Wow, what a great showing by the Sac-Joaquin Section and Northern California at the CIF State Championship Bowl Games this weekend! Yes, Southern California has way more student-athletes and still has a winning record against the North, but it's still nice to see the NorCal teams go down there and take control. Check below for stories from some of those games as well as some winter sports stories.
D2 state football: Folsom beat Serra 48-20. Click here for the Folsom Telegraph story and click here for a photo gallery. ... The Napa Valley Register has a story on former Vintage quarterback Tony Trosin, who led the Crushers to the SJS D1 championship game and is now coaching at Folsom. Click here for the story. ... Click here for the Sacramento Bee game story and click here or here for notebooks on the game.
D3 state football: Escalon beat Madison-SD 30-14. Click here or here for the Modesto Bee story and click here for the notebook. Click here for a sidebar on the game. Click here for 10 questions after the game. ... Click here for the Stockton Record story.
D4 state football: The Bishop's School beat Brookside Christian 40-14. Click here for the Stockton Record story.
Click here for a story on the Del Oro girls basketball team winning its own tournament.
Click here for the Grass Valley Union girls basketball outlook.
WRESTLING: Golden Valley won the inaugural Morning Star Tournament in Los Banos. Click here.