For every college bound student, it’s very much up in the air as to what to expect next fall. For Grant Harper, a soon-to-be Campolindo graduate who will be attending UC Davis in the fall, the football program is another aspect of college that remains somewhat uncertain.

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Featuring: A Football Life — Coach Macy, DAL All-League Players, 2019 Playoff Call-ups

Cougars 2019 Issue 5 – SPECIAL PLAYOFF EDITION

Featuring: Celebrating our Seniors, Finding Your Place in History and Halloween Practice Tradition

Cougars 2019 Issue 4 Final

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Football: Campolindo spurns Las Lomas with 31 unanswered points

Campolindo bounces back emphatically after losing to Acalanes a week ago

WALNUT CREEK — When Las Lomas scored first Friday night, on a 45-yard run by Elijah Lash with the game against Campolindo less than two minutes old, it appeared the Knights would be celebrating senior night in style.

But it took Campolindo only four plays and a little over one minute to pull even, and from that point the Cougars piled on with 24 more unanswered points in a 31-14 rout of the home team.

Las Lomas, ranked No. 11 in the Bay Area Preps HQ top 25, still holds a half-game lead in the Diablo Athletic League Foothill Division over Campolindo and Acalanes. The Knights are 3-1 in league play and 8-1 overall. Seventeenth-ranked Campolindo is 7-2 and 2-1 in the DAL. Acalanes also is 2-1.

But if next Friday’s regular-season finales go as expected, there will be a three-way logjam atop the DAL-Foothill standings. Campo will be heavily favored to beat arch-rival Miramonte at home. Ditto Acalanes, which hosts Alhambra. Las Lomas is finished with league play but visits Walnut Creek rival Northgate.

Of course, when it comes to the North Coast Section playoffs, it won’t really matter that the three teams are tied. Campolindo is Division II, Las Lomas plays in D-III and Acalanes is D-IV. Wins next week should guarantee high seeds for all three.

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Campolindo prevails in showdown with Rancho Cotate as Ryan O’Neil scores three touchdowns

MORAGA — Campolindo coach Kevin Macy was concerned that his team might be worn down by Rancho Cotate’s power run game in Friday night’s showdown between ranked teams.

But No. 14 Campo flipped the script and settled some scores in a convincing 34-14 win over No. 16 Rancho that featured the home team’s run game and run defense and some yeoman-like work in the secondary by safety Jack Daugherty.

“We knew we had to come out with fire and intensity and we did,” said Daugherty, who broke up a handful of pass attempts. “The secondary, we really haven’t been proven this year and we really proved ourselves tonight. The box was strong and we won in the trenches.”

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We had two separate coaches celebrated last Friday night in Oakdale and San Diego — Trent Merzon and Sean Doyle — who reached their 200th win, which is the total it takes to gain entry onto the all-time state list. We also are now including Campolindo of Moraga’s Kevin Macy with 200 career wins, but it turns out he already was well past 200…  (read full article here.)

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