Aggressive fairness or not?
The North Coast Part may need a competitive-equity system in place to regulate playoff divisions within the low season. However generally, it’s arduous to inform.
Depend Sunday as a kind of situations.
We all know Marin Catholic is a small college by enrollment requirements. We all know that highly effective small faculties equivalent to Marin Catholic have historically plowed by way of different small faculties on the best way to championships.
However we additionally thought these days have been imagined to be gone.
The California Interscholastic Federation has finished fairly a bit on the state stage to stop the kind of playoff blowouts we're about to see within the NCS this weekend.
The neighboring Central Coast Part doesn’t have an ideal soccer playoff format. Removed from it. However its members have created a system that places highly effective groups — irrespective of enrollment — into the identical division.
Marin Catholic on Sunday had a No. 66 state laptop score on calpreps.com. That's the third-highest within the NCS, behind solely De La Salle (23) and Pittsburg (24) and forward of San Ramon Valley (74) and Clayton Valley Constitution (80).
Within the CCS, solely Serra (9) and St. Francis (57) had the next score than Marin Catholic.
The place was Marin Catholic (10-0) positioned in NCS?
The No. 1 seed in Division IV.
Saturday, the powerhouse will probably be at dwelling to play Newark Memorial (5-5).
Newark Memorial’s calpreps.com score is 772.
Sure, 772.
How is that playoff soccer?
How is that pursuing victory with honor?
— Darren Sabedra
Pittsburg: Coach not thrilled
Pittsburg coach Victor Galli didn’t waste phrases when requested for his response to the first-round playoff matchups Friday evening in NCS’s Open/Division I.
“I don’t like what they did. I feel it’s silly,” he stated. “We have now to play Antioch once more. I don’t know what distinction it might’ve made if we performed Logan and (De La Salle) performed Antioch.”
De La Salle is the No. 1 seed and Pittsburg is second within the Open/DI playoff matchups that have been introduced Sunday. On the different finish of the eight-team bracket, James Logan is eighth and Antioch seventh. Meaning arch-rivals Antioch and Pittsburg will tangle for the second consecutive Friday evening, this time at Pittsburg. The Pirates (9-1) received final Friday 48-21.
“That is going to be the larger Large Little Recreation,” Galli stated.
Galli, who's stepping down as Pittsburg’s coach after 21 years when the season ends, stated he talked to De La Salle’s Justin Alumbaugh earlier within the day, and the Spartans’ coach agreed the NCS seeding committee may have simply switched Antioch and James Logan so the Pirates and Panthers didn’t should play two weeks in a row.
Galli recalled his highschool coach, De La Salle’s Bob Ladouceur, as soon as asking why individuals would need to see the identical sport twice. Galli performed large receiver and defensive again on the Spartans’ first undefeated (12-0) and NCS championship group in 1982.
“We straight seed,” NCS commissioner Pat Cruickshank stated. “We talked at size about that.”
That is solely the second time since 2004 that Pitt and Antioch have met within the playoffs. In 2011, they performed twice in eight days. The Pirates received each contests.
— Mike Lefkow
Antioch: One other swing at Pittsburg
Galli appeared extra involved about having to play Antioch once more than being seeded behind De La Salle. The Pirates have been 9-1 throughout the common season. DLS was 7-3.
A part of the reason being due to how the Open/Division I is seeded. If Pittsburg and De La Salle win on Friday, they'll meet the next week on the Spartans’ dwelling discipline. The winner qualifies for the CIF playoffs. The loser hosts no matter group remains to be standing from the underside half of the eight-team bracket, which is more likely to be Clayton Valley Constitution. That winner additionally goes to the regionals.
Galli admitted he's a bit nervous about enjoying Antioch two weeks in a row.
“This sport is slightly scary. They gave us a fairly good scare (Friday),” Galli stated. “We’re dealing with our former working again. We have now to take this sport critically.”
Senior working again Charles Brown Jr. transferred from Pitt to Antioch on the finish of final season. The 5-foot-7, 155-pounder with blazing pace has rushed for 1,850 yards and 19 touchdowns. Towards his previous group Friday, he had 124 yards and one TD.
“I’m blissful to have a house sport,” Galli stated of this season’s second matchup with Antioch. “I’m excited to be beginning the ultimate section of the season. This might be the ultimate dwelling sport for me.”
— Mike Lefkow
Campolindo: Two names and no names
Campolindo went 10-0 and is again within the NCS Division II playoffs. Final yr, the Cougars went 7-3, earned a No. 3 seed in D-II and went on to seize the championship.
So one other deep run can’t be tough, can it?
Properly, possibly not.
Regardless of its unbeaten report, Campo was seeded second behind San Ramon Valley.
So repeating as part champs may need to undergo the Danville college, led by Luke Baker and his 32 landing passes. To succeed in that time, Campolindo will in all probability must dispatch third-seeded Rancho Cotate, whose two losses got here by one at Vanden and 4 at Windsor.
Campolindo could have the benefit of being at dwelling Friday within the first spherical in opposition to Granada and, if it wins, the semifinals per week later.
The duo of quarterback Dashiell Weaver (27 landing passes) and Robbie Mascheroni Jr. (15 landing receptions) ought to give Campo a stage of consolation because it begins a playoff run which may finish with one other state championship for the Moraga college.
“We entered this yr understanding that Sprint and Robbie must carry the heavy weight of the season,” Campo coach Kevin Macy stated. “These two have been the distinction makers in final yr’s playoff run. We joke round right here that our group is ‘two names and the no names.’”
— Joseph Dycus