Around the Bay
East Bay
There was an abbreviated schedule in the East Bay this weekend, with many teams taking byes while awaiting the start of league play next week. But there were a few highlights . ... Hercules had to rally from a 27-12 deficit in the fourth quarter to beat
Pinole Valley 28-27 and improve to 6-0. Dieontae Malan threw a touchdown pass to Kris Miles, and the extra point made it 27-25. A field goal by Hercules provided the winning points with under a minute remaining . ... Kennedy of Fremont kept its record unblemished at 5-0 by beating
American 22-13 in a Mission Valley Athletic League contest. Kennedy rushed for 340 yards, with Darius Moses leading the way with 184. Vincent Larsen had 104 yards and three touchdowns. On defense, Nicholas Loya contributed 11 tackles . ... Monte Vista improve to 5-0 by beating
Granada 35-14 in an East Bay Athletic League game. Monte Vista led 35-0 at the half . ... In Oakland Athletic League play, Oakland
Tech scored a touchdown and two-point conversion in the fourth period to beat Castlemont 8-0. The victory was Tech’s first of the season . ... Bishop O’Dowd bounced back from a loss last weekend and beat James Logan 35-12. The Dragons improved to 4-1 . ... De Anza (4-2) handed John
Swett (4-1) its first loss of the season, winning 9-8 . ... Livermore scored 17 points in the second quarter and beat Dougherty
Valley 24-14. It was the first EBAL victory of the season for Livermore (2-3).
South Bay/Peninsula
Burlingame (3-2) edged Sacred Heart Prep 14-7. It was Burlingame’s first win over SHP since 2010 . ... Cupertino’s Alex Bruckhaus had another big game, rolling up 164 yards and four touchdowns in a 42-14 win over Gunn. Cupertino improved to 5-1 . ... Chase Hofmann ran for 244 yards and scored four touchdowns in Half Moon Bay’s (5-0) victory over Menlo. The winners raced out to a 36-6 lead before Menlo (4-1) scored 21 unanswered points to get back in the contest . ... Homestead improved to 3-2 by beating Monta
Vista 44-6. Quarterback Jack Barden made the most of his five pass completions, with three of them going for touchdowns. ... James Lick edged Andrew
Hill 28-27, but Hill quarterback Eli Gonzalez had a big night, going 13-for-19 passing with 170 yards and four TDs. Three of his touchdowns went to Shakwon Williams . ... Michael Brohn carried 27 times for 203 yards and a pair of scores in Leigh’s (4-1) 28-7 win over Live Oak. Quarterback Jared King threw for 141 yards and ran for 76 more . ... Stavro Papadakis of Menlo-Atherton was busy on both sides of the ball in his team’s 28-8 thumping of Terra Nova. Papadakis rushed for 143 yards and two touchdowns on offense and contributed seven tackles on defense. M-A won its third game in a row after opening the season with two defeats . ... Mountain
View (3-2) beat Hillsdale 21-20 in overtime, scoring the tying touchdown in the fourth quarter before going on to win the contest. Colin Dickerson ran for 140 yards and Elias Davidson had 132 yards . ... Oak Grove won its third game in a row, rolling past
Pioneer 40-7. Jarmar Julien Jr. had 13 rushes for 163 yards and three TDs. Quarterback Tyler McGovern completed 7 of 15 passes for 269 yards and three more touchdowns. Oak Grove had 554 yards of total offense . ... San
Mateo (3-2) broke a 14-14 tie at halftime and beat Jefferson 3526. Anderson Perdomo rushed for 140 yards and two touchdowns, and Boris Mazin contributed 125 yards. San Mateo rushed for 311 yards in all . ... Santa Teresa (4-1) trailed Lincoln (3-1) 19-13 until Kyree Harbin took over. The running back raced 50 yards for a touchdown, and Nick Scheibley’s extra point made it 20-19. Harbin then ran 45 yards to the house for an insurance score in Santa Teresa’s 27-19 triumph . ... Serra, which has played a brutally tough schedule thus far, won its first game of the season, beating
Sacred Heart Cathedral 41-7. Serra is 1-4 . ... Silver Creek built a 28-7 lead after three periods and cruised past Leland 28-15 . ... Wilcox improved to 3-3 by beating
Santa Clara 58-28. The winners led 42-7 at the half. Wilcox has won 31 in a row over Santa Clara.