Look: Photos from Folsom's 28-25 win over PIttsburg for CIF NorCal D1-A championship

Folsom wins fifth regional title and now goes after fifth state crown

Mitch Stephens, SBLive Sports | Dec 3, 2023

Look: Photos from Folsom's 28-25 win over PIttsburg for CIF NorCal D1-A championship /

FOLSOM, CALIFORNIA — They packed both sides of Folsom's High School's Praire City Stadium for Saturday's CIF Northern California Division 1-A championship game for good reason.

The game had a state berth on the line for one and with Folsom's 28-25 victory over Pittsburg, the home team will travel next week to Southern California to face St. Bonaventure-Venture for a state crown.

Folsom (12-2) will be after its fifth state crown.

Another reason why the stands were filled were to watch some of Northern California's top talents, including Folsom quarterback Ryder Lyons and Pittsburg junior trio of Jadyn Hudson, Jewelous Walls or Jamar Searcy, all top recruits.

In the end, the finished product matched the expectation in a terrific thriller right to the end. It made a good show for USC coach Lincoln Riley who observed the game from either end zone.

After the game, according to Lyons, who accounted for 334 yards and all four touchdowns, he was offered a scholarship by USC coach Lincoln Riley.

(See the terrific images shot by Dennis Lee below).

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Folsom 28, PIttsburg 25 by Dennis Lee NorCal D1-A 12-02-2023120220234 (2) — Photo: Dennis Lee

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Published Dec 3, 2023

MITCH STEPHENS, SBLIVE SPORTS

Mitch Stephens is a senior editor at SBLive Sports for California, a state he's covered high school sports since 1984. He won multiple CNPA and CPSWA writing awards with the Contra Costa Times, San Francisco Chronicle and MaxPreps.com before joining the SBLive staff in 2022. He's covered the beat nationally since 2007, profiling such athletes as Derrick Henry, Paige Bueckers, Patrick Mahomes, Sabrina Ionescu, Jayson Tatum, Chiney Ogwumike, Jeremy Lin and Najee Harris as preps. You can reach him at mitch@scorebooklive.com.