The Escalon Cougars (Escalon, CA) football overcame the visiting Northwood Timberwolves (Irvine, CA), 28-7 in Saturday's non-league bout.
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Tonight’s matchup is between the CA #120 Escalon Cougars and the visiting CA #123 Northwood Timberwolves, from Irvine (14-1).
Escalon Head Coach is Andrew Beam, with an impressive record of 49-10, in just over 4 seasons.
Per MaxPrep's, Cougars will playing towards Beam’s 50th victory.
Per Max Prep's Coach Beam took over in 2018-2019 & he has recorded only winning seasons:
(18-19) 9-3 "went to SJS", (19-20) 14-1 "4A State Champions", (20-22) 2-1 "Covid"…,
(21-22) 12-2 "lost to Marin Catholic by 7, in NorCal Regionals" & (22-23) 12-3 this season "4AA State game".
Northwood's Head coach is JC Clarke.
EHS has had a great season, but suffered losses to CA #27 Buchanan, D6 SJS Champs & D-5AA CA State bound Hughson & TVL Champs Hilmar.
Escalon has four huge wins in the playoffs, getting a revenge win over Hilmar, taking down SJS #1 seed Sutter, in Sutter...
An exciting come from behind win to defeat Sonora in the D5 SJS Championship game, with under .40 seconds left in the game...
And last week Escalon routed Pleasant Valley Vikings, 42-20, in the NorCal 4AA Championship game, for the second time since 2019.
EHS offense is hitting on all cylinders & is well balanced on the ground & air. However EHS is always known for their ground attack…
The 2022 featured RB is 6'0" 210 lb, powerful & punishing (SR) FB #1 Ryker Peters, w/ 2,031 yds(CA #15 & #2 SJS), w/ 30 TDs(CA #18 & #4 SJS)
Also, Northwood better not sleep on dual-threat (SR) RB/ATH #5 Logan Anderson, racking up 865 rush yds w/ 11 TDs & 484 rec. yds w/ 5 TDs.
Anderson has a total of 1,771 All Purpose yards with 18 total TDs, including a punt return & Int. return both for TDs.
Cougars offensive signal caller is 6'3" 200 lbs, pocket passer, (JR) QB #7 Donovan Rozevink, tossing for 1,925 yds, 24TDs, 8 Ints. (#20 SJS)
Escalon’s top receive is the 6’4” & sure handed (SR) WR #13 Owen Nash, totaling 1,075 rec. yards & 15 TDs....
Nash is ranked #52 in CA for total rec. yds & #10 in SJS. Nash is ranked #24 in CA & #8 in SJS for total rec. TDs(15), 1,289 All Purpose yds
None of the offense is possible w/o giving love to the "Heartbeat", the Offensive line. The rotation has changed but the results have not.
(JR) G #50, Jones, (JR) T #51 Lora, (SR) G #55 T. Christianson, (SR) C #57 Budd, (JR) OL #60 Fowler, (SR) OL #67 Oliver, (SR) OL #69 Miller.
JR) T #70 Chavez, (SR) T #75 Rauch, (SO) TE #87 Lewis.
EHS PAT specialist is (JR) #32 Talan Reider which made 54 of 58 PATs. Ranking him at #7 in SJS & tied for #36 in CA, with 54 made PATs.
The Cougar defense is loaded with talent this year and have only gotten better as the year progressed.
EHS has 27 sacks (Twice the National Average), 21 Ints (3 times the National Average) & 14 fumble recoveries (Twice the National Average).
Takeaways are led by (JR) DB #10 J. Gutierrez (5 Ints & 1 fmb rec). There are six other players with at least three takeaways each.
Defensive Leaders: LB #1 R. Peters (82 tckls), (JR) LB #22 N. Krieger (91 tckls), (SR) DE #25 A. Wilson (7 sacks)…,
(JR) LB #26 J. Miller (72 tckls), (SO) DE #87 R. Lewis (61 tckls & 7 sacks).
Northwood only provided stats for two players and only for 11 of the 15 games.
NHS: #11 (SR) QB E. Miyata (1,557 passing yards, 25 TDs, 3 Ints) & #3 (SR) RB A. Harper (1,972 rushing yards & 82 receiving yards).
EHS is the home team & will be wearing their purple helmets w/ gold "E" sticker, purple jerseys with gold/white numbers & purple pants.
NHS is the visiting team & will be wearing their white helmets w/ the blue "T-Wolves" stickers, white jerseys w/ blue numbers & white pants.
38 minutes until kick off. There is heavy rain for the game time forecast.
Cougars are warmed up and ready.
EHS is pumped and ready for the rain.
15 minutes to kickoff.
Soggy
False start Northwood
Nice return by #3 A. Harper.
False start NHS, 2nd and 15
Illegal man down field #73
3rd and 15.
False start NHS. 3rd and 20, at EHS 42.
Cougars driving.
Offsides EHS
False start NHS.
NHS will attempt a #33 field goal to start the 2nd quarter.
Personal foul on EHS
Nice returns by #22 Krieger.
Too many men on the field on NHS.
#1 Peters with a vicious hit, but gets a flag thrown. Horrible call.
NHS 3rd and 15, at own 40
EHS 3rd and 9, at EHS 30
NHS #3 Harper fumbles and EHS recovers the ball their own 23.
.33 seconds left in a he half.
NHS takes a knee and EHS will receive the second half kick off.
Peters for 4 yards
Peters for 6 yards, 1st down
Peters for 3 yards. 2nd and 7
3rd and 7
EHS Peters for 8. EHS driving.
Nice 49 yard TD run by Anderson, good blocking by the O-line.
Nice punt return by EHS #5 Anderson.
#1 Peters with 7 yard run.
EHS #5 Anderson with the 11 yard run
EHS driving, 2nd and 6 at NHS 12
Touchdown Peters, but holding on EHS. 2nd and 16 at NHS 24.
Horrible no call, defensive PI
NHS, 3rd and 14.
EHS Peters for 8 yards
EHS 3rd and 2.
Peters for 8 yard run to end the 3rd quarter.
EHS driving, 1st and 10 at EHS 31, to start the 4th quarter.
Peters for 7 yard run. 3rd and 4.
Peters for 10 yard run. At EHS 46
Peters for 5 yard run
Peters for 13 yard run, rumbling over tacklers.
Peters for 11 yard run.
EHS driving, at NHS 25.
Peters for 5 yard run, 3rd and 5, at NHS 20.
Peters for 9 yard run. NHS has NO answer for Peters.
Peters for 5 more yards. Go EHS O-line.
3rd and 2 for EHS at NHS 4.
1st down Peters to the 1 yard line.
1st and goal at the 16.
Time out EHS, with 4:56 remaining in the 4th quarter.
Peters for 6 yards.
Under 4 min, 3rd and goal at NHS 6
EHS #1 Peters had a 17 carry drive. EHS shaved off over 12 minute on the drive drive.
EHS has all momentum now, really turning it on.
NHS Harper for 9 yards
3rd and 1 at own 27
NHS Harper or 5 yards
Less then a minute
Escalon wins!!!!!
Coach Beam gets his 50th win in 60 games, “2” State Titles and “3” SJS Section Titles!! He has never had a losing season.
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