Alumni Report - Football

Football Alumni

Lydell Sargeant

Penn State suffered a heart-rending 24-23 loss at Iowa, but recovered with a 34-7 win over Indiana to move to 10-1 (6-1 Big Ten). They held the Hoosiers to only 180 yards total offense and 6 1st downs. They play the #15 Michigan St. Spartans (9-2, 6-1) on Saturday.

Lydell Sargeant, a Cabrillo grad, had two solo tackles against Indiana, after posting 3 solo and 3 assists versus the Hawkeyes.

The senior, playing only his second year on defense, after a couple years at wide receiver, has 3 interceptions (55 yards on two returns), 23 tackles (15 solo), 7 pass break-ups, 10 passes defensed, and a fumble recovery. He is the team leader in interceptions, break-ups, and passes defensed, despite missing some playing time due to injury.

Vai Taua
After the Nevada Wolfpack [6-4, 6-2] fell (38-31) at Hawaii for the 6th consecutive time, they have rebounded with consecutive wins over Fresno St. (41-28) and San Jose St. (41-17), and are now bowl eligible.

Against Fresno St., Vai rushed 28 times for 263 yards (long 57, ave 9.4) and a touchdown. It was Taua's first 200-yard performance of the season, the sixth-highest rushing total in school history. The 'Pack' had 472 yards on the ground.

The Wolf Pack racked up 330 yards of offense and made three lengthy scoring drives in the first half, but Nevada also missed a golden opportunity to score more points in the final seconds. Taua was stopped at the Fresno State 1, and the clock ran out before the Wolf Pack could call a timeout. The officials didn't see Nevada coach Chris Ault, who won his 196th game, frantically signaling to stop the game before the half ended.

Taua followed that up by rushing for 125 yards (on 18 carries) and a TD versus the Spartans, as they rolled up 333 rushing yards while holding San Jose St. to minus 23.

In 10 games this season, the Cabrillo HS Graduate, who started the season as the third-stringer, has rushed 177 times for 1284 yards (7.3 ave/ long 79 yds), topping the 100-yard mark seven times. He has scored 12 TD's and is averaging 128.4 y/G. He also has 20 receptions for 147 yards (7.3 ave.), 2TD, and a long of 54.

Boo Jackson
Ohio University (2-8, 1-5) has hit a rough patch, as Brian Boesch of BobcatAttack put it after their 8 Nov loss --

"Judging by the players, the coaches, the fans and the standings after Saturday’s 28-3 loss to the Bowling Green Falcons at Peden Stadium, the Ohio
Bobcats’ season is over, even if two more games loom on the 2008 schedule.
The players performed poorly, the coaches seemed ill-prepared, the fans understandably gave up hope and the ‘Cats claimed sole-possession of the MAC
East’s basement during a game that Bowling Green dominated from the get-go.
“I thought we did not do a very good job at times of making plays,” Ohio coach Frank Solich said. “And I don’t know if we did a good enough job as coaches putting our players in position to make plays.” ...

Jackson had his worst
game as an Ohio Bobcat. The junior transfer had only 96 yards and completed only
six of 16 passes. His two interceptions led to 14 Bowling Green points. ...

The
interception by Jackson was the final throw of his afternoon. Junior Brandon Jones appeared for the fourth time this season, and he showed some promise.
However, his two drives eventually faltered, one by a pair of costly sacks and the other by a failed fourth down. Jones finished with 92 passing yards, but he
was sacked three times"

The previous game, a 32-19 loss at home to the Buffalo Bulls, wasn't any better--

Ohio mustered more total yards than Buffalo and held senior quarterback Drew Willy to just 116 passing yards. However, Ohio played poorly throughout the game. The ‘Cats fumbled seven times, botched two extra point attempts, failed to
score twice inside the red zone and allowed Buffalo to score on all four of its trips inside the 20.
“It just came down to the turnovers,” Ohio quarterback
Boo Jackson said. “To [lose] four fumbles alone is just ridiculous. It’s just a lack of discipline and not knowing your surroundings.”
“Certainly, lack of discipline is involved,” ‘Cats coach Frank Solich said about his team’s struggles. “For there to be that at this point in the season is inexcusable.” "

Boo had one of the fumbles at the end of a 21 yard run.

Ohio next plays Nov. 22, when the Akron Zips come to Peden Stadium.

In 10 games this year, he has 80 carries and has gained 297 yards (long =21), and lost 178, for a net of 214 yards (2.7 ave.). He has 2 of Ohio's 6 rushing TDs and is averaging 21.4 y/gm. Passing he is 150-258-11 (58.1 %) for 1943 yards (long= 77) and 9 TDs. Averaging 194.3 y/gm, his passer rating is 126.94 . He leads the team in total offense (215.7 y/gm) with 2157 yards.

