MORAGA — Campolindo High School reached its fourth section championship game in six years when it routed Ukiah 48-7 in a North Coast Section Division II contest on a chilly Friday night.
Senior quarterback Jacob Westphal paced the Cougars (9-3) with 218 yards on 15-of-24 passing and one touchdown. Matty Ringquist added 68 yards rushing and one score for Cougars.
Ukiah scored on its first drive on a one-yard quarterback keeper by Brett Hofstetter, but that was it for the visitors.
“I credit them (Ukiah)” said Campolindo head coach Kevin Macy, who’s in his 21st year in Moraga. “But I think as soon as we got a couple stops in the second half and we scored right away, we just broke their back there. But it was a much closer game than the score really indicates.”
Campolindo soon had a 21-7 lead after Ukiah’s touchdowns drive, capped by a 19-yard pass from Westphal to Kannah Cruikshank with eight seconds left until halftime.
“That touchdown by Kannah at the end of the half was a huge play,” Westphal said. “It really set the momentum going into the half and we just exploded from there.”
The Cougars last appeared in the Div. II bracket in 2008. Sine then they have won three section titles and one state crown.
“To be able to be back in the section championship, it’s an awesome feeling,” Westphal said.
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