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The battle for third place and the automatic playoff berth is riddled with question marks.

There are holes that need to be filled on the next four teams — only Sultana returns a starting quarterback and none of the teams returns a starting running back.

Burroughs and Apple Valley have almost always found ways to be competitive. Apple Valley head coach Frank Pulice keeps a list of the Sun Devils’ yearly records on the wall in his office. He’s quick to point out this year marks the 30th anniversary of

the last time they captured a league title. He’d like nothing more than to remove the stigma of being the MRL’s third wheel — always competitive, never the champs.

More question marks surround the league’s other Hesperia teams.

Hesperia is coming off its best season in years but lost most of the core of that squad and will have to abandon its no-huddle offense due to depth issues. Meanwhile, Sultana struggled last year in its first season under head coach David Booth Sr.

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Losses at the end of the season are meant to be heartbreaking.

And while Apple Valley took little joy in its 24-20 loss to Citrus Hill in the quarterfinals of the CIF-Southern Section Eastern Division playoffs last year, the loss has served as a galvanizing force through the offseason.

“We were sad obviously, but we were excited because it showed our capabilities,” senior Joseph Palafox said. “We’ve built on it.”

The Sun Devils weren’t supposed to compete with the Hawks, who went on to win their second straight Eastern Division title. Apple Valley was already battered heading into the game and was down to its fifth- and sixth-string running backs by the end of the first quarter.

Yet they didn’t trail until the last five minutes of the game and had chances to put more points on the board.

“They really have carried on that last game, the excitement of the last game,” head coach Frank Pulice said. “They’ve carried that thing all the way through the offseason into now. That will go a long way. You’ve got that kind of faith and belief in each other, that stuff will take you a long way when you lack experience.”

And experience is certainly one of the things the Sun Devils lack. Pulice, who’s been the head coach since 2000, said this was one of the program’s weakest offseasons in terms of returners. They lost eight starters from a defense that allowed just

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After several years of running the spread offense, the Sun Devils are back to an I formation, power game. While just two starters remain from last year’s offensive line, it’s a bigger unit built for a running game.

“Pretty much everyone that returned either started or saw plenty of reps during a varsity game last year,” senior left tackle Joey Bingham said of the offensive line. Bingham is one of the returning starters on the line along with Mason Emlay. “We’ll

and Greg Sprague both return after jumping into the fire during the Citrus Hill game. The senior and junior backs had combined for six carries going into that game but managed to combine for 120 yards on 25 carries against the Hawks.

Senior Nick Schulze takes over for graduated two-year starter Justin Connors at quarterback.

Schulze was a receiver and special teams player last year as well as the backup quarterback.

“Nick is very athletic,” Pulice said. “He’s extremely competitive, a great leader. He loves to be physical. Everything you want in

tion that’s become a standard for them. Mason Kelly — who racked up 131 tackles his senior year and set the program marks in career tackles and sacks — graduated, but players say they will be no less hard hitting. Tristian McNatt and Brandon Knox will be among the players called on to the fill the hole at linebacker.

“Mason’s not here so everyone else gets to tackle this time,” senior defensive end Elu Leasau said. “I have no worries (about the defense).”

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The Burroughs football team left some pretty cushy surroundings in the Desert Sky League.

The Burros move back to the Mojave River League this season for the first time since 1999. They didn’t outright dominate the DSL in recent years — although they had a stretch in the mid2000s when they lost just one league game in three seasons and claimed a Division VIII title — but they were almost always more than just competitive. The went 41-16 in their 14 seasons in the league and finished below .500 in league play just once.

Twice they posted 4-0 records.

Burroughs head coach Todd Mather knows it’s going to be a bit of challenge, but one that he’s looking forward to.

“I like to play the better teams to challenge our kids and challenge our staff,” Mather said.

“We know we have our work cut out for us.”

The Burros have made the playoffs each of the last seven seasons and have advanced to the second round in three of the last four seasons. But that was in a Desert Sky League that has been much more wide open than the Mojave River League in recent seasons. Claiming a playoff spot, even with three guaranteed to the league, isn’t a certainty.

“I expect it to be tough for us,” Mather said. “We may have some growing pains as we get used to the different style offenses that they run.”

Mather said he and his coaching staff already started breaking down film of the MRL teams.

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Despite the amount of change in the offseason, Mather, who’s in his fourth year as head coach, said he felt like the program was in the midst of its best offseason so far. What the team lacks in returning names it makes up for with depth. The Burros won’t need to play many athletes both ways.

That was a major problem last year as the Burros, who run an up-tempo spread offense, slowed considerably in the second half of games. After halftime they were outscored 126-67, only scored more than seven points once, held the other team score-

“Right now, it looks like, ‘Hey, we are on the right track because we’ve developed some pretty talented kids,’ ” Mather said. “We have a lot of skill kids that are new. I feel like we have more depth than we’ve had in a long time, at skill positions and the line.”

Mather said the strength of the team will be the offensive line with Michael Stanciu, Austin Groshens and John Hicks all returning.

“They’ve worked together for three years,” Mather said. “They understand our system.”

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Life on the gridiron sure looked fun for Hesperia early in the 2013 season.

The Scorpions piled up wins and points at a rapid pace. They averaged 45 points a game while starting the season on a fourgame winning streak. They eventually finished the season at 6-5 with a 69-20 loss to San Gorgonio in the first round of the CIFSouthern Section Eastern Division playoffs. It was the culmination of a steady three-year rise as the Scorpions made their first playoff appearance since 2008.

Can the Scorpions build on that momentum or will they fall back into rebuilding mode? No matter what, this year’s version of the Scorpions will be a very different one.

