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1 SPORTS Saturday, december 1, 2018 napavalleyregister.com SectION MARTY JAMES Vintage and San Ramon Valley, two high school football teams that have had a lot of success running the ball, will meet in a CIF North Coast Section Division 1 semifi- nal-round playoff game on Sat- urday night at 7 p.m. in Danville. The Crushers (10-2), led by Vine Valley Athletic League Most Valuable Player Viliami Schaum- kel, average 263.1 yards rushing per game and 6.7 yards per rushing play. They have 46 rushing touch- downs. San Ramon Valley (7-4), led by Brandon Cammisa and Tristan Sinclair, averages 186.8 yards rush- ing per game and 5.3 yards on the ground per attempt.

The Wolves have 23 rushing touchdowns. change a thing. going to roll in here and play our brand of Vintage head coach Dylan Leach said Wednes- day. think their brand of football, too. It might actually be the quickest football game in his- tory two teams that run the ball as well as these two teams do.

It will be bang-bang and see what Vintage, the VVAL champion, is the No. 8 seed and is in its first year playing in the North Coast Section since 1976. Vintage left the Monticello Empire League and CIF Sac-Joaquin Section at the end of the 2017-18 school year. The Crushers lost their first two games of the season, falling to Wood and Acalanes-Lafayette, but have turned things around, winning 10 in a row, with playoff victories over No. 9 seed James Logan-Union City, 36-0, and No.

1 seed Antioch, 24-21, in dou- ble-overtime. very proud obviously to be to this level and watch this program said Leach. still get to hang out with each other and play this beautiful game. Everyone is excited around here. I think they feel a sense of pride of accomplishing some things that been done here in a long Prior to this season, Vintage had not won a playoff game since 1986, the year it captured the Sac-Joa- quin Section Division I title.

The Crushers were 0-8 in the play- offs since 1987 and lost to Inder- kum-Sacramento in a first-round postseason game last year, 35-22. kids are just excited to kind of bring our program back to some prominence at this said Leach. know who we are. blue Leach said. have to rely on our weight-room skills and rely on our technique.

not going to go in here and out-run anybody. definitely be ready. be looking forward to the chal- San Ramon Valley, the host school, is the No. 4 seed and fin- ished in a three-way tie for second place in the East Bay-Mountain League, behind only De La Sal- le-Concord. The Wolves beat No.

5 seed Monte Vista-Danville in a quarterfinal-round playoff game last week, 21-17. think very similar to San Ramon Valley coach Aaron Becker said. want to run the football and play physical and line up on defense and play tough and kind of play the game that way. I think going to be two teams fairly evenly matched and very similar to each In this other semifinal game, No. 3 seed Freedom-Oak- ley (8-3) and No.

2 seed Califor- nia-San Ramon (8-3) were sched- uled to play on Friday. The NCS championship game is Dec. 7 or 8. down to the final four within the bracket that in, so obviously exciting for your program. Our kids are cer- tainly excited about said Becker.

Schaumkel has had a very good season, leading the Vintage offense with 1,027 yards rushing, 8.1 yards per carry and 20 touchdowns. Pedja Zivkovic has 407 rushing yards and five TDs and Drew Hat- field has 341 yards and four TDs. think got a good, strong team that is going to really pose us some problems on Satur- said Becker. run the football real well. And they do a lot of things offensively in terms of formations that can give you trouble.

just got to get lined up right and know what your respon- sibilities are, certainly on the de- fensive side of the ball. The volume of formations that they give you offensively poses some challenges to your defense. all accounts, it looks like got a really solid team and a good program going on. They have won the amount of games that they have if they doing some things right. you do a good job, going to score a bunch of points.

not going to shoot themselves in the foot. go- ing to be a in a four-quarter foot- ball Cammisa leads the San Ramon Valley offense, having passed for 1,081 yards and 14 touchdowns. The top rushers are Sinclair with 1,024 yards and 11 TDs and Jacob Himan with 438 yards and two TDs. run the ball extremely Leach said. run downhill with a little bit of mis- direction involved in that.

