Northgate High cheerleaders perform at halftime of the school’s first night home game. Photo by Butch Noble
Things that stood out during the first week of football It’s hard not to go football-crazy with Week One of the 2010 high school football season directly in your rear-view. With that being said, here are the Top Five moments from the opening week on the gridiron. 1. Foothill High School, which boasted one of the top passing attacks in the East Bay in 2009, dusted off the double-tight, double-wing ground attack to blindside Pittsburg in a key early-season nonleague Division I tilt. 2. Just when you thought you knew where Acalanes middle linebacker Sumner Cortessis would be (i.e. in the middle of the pile, wrecking yet another run play by Ygnacio Valley), he was somewhere else (i.e. dropping back into coverage and poking the ball free to cause the only turnover of the game and quash the Warriors’ best scoring chance in the Dons’ 9-0 win). 3. Wasn’t Serra-San Mateo supposed to be the biggest test of the regular season for De La Salle? 45 straight points to start the game, 394 yards rushing, and 164 yards and two TDs on 10 carries for Lucas Dunne in a convincing 45-7 win say different. Look out, EBAL. 4. Northgate tailback Cameron Stover scampered for 195 yards and three touchdowns in the school’s first-ever home night game. Good thing they turned on the lights, huh? 5. How about Kennedy-Richmond? The Eagles are 1-0 to start 2010 (after going 0-9 in ’09) thanks to a 21-yard scoring scamper by Isaiah McClain with under a minute to play that turned a 14-15 deficit into a 20-15 victory over El Cerrito.
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September 9, 2010
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