2018 Season

These senior showcase games are not always for players who capped their seasons with a state championship. The 61st Optimist All-Star Football Classic on Saturday at Sacramento State – 1 p.m. kickoff – is also a haven for the unsung, overlooked and still developing.  The South roster includes anchor players for Folsom High School’s back-to-back…

Jehiel Budgett started playing tackle football when he was in the fourth grade, and before then he played flag football. In eighth grade, he met Zach Larrier, who moved to town that year, and would eventually make an impression on his future high school teammate. “It’s great because when I moved here in eighth grade,…

Student athletes used to blocking, tackling, running, catching, defending and competing went with one simple move Wednesday. Thirteen area high school football stars signed national letters of intent to scholarship programs, making for a bumper crop for the early signing period. The next signing period is in February. Folsom seniors Kaiden Bennett and Joe Ngata…

All season long it had been Monterey Trail that dominated their opposition. The Mustangs rolled into this Sac-Joaquin Section Division I championship game with a blowout victory over Pitman and a 28-point victory over Oak Ridge last week but the Mustangs knew they would have anything but their hands full with top ranked Folsom.  …

One by one, the Monterey Trail Mustangs have knocked opponents off of their to-do list during the best season in program history, and this weekend, they are ready to take care of another one. The proud owners of a 12-0 record, the Mustangs have outscored opponents 607-117, won a Metro League Championship and have outscored…