This could become a habit.  Vista won another 2-0 game.

The Panthers defeated Torrey Pines, with a safety the only score in the game last week.

It was the second safety-only game in the 758  Vista has played since the school opened in 1937.  Not a trend, but the Panthers are working on it.

Vista last won 2-0 when it defeated Palm Springs  in 1958.

Vista has won its last two  games and scored or been credited with three points…total!

After a 1-0 forfeit victory with the automatic score over Temecula Rancho Christian, the Panthers returned and rang up a couple more  points to edge the Torrey Pines Falcons, who never, in their 39-season history,  had been in a 2-0 contest.

There have been 11 other 2-0 games in the history of teams in San Diego County or the San Diego Section, covering pfobably more than 35,000 games, dating to the first recorded contest, San Diego High versus “The San Diego Football Club in 1891.

The list:
1915 — Sweetwater 2, Escondido Athletic Association 0.
1919 — San Diego 2, 32^nd Infantry 0.
1926 — San Diego 2, Glendale 0.
1940 — St. Augustine 2, Hoover Sophomores 0.
1958 — Vista 2, Palm Springs 0.
1963 — Point Loma 2, La Jolla 0.
1974 — Poway 2, La Jolla 0.
1978 — La Jolla 2, Lincoln 0.
1990 — Coronado 2, San Diego 0.
1997 — Calipatria 2, Wellton Antelope, Arizona, 0.
1997 — Granite Hills 2, Mt. Carmel 0.
2012 — Vista 2, Torrey Pines 0.

PASSES AND POINTS

Contrary to Vista-Torrey Pines, offense was alive and well when Valhalla took on El Toro.

Conner Manning of  El Toro threw for 613 yards and seven touchdowns as the Chargers, a 5-0, South Coast League power in the Southern Section, defeated the Norsemen  77-46.  The 123 points by both teams are the most ever involving a San Diego  Section 11-man team.

Rancho Bernardo and West Hills held the record with 119 points in a 71-48 R.B. playoff victory in 1999.

The San Diego County record for most points by both teams is 137, set in 1920, when San Diego High unloaded on Army-Navy, 130-7.

St. Joseph defeated Lutheran 94-76 in 2008 to set a record for most points by both teams (170)  in an 8-man game.

OCEANSIDE STAYS NO. 1

Despite an uneven performance in the second half, Oceanside’s 23-13 victory over Poway solidified the Pirates’ lead with 22 points in the North County Times‘  Week 4 football poll.

The Pirates jumped to a 23-0 halftime lead, but the Titans finished with a strong second half.

The same teams occupy the first five positions as last week, although there was movement.  La Costa Canyon remained second, but Helix went from fourth to third and Mission Hills from fifth to fourth.

Cathedral dropped from third to fifth place, although the Dons held a 14-10 lead on the road in the second half against Vista Murrieta, a Southern Section powerhouse which overcame Cathedral 21-10.

Three 4-0 newcomers were Chula Vista (8) and Grossmont and Otay Ranch, tied for ninth.

Oceanside plays host to Mission Hills in the County’s feature game this week at the Pirates’ new on-campus stadium.

 

#	Team	1st	W-L	Points	Prev#
1	Oceanside	22	3-1	261	1
2	La Costa Canyon	2	3-1	226	2
3	Helix	1	3-1	204	4
4	Mission Hills	2	3-1	189	5
5	Cathedral Catholic	0	2-2	149	3
6	Eastlake	0	3-1	127	9
7	Poway	0	2-2	85	6
8	Chula Vista	0	4-0	46	NR
9	Grossmont	0	4-0	34	NR
9	Otay Ranch	0	4-0	34	NR

Points awarded on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis

1^st = 1^st place votes; Prev# = Last week #

Others receiving votes (points): Valley Center (31), Olympian (26), St. Augustine (23), San Pasqual (14), West Hills (7), Torrey Pines (4), Hoover (2).

There were no sonic booms and reveille still sounded at the usual time on the nearby Camp Pendleton military reservation after Roy Scaffidi announced he was moving senior quarterback Junior Seau to wide receiver.

