SAN LEANDRO – After the solar went down Friday night, Campolindo quarterback Dashiell Weaver helped mild up the Burrell Area scoreboard within the Cougars’ 35-20 victory over host San Leandro.
Weaver, who had thrown for 575 yards this season coming into Friday’s sport, has been battling an eye fixed an infection since Monday that has left him very delicate to mild. Isaiah Ortiz began at quarterback for Campolindo and performed the primary quarter.
However as soon as the solar set, Weaver felt able to go.
Weaver’s first play was additionally the primary play of the second quarter. He related with Robbie Mascheroni on a 39-yard landing go and Weaver completed with 250 yards via the air and 4 touchdowns within the non-league victory.
“That was one in every of his higher video games, particularly contemplating he didn’t observe all this week,” Campolindo coach Kevin Macy stated. “We don’t win this sport with out him.”
The Cougars (4-0), who're eleventh within the Bay Space Information Group rankings, additionally couldn’t have gained this sport with out Mascheroni. The 6-foot-4 senior caught three passes (39, 93, 11 yards) – all for touchdowns.
“Nearly all of his catches, he had any person throughout him and he needed to pull it away from any person,” Macy stated. “He’s acquired this burst of pace after he catches it. I believe it’s very distinctive to him. I haven’t seen a receiver that may take a ball in the midst of the sphere from a close to flat-footed place after which explode.”
San Leandro had a star of its personal in senior operating again Devan Daniels, who rushed for 241 yards and two touchdowns on 28 carries, together with an 80-yarder for a rating.
“He’s a workhorse,” San Leandro coach Brad Bowers stated. “He’s going to do something we ask him …. I like that child.”
Ortiz led Campolindo on a 54-yard drive for a rating on their first possession. It ended with a three-yard run by Brendan Comerford.
However San Leandro (1-3) answered proper again with a 72-yard drive of its personal behind sophomore quarterback Radman Beatty. On a fourth-and-goal play from the half-inch line, Ashton Dotson edged into the tip zone to chop Campolindo’s result in 7-6.
Nevertheless, Mascheroni had observed one thing concerning the San Leandro protection that he relayed to the Campolindo teaching employees, ensuing within the 39-yard landing on the primary half of the second quarter.
“I used to be simply studying the protection,” Mascheroni stated. “Usually Cowl-2 you get to see the 2 safeties, however I lined up and I used to be like, there’s nobody again there, so let’s run a publish.”
On the second play of Campolindo’s subsequent drive, Weaver and Tim Daugherty teamed up for a 64-yard landing go. However San Leandro answered proper again on the primary play of its subsequent drive, as Daniels ran 80 yards for a landing. He additionally rushed for the two-point conversion, slicing Campolindo’s result in 21-14 with six minutes, 51 seconds left within the first half.
“I assumed we fought,” Bowers stated. “We performed onerous, we fought onerous, we stored preventing via the tip. We’ve simply acquired a really younger, inexperienced group, a number of sophomores, a number of guys who didn’t play varsity final yr.”
Campolindo’s remaining landing of the primary half was considerably sudden. It began the drive by itself 7-yard-line, however Weaver discovered Mascheroni over the center on a couple of 30-yard go that Mascheroni caught in protection, turned and sped for a 93-yard rating.
The Cougars elevated their result in 35-14 on the primary drive of the second half that concluded with an 11-yard dart from Weaver to Mascheroni in the long run zone and a Ryan Sintchak point-after-touchdown kick.
However San Leandro began placing the ball within the air (Beatty had all 5 of his completions within the fourth quarter) and Daniels reached the tip zone on a one-yard fourth-down run to slender the rating to 35-20 with 5:24 remaining within the fourth quarter.
San Leandro took the ultimate drive of the sport to the Campolindo 5, however an incompletion ended the sport.
