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St. Bonaventure 55 |
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Shattered Dream
By Matt Crosson
Signal Staff Writer
Sunday December 2, 2007
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VENTURA — The usually stout Saugus defense has befuddled opposing running backs all season with its speed and bone-rattling hits.
But it was the Centurions who were frustrated on Saturday against Channel League champion St. Bonaventure at Larrabee Stadium, where they ran into a rusher of a different sort.
Darrell Scott, the top-rated high school running backs in the nation, sliced through the highly touted Saugus D, gaining 246 yards on 19 carries and making four visits to the end zone in the Seraphs' (12-1) 55-36 CIF-Southern Section Northern Division semifinal win over the Centurions (10-3), ending what has been one of the best seasons in Saugus football history. Read More |
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Saugus Now Gets the Best
By Bob Dickson
For The Signal
Saturday November 24, 2007
The Saugus football team, accustomed to ripping through opposing teams with the ferocity of a chainsaw, wore down visiting Atascadero with the steady rhythm of a hammer Friday night.
For three quarters, anyway.
The Centurions exploded for three touchdowns in two-and-a-half minutes in the fourth quarter to seal a 34-6 win over the Greyhounds in round two of the CIF-Southern Section Northern Division playoffs at College of the Canyons' Cougar Stadium. Read More
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| One Spark Leads to Fire
By Matt Crosson
Signal Staff Writer
Saturday November 17, 2007
Despite taking a two-touchdown lead into halftime, the Saugus offense was admittedly flat in the first 24 minutes Friday.
The Centurions needed a spark.
So on the first play of the second half, Saugus' resident spark plug gave it to them.
Star tailback Ryan Zirbel, who crossed the 2000-yard season rushing mark in the first half, ran back the opening kickoff of the second stanza 88 yards for a touchdown, and the Centurions rolled to a 34-3 victory over Pacifica, of the Pacific View League, in the first round of the CIF-Southern Section Northern Division playoffs at Valencia High. Read More
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The Drive for No. 10
By Andrew Barlam
Signal Staff Writer
Monday November 12, 2007
It could be another long football postseason in the Santa Clarita Valley.
The brackets for the CIF-Southern Section Northern Division football playoffs were released Sunday and the roads - particularly the first-round matchups - should put the Foothill League trio of Hart, Saugus and Valencia in line to start streaking, with semifinals and finals a possibility for each.
Each of the three are seeking to play their part in maintaining a Santa Clarita Valley streak of at least one local team reaching a Division championship in each of the past nine years. Read More
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| Saugus Cracks the Whip
By Grant Marek
Saturday November 3, 2007
By my count, it came with exactly 7:15 to go in the fourth quarter.
Saugus running back Ryan Zirbel turned to the Centurion faithful lining the visitors' side of Harry Welch Stadium, his team trailing 14-12, and he asked for more noise.
Both hands raised high into the night sky, like a conductor bringing his orchestra to a crescendo, Zirbel knew.
Desi Rodriguez, he knew too.
And Nick Green, and Mario Wright, and Shane Watterson and both McKillops.
Even head coach Jason Bornn. Read More
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After a 70-27 Saugus win over Golden Valley on Friday
By Amanda Branam
Signal Staff Writer
After a 70-27 Saugus win over Golden Valley on Friday, Grizzlies head coach Steve Pinkston just shook his head and smiled - preparing to let out a monumental understatement.
"That Zirbel is tough to tackle," he said.
It seemed like Saugus tailback Ryan Zirbel almost never went down Friday night. The junior at times breezed through the Grizzlies defense, and at others, managed to turn would-be stuffs into 30-yard runs.
All of it added up to a historic night, with Zirbel rushing for five touchdowns and a Santa Clarita-record 387 yards at Canyon High. Read More
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The Big-Play Centurions
By Grant Marek
Signal Staff Writer
Imagine what Desi Rodriguez could've done with two good arms.
After busting his left wrist at the start of the third quarter and exiting the game briefly, the Saugus football team's starting quarterback returned - bum wrist and all - to help the Centurions to their final scoring drive in a 34-19 win over Valencia Friday night at College of the Canyons.
The Saugus defense finished with a season-high 10 sacks, including three from senior linebacker Nick Green, as it stymied a Vikings offense that had scored 154 points in its last three games.
"That's one of our toughest league opponents," Green said. "Valencia's been a powerhouse the last decade."
Not anymore.
The Cents (6-1, 2-0) hung their second straight 15-point victory on the once-vaunted Vikings (4-3, 1-1) behind 334 yards of rushing offense - leading to a late "Just like last year" chant from the Saugus faithful. Read More
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No Welcome Mat for 'Cats
By Matt Crosson
Signal Staff Writer
Rushing for 1,101 yards and 17 touchdowns is a solid season for any running back.
Saugus' Ryan Zirbel has done it in just six games.
Zirbel and the Centurions once again imposed their overwhelming running game on their opponent as Saugus downed West Ranch 35-6 Friday night at College of the Canyons in the Wildcats' first Foothill League game.
Saugus quarterback Desi Rodriguez, who also had a stellar performance on the ground with 177 yards and a touchdown, said he and Zirbel owe much of their success to their teammates in the trenches.
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Saugus Has a Sack Party
By Matt Crosson
Signal Staff Writer
LA CAñADA - It was the St. Francis football team's homecoming game Friday at Friedman Field and Saugus made itself right at home.
The Centurions (4-1) throttled the Golden Knights (3-2) on their home field 33-0 behind a stellar second half by tailback Ryan Zirbel and a dominant performance by the Saugus defense.
