The James Logan High football team advanced to the North Coast Section Division I semifinals for the first time since 2007, beating visiting Freedom 33-18 on Saturday evening.
James Logan took a 20-2 lead in the first half and never looked back, as Freedom's explosive offense couldn't hang onto the ball.
Warren Miles Long had 113 rushing yards at the half, including touchdown runs of 18 and 2 yards. He finished with three touchdowns and 290 yards on the ground.
Quarterback Dante Mayes threw an interception on Freedom's first play from scrimmage. That gave the Colts the ball on the Freedom 31-yard line, and Long scored six plays later.
Freedom also fumbled twice in the half and finished with five turnovers.
A bad snap on a Freedom punt led to a short field for the Colts. They took advantage when Jeffrey Prothro scored on 2-yard quarterback sneak to make the score 20-0 with 7 minutes left in the half.
Sixth-seeded Freedom (9-3) finally got on the board with a safety late in the first half. The Falcons then marched down to the Logan 8, but without any timeouts remaining, ran out of time.
The No. 3 Colts (11-1) held Freedom's offense to 41 rushing yards and 95 passing yards in the first half.
In the semifinals, James Logan will play at No. 2 California next Saturday at 7 p.m.
Both teams were on a serious roll entering this highly anticipated quarterfinal.
Freedom had won eight straight and the Bay
Valley Athletic League title, and Logan has cruised to five consecutive wins since its 20-13 overtime loss to Del Oro-Loomis.The trio of Mayes, running back Joe Mixon and receiver Darrell Daniels made the Falcons one of the top offenses in the area, but Logan counters with a defense that gives up an average of just eight points a game. Long has spearhead that defensive effort.
Amador Valley 28, San Ramon Valley 25: The fifth-seeded Dons advanced in a game that had a wild third quarter that saw the lead change hands three times in less than four minutes.
Alejandro Apodaca scored on a 15-yard run to give Amador Valley a 20-13 lead with 5:27 left in the third quarter. But No. 4 San Ramon Valley answered when Peter Tagliaferri returned an interception 41 yards for a touchdown to cut the Dons' lead to 20-19, then Wolves quarterback Cameron Birse found Justin Bangay open on a 56-yard TD pass with 3:01 left in the third to give San Ramon Valley a 25-20 lead.
Amador Valley went ahead 28-25 just 46 seconds later, as Apodaca scored on a 78-yard run.
The game was tied 13-13 at halftime, and Birse had a hand in both of the Wolves' two touchdowns in the first half. He threw a 20-yard TD pass to Ryan Dunn, then completed a 5-yard scoring pass to J.J. Koski with 46 seconds left in the half that tied the score at 13.
Amador Valley plays at top-seeded De La Salle on Friday at 7 p.m.
-- Steve R. Waterhouse, correspondent
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