Click on the link after each game recap to see video highlights from each of these two Fantag Games of the Week. For this fifth week, we have recaps and video highlights from the Colfax girls winning in a crucial Pioneer Valley League matchup plus the Vanden of Fairfield boys knotting up the Monticello Empire League with a victory against Wood of Vacaville.
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Cal-Hi Sports Insider Blog
Quick-hitting, behind-the-scenes news and notes from the CalHiSports.com staff, including previews of upcoming content and events.
Fantag Games: Colfax girls, Vanden boys triumphant
Fantag Games: Union Mine girls, Folsom boys, Bear Creek girls win
Click on the link after each game recap to see video highlights from each of these three Fantag Games of the Week. For this fourth week, we have recaps and video highlights from two huge league games (Sierra Valley Conference girls, Sierra Foothill League boys) plus a non-league matchup between two of the leading girls teams in the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section.
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All-State Junior List For Patches
Players who are selected to this year’s all-state teams will be able to get patches like these from last year commemorating the achievement. Photo: Mark Tennis.
For ordering info to get 2018 all-state football patch, CLICK HERE.
To get a Gold Club subscription so you can see the complete presentation of the Cal-Hi Sports 2018 All-State Junior Football Teams, CLICK HERE.
Zion Alefosio (Villa Park)
Jordan Allen (Cathedral Catholic, San Diego)
Justin Anderson (Menlo-Atherton)
Riley Anderson (North Monterey County)
Jonathan Arellano (Alemany, Mission Hills)
Elijhah Badger (Folsom)
Kavir Bains (Valley Christan, San Jose)
Jordan Banks (Narbonne, Harbor City)
Jordan Berry (Narbonne, Harbor City)
Logan Berzins (Cathedral Catholic, San Diego)
Davon Booth (El Monte)
Doug Brumfield (Serra, Gardena)
Gary Bryant Jr. (Centennial, Corona)
Marshawn Buchanan (Adelanto)
LV Bunkley-Shelton (Serra, Gardena)
Nin Burns (Covina)
Jordan Burrell (Tulare Western)
Jermaine Burton (Calabasas)
Dejuan Butler (Antioch)
Josh Butler (Poway)
Jay Butterfield (Liberty, Brentwood)
Zavier Carlton (Modesto Christian)
Jaden Casey (Calabasas)
Joseph Church (Upland)
Robert Coleman (Vista Murrieta)
JoJuan Collins (Narbonne, Harbor City)
Quali Conley (Central, Fresno)
Gaven Cooke (Marin Catholic)
Jalon Daniels (Lawndale)
Ronan Donnelly (Sacred Heart Prep)
Joaquin Elliott (South Hills, West Covina)
Cody Epps (Mater Dei)
Makell Esteen (Lawndale)
Quentin Evans (Temescal Canyon)
Sean Evans (Eisenhower, Rialto)
Bryce Farrell (Oaks Christian)
Justin Flowe (Upland)
Jacobah Fuamatu (Mater Dei)
Ethan Garbers (Corona del Mar)
Shamar Garrett (De La Salle, Concord)
Darion Green-Warren (Mater Dei, Santa Ana)
Patrick Griu (Capistrano Valley)
Dylan Guerra (Arcadia)
Josh Henderson (Grace Brethren)
Angel Hernandez (Mayfair, Lakewood)
JD Hernandez (Sierra Canyon)
Joey Hobert (San Clemente)
Justin Horton (Notre Dame, Sherman Oaks)
Justin Houston (Serra, Gardena)
John Humphreys (Corona del Mar)
Jeremiah Hunter (Central, Fresno)
Isaac Hurtado (Cypress)
Kris Hutson (St. John Bosco)
C.J. Hutton (Folsom)
Shane Illingworth (Norco)
Jaylen “Fresh” Ison (Moreau Catholic, Hayward)
Josh Jackson (Narbonne, Harbor City)
Isaac Jernagin (Bakersield)
Chad Johnson (Venice)
Brandon Jones (Narbonne, Harbor City)
Marcus Jones Jr. (Monterey Trail)
Lance Keneley (Mission Viejo)
Logan Loya (Lutheran, Orange)
DeShawn Lynch (Folsom)
Reese Mahlum (Buchanan)
Ezekeal Mata (Mission Hills)
Jaylen Matthews (San Gorgonio)
Caleb McCullough (Pacifica, Oxnard)
Cory McIntyre (Sutter)
Jalen McMillan (SJ Memorial, Fresno)
Thomas Meek (Palisades)
Myles Mena (St. Paul, Santa Fe Springs)
Drake Metcalf (St. John Bosco)
Kendall Milton (Buchanan)
Dakota Mornhinweg (Carmel)
Myles Murao (Mater Dei, Santa Ana)
Jordan Navarrette (Norco)
Dirk Nelson (Central Valley Christian)
Daniyel Ngata (Folsom)
Ozzie Nicholas (La Costa Canyon)
Elelyon Noa (Helix, La Mesa)
James Odom (Workman, City of Industry)
Jackson Pavitt (Cardinal Newman)
Kobe Pepe (St. John Bosco)
Jeffrey Persi (JSerra)
Clark Phillips (La Habra)
Tobin Phillips (San Joaquin Memorial)
Frank Poso (Branham, San Jose)
Roan Poulivati (Wilcox)
Mark Redman (Corona del Mar, Newport Beach)
Jaalen Renning (Central Valley Christian)
Carl Richardson (Salinas)
Elias Ricks (Mater Dei, Santa Ana)
Paul M. Rosa (Wilcox, Santa Clara)
Anthony Ruvalcaba (Garfield, L.A.)