Justice Clegg [OL]/ Mike Slaughter [LB]
The Peacocks of Upper Iowa University were finally able to crow again. After losing seven in a row, the UIU squad pulled out a 37-36 (2OT) win over Minnesot-Crookston at home on Senior Day in Fayette.

The Peacocks fell behind the Golden Eagles of Minnesota, Crookston 22-3 less than six minutes into the game's action. Upper Iowa caught its collective breath and was able to [score] 20 unanswered points to take a 23-22 lead with 2:04 to play in
the third quarter. Minnesota, Crookston retook the lead early in the fourth quarter, 30-23, but the Peacocks stormed back once again just 55 seconds later to tie the game at 30-30. Neither team could get the winning score in regulation so the game moved to overtime.

In overtime, the Peacocks missed a field goal on their first possession, but picked off a Golden Eagle pass to send the
contest into double overtime. The Golden Eagles scored a touchdown with just two plays, but missed the extra point to take a 36-30 lead. Upper Iowa faced a 4th and 7 on their final possession, but a pass interference call gave the home team
new life with a fresh set of downs. UIU scored the tying touchdown and added an extra point to take the victory 37-36.

The Peacock football team have completed their 2008 season with a 2-9 mark and an 11th place finish in the NSIC.



Clegg [above left] is an offensive lineman and consequently, and unfortunately, invisible in the school's stat report. Although the o-line was mentioned as performing well after the team rushed for 425 yards in the final win.


In 10 games, Slaughter [left], a 6-5, 245 lb linebacker, had 30 solo tackles and 27 assists, with 14.0 TFL (64 yds.), and 5.5 SAC's (36 yards). He also picked one off (28 yrd ret), with 1 Break-up and two Passes defensed.



Slaughter apparently had one whale of a final game--

Mike Slaughter Named Northern Sun Conference Defensive Football Player of the
Week
Nov. 18, 2008
Mike
Slaughter, a senior from Lompoc, California, has been named the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) Defensive Football Player of the Week. This honor is the fourth NSIC Player of the Week award earned by an Upper Iowa student-athlete this year and the second time that a Peacock football player has earned the honor.

Slaughter led the UIU defense in his last game in Peacock blue and white. The senior spent all day in the Golden Eagle backfield and seemed to always be around the ball. Slaughter tallied 13 tackles (5 solo) in the game while accounting for 4.5 tackles for loss and 1 sack.

Robert Sherman

Menlo College (3-7) followed up a 49- 20 win on the road over Lewis & Clark , with another close loss at home (3 by 3 pts or less) to Pacific Lutheran (35-34), and a blowout road loss to Willamette (28-3) to conclude the season.
The freshman from LHS did get some playing time this year, but didn't break into other categories of the Stat sheet.

Allan Hancock College

The Bulldogs won four straight games to finish the regular season 7-3. The first was a narrow 45-42 victory over Pasedena CC at Jackie Robinson Field, in the initial contest between the two schools. The second, a resounding pounding (40-22) of Moorpark at home. Third, was a 57-55 overtime thiller at Glendale. And the final was a 30-12 romp over Ventura.

Lompoc's Tim Ochoa [#21 DB] has two interceptions with returns of 76 & 26 yards, 4 Pass Break-ups, 43 tackles (25 solo) - 4.5 TFL, and a blocked kick.

Cabrillo's Casey Belluz [#40 K/P] is tied for leading scorer with 60 points. Used mostly as a PK, he is 39-41 (95.1 %) on PAT's and 7-12 (58.3 %, long-33) on FGs. On kickoffs, he is averaging 50.85 yds/k [40-2034] with 2 touchbacks. In limited punting duty [3- 128 yds], he has the longest punt for the team this year (54 yds), and his average is 9 yards longer than the regular punter [42.67 vs 33.64].

In 8 games Joseph Scott (LHS), although listed as a receiver, has been mostly been playing defense. He has 21 tackles (11 solo), 1 TFL, 3 Interceptions, and 3 Pass Break-ups.

Likewise the Conq's Greg Watson, listed as a RB, has spent his playing time in four games on the other side of the ball, racking up 5 tackles (3 solo) and a pair of Pass Break-ups.

Freshmen Jacob Farley (#71, OL) and Joshua Blair (#97, SS) are also on the squad.

BULLDOGS WILL FACE MT. SAC IN PLAYOFF GAME
The Allan Hancock College football team will compete in the Southern California Bowl at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut on Saturday, Nov. 22 at 6:00 p.m. Number three ranked Mt. San Antonio (9-1, Central Conference co-champion) verses the number six ranked Bulldogs (7-3, Northern Conference runner up), with the winner advancing to the Southern California regional semi-finals.

Winners of play-off bowl games may earn the chance to participate in the State Finals on December 13. In eight seasons as head football coach, Kris Dutra has made five bowl game appearances. This will be his first appearance in a play-off bowl game. For more information, call Kim Ensing, associate dean for Allan Hancock College Athletics at 922-6966 ext. 3359.

More Tommorrow -- el stato