Week two games
Friday
Middletown 62, Upper Lake 0
Fort Bragg 49, Clear Lake 20
St. Vincent 34, Lower Lake 14
Cloverdale 36, Kelseyville 10
Statistical leaders
Rushing — Kevin Burt is the county”s leading rusher for the second week in a row after gaining 124 yards on 24 carries in Clear Lake”s 49-20 loss to Fort Bragg. He also scored a touchdown. The best individual performance went to Middletown”s Jake Davis with 116 yards and three rushing scores in a 62-0 thrashing of Upper Lake. Lower Lake”s Roy Percoats, just a sophomore, had 68 yards and a TD in a 34-14 loss to St. Vincent. In a mop-up role, Middletown”s Jereomy Hoefer had 82 yards on two carries, including a 49-yard TD, against Upper Lake.
Passing — Middletown”s Kyle Harmyk completed 7 of 13 passes for 156 yards and two TDs against Upper Lake.
Receiving — Middletown”s John Wesley Davis had a total of three touchdown receptions — two on offense and one on defense — against Upper Lake. He caught 24- and 11-yard TD strikes from quarterback Kyle Harmyk and also returned an interception 67 yards for another score. On offense, he has four catches for 123 yards. Lower Lake”s Alfonso Daniels had four catches for 73 yards.
Highlights
Special teams — Kelseyville”s Tony Mendez booted a 31-yard field goal in a loss to Cloverdale.
Defense — Middletown”s defense intercepted four passes and recovered three fumbles against Upper Lake.
Won”t have to worry about that — No Lake County team is going undefeated this season.
Clone a few more — Jake Davis, a senior, introducted teammate John Wesley Davis, a junior, to a Record-Bee reporter who was covering Friday”s game against Upper Lake as “his clone.” Both scored three touchdowns against the Cougars, so maybe there”s something to that.
Scary thing — Middletown wasn”t even close to being at full strength against Upper Lake, with a half-dozen players, all starters, out for various reasons. One of the missing was placekicker Danny Beckwith. As a result, the Mustangs had to go for two points after their touchdowns and they were 4-for-9 on those attempts.
That hurts — Clear Lake quarterback Ryan Richardson threw two interceptions against Fort Bragg and both were returned for touchdowns.
Thriller — Clear Lake”s JV squad beat Fort Bragg 9-6 on a 36-yard field goal by Omar Vazquez with three minutes left in the game.
Deuces are wild — Mike Allen and Jordan Brown each had two sacks for Kelseyville in its 36-10 loss at Cloverdale.
Oops! — In the week one week in review column and in an earlier game story, the Record-Bee referred to Upper Lake”s Billy Armstrong by the wrong first name.
Left out — In the Fall Sports 2009 edition, Ariel Facey”s name was inadvertently left out of the story featuring the Kelseyville varsity volleyball team. Sorry about that Ariel, mom and dad.
Humor is sometimes lost … — On the parents of junior varsity players when told that JV sports play second fiddle to varsity sports, whether they like it or not.
Just what the doctor didn”t order — After losing to Middletown 62-0, the Upper Lake Cougars certainly could use a break in terms of the schedule. They won”t get it. Upper Lake plays its home opener Saturday against Fort Bragg (2-0).
Just for the record — Two JV football coaches — Gary Milhaupt of Clear Lake and Rob Ishihara of Kelseyville ? did phone in their game results in week one.
Class A Dude”s Division IV rankings
(Through Sunday, Sept. 20)
Note: Here are the rankings for this week. A lot of games really churned things up. Looks like it will be a great season.
1. Ferndale (3-0) — Beat Del Norte 47-6.
2. Salesian (2-0) — Idle.
3. Fort Bragg (2-0) — Beat Clear Lake 49-20.
4. Middletown (1-1) — Crushed Upper Lake 62-0.
5. St. Mary”s (1-1) — Beat Acalanes 22-7.
6. Cloverdale (2-0) — Beat Kelseyville 36-10.
7. Swett (2-0) — Edged Div. V St. Elizabeth 7-6.
8. St. Patrick-St. Vincent (1-1) — Defeated Berean Christian 47-23.
Bad start — Kelseyville committed three turnovers in the first quarter and the Cloverdale Eagles cashed in to the tune of a 21-0 first-quarter lead.
Bad finish — An obviously frustrated Upper Lake player was ejected late in the Middletown game for jumping the count and slamming into a Mustang. He”ll have to sit out the Fort Bragg game on Saturday. Maybe that was the idea.
Bad karma — Something I had last Friday night while crashing and burning at deadline. There were no survivors.