“We are going to show some things we haven’t done in the past,” head coach Jeremy Topete said. “I’m excited though. I’m looking forward to it.”

The Scorpions’ top skill players all gone. They lost top receiver Chris Crummel and top running back Semaje Williams to graduation. Their best defender, linebacker Eljiah Wallace, also graduated.

Those losses were expected.

Then they found out quarterback Austin Williams, who had started since his sophomore season, transferred to Serrano, and Alex Hammond, who was their second best receiver, decided to stick to basketball and track.

“It was tough,” senior safety Isiah Nicholson said. “Every year you have to go through adversity.

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Topete called him a true won’t look much like the up tempo football player who doesn’t mind one that proceeded it. Topete was getting hit to make a play but forced to reconfigure the offense.

Hesperia will still be a spread also has deceptive speed in his team but one predicated on the running.

“Me and Austin, we have two run much more than the pass.

“Last year the zone read was actually completely different a run, pass option with Austin,” quarterback styles,” Gleason said.

Topete said. “This year it’s more “He’s more of a passer. I’m more of a run, run option with a pass of a runner. I think I fit good with the offense this year.” available still.”

The biggest addition comes in The Scorpions don’t have the depth to run the no huddle like the form of new defensive coordi-

nator Cesar Villalobos, who spent the last two seasons as the head coach at Summit. He has a CIFSS ring after Summit won the 2011 Eastern Division title while he was a defensive coordinator.

Villalobos made the move after a physical education position opened up at Hesperia. He had been a substitute teacher at Summit. The players lauded his addition to the program.

“He’s a great resource,” Topete said. “He’s brought a different dynamic to the staff. He’s definitely solidified the defensive side of the ball. He’s just a great resource. He’s worked with some great athletes. He’s got a CIF ring,

multiple playoff teams. He’s got some playoff experience, why not pick his brain?”

The Scorpions never quite regained their same groove after a 23-14 upset loss to Fontana in the fifth game last season. They’ll get an early shot at revenge when they open the season against Fontana. Plenty of Hesperia players still have that loss fresh in their minds.

“I would say we are ready for our first game,” Nicholson said in mid-August. “I wish it was tomorrow.”

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When the Oak Hills offensive line made a hole — big or small — during the first six games of last season, DeZhontaey Fletcher found it and made defenses pay.

The small, shifty running back found the end zone 19 times and rumbled for more than 1,300 yards — tops among the 11man teams in the High Desert.

Fletcher’s great season came to a screeching halt when he broke three bones in his left ankle the first time he touched the ball in the seventh game of the season.

Slot receiver Gino Mastandrea replaced Fletcher in the backfield and went on to earn the Daily Press Football Offensive Athlete of the Year. The Bulldogs finished second in the Mojave River League and lost in the second round of the playoffs.

Fletcher, a senior, has now fully recovered and is an inch and a half taller and 30 pounds heavier due to weight lifting and eating. He adds another weapon for senior quarterback Nolan Brammer, who is in his third year as the starter after completing 139 of 255 passes for 2,523 yards, 31 touchdowns and six interceptions last year.

“It feels great having him back,” said Mastandra. “He was an asset on the team last year.

When he went down, the heart of the team kind of broke a little bit, but having him back is incredible, because he’s stronger than what he was last year.”

Mastandrea (2,197 all-purpose yards with 24 TDs), who will also start at cornerback in an untested defensive backfield, will move back to the slot on offense.

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“We kind of feel like with Gino, Fletcher and Lorick out on the field, you’re going to have a hard time,” Robert Kistner said. “You’re going to shut down one, but who are you going to shut down?”

the offensive line comes together.

The Bulldogs graduated four of five starters — including Boise State freshman Troy Bacon — with Joe Rodriguez being the only returner.

Chris Richardson — who will also start on a talented defensive line — will go both ways as could Austin Sweeney.

“I’m feeling pretty good with where we’re at,” Kistner said.

Jeff Thomas and Richardson return as starters on the defensive line, and Apple Valley transfer Dempsey Robinson could provide a boost.

and several seniors who have grown up playing together could be the winning combination to finally beating Serrano and getting past the quarterfinals for the first time.

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Like with every new football season, there is much about the Serrano football team that seems unchanged.

Serrano is a program where change is the exception to the rule.

Ray Maholchic is entering his 23rd season as head coach. New players cycle in and out but run largely the same systems. The Diamondbacks have maintained a certain level of excellence over the years, having won five straight outright Mojave River League titles. The goal is always to win the league title and proceed deep into the playoffs from there.

And all that holds true this season as well, but Serrano will have one key change to its lineup.

Former Hesperia quarterback Austin Williams transferred to Serrano during offseason after his family moved to Phelan. Williams gives the typically run-first D’backs a new dynamic.

“Having Austin come in, it was a such a relief, honestly,” senior wide receiver Adam Brown said. “Our running game is usually what carries us through every season ... but I feel this year could be a very good passing season.”

Williams is arguably the top returning quarterback in the area alongside Oak Hills’ Nolan Brammer. He threw for 3,881 yards and 35 touchdowns in two seasons at Hesperia. Williams beat out junior David Forbes, who was penciled in as the Diamondbacks’ starter after taking over the job during the second half of last season.

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“Definitely we have to get better at catching the ball,” Maholchic said. “During the summer we’ve gone to a lot of passing tournaments and done well. We just have to get a little more consistent catching the ball. We’ll make a great catch and then drop an easy one.”

Williams said he feels confident moving from a no-huddle spread system at Hesperia and already feels at home at Serrano.

“Everyone is helping each other out because it’s just team over here,” Williams said. “That’s what I like about Serrano. It’s

not about who’s going where, who’s doing this. It’s, what did Serrano do?”

