Football Roundup: East Nic drops 47 points to open season
Josh Wilson racked up 141 all-purposeyards and three touchdowns to lead the East Nicolaus High football team to a 47-0 season-opening victory over Stone Ridge Christian in Merced on Friday night.
Junior quarterback Justin Ozcan completed 5 of 6 passes for 224 yards and a touchdown and Joe Bross scored the final touchdown from 2 yards out.
Nick Borcher ran an interception back 29 yards for a score while the Spartans' defense held the Knights to only three first downs in the game
Pierce 14, Esparto 13, OT
Despite turning over the ball six times, the Bears earned an overtime victory on the road in their season opener.
Taylor Cabral completed a 50-yard pass to Isaiah Garcia in the first half to put the Bears on the board. At the end of regulation, the score was tied 7-7. In overtime, Jaime Moreno scored on a 4-yard run and Cabral added the PAT for the win.
Williams 28, Los Molinos 0
The Yellowjackets held the Bulldogs to 22 yards of total offense and quarterback Carlos Velazquez found fellow senior Tony Salcedo three times through the air in a huge win for a Williams team that went 1-9 last year.
Velazquez led the 'Jackets to a first-period score, hitting Salcedo on a 33-yard strike with 4:30 on the clock. Williams struck again in the second, this time on a 7-yard run by Jesus Camarena with 5:06 left in the half.
"We had a lot of guys who really wanted to win this game," said Velazquez, who completed 5 of 11 attempts for 90 yards and the three scores, two coming in the second half when the Yellowjackets nailed down the victory.
Durham 56, Biggs 20
Michael Torres completed a touchdown pass to Brian Carr, and Christian Calloway and Randy Stanley added touchdown runs, but the Wolverines fell in their season opener at Durham.
Willows 44, Colusa 0
Colusa was unable to get anything going offensively, finishing with less than 150 yards of total offense, and coughing up the ball four times in a loss at Willows.
Three came by way of first-half fumbles, and the fourth was on a fumble on the second-half kickoff. The Redskins never got closer to the end zone than the Willows 32-yard line on their final drive as the clock ran out.
