Week three games
Friday
Clear Lake 12, Willits 6
St. Helena 21, Kelseyville 18
Cloverdale 18, Middletown 0
Saturday
Lower Lake 26, Upper Lake 7
Statistical leaders
Rushing — Only two county running backs broke the 100-yard mark last weekend and both were from Kelseyville. Josh Huston gained 187 yards on 38 carries with a touchdown in a 21-18 loss to St. Helena, and teammate Mike Duman added 132 yards on 13 carries with a TD. Clear Lake”s Noel McCormack had 95 yards on eight carries and a TD in a 12-6 win over the Wolverines. Lower Lake”s Mike Deakins ran for 83 yards on 16 carries with two TDs in a 26-7 win over Upper Lake.
Passing — Kelseyville”s Justin Lilly completed 3 of 8 passes for 63 yards. Lower Lake”s A.J. Harris was 2-for-3 for 32 yards and a TD.
Receiving — Kelseyville”s Charlie Anderson had three catches for 63 yards.
Highlights
Special teams — Maybe next week.
Defense — Lower Lake”s defense limited Upper Lake to 57 yards and only one true first down, that coming in the fourth quarter, during Saturday”s contest in Upper Lake. Clear Lake”s defense logged six quarterback sacks, two of them by Daniel Gildea, against Willits. In that same game, the Cardinals” free safety, Jameson Holder, snuffed out two Willits drives with interceptions late in the game.
That”s a first — In 29 years of covering prep football, I had never experienced rain in the month of September until Saturday”s game in Upper Lake.
Streaks — Lower Lake has back-to-back wins for the first time since weeks two and three of the 2003 season. Middletown has gone the first three weeks of the 2007 campaign without a rushing TD.
It”s all in the county — Week four games coming up this Friday feature Upper Lake (1-2) at Kelseyville (0-3) in the Knights” homecoming game; Middletown (1-2) at Clear Lake (3-0); and Cloverdale (2-1) at Lower Lake (2-1).
NCL I South evens things up — During the first week of North Central League I interlock play, the North teams went 4-1 against the South teams. This past weekend, it was the other way around. The South went 4-1 against the North.
1,000-1 — The odds you might have received in Vegas had you bet that both Cloverdale and Lower Lake would own winning records three weeks into the 2007 season. And after those two teams meet on Friday in Lower Lake, one team is going to be real healthy.
Speaking of Lower Lake — Each of the Trojans” first three games were on the road. They play five of their final seven at Gordon Sadler Field, which is all good. Their two remaining road games are at Fort Bragg and Middletown.
Hey, this is a football column but … — Middletown”s Myles Moffat scored a goal in his team”s 3-2 soccer win over Upper Lake on Thursday in Middletown. The Record-Bee had the wrong name for Mr. Moffat.
And while off the subject — Barry Bonds, don”t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out. Barry? Barry? Oh, he”s already gone.
Just for the hell of it — I took an informal poll of potential new names for the town of Kelseyville among my network of sources and contributors, and here are the (printable) suggestions: Lower Lakeport, Mount Konocti, Konocti, Fort Custer, Middle Lake, Geronimo, Currahee, Peartown, Politically Correctville, Casinoland. Feel free to add to the list at RBSports@aol.com ? and, for the record, I”m not suggesting the town change its name, so don”t go hysterical on me.
Good timing — Upper Lake holds its homecoming on the last day of summer … and it rains.
Let there be light — Upper Lake is in the early stages of raising money for the construction of lights at its high school field. The Cougars are the only Lake County team still playing home games on Saturday afternoons. Pretty soon Saturday games will be a thing of the past.
Turn out the lights — On the Barry Bonds era. It”s nothing personal, but the Giants can save a lot of payroll money and finish last without him.
The NCL I North and South landscape through three weeks — NCL I North, up for grabs. NCL I South, edge Clear Lake.
Heard it on the radio — God bless Tom Tolbert of KNBR 680. Tolbert, waxing poetic the other day, said that there are stupid athletes in this world just as there are stupid people. According to Tolbert, stupid parents pass on their stupid genes to their offspring. The cure for stupidness? Sorry, doesn”t exist. As Tolbert said, “They”re just stupid.”
He giveth, taketh away — Lower Lake”s A.J. Harris intercepted a pass against Upper Lake on Saturday and then fumbled the ball back to the Cougars.
