Let the playoffs begin: YC, Sutter host 1st-round games; Lindhurst, WUHS earn home bowl games
2 seed in this year’s Sac-Joaquin Section Division IV playoffs and could host up to two games tonight (Friday) at Honker Stadium on the campus of YCHS.
Key points
- SJS Bowl Series Lindhurst finished with one of its highest rankings in the MaxPreps era, placing 14th in the final regular season D-VI ranking model put together by MaxPreps.
- in one of 29 bowls including 58 teams in the second year of the SJS Bowl series, enacted last year in part to celebrate regional and community pride by pitting schools within 40 miles of each other in a end-of-season bowl game.
- 2 seed and second consecutive first-round matchup with Rosemont tonight to open the SJS D-V eight-team playoffs.
The reward was a second straight Sac-Joaquin Section bowl game when it will host a postseason game for the first time since the finale of its back-to-back D-VI title run in 2007 under former Mike Mason.
Asiata enters the playoffs with 1,924 yards and 31 touchdowns – the most rush yards from scrimmage for a Sutter running back since at least 2004, according to MaxPreps history.
Additional details
- East Union has run its quarterback by committee in 2026, with three having played at least eight games – two of whom have thrown over 600 yards and a combined 17 touchdowns.
- Sutter’s defense posted four shutouts this year, capped by last week’s 27-0 win over 7-4 Lathrop to close out the team’s first unbeaten regular season campaign since 2022.
- – Wheatland earned a home bowl game tonight at home against Highlands, out of the Sierra-Delta League.
- Sutter put up 65 on Rosemont a year ago, en route to a 65-14 win in the opening round of 2025.
- Defensively, the Honkers are led by Zeke Mendieta’s 100-plus tackle season, while defensive end Dom Ramirez has a team-high seven sacks for a squad that posted three of 10 shutouts this year.
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