The Diamondbacks are coming off a 10-2 season that ended with a 19-7 loss to Moreno Valley in the Eastern Division quarterfinals. It was the first time in five seasons Serrano hadn’t made the semifinals.

The Diamondbacks’ biggest question marks come from their lines. The defensive line that gave Serrano a big push up front and helped hold opponents to 7.25 points per game last year is all gone, including 2013 Daily Press Football Defensive Athlete of the Year Jay Henderson.

What the line lacks in experience, the linebacking core makes up for. Senior John Mackesy, who has interest from the

University of California, Davis according to Maholchic, will lead the way along with returning senior starters Jacob Glaser and Geordan King, who is moving up from the defensive backfield.

“We had a great defense last year, but we have lots of guys stepping up in spots where we lost seniors,” Mackesy said. “I like the way our defense looks this year.”

On offense, the line returns just two starters, including Mackesy at center. While less experienced, it will be a bigger line than last year. King will be the featured back after running for 1,058 yards despite playing in just eight games last season.

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The 2013 season wasn’t anything to write home about for the Sultana football team.

The Sultans went 1-9 and their only touchdown in Mojave River League play came in the last quarter of the fourth and final game.

Sultana, which last made the playoffs in 2011 with an at-large bid, is looking to be much more competitive this season, and even believes it can get back to the postseason.

“What I’ve been preaching to these guys is if we can be in the fourth quarter with every team we play, it gives us a chance to win, and we didn’t have that last year,” second-year head coach David Booth Jr. said. “I think the only game we were in was that game we won when we beat Granite. Everything else we were in the first half or the first quarter. They understand this year that it’s not one quarter or one half, it’s every minute that they have to play hard and be in it.”

Sultana will try to make the turnaround without much varsity starting experience. Only five starters return — four on offense and one on defense — from a team that graduated 25 seniors, but several players talked glowingly about this team’s chemistry.

“Last year we never clicked as a team, but this year we have the chemistry and we’re playing as one,” senior quarterback Johnathan Dean said.

The Sultans will be leaning on an offensive line that brings back three starters in center Elija Blasius, left tackle Edwin Perez and right tackle Julio Lara.

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Dean, who will also play strong safety, is the lone skill position player who got significant time on the field last year. He passed for 744 yards on 72-for-163 passing with 10 interceptions and five TDs, and he ran for 74 yards on 38 attempts. Dean is also the leading returning tackler with 15.

Other than that, the Sultans are slim on varsity experience.

Their leading returning rusher is junior Christian Mexia, who ran for 78 yards on 10 carries. He’s slated to start at running back.

Besides Mexia and Dean, no other returner had more than one carry or reception last season.

Undersized nose tackle David Ocegueda is the lone returning starter on defense, but Booth Jr. said William Bowers, who is 6foot-5 and 270 pounds, returns after missing last season with a knee injury.

Booth Jr. said about 15 players who didn’t play last year have returned to the program.

“All of them are definitely going to help, increase our potential and make us better as a team,” Booth Jr. said.

Despite the lack of experience, there’s a degree of optimism at Sultana, and Booth Jr. noticed

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Adelanto head coach Jayson Hughes can envision a day when the new high school’s facilities — not just the football stadium — become the hub of a growing community.

But until then, the players are just happy that they’re finally on campus in the third year the school’s been open. Instead of taking a bus from the temporary campus in Victorville to Adelanto’s stadium — which the team calls “The Saintuary” — for practice every day, players are able to stay on campus after school.

Adelanto heads into its second season of varsity football after a rough first year. The Saints went 1-8-1 and were outscored 371-55 in their first eight games.

Adelanto ended last season on a high note, tying Rancho Mirage 9-9 and then pounding fellow firstyear program Indian Springs 45-0. Hughes said finishing well and posting an 8-2 record at the freshman level are positives that the young program build on.

“The expectations are high for all three levels that we have, basically to be real competitive and have one of the top spots to make the playoffs in the DSL,” Hughes said.

The Saints will still be a young team as sophomore Seth Hughes — who is Jayson’s son — is expected to start at quarterback and sophomore running back Dequan Pree is competing for the starting spot with senior Michael Bradley. Hughes and Pree were two of four freshmen to play varsity last season.

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“So we’re going to have a lot of good competition inside the Desert Sky and outside the Desert Sky,” Hughes said.

The growing pains were all expected last year and the players learned a lot from it.

“Now we know what to expect.

Last year, we had never been in a varsity game. So last year, a lot of big boys hitting us, now we know how it feels and we want to come back and hit them,” offensive lineman Jonathan Uribe said.

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counted upon in a number of different roles on offense. He’ll see action at receiver, running back and quarterback.

The offensive line was a weak spot for the Saints last season, but Jayson Hughes said the lineman have been working every day since last season ended in November.

Hughes’ coaching staff and the school district helped fund a weight room on the stadium grounds.

“We have some really good young running backs,” Hughes said. “To be successful in the Desert Sky, the line is going to have to work together, know their blocking

assignments, know their schemes and really be the foundation of the team.”

During the offseason, Adelanto came away as the silver round champions of the Lancaster passing tournament.

“They fight every single day,” Hughes said. “That’s the reason I love being their head coach, because they come every single day and fight for the best thing they can do for their team.”

With the exception of a game against Serrano, the Saints have a very manageable nonleague schedule that could net some wins and give them some confidence heading into Desert Sky League play.

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What a difference a year together has made for the Barstow football team.

Ray Silva didn’t become the head coach of the Aztecs until June of 2013 after previous coach Mike Esposito took the defensive coordinator position at Victor Valley College, and Barstow had just two varsity starters returning. That only gave the Aztecs a couple of months to adjust from the spread to the wing-T offense.

