One week into the season and there's already a change at the top of the Sac-Joaquin Section Top 25, with previous No. 2 Elk Grove toppling preseason No. 1 Lincoln of Stockton. This week's prime matchups include No. 3 Grant playing host to No. 2 Nevada Union, No. 4 Lincoln entertaining No. 5 Pleasant Grove and No. 14 Central Catholic welcoming No. 13 Placer.
A closer look:
1. Elk Grove (2) 1-0Beat p
revious No. 1 Lincoln 35-21. Play at Beyer (Modesto) on Friday. 
Elk Grove's Waddus Parker rushed for 127 yards in week 1.
File photo by Chris Trim
Beat McQueen (Reno) 27-10. Play at No. 3 Grant on Friday.
3. Grant (Sacramento) (4) 1-0Beat Paradise 28-7. Host No. 2 Nevada Union on Friday.
4. Lincoln (Stockton) (1) 0-1Lost to previous No. 2 Elk Grove 35-31. Host No. 5 Pleasant Grove on Friday.
5. Pleasant Grove (Elk Grove) 1-0Beat Rocklin 35-21. At No. 4 Lincoln on Friday.
6. Vacaville (6) 0-0Idle. Play at Valley Christian (San Jose) on Friday.
7. Franklin (Elk Grove) (9) 1-0Beat Thousand Oaks 38-28. Host Tracy on Friday.
Franklin's Trent Spallas threw two touchdowns vs. Thousand Oaks.
Photo by Jerry Sigua
Lost to Westlake 24-6. At Oaks Christian (Westlake Village) on Saturday.
9. Del Oro (8) 0-1Lost to Oaks Christian (Westlake Village) 40-0. At Westlake on Friday.
10. Oakdale (10) 1-0Beat Turlock 21-7. At Oceanside on Friday.
11. Folsom (11) 1-0Beat Woodcreek (Roseville) 68-28. Host San Ramon Valley on Friday.
12. Oak Ridge (El Dorado Hills) (12) 1-0Beat Vista del Lago 42-6. At Rocklin on Friday.
13. Placer (Auburn) (13) 0-0Idle. At No. 14 Central Catholic on Friday.
14. Central Catholic (Modesto) (14) 1-0Beat Brookside Christian 68-6. Host No. 13 Placer on Friday.
Central Catholic's offense has a big test against Placer's defense this Friday.
Photo by Mark Bahrenfuss
Beat East Union 67-13. Host Stockdale (Bakersfield) on Friday.
16. Buhach Colony (Atwater) (16) 1-0Beat San Ramon Valley 28-24. At Enochs (Modesto) on Friday.
17. Burbank (Sacramento, Calif.) (17) 1-0Beat previous No. 18 Napa 14-7. Host Grant on Sept. 7.
18. Cosumnes Oaks (Elk Grove) (19) 1-0Beat Roseville 44-7. At Sacramento on Saturday.
19. Napa (18) 0-1Lost to No. 17 Burbank 14-7. At Paradise on Friday.
20. Inderkum (Sacramento) (20) 1-0Beat Clovis East 45-8. Host Spanish Springs (Sparks, Nev.) on Friday.
Inderkum's offense exploded for 45 points vs. Clovis East.
Photo by David Steutel
Beat Vallejo 35-0. At Enterprise (Redding) on Friday.
22. Pitman (Turlock) (22) 1-0Beat Enochs (Modesto) 35-31. At Chavez (Stockton) on Friday.
23. Antelope (23) 1-0Beat Liberty Ranch (Galt) 41-7. At Monterey Trail on Friday.
24. Jesuit (Carmichael) (24) 0-0Idle. At Rio Americano (Sacramento) on Saturday.
25. Casa Roble (Orangevale) (25) 1-0Beat Rio Americano (Sacramento) 28-20. Host Woodcreek (Roseville) on Friday.
Sac-Joaquin section news and notes: * Elk Grove beat Lincoln of Stockton 35-21 in a battle of top-ranked section foes, with the Herd scoring two touchdowns while pitching a second-half shutout.
Wadus Parker rushed for 127 yards and three touchdowns and
Robert Frazier had 102 and one score for Elk Grove, which held USC-commit tailback Justin Davis to no yards on four carries in the second half, and 111 total.
* Folsom sophomore quarterback
Jake Browning had a spectacular varsity debut, tossing a national-record tying 10 touchdowns—five to
Phillip Carter in the first half—to beat Woodcreek 68-28. Browning passed for 689 yards, second most in state history, according to the Cal-Hi Sports Record Book. Curiously, Cal-Hi disputes whether or not the 10 touchdown tosses tie a national record, though the National Federation of State High School Associations online record book shows that they do. Cal-Hi reported over the weekend that the actual national record for touchdown throws in a single game is 16, by Arthur Smith in Nebraska, from a 201-7 game in 1921. A spokesman from the National Federation of State High School Associations said the firm is trying to verify the 91-year-old Nebraska mark.
*
Aaron Zwahlen of
Downey (Modesto)
tossed a school-record seven touchdown passes to beat Golden Valley
(Merced) 49-7. Fresh off a 29-touchdown season, Zwahlen passed for 315
yards and hit
Richard Lopez for four scoring strikes.
*
Buhach Colony beat Bay Area power San Ramon Valley, state-ranked No. 22
in one poll, 28-24 on the road. The Thunder, coming off a 12-1 season,
rushed for 336 yards on 52 carries and held on after taking a 21-0 lead.
* The section's longest losing streak came to an end when
West Campus (Sacramento)
beat Cristo Rey (Sacramento) 21-14, halting a 28-game skid. Nate
Harris, who has coached football in Sacramento at various schools for
nearly 40 years, is the Warriors' first-year coach.
* Dewey
Guerra, the founding father of the Cordova football dynasty of the
1970s, died last week at 85. He started the Lancers program as a new
school in 1963, introduced the region to the wishbone and coached
perhaps the greatest team in section history in 1975, a Lancers group
that finished 11-0 and nationally ranked No. 1.
Read more about Guerra in Joe Davidson's column on sacbee.com.Joe Davidson has covered high schools with The Sacramento Bee since 1988. Follow him on Twitter: @SacBee_JoeD; on Facebook: sacbeepreps; online: sacbee.com/preps; and radio podcasts: ESPN1320.net.