When they do have to go to play action or pass it, they seem to be efficient with that, too. They are ball-con- trol and they allow their defense to get them in good field position and they kind of control the clock. We respect the fact that a tough, disciplined team. they did with Monte Vista, they control into the fourth quar- ter. tough nosed kids.

cIF NOrtH cOaSt SectION dIVISION 1 FOOtbaLL PLayOFFS Semifinalists like ground game It could be football game in SUBMITTED PHOTOS Vintage High football players and coaches pose with those who attended their Thanksgiving practice at Memorial Stadium. Vintage offensive linemen, from left, Jack Odell, Rhys Irwin and Nyllan Mosqueda block Acalanes defensive linemen on Aug. 24 at Napa Memorial Stadium. Irwin is one of four injured starters expected to miss Saturday CIF North Coast Section Div. 1 semifinal at San Ramon Valley.

GUS MORRIS The Sutter Home Invitational basketball tournament at St. Hel- ena High School tipped off on Thursday. All four games were blowouts, with the average mar- gin of victory being 33 points. what happened: Game 1: Roseland Univer- sity Prep 64, Calistoga 36 Roseland Prep (2-0) jumped out to a 17-6 lead and extended its lead to 45-17 by halftime. The Wildcats played even till the end but the hole was simply too large to climb out of.

the first half we struggled with our defensive assignments. We just gotta said Cal- istoga head coach Cesar Cruz. we got some good looks but it help when we go 0-for-8 in the first half on free throws and we missed a lot of two-footers at the start of the game. We got down quick and just Senior Cesar Ayala and fresh- man Christian Caldera each scored 12 points while senior Jasiel Flores added 8. To their credit, the Wildcats never quit, even trailing by 20 for most of the second half.

They scored the most point of any quarter in the fourth when they scored 11. can look at it either way, but a positive thing to me. The kids fold, especially at halftime. Coach Particelli and I are really proud of them. They played with poise and where impressed with Calistoga (1-2) fell into the bracket and lost to Rin- con Valley Christian on Friday in their second meeting of the week, earning a spot in sev- enth-place game against John Swett at 2 p.m.

The Wildcats had beaten Rincon Valley for the first time since 2006 on Tuesday, 51- 45. Rincon Valley lost to Healds- burg in its Sutter Home opener. Game 2: Healdsburg 70, Rin- con Valley Christian 33 Rincon Valley Christian (0-2) trailed only 7-6 before the much larger Greyhounds pulled away Sutter HOme INVItatIONaL bOyS baSKetbaLL Saints cruise into semifinals Wildcats struggle at line in opening loss DAVE MOSHER PHOTO St. Helena junior Caleb Jeske attempts a contested lay-up during first-round game against John Swett at the Sutter Home Invitational. REGISTER STAFF The Napa High boys basketball team, playing the nightcap on the first day of its round robin Wine Valley Tournament on Thursday, defeated Kennedy-Richmond, 64- 42, to improve to 2-2 overall.

Brock Bowers led the Grizzlies with 23 points, seven rebounds and two blocks. Joe LaLiberte had nine points, Brayden Greenlee and Stephen Blume each scored eight, and Will Marseilles added seven. Napa was coming off Tuesday 57-53 loss at Santa Rosa High. Leading the Grizzlies were Zach Swim (13 points, six rebounds) Blume (13 points, two rebounds), Bowers (10 points, nine rebounds, three assists) and Vince (seven points, 12 rebounds, three assists). Piner 60, American Canyon 58, 2OT Oliver Aandahl had 18 points, Markest Johnson 11, Gabe Patrick nine and Paulo Tiotuyco eight to lead the Wolves as they fell in the first round of San Dawg Classic on Thursday night.

Varsity Girls basketball American Canyon 54, Bethel 47 The Wolves improved to 2-0 with win at their Winter Wolf Classic. Varsity Girls Soccer Vintage 3, Vanden 3 The Crushers opened their sea- son by coming back from a 2-0 halftime deficit to tie the visiting Vikings on Wednesday night at Memorial Stadium. Irais Hernandez scored first two goals, the first on a Mary Deeik assist and the second on a Chloe Solis pass. Madisyn Flohr scored the third on a Hernandez assist. Benicia 6, American Canyon 0 The Panthers scored three goals in each half to spoil the visiting season opener.

JV boys basketball Napa 63, Santa Rosa 41 The visiting Grizzlies (2-1) won their second game in a row Tues- day night, led by Spencer 19 points and seven rebounds and Aiden double-double of 11 points and 11 rebounds. Riain Stults contributed 11 points and three boards. PreP rePOrt Napa High boys claim Wine Valley opener DEAN RUGGIERO PHOTOGRAPHY Napa Stephen Blume (4) looks to shoot against Rodriguez last season. Please see cruSHerS, Page B2 Please see HOOPS, Page B4.