Chris Terrence's Weekly Blog
Crowds Getting Bigger For Valley HS Football High school football is getting rave reviews in the Central Valley this
year. There are many good teams playing excellent football and there has
been no shortage of fan interest as we are now heading into the fourth week
of this season. I have to say “Hat’s off” to our boss, Gary Cocola, at
KGMC-TV (C43, Comcast Ch 10) and KJEO-TV(non-cable Ch 32), who is leading us
into our third year of televising games on CBC stations, and also a big
salute to Comcast Cable for airing our games and producing and airing more
on Comcast Cable Ch 14. Also, you can now hear live broadcasts of games on
three radio stations in Fresno: KXEX-AM (1550), KCBL-AM(1340) and ESPN1430,
plus you can catch up on all the scores from around the Valley on Friday This past week, Fred Clark was on a well deserved vacation in Hawaii, and
well known former coach, Ray Reyes, sat in for for Fred as the color man for
the game between Clovis East and Bullard on Thursday night on Comcast. And
what a great game it was! High school football at it’s best. A huge crowd
filled up both sides of McLane Stadium and the fans were not disappointed.
The first half was a great battle that ended in a 15-15 tie. Both teams
played excellent on both sides of the ball. The Knights and the Timberwolves
both showed what well-coached and disciplined teamwork can do. Clovis East
drew first blood on a QB sneak from a yard out by Eric Roberts. Coach Tim
Murphy followed that up with a little surprise by going for a two point
sucessful conversion by Andrew Pancotti. Then it was Bullard’s turn,
getting a short TD run from Kenny Hendrington that was followed up by Coach
Don Arax’s decision to also go for a 2 point conversion which was also The next night, September 23rd, we had another huge crowd on hand at Grizzlies Stadium in downtown Fresno to witness the Clovis West - Edison game. Again, it was a TV game to be seen on Cocola Broadcasting and Comcast Cable. Fred Clark was back from Hawaii and the top of his tanned, bald and shinning head could be seen like a beacon all over the stadium from the press box. The first half of the game was close as the Golden Eagles took a 13 to 7 lead into the locker room at the break. Kyle Duffy scored two TD’s, one on a 47-yard run, and one on a 17 yard pass from Beau Sweeney. Edison scored on a 4 yard run by Charles Amadi and both teams played some outstanding defense in that first half and it looked like it was going to be a close game. Well, it wasn’t. Coach Jim Hartigan of the defending Division One Valley Champion Golden Eagles made some adjustments on the defense and that, along with some special teams mistakes by the Tigers, the Eagles scored 36 consecutive points to turn a close game into a rout. Our players of the game? Kyle Duffy was an easy choice for the Eagles, as he turned a great game on offense, rushing for 161 yards on 14 carries, scoring 4 touchdowns, and playing an excellent game on defense. For the Tigers it was running back Charles Amadi. Guy Haberman continues to do a good job as our sidline reporter and Anthony Wiltrado, football beat writer for the Fresno Bee was out halfime guest. Yet another huge crowd (so many all over the Valley this year) was on hand at McLane Stadium as the Hoover Patriots remained undefeated at 3-0 by beating a game McLane Highlander team, 28 to 12. The Patriots once again were led by their leader, QB Mike Cervantes, who is having an outstanding year to date. The three year starter once again ran, passed, led the defense, and did whatever else he had to do for the win. I still get a kick out of the fact that Cervantes, at 5’9” tall, and at 160 pounds does all that and is the team’s long snapper on punts as well. This kid does everything but manufacture the chin straps for the helmets. Other names are also being heard often in reference to head coach Rick Lyon’s team this year: Vincent Andrews, Michael Ward, Jordan Lett, and Greg Chartier, just to name a few. Props also to the much improved McLane team under coach Dave Barton as the Highlanders develop. Brian Prieto is looking good at quarterback and so is running back Douglas Howard.................This weeks big “upset” game was played in Visalia as Immanuel HS of Reedley went down and knocked off the team with the longest winning streak in the Valley, Central Valley Christian, 29-28 in an overtime thriller. Tim Cowdry kicked an extra point after Josh Fixel tied the game in overtime with a one yard blast. With the loss went CVC’s 29-game winning streak.........Meawhile undefeated Yosemite came down from the mountains long enough to beat an also improving Roosevelt team. A 90 yard Brad Wilkinson kickoff return proved to be the start of a bad second quarter for the Rough Riders where the Badgers scored 31 points. The bright spot for the Rough Riders was the 178 yards Angel Audello ran for.......We are looking forward to televising the McLane vs Roosevelt game on October 13th. Both teams are on a steady diet of improvement as coaches Jo Jo Reyes of the Rough Riders and Dave Barton of McLane have their squads rough and ready to play. Meanwhile, in other games in week three, Clovis came back from that tough loss to Bullard last week, with a 14-0 victory over a tough Stockdale (Bakersfield) team at Lamonica. The Cougars solid defense remains tough and the offense got good games from their dual quarterbacks, Ronny Torres and Brett Behlan......Central came back from it’s loss to Hoover with a 26-0 shutout over Fresno High. Interesting note: That game between the Grizzlies and the Warriors was tied 0-0 at the half.......Chowchilla stays undefeated at 3-0 with a 38-21 win over Patterson......Liberty-Madera Ranchos, the new kids on the block, moved to 3 and 1 on the season with a victory over Riverdale, 23-16 as Brandon Graham ran for a 73 yard touchdown with just 38 seconds left in the game!!! .........Madera High won again, this time 56 to 34 over Redwood, while, surprisingly, San Joanquin Memorial fell to 0 and 3 with a 28-17 loss to Monanche, which is now 3 and 0...............Injury riddled Tulare Western also fell to 0 and 3 with a 44-14 loss to Burroughs of Ridgecrest......Buchanan dropped to 1 and 2 with a 30 to 6 loss to Bakersfield at the BEC...This Friday we will have the Buchanan Bears vs the Edison Tigers game as our TV game of the week. Should be a good contest as the two powerful teams look to get back in the win column......... Fowler continues to show improvement with a big rivalry win over neighbor Selma, 48-33 behind Johnny Mendoza and Santana Leal....Sunnyside goes to 2 and 1 with a 26-7 big win in giving Washington Union it’s first loss of the season.....Kingsburg beat Orosi 44-0 to stay perfect at 3 and 0.....and me and my brother Philip knocked off my other brothers, Brad and Bruce in 4 man touch game for the world championship......again. Before I go I want to wish Coach Tim Murphy luck and the Clovis East
Timberwolves fly out to Texas to play the legendary Midland Lee High School
Rebels on Saturday night. By the way that’s the Midland Robert E. Lee (named
after the guy on the gray horse) Rebels. As I am sure you know by now,
Midland Lee was the subject of the “Friday Night Lights” movie, starring
Billy Bob Thornton, and telling of the tale of the Rebels winning the
national championship in 1999. The school has a great tradition having won
the Texas State Championship in 1998, 1999, and 2000. These guys have been
in the playoffs for most of the past 30 years. They play in a beautiful new
stadium called Granite Stadium that holds 18,000 raving lunatic fans. At
least one planeload of those lunatics will be yelling for Clovis East....
This year the Rebels of Midland Lee have a record of 1 and 3 so far and Chris Terrence |
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