Afa Sanft (St. Francis, Mountain View)
Caine Savage (Western, Anaheim)
Jamar Sekona (Marin Catholic)
Moses Sepulona (Mater Dei, Santa Ana)
Jamir Shepard (Palo Alto)
Sam Scaife (St. Augustine, San Diego)
Cameron Skattebo (Rio Linda)
Ke’onte Springs (Madison, SD)
Derrick Smith (Archbishop Mitty)
Chris Street (JSerra, SJ Capistrano)
C.J. Stroud (Rancho Cucamonga)
Andrew Ueli-Faatoalia (La Habra)
D.J. Uigalelei (St. John Bosco, Bellflower)
Mose Vavao (St. Francis, Mountain View)
Jonathan Vaughns (St. John Bosco)
Darius Wallace (Paramount)
Josh Ward (San Pedro)
Kourt Williams (St. John Bosco, Bellflower)
Johnny Wilson (Calabasas)
Bryce Young (Mater Dei, Santa Ana)
Isaiah Young (Centennial, Corona)
Ben Yurosek (Bakersfield Christian)
Peyton Zdroik (Liberty, Brentwood)
Fantag Games: Sac High girls, Rocklin boys, Folsom girls win
Click on the link after each game recap to see video highlights from each of these three Fantag Games of the Week. For this third week, we have recaps and video highlights from a State Top 20 girls team, a State Top 20 bubble boys team and a State Top 20 girls team getting upset.
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Girls BB: St. Mary’s MLK Day 2 Statement Wins For Cards, Lions
Four State Top 20 teams were in action on MLK Day in the second day of action in Stockton at the St. Mary’s MLK Showcase and two won and two lost, one to a nationally-ranked team, and one team on the bubble squad making its case to join the next rankings. Also, four San Diego Section teams were in action once again only this time unlike on Saturday when three of them won, on MLK Day three lost.
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St. Mary’s MLK Day 1 Highlights
Four of the six State Top 20 teams that played on Saturday at the St. Mary’s of Stockton Martin Luther King Girls Basketball Showcase were not able to get into the win column, but none of the results could really be called all that surprising.
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FB: All-State Soph List For Patches
Players who are selected to this year’s all-state teams will be able to get patches like these from last year commemorating the achievement. Photo: Mark Tennis.
For ordering info to get 2018 all-state football patch, CLICK HERE.
To get a Gold Club subscription so you can see the complete presentation of the Cal-Hi Sports 2018 All-State Sophomore Football Teams, CLICK HERE.
Zeus Alefosio (Villa Park)
Khalil Ali (South Hills)
Jonathan Arceneaux (Whittier)
Cole Batson (San Clemente)
Anthony Beavers (Serra, Gardena)
Brayden Blevins (Liberty, Bak)
Jason Boyle (Mission Hills)
Evan Branch-Haynes (Sacred Heart Cathedral)
Josh Bryan (Sierra Canyon)
Nick Calcaterra (Palisades)
Ethan Calvert (Oaks Christian)
Byron Cardwell (St. Augustine, SD)
Makai Cope (Venice)
Anthony Cooper (Aquinas)
Jaylin Davies (Mater Dei, SA)
Raesjon Davis (Mater Dei, SA)
Cristian Dixon (Diamond Ranch, Pomona)
Zevi Eckhaus (Culver City)
Donny Fitzgerald (Coachella Valley)
Jonathan Flowe (Upland)
Korey Foreman (Centennial, Corona)
Troy Franklin (Menlo-Atherton)
Christian Gaeta (St. Augustine, SD)
Jake Garcia (Narbonne)
Jaden Genova (JSerra)
Ilaisa Gonebure (Capital Christian)
Dorian Hale (De La Salle)
D.J. Harvey (Sierra Canyon)
Manai Hazlett (Del Norte, SD)
Kajiya Hollawayne (San Jacinto)
Isaiah Howard (San Pedro)
Malik Hunt (Simi Valley)
Willie James (Tulare)
Jekob Jones (Central, Fresno)
Peni Kaufusi (Grant, Sac)
Justin Lamson (Oak Ridge)
Ross Maseuli (Cathedral Catholic)
Campbell McHarg (Calabasas)
Jacob Moore (Notre Dame, SO)
Elia Migao (Chaparral)
George Miki-Han (Mater Dei, SA)
Reymello Murphy (Archbishop Mitty)
Chayden Peery (Sierra Canyon)
Kekoa Pele-Allen (Oaks Christian)
Dominic Perez (Rancho Cucamonga)
Tristen Ramirez (Chaparral)
Nikko Reed (Moreau Catholic)
Brenden Segovia (El Camino Real)
Tyron Smith (Apple Valley)
Raymond Spriggs (Lincoln, San Diego)
D.J. Stevenson (Buchanan)
Nelson Suisala (Hayward)
Jordon Tagaloa (Bishop Diego)
Deshon Thompson (Northview)
Kevika Toa (Oceanside)
Jay Toia (Grace Brethren)
Victory Vaka (Westlake)
Lonnie Wessel (Golden West)
Keanu Williams (Clovis)
Marceeese Yetts (Narbonne)
Fantag Game of Week: Modesto Christian league streak marches on
At three different times in Monday’s Modesto Christian at St. Mary’s of Stockton boys basketball game, the host Rams tied up the visiting Crusaders with most inside Morelli Gym very aware of what might be at stake. State No. 20 Modesto Christian, however, still prevailed 89-80 and extended its state record league win streak to 189 games.