That Seau also played a fine game at linebacker also did not register with a service rating the top players in the San Diego Section.

Under The San Diego Union headline  “San Diego Preps Have ‘Skill’  Galore”, writer Steve Brand pointed out the quality and depth at such positions as quarterback, wide receiver, and running back.

Seau was not mentioned in any of those position assessments, nor did he receive a call at linebacker, where 15 players were cited.

What happened?

Seau happened.

Oceanside improved its record from 3-7 to 10-3 and reached the 2-A playoff finals under first-year coach Scaffidi.  Seau caught almost 60 passes, scored 11 touchdowns, and was all over the field on defense.

TWO-SPORT PLAYER OF THE YEAR

The rangy, 6-foot, 5-inch, 215-pounder also was the CIF San Diego Section defensive player of the year, was CIF basketball player of the year with 500 points and a 22.7 scoring average, and one of the leading shot putters in the County with a 56-foot throw during the spring track-and-field season.

A star had been born, one that shone brightly for the next three decades:

–All-America at University of Southern California.

–No. 1 draft choice and fifth player in 1990 NFL draft by his hometown San Diego Chargers.

–NFL All-Pro 10 seasons; 13 Pro Bowls, 268 games in 19 seasons.

–Fifty-seven quarterback sacks, 18 pass interceptions, 21 deflected passes, 11 forced fumbles, 18 recovered fumbles.

A certain, future Hall of Famer, Junior would not see the Chargers retire his jersey number 55.   He took his own life at age 43 in 2012.

FALLBROOK GETS IN WAY

A favored matchup would have had Lincoln and Vista squaring off in an 2-A 3-A final.

Fallbrook happened.

Losers to Vista 48-21 in the regular season, the Section’s most Northern entry smashed the Panthers, 28-14, to win the championship, knocking Vista from a No. 15 national ranking in USA Today, and ending the Panthers’ 25-game winning streak.

After starting 2-2-1, coach Tom Pack’s pass-minded Warriors rolled.

The Madison Warhawks, their first-round playoff opponent, were among those who did not know what hit them, which was a predominantly run-and-shoot passing attack.

“Really, we’re going to defend them just like we’ve defended everyone else,” said Madison coach Steve Miner, who was miffed that the Eastern League co-champion Warhawks had to travel to the home of the Palomar League’s third-place team.

“I just think we match up well,” Miner told Steve Brand. “I think we have more speed than Fallbrook.   We have good quickness and we have five shutouts in 10 games.  Why change?

Final score, Fallbrook, 55-6.

A MAGIC RUN

The seventh-seeded Warriors beat Sweetwater for first time in three playoff tries with 24 second-half points in a 31-23 quarterfinals victory.

The Sweetwater victory was followed by a 34-27, semifinals win on a muddy field over Mount Miguel, Warriors quarterback Scott Barrick gutting it out despite battling affects of the flu.

Vista almost was a piece of cake.

Fallbrook led 28-7 when the Panthers’ Tommy Booker broke a 69-yard touchdown run in the final minute.

Barrick smashed Jim Plum’s passing records with 32 touchdowns and 3,496 yards and his wide receiver, Bill Dunckel, was a scoring machine, with 91 catches, 1,328 yards, and 18 receiving touchdowns.

Including points after touchdowns and field goals, Dunckel scored a stunning 166 points.

Barrick scorched Vista with 27 completions in 33 passing attempts for 345 yards and two touchdowns.

Barrick’s total passing yards set a state record that lasted for one season.

NEUMEIER’S NUANCES

Jack Neumeyer once coached John Elway in high school at Granada Hills in Los Angeles, then retired and built a home in Fallbrook.

Fallbrook coach Tom Pack was able to get Neumeyer to join his staff, after completion of the retirement house, in 1981.

Neumeier helped devise a version of a run-and-shoot offense.

Fallbrook called it the “run and gun”, lining up with five receivers on every play, 3 wideouts on one side, another wideout on the opposite side, and one in the backfield.

After a record of 8-15-2 in Pack’s first three seasons, the Warriors beginning in 1981 made the playoffs the next six seasons and were 47-18-3 during that period.