Despite the short time to get ready for the season, Barstow was competitive in the six-team DSL, but finished 4-6 overall and missed the playoffs.

Fast forward a year, and the Aztecs have had a full offseason of training to prepare for this season, which included a year-round weight training program, passing leagues down the hill and a San Dimas football camp for three days to work on the offense.

Only eight players from last year’s team graduated and eight starters on each side of the ball return, giving the Aztecs hope that they’re ready for a playoff push.

“Last year we had to come in with a complex offense, but now we have kind of a simple offense and we’re all confident we can run it because we all know the plays very well,” senior running back Dion Brown said. “So we’re executing the plays very successfully. I feel like we have a better chance than last year, because everybody didn’t know the plays.”

Last season, the Aztecs held leads against league champion and Axe Game rival Victor Valley and against second-place Burroughs before the opponents pulled away in both games.

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While leading rusher Oshua Rothwell (815 rushing yards and 13 touchdowns on 101 carries) graduated, Barstow brings back a wealth of varsity experience at running back. Seniors Brown (339 yards on 52 carries and two TDs) and George Gatti (377 yards and seven TDs on 49 attempts) and sophomore Adrian Smith are fighting for reps at the halfback position. The fullback — or a traditional tailback — position is between juniors Brandon Pierce (42 carries for 425 yards and

three TDs) and Brandon McHenry (53 carries for 284 yards and four TDs). Sophomore Andrew Espinoza is slated to be the wing back and junior Jordon Lonzo (264 rushing yards on 61 attempts) returns behind center at quarterback.

Silva said on top of the wing-T, the Aztecs will also incorporate some pistol wing-T. Barstow returns three starting offensive lineman from last season and has lots of depth at the varsity and junior varsity level with 17 players who can play on the line.

Defensively, Barstow will go with a 4-5-2 base, with the defensive line being the strength.

Seniors Kiler Holmyer and Silverio Perez return to the interior of line, while junior Ezra Alapati

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Sophomore Elijah Poupou started at outside linebacker as a freshman and will move to an interior linebacking position.

Barstow added A.B. Miller and Rim of the World to its schedule and kept ex-league opponent Burroughs on the schedule to mirror what it’ll see in DSL play.

“We want to improve upon our record from last year,” Silva said. “We want to be a more physical team, and just get that yeararound program going. Get the kids out early and build a program like everybody else has in the High Desert.”

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Victor Valley High is old school, no one will argue that.

The high school opened in 1915 and is the second oldest in the High Desert behind Barstow.

But when it comes to the football team’s offense, the Jackrabbits are completely modern. The spread formation, football’s latest craze, has worked its way to Victor Valley in recent years.

When Mark Mora took over as the team’s offensive coordinator in 2012, he believed an offense predicated on speed was just what the Jackrabbits needed.

“We went to the spread because we hadn’t seemed to get big linemen at Victor,” said Mora, now in his first season as the Jackrabbits’ head coach. “We have a lot of skill guys, not a lot of size. Running a power or power I offense where you have to move bodies, we weren’t too good at that.”

Mora could see the results after the first season. Although the Jackrabbits finished just 2-7-1 in 2012, their offense was clearly improving. The previous season they’d scored just 73 points and upped that to 205.

Their yardage rose from a paltry 968 to 3,044.

“The spread offense is the popular thing,” Mora said. “Once they see the numbers people are putting up in college, high school coaches think this is the way to go.

“It’s changed the game.”

The Jackrabbits aren’t alone. Seven of the 11 big-school teams in the High Desert will employ some form of the spread offense this year. The offense continues to gain popularity at every level of football nationally. In college it’s led to imaginative, high-octane versions of the offense that continue to set scoring records. In the NFL, all but five teams passed more than they

ran in 2013 as the league operated out of three or more receiver sets 58.8 percent of the time according to footballoutsiders.com.

At every level fullbacks and a second tight ends are becoming dinosaurs.

Coaches across the High Desert said the spread offense has invited basketball-type athletes to come out for football as playbooks have opened up beyond the power toss.

“A team like Serrano, they are trying to eat the clock and wear out your defense,” Silverado head coach Rafael Ginorio said.

“That’s kind of their philosophy. Our philosophy is we have a lot of team speed so we are trying to maximize that, and make it a track meet and tire out the defense that way.”

High Desert teams scored an average of 25.8 points per game last season. It was the highest total in the last nine years.

Oak Hills moved to the offense in 2012.

Their scoring average has risen from 31.5 points per game in 2011 to 36.2 in 2012 and to 43.4 last season. The Bulldogs were second in the Eastern Division in points per game last season, behind only San Gorgonio. Oak Hills senior wide receiver Gino Mastandrea and senior running back DeZhontaey Fletcher but are listed as 5foot-11 and 5-6, respectively. But both are speedsters capable of breaking a big plays in space.

“That’s pretty much what the new generation of offense is,” Oak Hills senior quarterback Nolan Brammer said. “More up tempo, spreading the ball, spreading the offense out, spreading the defense out and just moving the ball faster.”

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Their success culminated in a CIF-SS Division VIII title in 2005, when the Burros beat Palm Springs 42-30 in the title game and averaged 40.3 points per game for the season.

By that time, the spread offense was spreading. The clinics Steinberg was frequenting were starting to fill up and more teams in the Southlands were picking up on the trend. In the High Desert, Silverado was the next school on board. The Hawks picked up the offense in the mid-2000s and took off with it once dual-threat quarterback Jemeryn Jenkins became a starter in 2007.

