Jr. Midgets

Valley Center's Jr Midget Jaguars hosted the Escondido Charging Wolves in their division's semi-final matchup with the winner advancing to the finals to face Fallbrook.

A dominating Jaguar defense set the tone early by stopping Escondido on their first possession forcing them to punt. Dalton Larrabee caught the punt and nearly returned it to the end zone, pushed out of bounds by Escondido's last defender at the 25 yard line. A few plays later, quarterback Buddy Hall scrambled to his right and threw to Nico Manriquez along the sideline who then out ran the Wolves' defense for the first score of the game. Kicker Ryan Semon converted the extra point attempt. Later in the first quarter, the Jaguar defense forced another punt by Escondido and this time, Larrabee could not be stopped as he made several cuts to avoid tacklers before finding the end zone for 50 yard touchdown punt return.

On the last play of the half, Manriquez took a reverse handoff from Larrabee, found the right sideline wide open and again, out ran the Wolves' defense as time expired for a 70 yard touchdown run. Semon converted the kick making the halftime score 22 to 0 Jaguars.  Forced to the air in the second half, Escondido's quarterback was intercepted by Kamara Johnson on a deep pass over the middle.  Several Jaguar plays later, Hall completed a deep pass to receiver Anthony Bobadilla who raced down the left side line for a touchdown.

Escondido was intercepted two more times by Eric Gordon and Shaye Miller putting a stop to the Wolves' offensive drives.  Time expired with a final score of 28 to 0. Next Saturday's championship game between Valley Center and Fallbrook will be played at a neutral site and time to be announced.

Mighty Mites

On Saturday October 30th, the Mighty Jaguars travelled to Wildomar to take on the Tigers.  The Jags were trailing 24-13 late in the fourth quarter when K.J. Mazzetti hooked up with Oliver Delano for a 50 yard touchdown reception to make the score 24-19 with 29 seconds running. The ensuing on-side kick
was recovered by Oliver Delano of the Jags.  The Jags reached the 20 yard line but finally ran out of time and fell to the Tigers 24-19.

Other offensive standouts were Jake Meyers who had a 45 yard touchdown run, Sid Weddington with a 40 yard reception, Gianni Pinamonti who made three receptions and a 30 yard punt return and great blocking by Peyton Rutherford and the rest of the Jag O-line.

Defensively, Eddie Imgrund was all over the field making tackles as were Peyton Rutherford, Sebastin Roman, Hayden Patstone, and Jack Shaffer.

Pee Wee

The VC Attacking Jaguars faced the only team that had defeated them this season on Saturday at VC High. The Temecula Bruins came prepared and ready for a tough game. The Bruins struck first on the opening drive of the game with a long run from scrimmage. The Jaguars answered with an impressive drive with a touchdown pass to Doug Watkins. The drive was capped with a 2 point conversion kick by Santiago Vasquez. Andrew Navarro scored in the third quarter with a direct snap from the shotgun to go up by 8 points.  The Jaguars went for 2  and were successful. Temecula fought hard and put 6 more points on the score board but could not convert on a fourth and long  as Gabe De Paulo intercepted a pass on the 4 yard line to give the ball back to the Jags with just over two minutes to play. The Jaguars played a complete game on both Offense and Defense and came away with a 16-12 win over a very good opponent.

Photo taken by Roger Herzler: Doug Watkins making a touchdown with a dejected Temecula Player in the back ground.