Cathedral coach Sean Doyle, whose team fosters a we’ll-play-anyone-anytime-anywhere mantra, gets another test this week against perhaps the most honored team in Califoria prep history.
The Dons, recovering fast from their disaster in Week 2 at Corona Centennial, blitzed Helix, 52-0, last week and head North to play Concord de La Salle, which has a 4-0 record against San Diego Section teams and won more than 150 games in a row in the 1990’s-early 2000’s.
De La Salle had home-and-home contests against Rancho Buena Vista in 1995 and ’96 and La Costa Canyon in 2002 and ’03.
The Spartans defeated Craig Bell’s RBV Longhorns, 35-16, there in 1995 and 36-19 in 1996 here.
They defeated Darrin Brown’s La Costa Canyon Mavericks, 28-7 here in ’02 and 56-27 there in ’03.
De La Salle had a 318-game winning streak against Northern California squads broken last week when upset by Mountain View St. Francis, 31-28. It has victories of 52-16 over Stockton St. Mary’s and 68-6 over Elk Grove Monterey Trail.
Cathedral is ranked 10th in Calfornia by Cal-Hi Sports. De La Salle is 11th.
LOW POINT FOR HIGHLANDERS
The 52-point loss to Cathedral was the most decisive in 68 years and 753 games for Helix, which was beaten by Hoover, 50-0, in 1953, the Highlanders’ third season. The points equaled a 52-6 loss at Oxnard in the flu-epidemic 1957 season.
THE RANKINGS
John Maffei’s weekly The San Diego Union-Tribune Top 10:
First place votes in parenthesis. Points on scale of 10 points to 1 point.
| RANK | TEAM/RECORD | POINTS | PREVIOUS | ||||
| 1. | Cathedral | Â 3-1 (11) | 227 | 2 | |||
| 2. | Carlsbad | Â Â 4-0 (14) | 226 | 1 | |||
| 3. | Lincoln | 2-1 | 191 | 3 | |||
| 4. | Mater Dei | 2-0 | 177 | 4 | |||
| 5. | Mission Hills | 3-1 | 155 | 5 | |||
| 6. | Torrey Pines | 2-1 | 121 | 7 | |||
| 7 | ScrippscRanch | 4-0 | 91 | 8 | |||
| 8. | Madison | 3-1 | 53 | 10 | |||
| 9. | Eastlake | 3-1 | 34 | NR | |||
| 10. | Helix | 2-1 | 20 | 6 | |||
OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES
Santa Fe Christian (4-0, 16 points), Mt. Carmel (4-0, 15), El Camino (1-2, 9), Oceanside (2-1, 6), Poway (2-2, 2), DEl Norte (3-1, 1), El Capitan (3-1, 1).
VOTING PANEL
Twenty-four sportswriters and sportscasters throughout San Diego County.
- John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune.
- Steve Brand, Thomas Gutierrez, Rick Hoff, Jim Lindgren, Terry Monahan, Eric Williams, Thomas Gutierrez, freelance contributors.
- John Carroll, Nick Pollino, KUSI Ch. 51.
- John Kentera, Braden Suprenant, 97.3-FM The Fan).
- Adam Paul, ECPreps.com.
- Bodie DeSilva, scorebooklive.com.
- Rick Smith, Partletonsports.com.
- Christian Pedersen, San Diego Sports Association.
- Troy Hirsch, Fox 5 San Diego.
- Raymond Brown, sdfootball.net.
- Joe Heinz, Todd Cassen, Ron Marquez, Mike Dolan, CIF San Diego Section.
- Ramon Scott, Eastcountysports.com.
- Steve (Biff) Dolan, Mountain Country, 107.9-FM.
How others see San Diego’s Top 10:
*The second entry in each rating is from the previous week.
| Team | Record | Cal-Hi Sports | MaxPreps | CalPreps |
| Cathedral | 3-1 | 10-12* | 8/8 | 61.6/44 |
| Carlsbad | 4-0 | 13-11 | 21/16 | 47.9/49 |
| Mission Hills | 3-1 | 25-29 | 35/27 | 40.7/45.2 |
| Lincoln | 2-1 | 16-15 | 13/25 | 48.8/39.6 |
| Mater Dei | 2-0 | Bubble-Bubble | 74/71 | 26.2/24.6 |
| Helix | 2-1 | NR-45 | 76/83 | 23.6/21.7 |
| Torrey Pines | 3-1 | 44-Bubble | 38 | 35.4/32.6 |
| Scripps Ranch | 4-0 | Bubble-Bubble | 70/108 | 18.6/15.0 |
| Eastlake | 3-1 | NR-NR | 86/85 | 22.9/NR |
| Madison | 3-1 | NR-NR | 100/98 | 20.0/NR |
MaxPreps.com and CalPreps.com computer ratings are usually the same and based on strength of schedule and other factors.
Cal-HiSports.com ratings are created by publisher Mark Tennis, who coordinates with several state-wide sources.
