Eleven hours after its biggest win of the football season, Vintage High School coaches and players were back at work Saturday, looking at film, seeing what went right and wrong in a 37-12 nonleague victory over Hogan-Vallejo, stretching, getting team pictures taken, and looking ahead to the Monticello Empire League opener Oct. 17.

“We want to keep improving, eliminate the turnovers and mental mistakes,” said Jim Costan, the Crushers’ offensive coordinator. “This is the second season. You’ve got to win the second season if you want to go to the playoffs.”

Vintage (2-3 overall) had three turnovers — two fumbles and an interception — and was penalized 10 times for 95 yards.

But the positives of Vintage’s overall play, including three long scoring drives that featured a balanced offense, far outweighed any negatives on Homecoming night at Napa Memorial Stadium Friday.

“Even though we have a great defense, you still can’t have turnovers,” said Costan. “You’ve got to win the turnover margin. If we can clean those things up, I think we’ll put some more points on the board. Going into league, that’s what you need to do.”

The offense, which had struggled to move the ball, get first downs and score points, finally came to life on a windy night, producing five touchdowns and 427 yards in a dominating performance that was as much a credit to the skill-position players as it was the linemen.

Jacob Roscoe’s 107 yards on 15 carries and two touchdowns sparked the run game. Sean Ryan’s 170 yards on 12-of-20 with two touchdowns led the passing attack. Trevor McLaughlin, Dom Pappas and Reed Huddleston each had three catches.

“I really liked Sean’s decision making,” said Costan.

Pappas showed some nice open-field running on a 20-yard TD pass from Ryan in the first quarter. Ryan found a wide open McLaughlin for a 21-yard scoring pass in the third quarter.

Ryan completed his first six passes and was 10-of-13 for 139 yards at halftime as the Crushers broke a two-game losing streak.

“We ran the ball really well,” said coach Billy Smith. “Sean made some really quick decisions. When both (run and pass) are going hand in hand, it helps your offense and it helps the whole team morale.

“It makes it lot easier when your offense is moving the ball — the defense plays a little bit more relaxed, more confident.”

Ten players ran the ball for Vintage, with Ryan (4-58) and Matt Orrick (9-39) factoring into the rushing game. Six players caught at least one pass.

“I think we kept (Hogan) off balance a little bit,” said Costan. “They weren’t really sure where we were going with the football. Our balance, being able to run and pass the ball, I think was a key. I thought our fullbacks had some good lead blocks.”

Without question, Vintage won the battle at the line of scrimmage. In the week leading up to the game, the Crushers’ offensive linemen returned to some basics, hitting sleds and running through chutes, designed for teaching blocking techniques as far as pad levels and contact points are concerned.

“There’s a lot of things that we need to clean up, but the confidence that we got (Friday night) from the offensive line, I think it will help the kids,” said Rick Daniels, the team’s offensive line coach. “Our pass protection’s been pretty decent. It’s more run blocking — getting off on the ball, identifying your target and then finishing your block. We’re trying to find the best spots for them. We have to win the line of scrimmage and then finish your block.”

Daniels used Friday’s game to take a look at different combinations, moving Bryson Daniels from right guard to center and Kolton Harris from center to right guard. Meto Tellez, out since Week 2, returned at left guard.

Kyle Archer and Joe Garcia also played center. Robert Payan and Steven Ross got time on the offensive line.

“I told the kids I’m going to have to evaluate the different combinations I have and see what works best,” Rick Daniels said.

“We’re excited with the moves that we made,” said Smith. “Hopefully the kids that are put in there, accept it. It creates competition and it’s going to create a better quality of practice.”

Costan said the pass protection was good.

“I thought our line improved a lot from the last two weeks,” he said. “That’s the kind of consistency that we want to have going into league.”

Vintage’s defense gave up two touchdowns, but only 46 yards rushing and 47 passing. Free safety Paul Archer intercepted a pass and defensive end Mitch Danielsson was credited with a safety, tackling Hogan quarterback David Crockett in the end zone.

“I thought we did a lot better in our coverages,” said Dylan Leach, Vintage’s defensive coordinator. “Everyone had their bright spots.

“I’m pretty happy with where we are at defensively. I still think that we need to find someone dynamic on the edge. We rely a lot on blitzing off that edge.

“We’ve got a long road to go, obviously, with the teams that we have in the MEL.”

Three teams from the league advance to the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Division I playoffs, which start Nov. 21.