I was reading about the 2012 Hillman football team in the Auburn Journal, when I got to thinking how big their front line will be when they take to the field this fall. Which was not the topic covered in the local paper.
The Front line
Eddie Vanderdoes - 6'4" 295lbs who power cleaned 335 pounds
James Hubbard - Is listed as an OL and DE on the maxpreps website, lifted 315lbs
Nate Duvall - Was listed at 6'4" 245 as a junior while playing for Golden Sierra, lifted 300 lbs
Isaiah Pinero- Plays WR and DB is listed at 6'4" 190lbs. He also averaged 14 points and 9 rebounds for the Hillman as a junior on their basketball team. He is an athletic wide-out who should see his fair share of balls thrown his way.
QB
The Hillman do return their starting QB, Peter Denham. The right handed senior worked out with Boise State's quarterback coach, Coach Pease over the break and many believe he is a prospect. In 2011 while playing as a junior he led Placer High to a 9-3 season, he averaged 90 yards through the air per game with five touchdowns on the season. Denham is 6' tall 190lbs and runs a 4.75 forty.
Back Field
While the Hillmen did graduate their top rushers, they do have a reload in Michael Robinson who scored 84 points while playing fullback as a junior. He is a ground and pound type back and looking at the size of the boys who will be opening the running lanes there might be a lot of pounding.
Linebacker
Also returning for Placer head coach Joey Montoya is inside linebacker Tony Suverkropp (5'11" and 195lbs) who averaged 10 tackles a game and tallied 113 for the season.
The Pioneer Valley League is sending three baseball teams into the post season which will see it's first pitch on Monday, May 14. The regular season play ended with Placer in first place but the remaining two spots were still up for grabs as there was a three way tie for the remaining two spots. The CIF held a coin flip where one team would receive an automatic bid and Colfax won that flip. That left Lincoln and Center on the wrong side of the coin. They were required to play a head to head contest on Friday for the final slot on the bracket. The Fighting Zebras of Lincoln were led to an 11-3 victory in the contest over Center by their freshman shortstop Isaiah Garcia who went 5 for 5 from the plate.
Placer and Colfax will have home games in the first round where Lincoln will play on the road on Monday. If you would like to see the CIF Sac-Joaquin Div III section baseball playoff bracket click here.
The Bear River Bruins traveled to Colfax for a rivalry varsity high school baseball game on Thursday afternoon. Even though the the visiting team is out of the playoff picture, nothing would make their faithful happier than to keep the Falcons behind the fence during the post season as well. The story is here.
Jake Jarman leads the the Bruins in hitting with an overall batting average of .459, 17 hits and an on base percentage of .583. Senior short stop Trevor Mcghee leads the team in extra base hits with five and senior first baseman James Harris leads the team with three home runs, followed by Jarman with two. Senior outfielder Josh Toft is hitting .312 and leads the Bruins with 13 runs scored as well as in stolen bases with 10, while being caught only once.
The Bruins (10-12 overall, 5-8 league) will host Truckee High School (23-5) today at 3:30 and then will look to continue to play Pioneer Valley League spoiler on May 8 and 10 when they travel to Center High School. The Cougars could possibly slide into the second and final P.V.L. playoff spot if they were to win their remaining two league games against the Bruins.
Bear River's varsity baseball team came into Tuesday nights
contest looking to continue to move up in the PVL standings as the
dropped the league leading Lincoln Fighting Zebras 7-1 on Monday. But on
Tuesday they squared off against another team looking for a playoff
spot and fell to the Hillmen of Placer High school by a score of 2-1.
The Bruins scored in the bottom of the third to take the lead and held the cross-county
rival scoreless until the top of the seventh when the they gave up two runs. Bear River falls to 4-6
while Placer moves to 6-4. The two team play again on Thursday at Placer High school at 4 p.m.
