2013, Week 3: Leaders Continue to Hold Sway in U-T Poll

Oceanside gave up one first-place vote to Mission Hills, Poway made the top 10 after being idle in Week 1, and San Pasqual moved up. All was almost quiet on the U-T San Diego prep football front. The only significant changes took place in the “Others” category, which thinned out from a total 14 teams […]

2013, Week 2: Oceanside Falls in Heat of Night

We made five big mistakes,” Oceanside coach John Carroll revealed to the U-T San Diego’s John Maffei, “and nearly every one of them was because of cramps.” In the high heat of an Oceanside evening, Carroll’s Pirates took a 39-36 lead well into the fourth quarter when a couple lapses were turned into touchdowns by […]

2013: Sage Creek Football Decision Criticized

BY GARY MARSHALL The new Sage Creek High School in Carlsbad is beautiful. The back-to-back baseball/softball diamonds and tennis courts are woven into a school complex that blends smoothly into the canyon hillside. It is a tribute to our community. The facility that excited me the most was the new football stadium, with its sharply […]

2013: Birt Slater, Famed Coach at Kearny & San Diego

2013, Week 2: Oceanside Remains No. 1.

Oceanside, unapproachable in the first half and approachable in the second half of a 47-28 win over St. Augustine, picked up additional support in this week’s UT-San Diego prep football poll. The Pirates, who led 28-0 at halftime against the Saints, will need all hands on deck for all four quarters this week when they […]

2013, Week 1: Cathedral K.O.s Utah Giant

Oceanside, Helix, Mission Hills, Cathedral, and Eastlake, five of the San Diego Section’s best, posted a combined, 3-2 record and scored a couple impressive, intersectional victories in the Under Armour Brothers in Arms San Diego Classic games on the season’s first weekend. Most impressive was Cathedral’s 38-6 victory over Sandy of Jordan, Utah, ranked 25th […]