Kyle Nelson accounts for five more touchdowns and finishes regular season with 41 TD passes as Galileo rolls to unbeaten AAA title; Sacred Heart Prep edges Menlo; Los Gatos upsets No. 14 Milpitas; NCS first-round playoff action.
Kyle Nelson is a quarterback on fire.
Galileo's Kyle Nelson leads all Bay Area
quarterbacks with 41 touchdown passes.
File photo by Ernie Abrea
The
Galileo (San Francisco, Calif.) left-handed senior completed 17 of 18 passes for 355 yards and four touchdowns as the visiting Lions defeated Lowell 57-30. Nelson now has a Bay Area-best 41 touchdown passes and he added 65 rushing yards and another score.
"He's been pretty unbelievable," Galileo coach Mark Huynh said. "I don't know how he scrambled out of those situations."
Isaac Armstrong caught two touchdown passes and
Rodney Morgan caught one
and returned an interception back 103 yards for another score as Galileo finished 10-1 overall and 7-0 in Academic Athletic Association play. Lowell finished 5-5 and 4-3.
In an odd twist on the final day of the AAA, the four playoff teams who will meet next week tangled on Friday.
In the other preview game, host
Lincoln (San Francisco) defeated Mission 34-0 as
Tyree Marzetta (13 carries, 181 yards) and
Davion Telfor (12-142), each rushed for two touchdowns against Mission (5-5, 5-2), which had its five-game win streak snapped.
Lincoln gave up just 189 yards and nine first downs.
Lincoln hosts Mission and Lowell travels to Galileo in first-round playoff action on Thursday. The winners play for the championship on Thanksgiving at Kezar Stadium.
#25 Sacred Heart Prep (Atherton) 10, Menlo (Atherton) 3 Riley Tinsley picked off a Will King pass to preserve the Valparaiso Bowl at Sequoia High School for SHP (9-1, 4-1), which got a game-winning 7-yard TD run by
Chris Lee with 2:02 to play. … In a rematch of the Central Coast Section D4 title game from last season, Menlo played without injured quarterback
Jack Heneghan, but gave SHP all it could handle. … SHP gained just 38 total yards in the first half and trailed 3-0 on a 29-yard field goal by
Kevin Walker. … SHP tied it on a 25-yard field goal from Tinsley in the third quarter.
#7 St. Francis (Mountain View, Calif.) 42, Sacred Heart Cathedral (San Francisco) 13 Devin Hurtado rushed for 88 yards and two scores and
Dennis Green and
Landon Baty each rushed for touchdowns for the host Lancers (7-3, 4-3). …
Nick Mikovich caught a 20-yard TD pass from
Logan White and
Nico Dizon added a 56-yard touchdown run for SHC (2-8, 0-7).
More CCSCorey Olivet capped a superb game with a 43-yard interception return for touchdown as
Los Gatos (7-3, 6-1) scored a 55-34 win over visiting and No. 14 Milpitas (8-2, 6-1). Olivet also caught two TD passes and rushed for a score. … #17
Wilcox (Santa Clara) (9-1, 6-1) finished in a three way tie with Milpitas and Los Gatos after a 47-20 win at Saratoga (3-7, 2-5).
North Coast Section playoffsNsimba Webster passed for three touchdowns and run for three more as host
Deer Valley (Antioch) (10-1) overcame a slow start to post a 49-21 Division I first-round win over Castro Valley (4-7). …
Jaylyn Morgan rushed for four TDs leading host
Pittsburg (9-2) to a 47-13 win over Irvington-Fremont (5-6). … Tyler Offill completed a 20-yard TD pass to Josh Revay with 1:34 left leading host
Granada (Livermore) (7-4) to a 24-21 win over Amador Valley-Pleasanton (5-6), which took the lead on a 55-yard TD run by Michael White five minutes earlier. …
Eric Haynes rushed more than 200 yards and four touchdowns leading
Northgate (Walnut Creek) to a 41-29 D2 win over visiting College Park-Pleasant Hill (6-4-1). … In D3 at De Anza-Richmond High,
Adarius Pickett took back the opening kickoff for a touchdown and
El Cerrito (9-2) let up at halftime in a 64-8 win over Tamalpais-Mill Valley (6-5) in a game that was scoreless in the second half.
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