (3-1). But it wasn’t secure until Charlie Saylor intercepted an ill-advised pass at the goal line as Monte Vista threatened to even the score in the final minute. Monte Vista (0-4) pulled to within 21-14 when tight end Jack Endries caught a pass from Dyllan Devitt along the right sideline and kept running until he crossed the goal line for a 69-yard score.
NO. 15 MENLO-ATHERTON 15, NO. 17 SACRED HEART PREP 7 >> Menlo-Atherton improved to 3-0 on the season while handing Sacred Heart Prep its first loss thanks to a stout defensive effort and a clockchurning run game. Starting running back Thomas Taufui left the game early with a foot injury and was replaced by fellow senior Dwayne Green.
NO. 22 THE KING’S ACADEMY 35, NO. 16 HALF MOON BAY 34 (OT) >> It took extra possessions, but The King’s Academy pulled out a win in overtime against Half Moon Bay on Saturday night. Senior running back/linebacker Noah Short scored more than half of The King’s Academy’s points with three total touchdowns, and senior running back/safety Joey Thompson and junior fullback Christian Gomez each added one touchdown, too. Senior quarterback Antonio Gonzalez threw two touchdowns.
NO. 18 JAMES LOGAN 46, MOREAU CATHOLIC 7 >> James Logan (3-0) rolled to a 33-0 halftime lead and never looked back. D.J. Johnson, Jeremiah Patterson and Dwight Martin III were among those catching touchdown passes from junior quarterback Marcus Sanders. Moreau Catholic (0-2) played without either of its Pac-12-bound stars. Outside linebacker Kaleb Elarms-Orr, who is headed to Cal, suffered a torn ACL last week in a 50-46 loss to San Leandro. He will have surgery in the next couple of weeks, said Moreau Catholic coach Rob Gatrell.