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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…

With 11 seconds remaining in the first half of Friday night’s game in Roseville between Woodcreek High School and visiting Monterey Trail, Mustangs coach T.J Ewing had a decision to make.    His team led by a touchdown and was pinned back on its 20-yard line. Instead of kneeling out the clock, Ewing trusted senior…

FOLSOM, Calif. (KTXL) – Youth sports in Sacramento County are now allowed to start playing games again.   “Our whole team was just super pumped, super excited, just filled with joy,” Folsom High School football player Justin Eklund told FOX40.   Eklund is a linebacker for the school’s varsity team.   As of Tuesday, Folsom…

Their season was supposed to start last week. Instead, the Monterey Trail Mustangs are crossing their fingers just to resume workouts next week after a hiatus that has been over a month long was extended this week when the Elk Grove Unified School District notified schools that all in-person activities would remain paused until Jan….

Elk Grove (Calif.) Monterey Trail cornerback Prophet Brown had a big day on Wednesday.   In the morning, the USC pledge signed his NLI with the Trojans.   And on Wednesday evening, he was featured in the All-American Bowl Road Show and presented his All-American Bowl game jersey.   For Brown, the entire day was a dream…

FOOTBALL COACHES ACROSS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ADAPT AND CLING TO OPTIMISM AS THEIR ANNUAL FAVORITE TIME OF YEAR HAS BECOME A TORTUROUS WAITING GAME   Pinning their hopes on a winter start for a high school season postponed by the COVID-19 pandemic, NorCal football coaches are growing anxious. As the Tom Petty song goes, the waiting…