“I think the thing we had a problem with was getting into the playoffs and not having the offensive line with the schools that could compete in our division,” former Silverado head coach Carl Posey said. “(With the spread) we didn’t necessarily have to get so much push.”

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Almost every local team has used the offense at some point in recent years. Serrano head coach Ray Maholchic doesn’t mind being the contrarian. He likes the idea of offering something different for teams to prepare for.

“If I could go back 30 years, I’d have spread it out and gone gun just to be different,” Maholchic said. “Now with (the spread), I call it basketball in helmets.

Hopefully we present a problem to prepare for a power run game in three days.”

Kistner doesn’t discount that he will see a day when a power run game returns to football prominence. Football is a cyclical game. The spread won’t stay en vogue forever.

“Football is a lot like fashion: What’s in is in and what’s out is out,” Kistner said.

The game moves in circles, sure. Teams are just running those circles at a faster pace these days.

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These days spread is a bit of blanket term. Merely stating you’re a spread team is about as informative as knowing Beyonce will make at least a few outfit changes on her latest tour. But the basic goal is to put athletes in space. Rather than running between the tackles, spread teams want skilled players out in the open with just one defender to beat, taking advantage of the width of the field.

Old-school football meant three yards and a cloud of dust. Now teams are looking for bubble screens caught three yards behind the line of scrimmage with the recipient taking off from there.

“That bubble that we do, it’s just a long handoff,” said Oak Hills coach Robert Kistner, who prefers a power-run game but is willing to adjust to the athletes he has. “It 1 makes defenses have to defend 54 ⁄2 yards wide and however deep.”

The spread offense could mean using the no huddle to gain even more of an advantage on defenses. Or it could look a little more like an option, running-based offense.

It can have as many varieties as the uniform combinations worn by spread poster child the University of Oregon.

The spread landed in the High Desert when Burroughs hired Jeff Steinberg in 1998. Steinberg grew up in Canada, where football is played on a field that is 10 yards wider than those used in the United States and 150 yards long including the end zones.

Teams also play with 12 players instead of 11. In that setting, using four and five receivers instead of fullbacks and tight ends was natural.

“That was the philosophy in the Canadian game,” said Steinberg, who’s now the head coach at Santiago/Corona. “It seemed like the perfect fit to apply some of those same philosophies to what we were doing here.”

Steinberg slowly implemented his ideas in Ridgecrest. He estimates they used the spread 50 percent of the time his first season and weren’t a full-on spread team until his third season. The Monday after his first game, some of the Burroughs teachers complained to Steinberg about how long the

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Attitude and perception are everything when it comes to the Granite Hills football program.

For the longest time the perception was that the Cougars were not only the doormats of the Desert Sky League but the entire High Desert.

That was fed by a revolving door of head coaches — five in five years — and a belief that players didn’t care about football at Granite Hills.

That was then. Two years into the Damian Staricka era and the program is on the upswing.

Last year the Cougars won two games and were vastly improved toward the end of the season.

This year, Staricka said the team has lofty goals. He thinks if his team beats Apple Valley in Week 2, it can be 6-0 going into a pivotal game with DSL favorite Silverado.

“Frank (Pulice) and (that coaching staff ) do a great job getting their kids prepared,” Staricka said. “They should have beat Citrus Hill in the quarters last year. For us to go and beat a solid program like them, it would be big for us. If we do that on Sept. 5, I believe we can go 6-0.”

With a head coach returning for the first time since the 2009 season, the attitudes of the players have improved.

“With a second-year coach, we’re not starting over. We’re continuing and we’ve never had that,” senior offensive/

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Granite Hills looks to build upon last season with much experience coming back. The Cougars return eight starters on offense and seven on defense.

Workhorse senior running back Chris Glick (1,052 yards and six touchdowns on 204 carries last season) returns along with an experienced offensive line that returns three starters and two more players with

varsity experience. Glick will be joined in the backfield by Victor Valley transfer Donald Mitchell, who was Victor Valley’s leading rusher last year. Staricka said they’ll go with whatever’s working.

Glick looks forward to Mitchell sharing the backfield.

“He’s part of the team, and I’m not the whole team,” Glick said. “So everybody’s got to get the ball and everybody’s got to score and everybody’s got to do whatever for us to win the game.”

If Granite Hills is to compete for a league title, it’s going to have to improve a defense that gave up 20 plays of greater than

40 yards last season.

“Last year, we didn’t have anybody who wanted to step up and make plays, make hits,” Staricka said. “That came from football IQ. Now they have game time experience, summer competition and they don’t have a problem hitting.”

Granite Hills’ record for wins in a season is six, and Staricka said this year’s team can challenge that if it stays healthy.

“You can change history at any school. It just matters how much work you put in, how much you can contribute to a team no matter what position you play,” Mitchell said. “It’s just the way you play it.”

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Rafael Ginorio realized it was time to go back to school.

In his two years at head coach at Silverado, his teams were just 10-12. The Hawks finished third in the Desert Sky League both seasons and had two first-round playoff losses.

Ginorio started looking for answers as to why his Hawks, who had won four straight league titles from 2006 to 2009, weren’t performing. He started looking outward and asked coaches around Southern California for advice. “(Last year) we would show glimpses but just something was missing,” Ginorio said. “I’m not afraid to try things or admit mistakes. Let’s make the program better. What’s the worst that could happen?”

He was able to talk football with fellow coaches and visit a few practices along the way. It’s led to a revitalized feeling as the Hawks enter the 2014 season.

“We’re feeling real confident,” Ginorio said. “We have a senior group. I think things are coming together.”

Ginorio contacted coaches out of the blue without any previous relationships and found a willingness to help from his colleagues.

