The Sac-Joaquin Section’s Division II semi-final football game Friday between Elk Grove and Monterey Trail could be described as a showdown between a pair of “bracket busters.” In last Friday’s second round of playoff games, the Mustangs, the 7th seed, upset No. 2 Granite Bay and former EGUSD coach Joe Cattolico, 35-24. Elk Grove, a…
Huge win for the Mustangs on the road as Monterey Trail upsets the No. 2 seed. Ali Collier had a pair of TD’s including a 74-yarder. With the Mustang win and Elk Grove’s victory over Vacaville, the two EGUSD schools will face off next Friday at Thunder Stadium in the Division II semi-finals. Monterey…
Monterey Trail navigated the unusual spring season and scheduling issues to post a 5-0 record and an average margin of victory of 29 points. The Mustangs graduated RB/DB Prophet Brown (who sat out the spring season), RB/DB Chris Lands, WR/DB Jamauri Jackson, RB Otha Williams Jr., LB Nekhi Broadway and lineman Andreas Argumedo among…
Monterey Trail capped off its short and perfect spring football season with a 55-19 win over Antelope on Friday night. The Mustangs scored 21 unanswered points to start the game, with Otha Williams Jr. rushing into the end zone from 60 yards out, Frank Arcuri connecting with Jamauri Jackson for a 65-yard touchdown pass…
Cal-Hi Sports Northern California Defensive Player of the Week Nekhi Broadway (Monterey Trail, Elk Grove) Sr. For our Northern California Defensive Player of the Week choice, we head back to the Sacramento metro area to honor a senior linebacker who is arguably the best defensive player on a team that prides itself on…
This just might be the fastest fleet in the Sac-Joaquin Section. The Monterey Trail Mustangs have a downhill power running game with a speed element that grinds and gasses teams. The veer rushing attack under coach T.J. Ewing and his crop of stout offensive lineman and bevy of backs has been a trademark for…
CONCORD, Calif. – With two intra-section powers that rely on the running game for their success, there was no question that the team able to win the battle in the trenches was going to emerge victorious. That team was Prep2Prep Sac-Joaquin Section No. 3 ranked Monterey Trail. The visiting Mustangs dominated the line of scrimmage…
The Monterey Trail Mustangs fear no team. They march to a confident beat under the program’s founding coach T.J. Ewing, a big man who can be as gregarious as he is game-time fierce. He started the MT program from scratch when the school opened within the Elk Grove Unified School District in 2004, and…
