Alumni Do It Big

Vai Taua scored four TD's for the Nevada (Reno) Wolfpack, but they lost a shootout at home with New Mexico St 48-45.


Alumni

Vai Taua
RB Vai Taua rushed 20 times for 188 yards (long=48 yds) and scored a career-best four touchdowns. Two came on the ground (8yd, 3yd). He also caught 5 passes for 49 yards and two TD's. One was a 5 yarder to put the Wolfpack up 31-28, and on another he took a 16-yard screen pass from Colin Kaepernick in from 16 yards out to tie the score at 38 with 51 seconds left in the third quarter.
The Nevada Wolf Pack (3-3, 1-1 WAC) had 507 yards in total offense,and the Aggies (3-2 overall, 1-0 WAC), had 513, in a see-saw game that had nine lead changes and three ties.
New Mexico State controlled the ball for the final 3:51 to run out the clock,
and was 3-3 on fourth down conversions in the game.[Story]

Lydell Sargeant
The Penn State defense delivered another superb performance and the offense showed up as the Nittany Lions crushed the then #24 ranked Wisconsin Badgers 44-7. Coming off the bench, CB Lydell Sargeant had two third period interceptions, with 55 return yards, that helped turn a 24-7 lead into a blowout. He also had two solo tackles and a pass breakup.

Penn State improved to 7-0 overall and 3-0 in the Big Ten and is now ranked 3rd in the country. The Nittany Lions have won 38 of its last 47 games. Penn State will be seeking an 8-0 start for the first time since 1999, in a Big Ten clash with Michigan on Saturday, October 18.
ESPN will nationally televise Penn State's 89th Homecoming game. It is their only home game between Sept. 26 and Nov. 15th. Kickoff is set for 4:30 p.m. in a sold out Beaver Stadium. The Nittany Lions will be playing on ESPN for the third consecutive week. [Story]

Boo Jackson
The Ohio football team marched into Dix Stadium and spoiled the Golden Flashes Homecoming party 26-19. Barrett Way had 4 FG's and the Bobcats rushed for two touchdowns.

Ohio's Boo Jackson ended the day 16-26-1for 203 yards passing. Running the ball he had 2 net yards and a fumble on 7 carries, but scored the first points of the game on a nine yard TD run. He was sacked twice for a loss of 26 yards.

Ohio will take the field again on Tuesday, Oct. 21 at the Temple Owls at 8 p.m. ET. The contest at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia can be seen on ESPN2.[Story]

Michael Slaughter #44 [LB] / Justice Clegg #71[OL]
I don't know the state of Winona, but Winona St (4-3, 4-2 NSIC) is pretty good. They rolled the UIU Peacocks (1-6, 1-5 NSIC) 49-14 on Saturday. [Story]

"The Warriors outgained the Peacocks 598 to 380 in total offense and were much more productive on third downs. WSU converted 9 of their 12 third downs, while UIU only converted on 3 of their 14 third downs. On the day, Upper Iowa turned the ball over six times on the day... three times on downs and three times on interceptions. The Peacock defense was able to force just one Warrior turnover...".

Mike Slaughter recorded 5 solo tackles including a sack for a six yard loss. Presumably, Justice Clegg is still starting on the OL.

Upper Iowa will return to Eb Eischeid Stadium in Fayette this coming Saturday, Oct. 18. The Peacocks will host the Vikings of Augustana College in a Northern Sun Conference Southern Division game. Kickoff is scheduled for 1 p.m.

Robert Sherman #82 [WR]
The Atherton based Menlo College Oaks (2-4, 1-1 Nwst. Conf.) celebrated Homecoming with their second win of the season, a 35-28 defeat of Puget Sound at Conner Athletic Field. Robert Sherman, a freshman wideout from Lompoc, who saw some action earlier in the season, did not play in this one.

