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C6 EMPDRIE Like old times for SRJC: big win crowd big By RALPH l.Y.V.V Spurt Kdilor The Santa Rosa Junior College football team turned back the clock Saturday night at Bailey Field. Playing In front of more than 1,200 spectators for the non-conference home opener, the Bear Cubs roared past Yuba College, 51-26. It has been a long time since a crowd this big turned out to see an SRJC team score this many points. The Cubs, who had lost 19 of 20 over the last two years and had been struggling at the gate, Improved to 3-1. Yuba fell to 1-2.

The Cubs lived up to their NorCal No. 12 ranking by opening up a 31-0 halftime lead despite fumbling three snaps, having two touchdowns nullified by penalties, getting extra-point kick one of six gave the Cubs a 21-0 lead. The Cubs went up, 28-0, early In the second quarter when Stafford led the team on a 91-yard drive capped by Stafford's six-yard option keeper. The freshman from Marin County gained 47 yards on four carries on the drive. 23-yard touchdown run by SRJC's Robert Yamanoha was nullified by a clipping penalty late in the second quarter, but Yuba fumbled the ball away on the next series, and Goldstein kicked a 32-yard field goal with one second left for a 31-0 lead at intermission.

The Cubs rolled up 473 total yards to 352 for Yuba. SRJC will take next week off. field goal of beating Mendocino last week, was never In the game. The 49ers lost three fumbles and were Intercepted twice In the first 30 minutes as the Cubs moved out to a 31-0 lead. The Cubs took a 7-0 lead the second time they had the ball on a 1-yard keeper by Aguilar.

A 44-yard pass to Coco Grayer and a 17-yard run by Dellepere set up the score. SRJC linebacker Jason Squires recovered a fumble caused by defensive back Rhodrl Klrwan to set up the Cubs' second score a 60-yard screen pass from Aguilar to sophomore wide receiver Carl Brodie. After Brodie's long scoring run was wiped out by the penalty, the Cubs scored on a 39-yard pass from Aguilar to sophomore receiver Eric Luiz. A Mike Goldstein penalized nine times for more than 100 yards, and losing 10 yards on their first four running plays. Those were Just minor speed bumps for the Cubs, who gained 219 yards In the first quarter behind the passing of freshman quarterback Gabe Aguilar.

SRJC quarterback Andrew Kamanao sat out with an injury, but on a night the Bear Cubs played three quarterbacks and just about all 85 players who suited up, Kaman-ao's absence was hardly noticed. "Everybody but a couple of redshirts played," SRJC first-year coach Dave Baldwin said. "It got a little sloppy (with third-and fourth-string players in the game), but these guys deserved to play once we got that big lead." Baldwin let Aguilar and No. 3 quarterback Mike Stafford play most of the first half, with No. 4 QB, freshman Mike Franceses, also getting some snaps.

Aguilar was 9 of 13 passing for 198 yards and two touchdowns In the first half. He also ran for a touchdown. His only pass of the second half resulted In a 7-yard touchdown. Twelve SRJC players carried the ball, with freshman Matt Dellepere leading the way with 86 yards on 16 carries. Freshman Carl Brodle gained 67 yards on five carries and caught three passes for 73 yards.

Brodie had an electrifying 67-yard touchdown run nullified by a clipping penalty. Yuba, which opened with a win over Marin and came within two minutes and a RV's Parker runs for 3 TDs, throws for 1 Rancho Cotate's Giovanni Coleman deflects a pass intended for ElMolino's Jarom Lewis during the Cougars' easy win on Saturday. Rancho rolls over El Molino Nasson Parker turned in a stalwart performance as Round Valley routed Rincon Valley Christian, 34-7, in a non-league game Saturday at Round Valley. Parker rushed for 147 yards on seven carries and scored on runs of 53, 35 and 1 yard. Parker, who plays quarterback for the 2-1-1 Mustangs, also completed 8 of 15 passes for 92 yards and another score.

