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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…

After going on a tear in the second half to break a tied game, the Monterey Trail Mustangs’ magical season will continue for at least one more week. After the first half of the Mustangs’ CIF Sac-Joaquin Section semifinal showdown against visiting Oak Ridge resulted in both teams scoring 14 points apiece inside Mark Macres…

The two coaches eyed each other, smiled and then embraced. Kris Richardson and T.J. Ewing know each other, have faced each other before as opponents and they respect each other. Richardson is the coach at Folsom High School, the region’s preeminent powerhouse. The Bulldogs are in a Sac-Joaquin Section championship game for the ninth consecutive…

At halftime with the game tied at 14, it looked as though Oak Ridge and Monterey Trail were two evenly matched teams and the game would be decided late in the fourth quarter.   Wrong.   Monterey Trail scored on five straight possessions, while the Oak Ridge offense only managed one more touchdown, as the…

After steamrolling through the Metro League, the number two seeded Monterey Trail Mustangs finally reached what they have been waiting all season long for, the playoffs. Being one of the top two seeded teams in the CIF Sac-Joaquin Division I Section Playoffs, along with top-ranked Folsom, the Mustangs received a first-round bye last week and…

In arguably their biggest challenge since facing Del Oro in early October, the Oak Ridge football team travels to Monterey Trail Friday to face the No. 2 seed in the Sac-Joaquin Section Division I playoffs. The teams have met only once before in the first round of the playoffs in 2015 with Oak Ridge coming…