For Fantag video highlights of this game, CLICK HERE.
For Fantag video highlights of state-ranked Sheldon of Sacramento vs. Jesuit of Carmichael (game also played Monday), CLICK HERE.
For most of the years of Modesto Christian’s state record 189-game league win streak in boys basketball, the Crusaders have faced little competition from schools in their league, which used to be organized mostly by school enrollment and to keep all of Modesto Christian’s teams in the same league.
Modesto Christian’s Dathan Satchell gets hug after 26-point outing in win at St. Mary’s (Stockton). Photo: Mark Tennis.
These days, though, adding more competitive equity to league realignments plus more and more schools having teams in different leagues because of those factors, the Modesto Christian league win streak is going to be threatened more frequently. It was last year in a game against Beyer of Modesto and with the team now in the even tougher Tri-City Athletic League with the likes of St. Mary’s (Stockton), Lincoln (Stockton), Tracy, Lodi and others, it was thought that the toughest challenge to that streak this year would come on Monday night when head coach Brice Fantazia took his squad to St. Mary’s.
Facing a St. Mary’s team that went to the CIF NorCal D2 final last season and returned several key players, including three-year 6-foot-7 senior starter Bryce Johnson, the Crusaders did indeed get that test. It didn’t seem like it for most of the night as Modesto Christian led 32-24 at the half, extended its lead to 48-35 by the end of the third quarter and led by as many as 18 points. But the Rams got their home crowd rocking with a 9-0 run early in the fourth quarter and had the score tied at 69-69, 71-71 and 73-73.
At that point, with 2:06 left in the game, senior Dathan Satchell came through for the Crusaders by making his sixth 3-pointer for a 76-73 lead. Then came a steal and lay-up by junior Michael Pearson for a five-point lead and from then on it was a case of the Rams mostly playing the foul ’em and hope they miss free throw strategy. Modesto Christian made its free throws and went on for a 89-80 victory.
The two teams will play again later in the league schedule, but that game will be at Modesto Christian. And based on how the other teams in the league have looked so far this season, that will probably be the only chance for the Modesto Christian league win streak, which began in the mid-1990s, will be broken.
That assessment also is based on how the Crusaders looked on Monday night. With their size, experience, depth and emergence of a scorer like Satchell plus the deadly 3-point shooting of freshman Devin Dye, it’s easy to see how they recently pushed current state No. 5, nationally ranked and unbeaten Salesian of Richmond to overtime and have left the imprint of a stinker loss to Campolindo of Moraga at their own tournament as more of a distant memory.
Satchell, who led all scorers with 26 points, was asked if maintaining the league win streak was on the minds of himself and his teammates.
“Big time,” he said. “We’re not losing in league, period.”
Pearson, a Cal-Hi Sports all-state sophomore from last season, added 18 points for the Crusaders.
“We are finally getting healthy, which we haven’t been all season, and hopefully we can peak at the right time,” said Fantazia, whose team went back into this week’s State Top 20 at No. 20 after having to drop out for one week and will be playing St. John Bosco of Bellflower next Monday at the MaxPreps MLK Classic being held at St. Mary’s College in Moraga. “I was proud of the way my guys handled the atmosphere and played for each other.”
For St. Mary’s, Johnson shined with 24 points and 12 rebounds. Junior guard Jamar Marshall, who didn’t play football this season, still showed explosiveness on the court, improved ball-handling and shooting, and was even-steven with Pearson. He finished with 23 points.
Fantag Games: Weston Ranch & Oak Ridge victorious
Click on the link after each game recap to see video highlights from each of these two Fantag Games of the Week. For this second week, we have two recaps and video highlights done with one more to go, which will be from Monday’s Modesto Christian at St. Mary’s (Stockton) boys contest.
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Fantag Games of Week Recaps
Click on the link after each game recap to see video highlights from each of these three Fantag Games of the Week. For this first week, we’d say we had one upset, one game that was close throughout and another that went to overtime. Stay tuned to see previews for our next set of these games.
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