2017-18 Week 11:  Basketball Yes, Football No

Who are these guys and girls?

Ninety-four of the 128 dues-paying members of the CIF San Diego Section fielded football teams in 2017, which leaves more than 30 to pursue other sports.  Many do, in the hoops game.

They perform in relative obscurity, their game results often not reported or appearing in the newspaper, but all were visible when the CIF announced pairings for 2017-18 basketball playoffs, which begin Tuesday.

Eighteen schools in the basketball postseason didn’t play football or don’t play for various reasons. Who they are probably begs the question:

Where are they?

School Team Record Address
Adventist Boys & Girls 18-7 & 25-1 Escondido
Bayfront Charter Boys & Girls 13-9 & 11-8 Chula Vista
The Cambridge School Boys 16-1 Rancho Penasquitos
Canyon Crest Boys & Girls 18-8 & 10-17 Carmel Valley
Del Lago Boys 12-10 Escondido
Guajome Park Boys 18-5 Vista
High Tech Boys 14-13 Chula Vista
High Tech Boys & Girls 10-14 & 9-9 Liberty Station Point Loma
Horizon Prep Boys 14-6 Rancho Santa Fe
Liberty Charter Girls 12-8 Lemon Grove
Mission Vista Girls 10-17 Oceanside
Monarch Girls 9-6 Barrio Logan
Our Lady of Peace Girls 11-15 Normal Heights
Pacific Ridge Boys 17-9 Carlsbad
Preuss Boys & Girls 21-6 & 12-10 U.C. San Diego
Sage Creek Girls 7-16 Carlsbad
San Diego Academy Boys 12-12 National City
SoCal Yeshiva Boys 10-5 Clairemont

Some interesting first-round matchups:

GIRLS OPEN

5 San Marcos (18-6) @4 Mission Hills (21-7).

BOYS OPEN

8 St. Augustine (17-6) @1 Foothills Christian (24-5). 6 Vista (22-7) @Mission Bay (24-5).

DIVISION I

12 Grossmont (15-12) @5 Orange Glen (16-12).

D-II

9 Francis Parker (10-12) @8 Serra (17-9).

D-III

10 Santana (17-11) @7 Brawley (18-9).

BIG TEAMS WAIT

Open Division teams have byes until Friday.  All eight, no matter their first-round outcomes, will advance into the Southern California regionals.

St. Augustine at Foothills Christian is by far the most compelling game of the first round.

The Saints saw 6-foot-8-inch Arizona Stare commit Taeshon Cherry transfer to Foothills days before the opening game.  After a slow start Cherry is averaging 22 points and 11 rebounds and the Knights are 24-5 and have won 16 in a row.

St. Augustine, with an all-underclass team, has cobbled together a 17-6 record and is a traditionally tough out come postseason.

The Saints, with Cherry, defeated Foothills Christian, 72-69, in a playoff barnburner last season, the conclusion of which  resulted in Foothills coach Brad Leaf’s receiving two technical fouls, was ejected with 1.9 seconds remaining in the game, and forced to sit out the Knights’ 66-65, Southern California playoff loss to Oak Park.

Leaf was T’d after he stormed across the floor of Dougherty Gym shouting that he had not asked for a time out.

Someone in the Foothills group called a timeout, but the Knights were out of time outs, resulting in the first technical.  Leaf received the second and third.

The Saints’ Otto Taylor made three of six technical attempts and the Saints won by three.

It was a fitting climax to the last game at Dougherty Gym, a historic bandbox of accelerated decibel levels and frenzied finishes that had served as the Saints’ home since 1951.  They moved into a beautiful new facility this season.

Union-Tribune last regular-season Boys’ poll through Monday, Feb. 19:

Rank Team Record Points Last Poll
1 Foothills Christian (8) 24-5 116 1
2 Torrey Pines (4) 27-2 112 2
3 Mission Bay 24-5 86 3
4 Mater Dei 23-6 83 4
5 San Marcos 23-3 81 5
6 Vista 22-7 60 6
7 St. Augustine 17-6 43 8
8 La Jolla Country Day 21-8 39 7
9 Mount Miguel 26-4 21 10
10 Montgomery 22-5 12 9

Others receiving votes: Canyon Crest (18-8, 5 points),  El Camino (15-12, 1.

Poll participants:  John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune; Terry Monahan, freelancer; Steve Brand, San Diego Hall of Champions;  Adam Paul,  Ramon Scott, EastCountySports.com; John Kentera, Prep Talent Evaluator; Rick Smith, partletonsports.com; Bodie DeSilva, sandiegopreps.com; Steve (Biff) Dolan, Mountain Country 107.9 FM; Christian Pedersen, S.D. Preps Insider; Aaron Burgin, Fulltime Hoops; Brad Enright, L.A. Court Report.

 

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