September 10th, 2008 01:40pm
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I just got done talking to Tomales football coach Leon Feliciano.
He reminded me of how difficult it is to coach in the small school ranks. Dropping enrollment, soccer the same time of year and a changing student body can affect drastically a small school football team.
Already this week, Round Valley dropped its varsity program. Mendocino didn’t field a team and Anderson Valley is trying to return after a year away …
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September 6th, 2008 02:40am
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Montgomery really didn’t play all that bad in its opener. It’s just that Grant of Sacramento was that good.
The Pacers had better than average size, excellent speed and their tacklers never missed.
Their head coach was correct when he said their best trait is athleticism. One play late in the game, the Grant QB threw behind the receiver, but he made an adjustment, somehow caught the ball behind …
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September 4th, 2008 07:48pm
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I will be writing a high school blog beginning this weekend with items I won’t necessarily use in game stories or high school notebooks.
Many times you might observe things at a high school football game, for instance, that you don’t write about because it doesn’t fit in a story or because there’s not enough room for it in the paper.
Plenty of items come across my desk during the …
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PD sports writer Eric Branch leads our blogging team on every aspect of Empire high school sports. Other contributors to this blog include Phil Barber and Michael Coit.