Parker's teammate Mike Pater-eau rushed for 103 yards on nine carries and a score. Bernie Lincoln led the defense with 11 solo tackles and two quarterback sacks. Rincon Valley Christian was led by quarterback Bill Maikranz, who completed 17 of 43 passes for 167 yards. Upper Lake 21, Cloverdale 20 With 40 seconds remaining, Mark Allison scored a touchdown on a 1-yard run and Vince Taylor barely crossed the goal on the ensuing 2-point conversion to give Upper Lake a victory over Clover-dale. The Eagles led at the half, 12-6.

The Eagles scored first when Todd Lands connected on a 15-yard pass to Scott Schwetikel. But Allison carried 25 times for 176 yards and two touchdowns. On Upper Lake's final drive, Allison carried six of eight plays and ran for 62 of the final 65 yards, including his 1-yard plunge. Tomales 41, Potter Valley 0 Tomales scored on the first play of the game a 65-yard run by David Titus en route to the HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL non-league victory at Tomales. Tomales scored twice more in the first quarter a 1-yard run by Titus and an 11-yard run by tailback Gary Ludlow.

Braves' fullback Ty Arndt had scoring runs of three and 18 yards and he caught a 33-yard touchdown pass from backup quarterback Fil Gonzales. Potter Valley has yet to score this year. Tomales bounced back from its first loss of the year, last week to Kelseyville. Tomales improved to 3-1 overall and opens the North Central League II against St. Vincent next Saturday at St.

Vincent. Potter Valley fell to 0-3 and opens its North Central League III season Friday at Anderson Valley. Emery 32, Mendocino 6 Jared McCoard rushed for 136 yards on 17 carries, and he scored Mendocino's only touchdown with a 29-yard interception return. Mendocino's Oscar Miller carried 1 2 times for 95 yards. Mendocino is 2-2 overall and will get a bye this week before opening the North Central League II against St.

Vincent in two weeks. Pt. Arena 14, B. Christian 14 Point Arena scored touchdowns in the first and third quarters in a tie at Walnut Creek. Point Arena is 0-3-1 and begins league play Friday at Laytonville.

Berean Christian fell to 0-3-1. NCAC standings Cougars score 7 rushing TDs By DOUGLAS AMADOR Staff Writer FORESTVILLE It didn't take long for Rancho Cotate High to establish the tone of Saturday's non-league game at El Molino. On their first play, the Cougars gave the ball to fullback Chris Stevens, who broke several tackles on his way to a 66-yard touchdown run. EI Molino muffed the ensuing kickoff, and two plays later Stevens ran 13 yards for another score. Less then four minutes into the contest, Rancho held a 12-0 lead.

The No. 3-ranked Cougars scored five more rushing touchdowns and went on to spoil No. 4 El Molino's homecoming weekend with a 46-19 victory. Stevens finished with 144 yards on 10 carries and three touchdowns on runs of 66, 13 and 7 yards. Running back Damon Smith, the Empire's leading rusher coming into the game, matched Stevens' scoring total with runs of 10, 2 and 29 yards, and his 61 yards rushing gave him 478 on the season.

Kwasi Turner scored on a 15-yarder late in the fourth quarter in a mop-up JEFF VENDSELPRESS DEMOCRAT yards. We talked about it all week, and decided we were going to get it done." The Cougars got it done, all right. Smith scored on a 10-yard run and Ben Morie's conversion pass to Sam Puoeu put Rancho up, 20-6, in the second quarter. Then Rancho linebacker Dan Granucci picked off a Justin Lewis pass, and Morie immediately connected with Brian Alcocer on a 35-yard pass play, and Smith's 2-yard scoring run gave the Cougars a 27-6 lead and two touchdowns in 1 minute. Smith ran back the second-half kickoff and was on his way to a touchdown when he was hit from behind about 10 yards short of the end zone by El Molino's Deva Tucker, who stripped Smith of the ball.

It didn't matter. The Lions returned the favor with their own fumble, giving Rancho the ball at the 26. Three plays later, Stevens scored on a 7-yard carry, making it 33-6. Smith's 29-yard touchdown late in the third quarter gave Rancho a 40-6 lead and ensured plenty of playing time for Cougars backups the rest of the game. El Molino got two late scores, a 13-yard pass from Lewis to Jason Lane (Lane's second TD of the day) and Derrick Shaw's 23-yard run.

half, 49-21 and six touchdowns. Leading Delta's wishbone offense was Jemond Coleman, who had two touchdowns. Free-safety Rob Romeguera had 15 tackles (5 solo) and an interception for the Eagles. Mendocino College (1-2) finished with 440 total yards. Breazeale, an option quarterback, accounted for 220 yards in total offense, completing 8 of 13 passes for 113 yards and rushing for 107 yards on eight carries.