Fallbrook did have a running game.  It was named Ty Barksdale.  In one game Barksdale’s 21 attempts represented all the running plays Fallbrook called.

ANCIENT NORTH COUNTY RIVALS

Vista High opened in 1937.  Fallbrook began classes in 1893 but did not field a football team until 1936.

The neighboring communities are only 14 miles apart.  Their teams have been rolling in the dirt almost every year, with Vista holding a 32-13-2 advantage going into the title  game.

This series record included the years 1942 and ’43 when Fallbrook did not field a team and  1960, when the Warriors opted not to join the new, CIF San Diego Section in football and remained in the Southern Section.

Fallbrook actually played the Panthers before Vista High opened.  That was in 1936.  Vista Junior High topped the Warriors 33-0.

CORONADO’S SEARCH FOR A BETTER LIFE, CONT.

As members of the Metropolitan League (1963-72), Coast League (1973-75), and Metropolitan League (1976-84) the Coronado Islanders could always change unwelcome conversation about football and point to their representative teams in water polo, swimming, tennis, and other sports.

Outscored 242-6 in nine games, the Islanders forfeited their final game of the 1984 season to Chula Vista and announced they’d had enough.  Their league record over the 22 seasons beginning in 1963 was 34-107-4, a percentage of .330, i.e., at least two losses in every three games.

The Islanders demanded to be let out of the AA Metro. The school principal said he would campaign for a new 1-A league or petition the 1-A Mountain-Desert circuit for membership.

CHECK YOUR MILEAGE

It was a matter of survival and the Islanders survived, becoming the largest school in the farflung Mountain-Desert, with trips as short as 31 miles (Santa Fe Christian in Encinitas) and as long as 128 (Holtville) and 145 (Calipatria).

Who’s complaining about long bus rides?

The Islanders  won the league with a 6-4 overall record in ’85 and ran off with a 10-1 record this season, routing Imperial, 30-0, for the 1-A championship and ranking ninth in that division by Cal-Hi Sports.

BACK TO THE FUTURE?

Had Coronado found a home or was it just renting? Talk already had begun about an upgrade back to 2-A.

“It’s not like all of a sudden Coronado football started getting big numbers out for football,” said coach Dave Tupek.  “I still feel we’re a relatively small football team. We are considered a big 1-A school.  I don’t consider us that big.”

A meeting was held at Mountain Empire the day after the season. Speculation centered on the Islanders’ joining Marian (1-8 in the Metropolitan’s 2-A South Bay League) and forming a small-schools 2-A league.  Others mentioned were Ramona, St. Augustine, El Cajon Valley, and Christian.

Such decisions could not be made on the league level, but there were no tears from Imperial and the Islanders’ other rivals in the Mountain-Desert when the Section board of managers  put Coronado back in the Metropolitan’s 2-A alignment.

But for how long? Coronado was becoming a football gypsy.

PLAYER TO RESCUE

Lincoln was on its third coach in three seasons. Ray Hooper was suddenly dismissed prior to the 1985 season.  Orlando (Skip) Coons, an assistant under John Shacklett at Morse, stepped into the void and won the 2-A championship.

Coons had not obtained a fulltime teaching credential, so he had to step aside at Lincoln and become an assistant to…welcome back, Player!

Ensconced in football coaching retirement since 1982, Vic Player returned to the Hornets’ sideline.

Player’s timing was great, as it was in 1960, when he was a two-way player and all-Eastern League at St. Augustine.

Lincoln was closing out a 14-12 victory over the Saints with seconds to play.  Hornets coach Shan Deniston dialed a risky play, a wide pitchout to halfback Adam Cato.  Player, flying from his position as a roving defensive back, scooped up what became a backward pass on one bounce and raced 60 yards for a touchdown and 18-14 victory.

BETTER THAN ALLEN’S TEAM?

Player inherited perhaps the best team in Lincoln’s studded history, better than the 1977 squad that featured future Heisman Trophy winner Marcus Allen and was 12-0-1 with a championship.

Player’s first game back was a 71-0 victory over San Francisco Wilson.  Lincoln averaged almost 44 points a game and scored a record 554 points in a 12-1 season that culminated with a 41-7 rout of Oceanside for its seventh 2-A title and fifth in the last 10 seasons.