His staff visited with Matt Logan at Centennial/Corona, which won the Inland Division title last year and lost to St. John Bosco in the CIF Open Division championship game, and coaches from San Diego State among other places.

The experience helped Ginorio figure out that the Hawks needed to speed up practices and increase the competition level. Now, Ginorio said his team is accomplishing more in less time at practice.

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“You put five minutes on the clock, when that drill ends then it’s the next drill. When that five minutes ends, next drill, next drill. Nonstop.

Everything is much quicker so the game should seem slow to us.”

The Hawks return a veteran group. Lineman Agustin Beltran, linebacker Chance Padilla and safety Dana Jenkins were All-CIFSouthern Section Eastern Division players last season. Taylor returns at quarterback after putting up 1,632 yards and 16 TDs. The offense is staying as a nohuddle unit but sped up — Gino-

ning back Quincel Neal-Riles and wide receiver Mikeo Bonam will be counted on as some of Taylor’s main weapons with plenty of other options subbing in and out regularly.

Senior inside linebacker Ammon Mauu joins Padilla and Jenkins on what should be a stout defense. Mauu, who registered 64 tackles last season, is expected to continue the tradition of the Hawks’ top linebacker wearing No. 8.

Despite graduating the entire defensive line, Ginorio said that unit has made significant strides during the offseason.

“We think that’s going to be

going to miss a beat.”

The goal is to reclaim the DSL title, but before the Hawks get there, they’ll play a brutal nonleague schedule that includes games against Serrano, Los Osos and Santiago/Corona, which has Blake Barnett, an Alabama commit and the No. 2 rated quarterback in the country according to ESPN. The offseason was time for school, but the exam starts Aug. 29 against Apple Valley.

“We are much improved this year,” Taylor said. “Watch out for us. We are going to be a threat this year.”

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What does winning a league title do for a program?

Just ask the Victor Valley football team, which is coming off a season in which it went 7-4 overall and 5-0 in Desert Sky League play for its second championship in four seasons.

Participation for the Jackrabbits, who had two rough seasons in between league titles, is at a record high. That also leaves the program starving for more success, especially after bowing out to Bell Game rival Apple Valley 10-7 in the first round of the playoffs.

“I think the way we played and the way we went out last year, we have more high expectations for ourselves,” Victor Valley linebacker Chris Estrella-Ramirez said.

Victor Valley drew roughly 120 players to the three levels of the program this year, including 45 at varsity and 35 at junior varsity.

Head coach Mark Mora, who was the offensive coordinator last season, is hoping the large number of players will help bring consistency to the program. The ’Rabbits haven’t made the playoffs in back-to-back years since 2002, and they haven’t produced consecutive winning records since 2009 and 2010.

In between the last two league titles, Victor Valley went a combined 3-16-1, and the Jackrabbits graduated several players from last year’s DSL championship team. Leland Eudy also stepped down as head coach, but

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Creighton, who started at corner back, moves to free safety to team with strong safety Hardy Brandon.

Before Victor Valley attempts a title defense, it will be tested with tough nonleague games against CIF-Southern Section Inland Division playoff teams Chapparal and Chino Hills.

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After three consecutive trips to the CIF-Southern Section 8-Man Division I championship game, culminating in the school’s first title in 2012, the Eagles have become accustomed to winning and simply put, 8-4 was not good enough.

“We see things a little differently around here and our program as a whole was not satisfied,” said head coach Bill Rivera, who is heading into his 11th season with Excelsior. “We left some unfinished business out there on the field.”

After finishing in a tie for third in their first season in the competitive Desert Mountain League, the Eagles hope to be right back in the mix in 2014, and a league title is just one of the lofty goals that motivate Rivera’s team.

“Everybody looks down on Excelsior as this small school,” said senior lineman Kameron Peterson. “But we’re going to go out there this year and show them that we belong with the big guys.”

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While still using some traditional double-wing offensive sets, the Eagles are developing what Rivera called a “hybrid wing-T” offense this season, and Garcia will be tasked with moving the ball downfield a little more through the air.

Rivera will rely on one of his team’s strengths this season: Speed.

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quick and he doesn’t go down on the first tackle, so that is pretty impressive.”

Opening holes for Lonian and the rest of the Excelsior backfield will be senior stalwarts Rocky Sua at tackle and Peterson at guard, two of the seven returning offensive starters.

Last year Rivera said the Eagles were hit pretty hard by the injury bug, losing five starters to freak injuries in practice.

That is something he and his coaching staff have been trying to remedy before this season

a lot more time preparing in the weight room and the classroom.

On defense, the Eagles return six starters and get a new defensive coordinator in Carlton Baines, a former coach from league rival Riverside Prep.

The defense will face a challenging start to its season as the Eagles open with arguably three of their four toughest opponents in the first five weeks of the season.

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Windward team. Then two weeks later they host Desert, the reigning DML champion.

But its all part of the bigger picture for Rivera and the Eagles.

“If you want to be the best, you’ve got to play the best,” he said. “Nobody is expecting us to win that first game, but we are going to go out there and be physical and bang some heads.

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After two consecutive winless Desert Mountain League campaigns, a core of upperclassmen and new head coach Ryan Vercruysse hope to turn Riverside Prep into a contender.

“A program isn’t built overnight,” Vercruysse said. “We need to be strong and I think the system I’m putting in place is going to be a foundation for us to build on. I’m planning on being here for the long haul, and we’re excited to start the season.”

The Silver Knights had a promising start to their 2013 season, winning their first three games.

Following dominant displays against California School for the Deaf and California Military Institute, Riverside Prep struggled in Desert Mountain League play, losing seven consecutive games to end the season.

