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2013: D-I & II Quarterfinals: No. 8 Beats No. 1
Props to the Open Division, which delivered the games the CIF hoped for in a terrific week of San Diego Section playoffs. But Oceanside’s stunning comeback, which ousted Eastlake, 33-30, and Mission Hills’ grinding, 24-21 win over Helix were just part of competitive, late November action. And at most venues there was the accompaniment of […]
Read More2013, Week 12B: Favorites Ease Through Round 1
The seeding panel of mostly former coaches did its job. There were almost no upsets in any of the six rounds on the opening Friday of the San Diego Section playoffs. None, except in the ubiquitous and maligned Division IV, where 11 seed El Centro Southwest (3-7) defeated six seed Montgomery (4-6), 10-7, and 10 […]
Read More2013: Is Eastlake Underrated?
Cal-Hi Sports honcho Mark Tennis continues to build a case for Eastlake as the San Diego Section’s No. 1 team, although the 31 members of the U-T San Diego voting panel have re-installed Oceanside as No. 1, followed by Mission Hills. Eastlake is third. Answers should be forthcoming in the Open Division playoffs, which begin […]
Read More2013, Week 12A: Oceanside, Mission Hills Deadlock
Oceanside and Mission Hills reached the end of the 10-game regular-season race in a flatfooted tie, each earning a first-place rating after they deadlocked with 276 points in the UT-San Diego poll of sportswriters and sportscasters. Coach Chris Hauser’s Grizzlies, who shocked Oceanside, 30-6, in the regular season, are the top-seeded team in the San […]
Read More2013, Week 12: Playoffs Begin In 6 Divisions
We must be in an era of entitlement. How else can you explain that 64 of 97 San Diego Section teams were invited to participate in the playoffs? And 25 don’t even have winning records. Seventeen losing teams and eight with .500 records are in. They’ll vie for 6 divisional championships. Sixty of 96 teams, […]
Read More2013 Week 11: How The Mighty Have Fallen
San Diego High’s football program has bottomed out. The Cavers forfeited to Hoover on the Monday before the Friday game this week. The reason given was that they had less than 20 players and unable to field a full squad. There was a time when that many running backs turned out for football at San […]
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