An unlikely and stunning, 21-20 upset by Hoover in the middle of the season was the only blotch on the Hornets’ record.

‘SMOKE’ BLOWER?

“Maybe now I can get some respect from the people out there who thought I was blowing smoke (about the ’86 club being better than the ’77 team),” said Player.  “I knew these kids were that good from the first contact drills.”

Lincoln had the fourth, sixth, and seventh highest scorers in the Section.

Fullback Kevin Key (138), wide receiver Patrick Rowe (110), and running back Marcus Hopkins (108) combined to score 59 touchdowns.  Heady quarterback Keith Mitchell went on to play four seasons of major league baseball.

Player coached seven more seasons.  He was 73-22-2 in his first nine and 58-37 in the second stint.  Player’s overall coaching record of 131-59-2 (.688) stands out among the elite.

KOMETS ROIL WESTERN STANDINGS

Kearny forfeited on-field victories over Mission Bay and University City, the result causing a three-way tie for the championship between U. City, La Jolla, and University. The three benefactors advanced to the playoffs.

1953 RUSHING RECORD GOES DOWN

Vista’s Tommy Booker bettered a record that was set before the CIF San Diego Section was formed. Booker’s 2,124 yards rushing in 13 games (and 26 touchdowns and 156 points) bettered the 1,903 amassed by Oceanside’s C.R. Roberts in nine games in 1953. But Roberts’ game average of 211.4 yards topped Booker’s 163.3.

SIGNS OF THE TIMES

Gasoline at some San Diego pumps fell below 80 cents a gallon for the first time since the Iranian revolution in 1979.  Jet Discount at Ingraham and Grand in Pacific Beach led the way with regular at 64.9 cents.

Chief Bill Kolender promised to address complaints and news accounts that revealed the dismissal of traffic tickets issued to prominent members of the community, city employees, and friends and relatives of high-ranking police officials.

 QUICK KICKS

Chula Vista’s 15-14 victory over Sweetwater was its first over the Red Devils since 1976…Vista’s Tommy Booker returned the opening kickoff 92 yards for a touchdown and ran 93 yards for a touchdown on  the Panthers’ first play from scrimmage in a 27-21, semifinals playoff win over Granite Hills… Booker and David Strojny combined for 342 rushing yards against Granite… Booker returned the opening kickoff 95 yards for a touchdowns to key a 44-21 win over Madison… Coronado played 10 games for the first time since 1983 and played outside San Diego County for the first time since 1974, when it flew to north of the Napa wine country to play Upper Lake, the only team to beat the Islanders…ominous sign for the Vista program:  a new high school, Rancho Buena Vista, which would cut into the Panthers’ prime enrollment area, was scheduled to open in 1987…Francis Parker led visiting Borrego Springs, 28-15, in the fourth quarter, then held on for a 28-27 victory in the 8-Man championship game… Pierre Jones was Sweetwater’s Mr. October, averaging 7.9 yards a carry,  and scored 8 touchdowns and passed for two…Jones was second to Fallbrook’s Bill Dunckel with 158 points for the season….

At least five games have been canceled against San Diego Section teams this season and are being considered forfeited, not because of the usual Dreaded Administrative Glitch reasons of player academic ineligibility or residential  transfer no-no’s.

Temecula Rancho Christian suspended its season and fired the head coach after a 43-6 loss to Whittier La Serna in Rancho’s first-ever game.

Rancho Christian also was scheduled to play Orange Glen, Vista, Mater Dei, and Eastlake, which each would pick up a victory unless a substitute opponent could be found (Orange Glen scheduled a replacement game at Oxnard Hueneme and won 41-13).  Mission Hills’ game with West Adams Prep of Los Angeles also was canceled.

The President of Rancho Christian indicated that the superior quality of the team’s opponents were part of the problem.  “The schedule should never have been played,” Scott Treadway told Terry Monahan of the North County Times.