Delta improved to 1-3. Ukiah rebounds over Casa Wildcats come away with 22-12 non-league win By BILL NICHOLS Staff Writer PETALUMA The Ukiah High football team has struggled this year and had been written off by just about everyone. Everyone that is but the Ukiah team, as the Wildcats scored a 22-12 non-league victory Saturday over Casa Grande. Saturday's matchup figured to be a great opportunity for Casa to show off running back Mike Ramos, last year's large school rushing leader. From the start it appeared that Casa's running game would control the clock and the game, with Ramos doing much of the work.

Following a 30-yard kickoff return by John Ruckrigl, the Gauchos took over on the 50-yard line and marched 10 plays for a score. On second-and-goal, running back Dale Cavestany fumbled on the 1 and wide receiver Todd Buckley recovered in the end zone for the touchdown. Adam Wirtz's missed the extra point as the Gauchos took a 6-0 lead. Both teams exchanged possessions and Ukiah took over on its own 9-yard line following a Casa punt. Following a short run, the Wildcats went to the air and caught the Gauchos napping.

Quarterback Mark Short hit Pudgey Williams on a 65-yard pass that looked like a sure score. But Wirtz caught Williams at the 28-yard line. Ukiah settled for a 41-yard field goal by Joe Minton when the drive stalled on the 24. Short and Williams would hook up two more times on crucial plays, including a 20-yard touchdown with only seconds left in the half and again in the third quarter on a 25-yard score. Trailing, 16-6, Casa closed the gap on a quick opener by Cavestany, who ran 65 yards untouched for the touchdown.

The Gauchos tried for two points but Ramos was stopped on the 1. Casa managed another drive, but on fourth-and-four and the ball on the 29, quarterback Jason Ingole's swing pass was dropped, ruled a lateral; and was picked up by Minton, who returned it to the Casa 45. Seven plays later Matt Belfante scored on a 3-yard run. The swing of six points proved especially critical as the Gauchos immediately drove to the 10-yard line before turning the ball over on downs with less than a minute to go. Ramos finished with 96 yards on 24 carries and Cavestany rushed for 78 yards on five tries.

Short led Ukiah with 155 yards passing (6 of 11). roads. Sometimes you don't know where to go but they did a good job getting people at the corners." The Empire Runners Club top finisher was Dan Aldridge, who finished sixth in 25:23. Aldridge was satisfied with his performance. "I started back about 20th," said Aldridge.

"Then I started moving' up through the pack. The course. was challenging, especially the last little hill. It's small but it's tough after running four miles of the race." Race director Michael Wedding- ton seemed pleased with the morn- lng's occurences. "For a first year event, things went pretty well," said Weddington.

"We had a couple of glitches but I expected some things." With the talent witnessed Saturday and only a few mishaps, the," Empire Open's of the future are destined for success. Cossacks routed by SW Texas State, 57-7 Conf, Overall Humboldt St. 0-0 4-1 SF State 0-0 2-3 Chico State 0-0 1-3 Sonoma State 0-0 1-4 SATURDAY'S RESULTS Mendocino falters in second role. El Molino (3-1) had won its first three games by a combined 136-6 score (including 63-0 last week over Drake), but going up against a stronger team in Rancho (3-1), which lost its top ranking last week after a heartbreaking one-point loss to Petaluma, would be a greater test. The so-called "black wave" of El Molino slowed to a trickle early.

"It wouldn't have made any difference if they had scored or not," El Molino coach Curt Lewis said of Stevens' first touchdown. "We didn't tackle well. We hit that guy five times and he still scored. That's the story of the game, we didn't tackle." The Lions also couldn't hang on to the ball. Two fumbles and an interception led to Rancho touchdowns, and the Cougars also scored after taking over on downs and recovering an onsides kick.

