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2025 Flag Football Week 9: Barons Still Undefeated As Playoff Seeds Loom
All teams are putting a finer edge on their weapons this last week of the regular season, as playoff seeds and pairings come out Saturday, Oct. 25, with first games on Tuesday, Oct. 28. The top eight seeds, per MaxPreps‘ ranking system, become the Division I bracket. The next 12 are D-II, and so on, […]
Read More1933 Football, Looking Back: Cavers ‘Couldn’t Lose’; Metropolitan League Makes Bow
The narrative originally was posted Oct. 20, 2016. “Power, deception, speed, coordination, all wrapped in 11 (blue and) white packages from the Border City.” Such was the observation of a Los Angeles Times reporter who witnessed San Diego High’s 27-0 victory over host Santa Barbara along with 5,000 others at Peabody Stadium in the Southern […]
Read More2025 Flag Football Week 8: Barons Roll While Others Roil
Bonita Vista cast aside Mater Dei (11-3), 40-0, and Olympian (3-11), 52-31, to reach an unblemished 15-0 record while there was only minor elbowing in the top spot queue. In their 2023 Championship run, the Barons’ were 19-1 with a win streak of 14 at season’s end, as the lone loss came in week 6 […]
Read More2025 Football Week 8: These Pointers Are Trying to Equal Their Predecessors
Three weeks ago I wrote it was “not likely” that Point Loma, standing at 4-0 for the first time since 2005, would run the regular season schedule out to a 10-0 record, with La Jolla, San Diego, and Cathedral its next three opponents. Now, in their 100th football season, dating to 1926, here are the […]
Read More2025 Football Week 7: Another Avocado League Game of the Week
Carlsbad, Avocado League champion five consecutive years from 2019-23 before being unseated by La Costa Canyon in 2024, finds itself in a four-way battle this season and with a showdown against Mission Hills this week. The Grizzlies, under interim coach DJ Zapata while Chris Hauser is sidelined by an administrative order, matched Carlsbad’s 6-0 record […]
Read More2025 Flag Football Week 7: Bonita Vista Run Now at 13 Wins in Row
Bonita Vista marched on, topping Mater Dei (11-2), 40-0 , while Torrey Pines (14-9) stubbed its toe on San Marcos (8-7), 31-26. Carlsbad (16-4) topped Oceanside (3-8), 45-0, and Mission Hills (13-5), 20-14. Steele Canyon (13-4) crashed the Top 10 with a win over Santana (7-8), 21-7. John Maffei’s The San Diego Union-Tribune Week 7 […]
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