West County Prep, 6-6 in 2011 and a playoff team in the L.A. City section, lost its first two games this season, 56-0 to San Clemente and 53-0 to San Pedro.  “They’re not canceling the season, just the game,” Mission Hills athletic director Ken Putnam told the Times‘ John Maffei.

According to Putnam, Mission Hills thought the game still was on as late as the Thursday afternoon before last week’s Friday night game.  Sometime after 7 p.m. Thursday, West Adams Prep bailed.

FORFEITS=VICTORIES?

“There’s no other way to look at this,” San Diego Section assistant commissioner John LaBeta said to Monahan, citing the situation with two North County schools.

“Games were scheduled and contracts were signed,” said LaBeta.  “I’m sure Vista and Mission Hills will pursue some kind of financial restitution based on the contract.”

A larger issue also was in play.  “This now becomes a budget problem that superintendents and principals, who scream about revenue flow all the time, will have to address because it’s very difficult to recover from losing twenty per cent of your gate revenue,” said LaBeta.

The 20 per cent figure is based on teams generally playing five home games.

OCEANSIDE ON TOP AFTER WEEK 3

Cathedral Catholic shut down Helix, 16-9, last week and toppled the Highlanders from their perch atop the North County Times‘ prep football poll.

Oceanside routed Mira Mesa, 48-0, and now is No. 1, followed by La Costa Canyon, Cathedral, and Helix.  St. Augustine and Valley Center, each 3-0, are the only remaining undefeated teams in the Top 10.

Oceanside received 16 first-place votes.  LaCosta Canyon, despite a 21-10 loss to San Clemente, was accorded 4 first-place votes.  Cathedral and St. Augustine (2 each), and Valley Center and Torrey Pines also received first-place support.

 

Coach Troy Starr’s Helix Highlanders received all 27 first-place votes for a maximum 270 points in the North County Times sportswriters-sportscasters poll after defeating Vista 43-7 last week.

Helix had 13 first-place votes in the preseason poll and 20 after games of Week 1.

The Highlanders take on a third, ranked opponent from the San Diego Section when hit plays host to Cathedral this week.

Coach Troy Starr’s Helix Highlanders received all 27 first-place votes for a maximum 270 points in the North County Times sportswriters-sportscasters poll after defeating Vista 43-7 last week.

Helix had 13 first-place votes in the preseason poll and 20 after games of Week 1.

The Highlanders take on a third, ranked opponent from the San Diego Section when it plays host to Cathedral this week.

LaCosta Canyon moved up to second from fifth after a 10-9 victory over Poway and is home this week to San Clemente, which defeated the Mavericks 58-6 in 2011.

First-place votes in parenthesis

Points awarded on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis

+Record +Points +Last Week

1. Helix (27) 1-0 270 1
2. La Costa Canyon 2-0 226 5
3. Oceanside 1-1 178 2
4. Mission Hills 1-1 146 6
5. Poway 1-1 136 4
6. Cathedral Catholic 1-1 124 3
7. Valley Center 2-0 103 7
8. St. Augustine 2-0 81 10.
9. Eastlake 1-1 67 8.
10.  San Pasqual 2-0 36 NR.

WHAT DID HE REALLY THINK?

“It was a mess offensively,” said quarterback Josh Harris, describing Helix’ victory over Vista.

How will Harris feel after the “mess” is cleaned up?

The Scots’ signal caller lost two fumbles but also completed 15 of 22 passes for 298 yards and four touchdowns.  “We did some good things, but we have a lot of things to improve,” said Harris.

DOWN GOES OCEANSIDE

Two offensive linemen were out and quarterback Tofi Paopao was not 100 per cent.  Temecula Chaparral, a strong Southern Section squad Oceanside defeated in 2010 and ’11, slapped the Pirates with a 40-30 defeat, the final score closer than the difference between the teams.

Chaparral is 3-0 with a big game coming up against the Las Flores Tesoro Titans.   The Pumas also defeated San Bernardino Cajon 42-0 and Moreno Valley Valley View 48-0.

A better read on Oceanside may be forthcoming after Chaparral plays the 4-0 Titans,  No. 6 in the Los Angeles Time Top 25 (Tesoro topped Chaparall 17-14 the following week).   

