Football
2022 Week 11A: As Regular Season Ends, Playoffs Begin
Ten things, among many, to remember about the 63rd San Diego Section regular season: –Nineteen teams won or tied for 18, eleven-man league championships. Fallbrook and San Pasqual deadocked for first in the Valley. –Carlsbad ruled the Avocado League for the fourth consecutive year. –Chula Vista won an outright championship for the first time since […]
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2022 Week 11 B: Overtime, How it Began; Lincoln Regular-Season Champion
Granite Hills’ epic, four-overtime, 46-44 win over Helix for the Grossmont Hills championship represented the longest game in San Diego County history, although the first overtime contest also was long, for another reason. From the 1976 season narrative: NEW TIE-BREAKER TESTED “History-making events are supposed to be heralded with sounding trumpets and helium-filled balloons,” wrote […]
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