Vercruysse is Riverside Prep’s third head coach in three years, yet he’s committed to building a successful program for many years to come.

“We will not take defeat lightly and we will not give up. Every loss will be a lesson, and hopefully we learn from those lessons,” Vercruysse said. “My expectation is to build a championship team one step at a time and one game at a time.”

The Silver Knights have found it difficult transitioning from 8- to 11man football, winning a combined three games over the last two seasons. The team lost 10 seniors from last season, including quarterback Justin Sharer and running back Justyce Cardoza.

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“We’re going to simplify and run an offense that helps our kids,” Vercruysse said. “We’ve got a lot of running backs and a lot of speed this year. We’re going to exploit that speed and use our basic fundamentals to overpower some teams.”

Junior quarterback Julio Canas will be a key in Riverside Prep’s new offensive schemes.

“We’re hungry to have a good season and we’re willing to push ourselves to get there,” Canas said.

“This year, the offense and defense are running more efficiently and we’re all on the same page. We’re just trying to stick together and

push through, because excellence is our standard.”

Varsity returners Marshall Kuhlmann and Rodger Matlock will anchor the Silver Knights’ ground game this season and have taken on increased leadership roles throughout the offseason.

“We’ve got whole new leaders and a whole new system,” Kuhlmann said. “I don’t have many expectations, but we’re going to hit. No other teams are gonna bully us ever again because we’re gonna come out and smash them in the mouth.”

“We’ve gotta break the culture that we had from last year and start our new culture this year,” Matlock said. “This year’s offense suits us much better. We’re a smarter school and we should run a smarter offense.”

The Silver Knights open their

season at home against Brethren Christian on August 29. The following week, Riverside Prep will play at Big Bear. Vercruysse believes that the first two games will set the foundation for his team’s success throughout the rest of the season.

“We’ve got a tough schedule and we’re in a very competitive league,” Vercruysse said. “We want to dominate at every level. Brethren Christian is going to be a tough and physical game, then we have Big Bear and then we have league.

We’re going to fight and play these hard teams tough because we plan to beat them.

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Last season, the Trojans went 6-4 and finished in a three-way tie for third in the Desert Mountain League, but missed out on the playoffs in a tiebreaker.

Head coach John Stewart said Silver Valley had its best offensive production in school history and its second best defense.

The Trojans will be entering their third season under Stewart, and so far they have combined to go 9-11. That’s the best two-year stretch for the school since Andy Campbell left after the 2008 season. Silver Valley won a total of three games in the three seasons between the two coaches.

“I expect us to be around .500. Depending on injuries and how the ball bounces we should be even better,” Stewart said.

“We have a lot of kids stepping into positions we lost.”

The Trojans have some holes to fill at the skill positions.

Silver Valley lost starting quarterback Evan Martinez (1,601 passing yards on 137-for245 passing with 20 touchdowns and 13 interceptions) and running back Daniel Quixchan (1,046 rushing yards and 11 TDs on 152 carries) to graduation, while leading receiver Bailey Rettmann (32 receptions for 400 yards and seven TDs) moved out

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Stewart said he lost six receivers from last season, but Silver Valley has four receivers who he feels he “can throw in and feel just as comfortable.”

Brian Ili is expected to be the starting running back and get an increased workload. Last year, Ili caught 26 passes for 258 yards and two TDs while carrying the ball 44 times for 290 yards and three TDs. “He’s Mr. Everything,” Stewart said. “We’re expecting him to triple his carries and double his catches. He has the best (football) IQ on the field.”

Ili, who recorded 123 tackles last year, will also start at middle linebacker in the 3-5 defense.

Stewart said they’re lacking in depth and several players will be going both ways.

Stewart said they plan on running the ball more behind an offensive line that returns four starters with good size.

The offensive line returns left guard David Pallante (6-foot-0, 295 pounds), who even carried the ball four times before an injury early last season, tackles Derek Tuebee and Blake Blair and center Chris Hines.

“I expect us to be able to run the ball, because we can,” Stewart said.

Three quarterbacks are competing for the starting spot

— senior Will Williams, senior Brittian Blackman and sophomore RJ Henry. Stewart said that the two who lose out on the job will play receiver and two of them will also start in the defensive backfield. Stewart said the quarterback depth will enhance the running game because they don’t won’t be dependent on one player.

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After calling off the 2012 campaign right before it started and fielding a junior varsity team in 2013, Hesperia Christian faces quite a challenge heading into this season’s return to varsity 8-man football.

But its that challenge that drives first-year head coach Chris Leontas and his squad.

“We wanted to start from scratch,” Leontas said about last year’s decision to field a junior varsity team. “We didn’t have anything to start with, so half of zero is still zero. So what we wanted to do was build the program up from scratch and do things right.”

The first step in that process is building upon last year’s successful JV team. The Patriots went 5-2 and some of those games were against varsity teams.

“We got used to that winning feeling,” senior Jared Hays said.

“Hopefully that will carry over into this season.”

But Leontas said the Patriots gained something more important than wins and losses: Experience.

“Last year’s team was very freshman heavy, so now all those kids are sophomores and have a solid year of experience under their belts,” Leontas said.

The next step, and one that is almost as important as experience according to Leontas, is preparation and time in the weight room.

“Compared to years past, we are way ahead in terms of strength and hopefully that is going to carry over to being healthier throughout this season,” he said.

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Hays is the taller and more eluHamm will anchor the defense. sive runner, while Scott is a more “We didn’t lose anybody on traditional power back. defense,” Hamm said, “and (LeonAustin Luton, who was the

JV starter at quarterback last year, will look to receivers Trevor Bragg and Brad Leontas to provide a change of pace through the air.