HOOVER HONORS MR. B

The refurbished Hoover High Stadium was renamed in honor of  Bob Breitbard, a 1937 Hoover graduate who founded the Breitbard Athletic Foundation out of an office at his father’s California Laundry business in 1946.

Breitbard played baseball and football at Hoover, was co-coach of the football team in 1944, and held the position of cheerleaders’ coordinator.  He honored San Diego athletes and promoted  sports in San Diego for more than 70 years.

The Cardinals dedicated Bob Breitbard Stadium, with new, permanent lights before a 27-14 home-game victory over Brawley in their first home game in two years.  Breitbard’s daughter and son-in-law took part in the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

For more than 60 years the Hoover gridiron was in a South-to-North configuration, end zones facing the gymnasium and Monroe Street. The wooden bleachers on the home, East side burned down in 1949. Steel-framed seating with lights were completed before the 1950 season and stood for years.

Several years ago the gridiron was reconfigured and now faces East and West.

SHADES OF ’58 SWEETWATER…ALMOST

Crawford used 13 minutes, 39 seconds of playing time, driving 75 yards in 26 plays, and converted three third downs and three fourth downs on its opening possession against San Pasqual Academy.

The Colts stalled at the Dragons’ 13-yard line and came up empty.

It would be difficult to find a longer possession or more total plays, but Sweetwater won an epic, 1958 playoff game at Anaheim with a touchdown drive of 24 plays and 83 yards, taking ball possession with two minutes remaining in the third quarter and scoring with two minutes left in the game.

The touchdown made the final score 7-7, but the Red Devils advanced to the Southern California semifinals with a 14-9 advantage in first downs.  The late Wayne Sevier, Sweetwater’s quarterback, once recalled  that the Red Devils won six third-down measurements and converted  a fourth and 24.

The fourth-and-forever,  drive-saving first down came on a flea-flicker pass  Sevier passed laterally to Mike Fogelsong, who threw back across the field to Sevier, who lumbered down the sideline.  “We made it by six inches,” Sevier said.

Also in the backfield for that Sweetwater team was Gil Warren, still coaching, and winning, at Olympian.

 

 

Helix’s 28-6 victory over Eastlake on the season’s opening weekend assured the Highlanders of remaining No. 1 in the North County Times sportswriters-sportscasters poll.

Helix had 13 first-place votes in the preseason poll last week and picked up seven more this week for a point total of 253.

Oceanside blew out Oakdale, a Northern California Division II power, 34-14, and remained second to the Highlanders with six first-place votes and 229 points.

Cathedral Catholic stayed at third in an unchanging top 3 after defeating Steele Canyon, 35-6.  Poway moved from fifth to fourth.

First-place votes in parenthesis
Points awarded on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis
+Record +Points +Last Week

1. Helix (20) 1-0 253 1
2. Oceanside (6) 1-0 229 2
3. Cathedral Catholic (1) 1-0 215 3
4. Poway 1-0 145 5
5. La Costa Canyon 1-0 134 8
6. Mission Hills 0-1 125 4
7. Valley Center 1-0 78 9
8. Eastlake 0-1 55 7.
9. Vista 0-1 49 6.
10.  St. Augustine 1-0 39 NR.

ROLL,  ‘SIDE!

Coach John Carroll’s Oceanside Pirates stunned Oakdale, the Sac-Joaquin Section’s top-ranked Division II team, leading 34-0 at halftime in a game that was part of the Battle for Veterans Invitational at Westlake Village.

It was a long trip for each team to the neutral site, 120 miles for Oceanside and 334 miles for Oakdale, located minutes northeast of Modesto.

Said Oakdale coach Trent Merzon:  “We got shellshocked.  We’ve never seen that kind of speed.”

OF A DIFFERENT STRIPE

Because of a National Federation rule, the distinctive, vertical  shoulder stripes on the Kearny Komets’ uniforms have been diminished.  Something about the uniform stripes clashing with the stripes on a football and creating an advantage for a ball carrier.

Former Kearny coach Birt  Slater ordered uniforms with stripes in 1961 and they were a part of the Kearny tradition thereafter.

