2025 Week 5: Success Like This 2 Decades Coming for Pointers
Point Loma is 4-0 for the first time in 20 years, since the 2005 club coached by Mike Hastings was 12-1.
Can the Pointers’ run the table? Not likely, with La Jolla (3-1), San Diego (4-0), and Cathedral (4-0) the next three opponents, after a bye this week.
But the ghost of Bennie Edens lives on the Peninsula.
Second-year coach Ryan Price’s team has old-timers remembering 1987, when Stephen Cota, Bob Brasher, Marcel Brown, and others led Bennie’s squad to a 13-0 record and a 16-14 victory over Morse in the San Diego Section championship.
Hastings played for Ron Hamamoto at University, graduating in 1986, but has a connection to the ’87 Pointers. He was Cota’s roommate and teammate at Cal Poly of San Luis Obispo.
John Maffei’s The San Diego Union-Tribune Week 5 poll:
Points awarded on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis. *First-place votes. Previous rankings in (italics).
NR–Not ranked. MaxPreps, Cal Preps, and Cal-Hi Sports are state rankings.
| RANK | TEAM/RECORD | POINTS | MAX PREPS | CAL PREPS | CAL-HI SPORTS |
| 1. | Lincoln (4-1) 25* | 295(1) | 8 (9) | 54.8 (54.5) | 8 (8) |
| 2. | Cathedral (4-0) 5* | 273 (2) | 13 (13) | 55.7 (51.4) | 9 (10) |
| 3. | Mission Hills (5-0) | 236 (3) | 20 (23) | 51.4 (49.9) | 15 (16) |
| 4. | La Costa Canyon (5-0) | 213 (4) | 14 (14) | 53.3 (52.8) | 14 (14) |
| 5. | Carlsbad (5-0) | 168 (5) | 25 (22) | 41.3 (40.3) | 42 (43) |
| 6. | Granite Hills (3-2) | 149 (6) | 35 (38) | 39.6 (37.5) | 33 (28) |
| 7. | San Marcos (4-1) | 114 (7) | 66 (65) | 31.1 (31.1) | NR (NR) |
| 8. | Mount Miguel (4-1) | 95 (8) | 87 (101) | 34.5 (33.4) | On Bubble (On Bubble) |
| 9. | Rancho Bernardo (4-0) | 60 (9) | 131 (123) | 18.0 (20.1) | NR (NR) |
| 10. | Poway (2-3) | 32 (10) | 117 (108) | 19.6 (15.8) | NR-(NR) |
OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES
Santa Fe Christian (5-0, 9 points), Imperial (5-0, 8), The Bishop’s (4-0, 7), El Camino (2-2, 4), Olympian (5-0, 4), Point Loma (4-0, 4), El Centro Central (5-0), Mission Bay (5-0), Mater Dei (2-3), and Torrey Pines (2-2), 1 point each.
VOTING PANEL
Twenty-nine sportswriters, sportscasters, and administrators from the San Diego Section, plus Max Preps:
- John Maffei (The San Diego Union-Tribune)
- Donald Ray Norcross, Kevin Farmer, Rick Hoff, Steve Brand (Union-Tribune correspondents)
- Joe Heinz, Todd Cassen, Ron Marquez (San Diego Section)
- Brandon Stone, Allison Edwards, John Carroll, Chase Izidoro (KUSI-TV)
- Rick Smith (partletonsports.com)
- Braden Suprenant (93.7 FM “The Fan”)
- Mike Dolan (Coaching Legends)
- Tom Helmantoler (Southern Conference)
- Joe Evangelist, Rex Johnson, Bruce Ward (CIF Advisory Committee)
- Raymond Brown (sdsports.net)
- Christian Pedersen (San Diego Sports Association)
- Bodie DeSilva, John Kentera, Dennis Ackerman, Steve (Biff) Dolan, Eric Williams, Thomas Gutierrez, Tom Ronco, Adam Paul (freelance contributors).
TRUE GRID
Lincoln has one more major intersectional opponent on its schedule, playing host to Sacramento Grant of the Sac-Joaquin Section this week …the Hornets ventured North and dispatched the Pacers, 49-19, in 2024…Lincoln then returns to local with a nonleague joust with La Jolla before Western League action and a possible Week 9 showdown with Cathedral, which has two big games coming up before league, Concord De La Salle and Granite Hills…Scripps Ranch is 8-20 all-time against Mira Mesa, located barely two miles West from the Falcons’ campus, and has often been cast as a little brother, so last week’s 50-0 win by the 3-2 Falcons was a stunner…Mira Mesa (3-1) had given up 15 points in its first three games….