KMUD News Sports Report Nov 20

[00:00:00] At least one of the three HDNL football teams still alive in this year's North Coast Section playoffs is guaranteed to play in one of next week's championship games. The only question is which one? Hello and welcome to this week's KMUD News Sports Report. I'm Ray hamell with humboldt sports.com we'll recap all of last weekend's NCS playoff action and look ahead to this week's matchups in just a moment as we take a look at all of the big local sports stories of the week, including why it was an historic week for the Cal Poly Humboldt women's soccer team, some high school SOCCE news, some cross country news, the latest on all of the local college basketball teams, including why it has been an impressive start to the season for the College of the Redwoods women, and news of a big change for a local iconic club. But first up, the NCS football playoffs kicked off last weekend and it was a good start for three of the four HTNL teams to qualify. On Friday night, the Fortuna Huskies broke open a tight game with 22 unanswered points in the second half on the way to a 4223 win over Petaluma. Quarterback Will Shaw and running back Mako Lemon each ran in for two touchdowns in the win for the number four seeds in the Division 6 bracket, with Shaw also completing a TD pass to Tyson Evano, also in the Division 6 bracket. On Saturday afternoon, the top seeded St. Bernard's Crusaders pulled away in the second half of their game against number 8 San Rafael on the way to a 4220 win. Senior Tyler Heinrichs made the switch to running back for the game and the move paid immediate dividends with Heinrichs running in for four touchdowns. Fortuna and St. Bernards will now face off in this weekend's tournament semi finals at Crusader Field in a rivalry that has thrilled local fans with some epic encounters in recent years. This will be the third meeting between these two Big Four rivals this season with each school posting a home win over the other on the way to sharing the conference championship. The game will take place on Saturday at 1pm with the winner advancing to next week's section championship game. Also in the NCS playoffs this past weekend, the Ferndale Wild Cats continued to roll with a dominating 5414 win over Arroyo in the Division 5 bracket. The Cats scored touchdowns on four of their five first half offensive possessions to end the game as a contest early and they carried a 340 lead into the break before stretching the advantage to 54 points in the third quarter. Prescott Langer scored three first half touchdowns for the home team including a 90 yard pick. 6. The Wildcats, who are seeded number two in the bracket, improved to 110 on the year and will host number three Silesian in Saturday's semifinal with kickoff set for 1pm The South Fork Cubs were also in action last weekend but lost their eight player Division 2 game against Cornerstone Christian by a score of 5222 to end their season. [00:02:58] Some of the Mendocino county schools also kicked off the NCS postseason Last weekend in Division 3 number 5 Siege UKHA defeated number 4 Antioch 26 to 15 and will now play number 1 Vintage in semi final action on Friday night while in Division 7 number 3 Willits shut out number 6 Redwood Christian 260 to set up a semifinal showdown at number 2 Piedmont on Friday night in the 8 player Division 2 bracket. Number 4 Potter Valley fell 3620 to number 1 LC Allen elsewhere in local sports this week, it was an historic week for the Cal Poly Humboldt women's soccer team. Last Friday the Jacks defeated Cal Poly Pomona 10 in their conference tournament semifinal to reach a first ever CC2A championship game and two days later they completed an impressive run through the conference tournament with a 10 win over Chico State in the final claiming a first ever conference tournament championship and they succeeded with some stellar defense shutting out all three of their postseason opponents. The tournament win also clinched the place in this year's NCAA Division 2 playoffs, setting up a rematch against Cal Poly Pomona in the opening round this weekend. This will be the Jacks second NCAA tournament appearance in program history and its first since 1996. Also in local soccer this past weekend the Arcada Tigers reached a first ever NCS championship game but lost to top seed Hedroce in Oakland by a score in HDNL. Cross country Eureka's Claire Gast and Arcata's Evan Poston were both crowned league champions after big wins for both juniors at last weekend's league championships which were held at the Arcada Marsh. The league title is the second straight for Gast who dominated the field over the 5K course and won by a minute and a half. The boys race was much closer with Poston edging Fortuna's Juan Ornales by just two seconds for his first league title. The Arcata boys and Fortuna girls were crowned team champions in local college basketball. The College of the Redwoods women continued their impressive start to the new season with a thrilling victory over the number 22 team in the state on Saturday Mia Hugendorn nailed a three pointer with just two seconds remaining in the game to secure a 60:59 win over Santa Ana. With the win, the CR women improved to 4:1 on the season. Also in action over the weekend, the Crmen split a pair of games, defeating Hartnel to 48 and losing to Cabrillo 79 63. Redwoods is now 3 and 2. Both Cal Poly Humboldt teams were also in action. The men lost two games in San Rafael, falling 83 to 71 to Western Washington and 89 to 61 to Dominican. The Humboldt women lost two games at home, falling 82 to 75 to Northwest Nazarene and 73 to 66 to Central Washington. [00:05:56] And rounding out a busy week in local sports, the Humboldt Crabs announced last week that former player and assistant coach Jeff Giacomini has been named the new team manager after longtime manager Robin Gyver recently stepped away to spend more time with his family. And that's this week's Kingwood News Sports Report. Until next time, I'm Ray Hamel with humboldtsports.com.