The straight-talking Slater once joked to me, sort of,  that the stripes reminded him of prison bars and that they’d made his team look bigger and tougher.

Almost impossible to prove is one San Diego County football official’s claim that only three teams in the country have the same stripes as Kearny, including  a team in North Carolina, and one in Texas, which reportedly is not part of National Federation and not subject of the ruling, which has been in effect but not  enforced for several years.

FIRST-GAME PENALTIES
Whistles could be heard and flags were flying in the North County.

San Pasqual and Torrey Pines were penalized 25 times for 209 yards.  Vista and Colorado’s Aurora Grand View were whistled 24 times for 223 yards, including a series of five plays in which there were three penalties and three false starts.

 

There are at least 21 new head coaches in the San Diego Section. More could be revealed as the season, which began Aug. 24 with Calvary Christian San Diego defeating visiting Las Vegas Calvary Chapel, 37-22, opens on a full scale this week.

A new league, the City, also makes a debut and changes have been made in the structure of others.

* Escondido             Steve Bridges  for Jason Texler.

* Granite Hills        Kellan Cobbs for Randy Dewitt.
* Grossmont           Tom Karlo for Ron Murphy.
* Hoover                  Jerry Ralph for Cree Morris.
* Horizon                 Chris Johnson for Eric Stavola.
* Monte Vista         Ron Hamamoto for Page Culver.
* Montgomery       Tom Jarumayan for Gary Harris.
* Mount Miguel     Shaun McDade for Tom Karlo.
* Ocean View         Ron Loewenthal for Jon Clark.
* Rancho Buena Vista    Paul Gomes for Eric Jorgensen.
* San Diego             Doug Packwood for Keir Kimbrough.
* San Diego Jewish   Joe Gurfinkiel for Mark Wetzel.
* San Diego Southwest     Frank Paredes for Jason Lewis.
* San Marcos          Jason Texler for Robert Cendros.
* Santana                Tim Estes for Dave Gross.
* St. Joseph            Tom Davis for Ed Wean.
* Steele Canyon     Scott Longerbone for Ron Boehmke.
* The Rock             Rone Torres for Victor Andujo.
* University City   Eric Perry for John Hutsel.

Karlo and Texler were head coaches at Mount Miguel and Escondido, respectively, last season.  Ralph is the former head coach at Santana, St. Augustine, and Del Norte. Hamamoto formerly Unhiversity, Rancho Beernardo, and Lincoln.

Gomes was head coach at Escondido before Texler and is returning to the San Diego Section after two seasons as an assistant at Anaheim Servite. Hamamoto was head coach at University, Rancho Bernardo, and Lincoln.

Karlo is returning to his alma-mater.  He replaces Ron Murphy, who passed away.

OLD RIVALS

The City League has been re-created with San Diego, Hoover, Morse, and Patrick Henry, who were partners for years in the Eastern League. The fifth City squad, Serra, was in another incarnation of the Eastern League in the 1990s.

The first City League was formed in February, 1950, in retrospect the first move by San Diego teams in an eventual separation from the CIF Southern Section.

San Diego High had been a member of the Coast League, playing a schedule largely made up of schools North of San Diego County, since 1923.

The San Diego City Prep League was divided in 1959 with advent of the Eastern and Western Leagues.

CENTRAL HAS NEW FACE

Formation of the new City League has diminished membership in the Central League, which fielded eight teams in 2011.

Kearny has moved to the Western League and San Diego and Morse have moved from the Central.

Clairemont, Christian, Coronado, Crawford and University City remain in a five-team Central.

WITHER KUYPER?

Small school leagues also welcomed and said goodbye to members.  The Sunset, Pacific, Southern, and Coastal leagues all underwent change and the Citrus League has been brought back.

Kuyper Prep of National City, 7-1 in the 8-man Sunset loop last season, may not field a team. Maranatha moved to the Pacific League and La Jolla Country Day from the Pacific League to the Coastal.

The Sunset has added independent St. Joseph.

The Southern League is no longer part of the Southern Conference. Borrego Springs, Calvary Christian San Diego, Classical, Julian, and San Pasqual Academy form the Citrus League, a Division V alignment.