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STOCKTON - The Stagg High football team has earned the right to anxiously wait.

Thursday's 18-0 victory over McNair virtually assured the Delta Kings of a home playoff game next week after the CIF releases the Sac-Joaquin Section playoff brackets Saturday evening. Stagg (8-2, 3-2 Tri-City Athletic League) moved the final game up a day since it is sharing the Chavez High field while its new facility is being built.

"We'll find out soon enough," Stagg coach Don Norton said. "We're going to keep our routine the same and lift weights tomorrow and condition."

The win marks Norton's first record above .500 since he took over in 2005 and sets up the school's first playoff berth since 1999. Norton was an assistant under Delta Kings all-time winning coach Joe Nava for 18 years and worked with Edison legend Charles Washington before that.

"Since 1992, there's only been one record better than this (at Stagg)," Norton said. "That's the team that went 11-0 in 1999. So in 20 years, they're one of the top two teams."

Senior running back Theo Wofford put Stagg up in the final minutes of the first quarter. He capped a 68-yard drive on an 18-yard toss outside and scored standing up. He set up the touchdown up the previous play on a 32-yard gain, which was helped by a McNair horse-collar penalty.

Wofford later scored on a 32-yard run on a toss to the right. He shook tacklers at midfield and was gone.

Wofford finished with 136 yards rushing on 13 carries and has rushed for 100 yards or more in five consecutive games.

"Theo is a player," Norton said. "You don't get that many players like Theo."

Ty Minkin was second for Stagg with 26 yards on 10 carries. He ended a six-play, 80-yard drive in the fourth quarter and scored on a 1-yard run.

Meanwhile, the Eagles (1-9, 0-5) moved past the Delta Kings' 39-yard line just once. McNair had 80 yards of offense in the first half. Sophomore Dalemaria Williams finished with 69 yards on 22 carries.

"I thought we had a good game plan," McNair coach Scott Swartz said. "Defensively we did, but when you lose three of your starting five linemen, it's a pretty tough deal."

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