The Patriots open their season Sept. 5 on the road against Lancaster Baptist, a member of the powerful Heritage League. Leontas said that contest will provide an important measuring stick for his Patriots.

“With no varsity experience to draw from last year, its just hard to put any expectations on this team,” he said. “But I would be very satisfied if we found ourselves competing for the (Agape) League championship this season and battling for a playoff spot.”

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A year removed from their most successful football season of the last decade, Lucerne Valley has high expectations for the upcoming season.

The Mustangs started the 2013 season 11-0, cruising past key opponents on their way to securing their first Agape League title before being knocked out of the CIF-SS 8-Man Division 1 semifinals by Coast Union.

“I think that last year gave us a great foundation and expectation for the future,” head coach Chris Klinger said. “Our guys are chomping at the bit trying to replicate that, even though they know it will be harder having lost so many seniors. They understand that if they work together, we can get there.”

The Mustangs lost eight seniors from last year, including star wide receiver/running back Lonye Logan and quarterback Daniel Stratton. They were key pieces last fall, but Klinger believes that the character of his returning players will help the team thrive this season.

“We had rough seasons during our transition from 11- to 8-man football,” Klinger said. “These seniors and juniors were at the tail end of that. They’ve seen the worst of it, and after that we had a .500 year and last year we were undefeated until the semis. That success has helped them breed really great work ethic.”

Seniors Justice Torres and Kameron Marx have watched the program grow during their time at Lucerne Valley. Though both connect the Mustangs’ recent success to the team’s athleticism and physical prowess, they also attribute the team’s determination to the hard work of their coaches.

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(Klinger) is interacting a lot with “As a play-caller, I’m trying to us. We didn’t have a lot of players get them in the right positions to a few years ago, and weren’t hit- be successful a little better than ting the same pace as we are now. last year,” Klinger said. “It’s the He’s always trying to interact 100 same system, but focused on difpercent with everyone.” ferent sets of plays for different Torres — a tight end and line- players.” backer — said, “Coach has been The Mustangs await Sept. 5, pulling for our team and for our when they host Joshua Springs. program for many years. For him In last year’s contest between the to be successful last year, it’s on us two teams, Lucerne Valley held on to owe it to him and to give every- to win 32-30 following a two-point conversion with a minute left in thing we can for him every day.”

Klinger says his team will regulation.

“The guys are looking forward to Joshua Springs, playing a perennial champion,” Klinger said.

“Especially with the success we had last year, they’ll be gunning for us.”

Though the team will be tested early and often this season, Klinger has faith in the hard work and commitment to improvement that his team has displayed this offseason.

“I preach to them that if their effort is there, these guys have the commitment and integrity to be very successful,” Klinger said.

“I judge their success not by how many games we win, but on the type of men they are by the time they graduate.”

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N_\i\ [`[ pfl ^f kf jZ_ffc61 my dog. I told them before the Alta Loma High School and game that I had to tell my wife undergrad at Cal Poly Pomona. that I had 15 more boys who ?Xm\ pfl ZfXZ_\[ Xepn_\i\ were depending on me and noth\cj\61 I was at Webb High School ing was going to keep me from as an assistant for one year as a doing that. We won and after the game, a captain told me â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re part-time coach. your boys now.â&#x20AC;?

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The Victor Valley Christian football program is built around youth.

Though they have not finished a season with a winning record since 2010, the Royals hope to turn things around this year and ascend the ranks of the Agape League.

The Royals had just two upperclassmen on their roster last season, and both are returning as seniors this season. The team is structured around a young core of sophomores and juniors who played key roles on offense and defense last season.

Over the course of the last year, first-time head coach Henry Ramos has seen his players develop on and off the field.

“A lot of our players have a little bit more of a leadership role this season,” Ramos said. “The younger group last year is much more seasoned and our attitude is different. Our kids want to work well together.”

Fresh off of a 2-6 season, including a 1-3 record in league, the Royals will be hitting the road early and often this season. After opening up at home against Sandy Valley, the Royals will play five consecutive away games, including a contest against rival Hesperia Christian.

Victor Valley Christian has struggled on the road recently, having failed to win an away game in the last three seasons. The Royals are scheduled to play six road games this year.

Not only has the young team’s mentality developed in the last year, but Ramos has seen his team develop much more physically.

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The Royals’ young core is centered around returning captains Ethan Harris, John McEwan and Chris Im. Harris, a junior quarterback, led the Royals in passing, rushing and total touchdowns last season, and believes his team will improve upon their 2-6 record.

“I expect us to come out and click more this year,” he said. “I think we’ll be able to work well as a team and that we’ll be more fundamental this season.”

Another key to the Royals’ success this season will be junior McEwan, who led the team in all-purpose yards last season as a kick returner and running back.

“I’m really looking forward to this season,” McEwan said. “With the discipline that we’re gaining and the training we’ve had, I think we will do very well against all of the teams that we’re playing this year.”

Im, one of the two returning seniors, has impressed his coach throughout preseason workouts.

“I see a new level of intensity in Chris. He’s a true student of the sport,” Ramos said. “He’s grown in speed, size and maturity, and I look forward to seeing him explode on the field this year.”

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found it difficult to maintain a healthy team. Pre-season injuries to key players have frequently derailed Victor Valley Christian’s chances to compete for a league title.

“We’re spending much more time in the weight room trying to prevent injuries,” Ramos said. “I think that we can be competitive with Sandy Valley, and I think our first game will be indicative of our season. If we can be competitive in that game, the rest of the season will be much easier.”

Though Ramos noted that his team is still maturing and the program continues to rebuild, he holds high hopes for his team this season.

“I think realistically, we are going to be very competitive this year,” he said.

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