Stories for 10/29

Lots of football, lots of league titles and lots of stories in our Thursday update.

FOOTBALL PREVIEW STORIES: SureWestSports has released its weekly show, hosted by Mike Finnerty. This week he has all sorts of highlights as well as an interview with Placer football coach Joey Montoya. Click here for the show. ... For a Bear River-Mesa Verde preview, click here. ... For a Manteca-Oakdale preview (with a look at the entire VOL), click here. ... For the Manteca Bulletin's Week 8 outlook, click here. ... The Merced Sun-Star's Shawn Jansen has a column on the Santa Fe Bowl (Merced-Atwater football), which will mean a lot for the CCC this year. Click here for the story. ... Click here for a Los Banos-Pitman preview. This game will be played tonight. ... For a Fairfield-Napa preview, click here. ... For a Vintage-Vacaville preview, click here. ... For a Patterson-Livingston preview, click here. ...

VIDEOS: For SureWestSports video from the Granite Bay-Rocklin football game, click here.

The Sacramento Bee has a feature story on longtime Jesuit soccer coach Paul Rose. Click here for Bill Paterson's story. Rose picks his top five teams and players here. The SacBee also has a Teammates features on two El Camino girls golfers here. ... And for the SacBee's Names and News, click here.

In the second installment of its ongoing series of taking a tour through the football stadiums of Placer County, the Auburn Journal's Dave Krizman takes a look at Del Oro's Golden Eagle Stadium. Click here for the story.

The Lincoln-L football team is off to a 7-0 start after a 1-9 season last year. Click here for Russ Edmonson's closer look at the Zebras.

The Rocklin football team looks to remain undefeated when it plays Oakmont Friday night. Click here for the story. And for a feature story on Rocklin quarterback Jimmy Laughrea, click here.

Downey quarterback Jason Lee is averaging 400 passing yards a game this season, tops in the nation. Click here for the story by Richard T. Estrada in the Modesto Bee. For the ModBee's football notebook, click here. And for a story on the Oakdale football team's Wing-T offense, click here.

Colfax senior running back Pat Rawlins is quietly having one of the most successful seasons a Falcons runner has ever had. Click here for the story in the Colfax Journal.

The Stockton Record has posted its weekly football notebook. Click here for Stephen Roberson's story.

The Napa Valley Register has a story on Napa running back Cody Jensen, who went from track to football and has kept playing well. Click here for Andy Wilcox's story.

The Ceres Courier has posted its weekly update of stories concerning Ceres and Central Valley. For all of Dale Butler's stories, click here.

ROUNDUPS: The Placer cross country teams swept PVL titles. Click here. ... Nevada Union volleyball beat Del Oro. Now DO and Rocklin play for the SFL title on Monday, Click here. ... Granite Bay volleyball beat Roseville. Click here. ... Nevada Union volleyball swept Del Oro. Click here for Brian Hamilton's story in the Grass Valley Union. ... For the Grass Valley Union local roundup, click here. ... Franklin-S soccer beat Lodi in a game with SJAA title implications. Click here. ... The Lodi News-Sentinel has a story on the various league championship tournaments happening now. Click here. ... For Manteca Bulletin coverage of the VOL cross country championships, click here. ... Riverbank soccer beat Ripon in a key TVL game. Click here. ... Yuba City volleyball beat Inderkum in five games. Click here for Andy Arrenquin's story in the Marysville Appeal-Democrat. ... Click here for the Marysville Appeal-Democrat's local digest. ... Click here for the Merced Sun-Star's coverage of the CCC cross country tournaments. ... Merced soccer beat Pitman, sealing the outright CCC title. Click here for James Burns' story. ... For the Modesto Bee's coverage of the TVL cross country championships, click here. ... For the Modesto Bee's coverage of the VOL cross country championships, click here. ... For the Napa Valley Register's coverage of the MEL cross country championships, click here. ... For the Vacaville Reporter local roundups, click here. ... For the Vallejo Times-Herald local roundups, click here. ... For the Woodland Daily Democrat local roundups, click here.