LIVERMORE – The California Excessive Faculty soccer workforce fired on all cylinders in a 38-7 victory over host Granada on Friday evening.
California (4-1), sixteenth within the Bay Space Information Group rankings, was balanced offensively in its dismantling of the Matadors (2-4). Junior Grizzlies quarterback Jayden Macedo related with six totally different receivers for his 195 yards passing. 4 Cal ball-carriers rushed for greater than 40 yards, together with Macedo (42). The Grizzlies scored on six of their first seven possessions.
Defensively, the Grizzlies restricted Granada to 159 complete yards, together with 23 yards passing. The Matadors’ solely landing occurred with two minutes and 45 seconds left within the sport.
On particular groups, Cal’s Jayden Shah was excellent together with his kicks, changing all 5 of his point-after-touchdown makes an attempt and nailing a 28-yard subject objective on the final play of the primary half.
“I assumed our guys got here out targeted,” stated California coach Danny Calcagno, whose squad had a bye final week. “We had an excellent week of follow, they put the work in and executed what we wanted to do.”
Macedo accomplished 15 of his 20 makes an attempt, threw three touchdowns and no interceptions.
“Jayden’s been doing superior for us,” Calcagno stated. “Each week, he’s getting higher. He’s feeling extra comfy again there.”
Devan Love additionally had an excellent sport for Cal. The junior rushed for a game-high 95 yards and had a team-leading 69 receiving yards, together with a 33-yard landing reception wherein he timed his leap completely to nab the ball on a downfield cross from Macedo.
Cal opened the sport by marching 81 yards to attain on a 16-yard dart from Macedo to Cole Fokas. Within the first quarter, Macedo accomplished his first six passing makes an attempt of the sport to 6 totally different receivers.
After a three-and-out by Granada, California drove 59 yards to the Granada 3 earlier than failing to transform a fourth-down play. However the remainder of the Grizzlies’ drives would lead to scores till their closing drive of the sport with lower than 90 seconds remaining.
After the landing cross from Macedo to Love gave California a two-touchdown lead with 5:01 left within the first half, the Grizzlies received the ball again within the purple zone after a fourth-down run by Granada within the punting formation failed to select up a primary down. On the subsequent play, Macedo discovered Nabi Wahab for a 16-yard catch-and-run landing. Wahab completed with a game-high 5 receptions for 49 yards.
Cal ended the primary half scoring with Shah’s subject objective, then the Grizzlies’ Nicholas Boudreau reached the top zone on runs of 35- and 8-yards to complete his workforce’s scoring. The junior rushed for 47 yards within the sport, and teammate Sayyidi Abdul-Kareem added 56 yards on the bottom.
Granada broke the shutout with a three-yard landing run by Quinn Boyd. Teammate AJ Martin led the Matadors in dashing with 80 yards.
Matadors coach Marc Moses stated his squad was lacking 5 starters on either side of the ball, together with all three defensive linemen.
“Had a whole lot of accidents,” he stated. “That’s no excuse anyway. That they had our quantity tonight.”