High school recruiting focus is on linemen

Valley Christian's 6-foot, 190-pound senior Kirk Johnson, who rushed for 1,228 yards last year but missed several games with injury.

Big yardage backsThere are loads of gifted backs who just missed the top 25, including De La Salle junior Antoine Custer (5-8, 180), who had 1,141 yards rushing and 19 touchdowns last season.

Jason Hinton (Moreau Catholic-Hayward, 2,051 yards last year), Miles Harrison (Clayton Valley, 2,020), LaVance Warren (McClymonds-Oakland, 2,000), Joey Wood (Los Gatos, 1,964), Kava Cassidy (Serra, 1,455) and Jamar Williams-Sheppard (Sacred Heart Cathedral).

[...] on Friday, they lost junior quarterback Anthony Sweeney (knee) and top linebacker Simba Short (shoulder) to injury.

No DLS-Folsom rematchThe CIF announced Monday that it is dissolving the NorCal Open Regional final game and picking the Northern California and Southern California Open teams the same week (Dec. 7) it picks the regional final games in Divisions I to IV.

Folsom, which went into both games unbeaten and nationally ranked, was clearly the second-best team in Northern California but didn't make a State Bowl game.