If anyone questioned whether Saugus was for real after its Week 4 loss to Notre Dame in the final seconds, the Centurions provided an answer Friday night.
"Them picking us for homecoming made us mad," said Saugus linebacker Justin McKillop. "We wanted to take it to them and shut them out." Read More
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Tear Jerker
By Cary Osborne
Signal Sports Editor
Saugus High cornerback Eddie Smith's face was soaked by tears.
He let out a guttural groan, unable to control his emotions.
Minutes earlier, Jeff Dickman curled around Smith in the right corner of the Notre Dame end zone to score the game- winner with six seconds to play in a 38-35 Centurions loss at College of the Canyons' Cougar Stadium Friday night.
"Empty. I just went blank. I started crying," said Saugus running back Ryan Zirbel, who just 59 seconds earlier scored what appeared to be the game-winner for Saugus, on his feeling after the actual game-winner.
After the game, many Saugus players were in tears. Read More
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Cents Get Defensive
By Amanda Branam
Signal Staff Writer
MISSION HILLS - The Saugus football team's offense has been getting a lot of talk in recent weeks, and with good reason.
But on Thursday at Bishop Alemany in a 35-7 win, it was the defense that got to show what they can do.
The damage inflicted by the Saugus defense was three interceptions and a fumble recovery, all of those leading to Centurions touchdowns.
"Defense doesn't get a lot of the credit," said linebacker Justin McKillop, who ran his pick back for a touchdown in the third quarter. "I think the defense is what won this game." Read More
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Hail Saugus
By Matt Crosson
Signal Staff Writer
There are several ways to describe what happened in the last four seconds of the Saugus-Westlake football game Friday night at Cougar Stadium.
Incredible. Unbelievable. Miraculous.
But only two words can really encapsulate what happened, and the feeling it invoked.
Hail Mary. Read More
Cents' Duo Runs Down the Lopes
By Amanda Branam
Signal Staff Writer
PALMDALE - When a football player talks about the fumbles he had first, one might think the guy had a tough night.
"I don't know, I was fumbling the ball, I don't know why," said Saugus running back Ryan Zirbel. "I guess it was just nerves."
Nerves seemed to serve Zirbel well, outside of the two fumbles, as he put up 198 yards rushing and scored three touchdowns. One of those was an 86-yard kickoff return where he almost went untouched. Read More
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Saugus
Rocky Start for JV
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Alemany
Within the first five minutes of the game, Alemany showed no respect to our JV team. Alemany on our 30 yard line decides to try for their first down but our defense kept them in their place. Their attempt on making their first down back fired and our offense is able to have the ball on their own 30. In their first attempt, Zack Gauthier hands off the ball to Justin Tate for a touchdown giving the Centurions their one and only lead in the game. Read More
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Westlake
The JV game against Westlake may not have gone the way we had hoped, but anyone who saw the game must agree that the team played a much better game than against Antelope Valley the previous week. They played harder, they played tougher, they played with heart. I think the JV team showed us how much they have grown from last year. Read More
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Westlake Takes Their Revenge
Frosh Centurions Suffer First Loss of Season
Saturday, September 15, 2007
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| St.Francis | Notre Dame | Alemany | Westlake | Antelope Valley | Lancaster |
St. Francis
The rock solid defensive performance that began last week against Notre Dame by the Saugus Centurion Freshman Football team picked up right where it left off. On Thursday October 4, the Centurions welcomed the Golden Knights of St. Francis (all 80+ of them) to the SHS campus for an afternoon home game. And that welcome began with a smack up side the head. The Blue and White defense demonstrated hard, solid tackling, effective blitzing and good secondary play as well as recovering some fortuitous Golden Knight turnovers to help get the Saugus offense into gear too.
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Notre Dame
The perennial state power house Notre Dame Knights captured a hard fought 12-0 victory over the Saugus Centurion Freshman Football team. The star in the Saugus loss was the defense. The Knights scored two touchdowns in the second period, one the result of a broken play that went the distance, and one lone drive—with two fourth down conversions to reach pay dirt. Read More
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Alemany
The Saugus Offense looked strong as it scored on a pass play in the first quarter and capped it off with a 2-point conversion to lead 8-0 with 6:20 remaining in the quarter. Alemany responded, however, by grinding up the field and tying it up. Saugus wasn’t able to respond, and instead turned it over on downs on their own 46, setting up another Alemany touchdown in the 2 nd quarter. Saugus was able to block the kick, however, leaving the score 8-14 at the half. Read More
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Westlake
In the wake of the dramatic Saugus win over Westlake the previous evening, the Freshman Centurions took the field to face the Westlake Warriors in Westlake. Despite the clear weather, the game was played in the shadows. The first shadow was the result of the Centurion’s solid win last week at Antelope Valley—were the ‘Lopes a real test of the character of this team? Read More
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Centurions Crush Antelope Valley
Saugus Frosh Football Wins Season Opener
Friday, September 7, 2007
Building on last week’s solid scrimmage in the heat of desert, the 2007 Saugus Freshman Football team took to the gridiron against Antelope Valley High School. Kickoff was 3:30 p.m. (much to the surprise of most parents!) at Pete Knight High School in Antelope Valley. After last week’s blazing heat, this game was played in a veritable meat locker as the temperature at kickoff was only 95! Coach Rees & Company had the troops ready to rock. Read More
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And so it begins…
Saugus Frosh scrimmaging Lancaster in the Broiling Desert
After a long hot summer, freshman class of Saugus High School was ready, willing and able. August 31, 2007 found the Frosh Centurions on the gridiron at Lancaster High School for a season opening scrimmage. In spite of the 107 o kickoff temperature, it was a relief to finally get to hit somebody else. Read More
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