Balers football falls 17-14
Trailing by three with less than a minute in regulation, the San
Benito football team marched 34 yards downfield to North Salinas’
18. But with a rolling clock, no timeouts and a fourth-and-three
situation upcoming, Baler quarterback Trevor Fabing’s intended pass
to Evan McFadden in the end zone fell incomplete, and North Salinas
staved off defeat in the waning seconds to escape with a 17-14
victory last Friday.
Balers football falls 17-14
Trailing by three with less than a minute in regulation, the San Benito football team marched 34 yards downfield to North Salinas’ 18. But with a rolling clock, no timeouts and a fourth-and-three situation upcoming, Baler quarterback Trevor Fabing’s intended pass to Evan McFadden in the end zone fell incomplete, and North Salinas staved off defeat in the waning seconds to escape with a 17-14 victory last Friday.
North Salinas improves to 6-0 overall, while the ‘Balers fall to 3-4, 1-2 in the Tri-County Athletic League.
“It proves that we can come out and play hard,” head coach Chris Cameron said. “I haven’t watched the film or anything obviously, but I think there is a pretty good chance we just totally outplayed them tonight, when you take away that one play in the first half … Just a couple of things and this game is a different football game.”
On the second to last play of the first half, North Salinas quarterback Mike Ramos found Marcos Martinez on a screen pass to the left side. The Baler defense wrapped up the senior receiver’s legs in the backfield, but just before the wobbling Martinez fell down, running back Mark Ramos sprinted around the left side and received a lateral pass from Martinez.
Ramos didn’t stop until he reached paydirt 48 yards later down the left sideline, supplying the Vikings with a 10-7 lead at halftime.
San Benito would retake the lead early in the second half, but the broken-play-turned-hook-and-ladder-turned-touchdown was certainly not the way the Balers wanted to end the first half.
San Benito has a bye this week.
Water polo
The San Benito boys’ water polo team picked up a pair of wins last week when they defeated Stevenson 9-6 and Carmel 9-3 to move into sole possession of second place in the Tri-County Athletic League.
The Balers are now 5-1 in the TCAL.
In the girls game, RLS beat San Benito 13-6 and fell to 3-2 in the TCAL.
Tennis
The San Benito girls’ tennis team has rifled off two straight wins since losing to Notre Dame 5-2 last week. They defeated Alisal 6-1 last Thursday and swept North Salinas 7-0 on Tuesday.
The Lady Balers are now 14-4 overall, 7-2 in the TCAL.
Volleyball
The San Benito girls volleyball team rebounded last Thursday to beat Alisal in three games (25-15, 25-21, 25-8), but took a step back on Tuesday when they lost at North Salinas in four games (23-25, 25-21, 12-25, 15-25).
San Benito is now 5-3 in the TCAL, 11-19 overall.
Golf
In their final home meet of the regular season, the San Benito girls golf team lost to Salinas 172-200 on Monday at the Ridgemark Golf and Country Club in Hollister.
Nicole Rianda shot a 48 to pace the Lady Balers, while Alexis Sanchez shot a 49.
San Benito will compete in the TCAL Finals at the Salinas Golf and Country Club on Monday.