All week long Rancho prepared for the moment it would first touch the ball. Every day the Cougars practiced the "32-dive," and had scripted it into their game plan to begin the game. "That was our 'attitude play," Rancho coach Ed Conroy said. "We ran that play last week and didn't get a lot of yardage, while the Petaluma fullback was picking up wayne Clark's 1-yard run. Vertis Patton caught a 15-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Adam Bre-azealetomake it, 14-0.

Delta answered with two short scoring runs as Mendocino led at the half, 21-14. But Delta made defensive adjustments during the break and shut out the Eagles the rest of the way. The Eagles' defense collapsed in the second half, giving up 35 points. The Delta ground game punished Mendocino with 443 yards rushing to run against her," said St. Geme, whose 9:11 is the current national high school 3k record.

"I can't believe she runs those times and she's only 15 years old." Stamps was equally impressed with the Menlo Park resident. "She's a pretty runner to watch," said Stamps, wearing Panther orange and black from head to toe, no doubt covering her uniform for her afternoon race in Palo Alto. "I don't know how she does it with three kids." St Geme's time over the 6k (3.75 mile) course was 30 seconds ahead of runner-up Lisa Geoffrion's time of 21:23. Stamps' times are comparable with the 31-year-old mother of three and has already broken course records previously held by SL Geme. SL Geme was pleased after a month's layoff but spared no com SAN MARCOS Donald Wilker-son showed why he's the No.

2 running back in the nation and Southwest Texas State waisted little time in disposing of Sonoma State University, with a 57-7 non-conference rout Saturday at Bobcat Stadium in San Marcos Texas. Wilkerson, who entered the game averaging 156.8 yards per carry, gained 224 yards on 19 tries. He also scored three of the Bobcats eight touchdowns, including the first two. Southwest Texas State outgained the Cossacks 478 yards to 172. Trailing 48-0, SSU's Damon Psa-ros blocked a Bobcat punt and Tracy Mitchell picked it up and returned it 41 yards of the Cossacks' only score.

"We knew we would need to come up with an outstanding performance to keep up with the very tough Southwest Texas State team, SSU head coach Frank Scalercio said. "We're a banged up group right now, but these kids never quit and we'll be ready for Northridge next week." Speaking of Northridge, the Bobcats (3-2) defeated the Matadors, last week. Northridge visits STOCKTON The Mendocino College football team went on the road Saturday without two defensive starters and lost a non-conference game to San Joaquin Delta, 49-21. The Eagles got off to a poor start, literally, when the two defensive players, who were not identified, missed the bus. Mendocino's offense did its job early, scoring all 21 points in the first half.

The Eagles scored first on De- Menlo Park runner takes Empire race SF State 36, Menlo 7 St. Mary 27, Humboldt St. 22 Northridge 47, Chico St. 17 SSU next Saturday at 1 p.m. Former Sonoma High running back Carter Vose did an outstanding job filling in for starting tailback Kevin Key, with 70 yards on 13 carries.

And Chabot College transfer Grant Parr also played well at quarterback as he filled in for the injured Ryan Merrill. Merrill, who set five SSU records in last week's loss to San Luis Obispo, but dislocated his shoulder and will be out indefinitely. Parr completed 11 of 21 passes for 118 yards and was intercepted only once. Capricorn 6755 Pisces 6760 Today's Birthday 6765 Presslnfo 24-HOUR MEWS MTOfMUnON UMC Our fascinating horoscopes are updated daily. Call Presslnfo at 523-8080 and enter a 4-digit number listed below.

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"It was one of the toughest courses I've ever ran. It was real hilly. I think it was as tough as Golden Gate Park." Cathy DuBay was the top finisher for the Empire Runners Club. She crossed the line in 22:42. Kathy Dalton, a 1986 Sonoma High graduate and Empire runner of the year in 1985 and 1986, finished 24th in 23:56.

The men's field also ran the 8k course, where Chris Schille, a three-time Division I Ail-American at Brown University, outdistanced the field by more than 500 yards to easily win the men's open race in 24:14. Ray Cook was finished second In 24:59. "I liked the course a said a breathless Schille. "After getting off the pavement, I liked the dirt Aries 6710 Taurus 6715 Gemini 6720 Cancer 6725 Leo 6730 Virgo 6735 Lihra Scorpio 6745.