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2021 Week 8: Carlsbad Hangs On To No. 1.
It didn’t have much influence on John Maffei’s Union-Tribune Top 10 poll through Week 7, but the Carlsbad-Torrey Pines game, a last-second, 34-33 win for coach Thadd MacNeal’s unbeaten Lancers, rates as the game of the year and easily the best since the pandemic. Sophomore quarterback Julian Sayin drove the Lancers 90 yards in the […]
Read More1955 Track: Hoover and Grossmont Dominate
The lower classifications held sway. Grossmont was the Southern Section team champion in Class B and most of the area’s future Class A champions were underclassmen, at least a year or two away. Hoover was enjoying a period of dominance in CPL dual meets, routing San Diego, 64 1/3-39 2/3. Grossmont also defeated the Cavers, […]
Read More2021 Week 7: Carlsbad-Torrey Pines Possible Barn Burner
Carlsbad will be at an interesting juncture as the regular season turns to the second half and the Lancers riding a 10-game winning streak. At 5-0, duplicating its record in the pandemic 2020 campaign and 5-0 starts in 2013 and 2007, coach Thadd MacNeal’s team will try to become 6-0 for the first time since […]
Read More2021 Week 6: Carlsbad Holds Lead
By three points, Carlsbad retained its lead over Cathedral, 226 points to 223 and will sit out this week with a bye. 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. Carlsbad 5-0 (13) 226 2 […]
Read More1954 Baseball: 24-0 Cavers Shocked in First Game of Playoffs
San Diego High, for decades the No. 1 team in Southern California baseball, was undefeated and favored to win an 11th CIF championship. Until…. The Hillers, as they were most often called (besides Cavemen, Cavers, and Hilltoppers) during the era, lost a quarterfinals playoff to a team it had beaten, handily, twice before. This San […]
Read More2021 Week 5: Cathedral Takes on Another Big One in North
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 […]
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