2 Late Lions’ Penal­ties Cost Game

Galileo V 08–06 14
Piner V 03–14 17

Two late defen­sive penal­ties on Galileo, allowed host, Piner to escape with a 17–14 vic­tory. The Prospec­tors received a face­mask penalty to keep their drive alive with under 2 min­utes remain­ing in the game. Then on fourth down, a pass­ing inter­fer­ence call in the end­zone put the Propec­tors in the red­zone. The valiant effort by the Lions turned bit­ter when on yet again another fourth down, Piner’s quar­ter­back scram­bled to the right for a 5-yard touch­down and the lead with 28 sec­onds on the clock. After the kick off, Galileo, start­ing on their 20, moved the ball past the 50 but ran out of time in the stun­ning loss. Galileo falls to 1–2 head­ing into league play and Piner is 1–2, win­ning their first game of the season.

Galileo Shut Out at Home

Galileo V 00–00 00
Her­cules V 26–07 33

Galileo tack­ling mis­cues allowed Her­cules to score two touch­downs and two huge cov­er­age mis­takes gave up another 12 points to put the Lions in a 26–0 half­time deficit. The lack­lus­ter open­ing half reviewed an inex­pe­ri­enced team that could not muster any energy to neu­tral­ize the Titans’ level of dom­i­nance nor was there any shift­ing of momen­tum. The lack of expe­ri­ence is not more evi­dent than the wan­ing sec­onds of the first half when Her­cules struck with a 61-yard touch­down pass because Galileo’s defense allowed a receiver to get pass cov­er­age that was just sim­ply, not deep enough despite an obvi­ous “pre­vent cov­er­age” down.

Lions Win Season-Opener After Squan­der­ing Big Lead

Galileo V 14–06 20
San Lorenzo V 03–14 17

Senior wide-out, Dono­van Has­son made a few acro­batic catches along with his first TD recep­tion of the sea­son to pace Galileo in a game that almost got away. Up 14–0, Galileo allowed San Lorenzo a short field which resulted in a field goal in the wan­ing sec­onds of the first half. In the sec­ond half, a botched snap over the head of senior punter, Nick Bus­tos, put San Lorenzo in the red zone. A few plays later, San Lorenzo scored on a touch­down recep­tion. Galileo did man­age another score but once again the Lions con­tin­ued to show their gen­eros­ity by throw­ing an ill-advised pass across the field that was picked off and returned to their 15. Three plays later, it was a brand new ball game when Galileo allowed another touch­down over the top of their pass coverage-the Rebels had pulled within 3 in a 20–17 game.

Galileo’s var­sity and frosh soph foot­ball teams trav­elled to Novato on Sep­tem­ber 20^th for a 4-team scrim­mage with host Novato, Wind­sor, and Analy.

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GAME WRAPUP: Hasson’s 2 INT and TD High­light Pur­ple Win

PURPLE 00–06 06
ORANGE 00–00 00