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Miramonte coach’s QB call paying huge dividends
Miramonte-Orinda football coach Jack Schram said that was easy to do with a player like Tim Tague.
The Matadors had three good quarterback choices heading into 2015:
Tague completed 27 of 43 for 473 yards and seven touchdowns in a 52-42 season-opening win at Pinole Valley.
The 6-foot, 180-pound Tague finished the season 231-of-376 passing for 3,868 yards, 40 touchdowns and 14 interceptions for Miramonte (11-2).
The three-sport standout with a 4.0 GPA has thrown for 1,163 yards and 19 touchdowns this season for the 12th-ranked Matadors (5-0), who open the new and rugged Valley Conference of the Diablo Athletic League at home versus No. 5 Clayton Valley-Concord (4-1) at 7 p.m. Friday.
Tague will need to utilize all his own and his team’s strengths against a Clayton Valley program that has gone 55-8 since Tim Murphy took over in 2012 and reached the state Division I-A final last season.
Tague, who doesn’t have any Division I college offers largely because of his size, has a future too in baseball as a pitcher.
“He can definitely play college football,” Schram said.
Freedom won Bay Valley League matchup 27-15 in Oakley two years ago, holding Antioch RB Najee Harris out of the end zone.
Last season in Antioch’s 32-17 win, Harris rushed for 236 yards and scored four TDs.
Slowing down sophomore RB Austin Jones (539 rushing yards, 9 TDs) is priority No. 1 for Piedmont in the West Alameda County game.
Burlingame duo of Alec Meredith and Sean Saunders have combined for 981 yards rushing and 12 touchdowns.
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Miramonte-Orinda football coach Jack Schram said that was easy to do with a player like Tim Tague.
The Matadors had three good quarterback choices heading into 2015:
Tague completed 27 of 43 for 473 yards and seven touchdowns in a 52-42 season-opening win at Pinole Valley.
The 6-foot, 180-pound Tague finished the season 231-of-376 passing for 3,868 yards, 40 touchdowns and 14 interceptions for Miramonte (11-2).
The three-sport standout with a 4.0 GPA has thrown for 1,163 yards and 19 touchdowns this season for the 12th-ranked Matadors (5-0), who open the new and rugged Valley Conference of the Diablo Athletic League at home versus No. 5 Clayton Valley-Concord (4-1) at 7 p.m. Friday.
Tague will need to utilize all his own and his team’s strengths against a Clayton Valley program that has gone 55-8 since Tim Murphy took over in 2012 and reached the state Division I-A final last season.
Tague, who doesn’t have any Division I college offers largely because of his size, has a future too in baseball as a pitcher.
“He can definitely play college football,” Schram said.
Freedom won Bay Valley League matchup 27-15 in Oakley two years ago, holding Antioch RB Najee Harris out of the end zone.
Last season in Antioch’s 32-17 win, Harris rushed for 236 yards and scored four TDs.
Slowing down sophomore RB Austin Jones (539 rushing yards, 9 TDs) is priority No. 1 for Piedmont in the West Alameda County game.
Burlingame duo of Alec Meredith and Sean Saunders have combined for 981 yards rushing and 12 touchdowns.
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In a new offering featured on SFGate.com, The Chronicle will be live streaming several high school football games each week.
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