Allan Hancock College
The Bulldogs have half a dozen Lompoc valley players on the squad which fell 34-17 to Bakersfield on Saturday. The Renegades have been struggling some this year - guess who they broke through against ? [Story]

Individual Results are incomplete
Sophomore #21 Tim Ochoa has 2 interceptions, with returns of 26 & 76 yards. Ochoa also has 15 tackles (9 solo), including at least 3 TFL (-20 yards) and two pass break-ups. #3 Joseph Scott (who snagged a pick versus SBCC), has 10 tackles (3 solo), 1 Tackle For Loss (5 yds) and a pass break-up.

Greg Watson (#27) has 2 tackles and two pass break-ups in three games. No Info so far on Casey Belluz (#40), Jake Farley (#61), or Joshua Blair (#97).

Soccer
The McIntosh / Murray Bowl took place on Friday (10 Oct) at Chico State
Katie McIntosh #14
Chico St. [6-7-2, 2-5-2 CCAA] lost twice - at home. They were a nice 5-1-2 at home, and 1-4-0 away, have now lost 5 of their last 7 games.
The first one (The MM Bowl) was a 3-1 loss to CalSt DH. They led most of the game, before giving up three unanswered goals - two in the last six minutes to Jessica Murphy.[Story]
The second was a 3-0 loss to the UC San Diego Tritons (11-2-1, 8-2-0 CCAA). [Story] A starting Wildcat defender in all 15 games, senior Katie McIntosh has two assists on the season, but none since a 3-2 loss to St. Martins on September 4th.

Amanda Murray
The Cal St Dominguez Hills [10-5, 8-2 CCAA South] womens soccer team, now winners in 7 straight matches, used two road wins to improve to 9-5-0.
The first was a 3-1 win over Chico State. Three second half goals, two by frosh Jessica Murphy, did in the Wildcats. [Story]
Game 2, in Turlock versus CSU Stanislaus, was another come - from - behind affair. This time junior Natalie Moreno scored twice in the second half. [Story]
The Toros remain in a deadlock with UC San Diego atop the CCAA South Division at 8-2-0.

Amanda, a junior transfer has not played in the last several games.

AHC - Men
The Allan Hancock College men's soccer team dropped their last two Western State Conference games, 0-2 to Moorpark (4 Oct) and 4-1 to Citrus (10 Oct). Hancock (4-9, 1-3 WSC) . The Bulldogs will host LA Mission College on Tuesday, Oct. 14 and travel to Oxnarnd College on Friday, 17 Oct. - both games at 4:00 p.m. Juan Benivides (LHS) and Massimo Beeson (CHS) play for the Bulldogs, but no individual information is currently available.

Softball

Courney Dosa #22
The recent Lompoc grad is the lone non-Missourrian on the Jefferson JC womens softball squad. Last year the Vikings were 35-15 (18-2 in conference). They were scheduled to begin play on August 30th, but no results are currrently available. Dosa is listed a Pitcher / Infielder.


Golf

Julia Heath
Make it three in a row, Cal Poly recently finished second for the third consecutive tournament. This time it was at the inaugural Coast BMW-Coast Nissan Inter- collegiate, hosted by the Mustangs at the Monarch Dunes Golf Course in Nipomo. Cal-Poly fell to UC Irvine, but beat the comparable teams among the six women’s squads. Julia, who tied for 8th overall, carded a 237 (82, 78, and 77 ) -just two strokes back of third), and was second for the Mustangs.

The Mustang men’s team returns to action Oct. 27-28 in the Herb Wimberley Intercollegiate hosted by New Mexico State in Las Cruces, N.M., while the women’s squad will play Oct. 27-29 in the Kent Youel Invitational in Honolulu, Hawaii. Obviously, the women won that match-up.


Paddle Sports

Randi Edwards, a junior from Lompoc and AHC is competing in the Novice rowing division for Humbolt State.
Mao Vang, is on the Stanford Dragon Boat Team.

One New Cabrillo 'Alumnus'
Betty McCallum, CHS Principal for the last three years, will be 'graduating' to a new position - LUSD Director of Personnel Support Services. She will remain at Cabrillo until a new principal has been chosen by a selection comittee and approved by the District. [Her Announcement]
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