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Number 1 Mission Hills  (19 first-place votes) and No. 2 Carlsbad (6 No. 1’s) are on a North County collision course to a Week 7 clash, which may decide the Avocado West championship and pivot the winner to the San Diego Section playoffs. Mission Hills, with first-year coach John Altieri, and Carlsbad, skippered by 16-season veteran ...

TOP 10 John Maffei’s The San Diego Union Week 2 poll. Points awarded on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis. *First-place votes. Previous ranking in (italics). NR–Not ranked. MaxPreps and Cal-Hi Sports‘ are state rankings. HSratings.com, computerizes points grade. RANK TEAM POINTS PREVIOUS MAX PREPS HSRATINGS.COM CAL-HI SPORTS 1. Cathedral (0-1) *20 301 1 15th 47.8 points 15th 2. Mission Hills (2-0) *6 284 2 16 45.7 24 3. Carlsbad (2-0), *6 279 3 13 45.7 20 4. La Costa Canyon (1-1) 177 5 21 26.6 On Bubble 5. Oceanside (1-1) 160 4 73 24.3 37 6. Granite Hills (1-1) 143 6 6 25.0 41 7. Rancho Bernardo (2-0) 114 9 84 14.1 NR 8. San Marcos (1-1) 110 8 50 13.4 NR 9. Santa Fe ...

This could be a first since the first game in San Diego County in the 19th century.  I can’t remember another. A father and his son will be head coaches against each other when Francis Parker plays host to Borrego Springs in a Week 2 game. Tim White, who moved from Borrego Springs to Francis Parker this ...

Clear the decks! Football is Back. A few late schedules have drifted in but most teams, with schools in session, have wrapped “training camp” modes after toiling under hot August skies and gearing for the 67th season of the San Diego Section, which started in 1960. First games are this week, most on Aug. 21 or 22, ...

Originally published Aug. 16, 2014. Now wait just a grape-pickin’ minute! Students at Escondido High were up in arms. They did not cotton to the term Grape Pickers or its use to describe the school’s athletic teams, although the wine-making fruit held agricultural sway in the area and the city had hosted a Grape Day Festival since 1908. The ...

Originally published Jan. 10, 2016. John Saleamua took the handoff, cleared the first line of defense, and cut to the outside. The Sweetwater running back was running free along the Montgomery sideline when he suddenly went down. Jack Jackson, a Montgomery player, had left his bench area, came onto the field, and tackled Saleamua, short-circuiting a 79-yard touchdown ...

Originally published Dec. 30, 2015. Balboa Stadium’s days were numbered. When construction was completed in 1915, the concrete horseshoe seating more than 23,000 was the largest municipally-owned stadium in the world, according to Don King, author of “Caver Conquest.” The 1933 magnitude 6.3 earthquake that destroyed 230 school buildings in Southern California, including many at Long Beach Poly, ...

Originally published Feb. 21, 2014. San Diego County was “free” of the giant Southern Section and on its own, twenty-eight schools strong. The formation of the local CIF section pleased administrators and assorted education honchos who wielded the sharp end of the stick. Coaches and most fans were ambivalent. The great competition against Northern schools and the building excitement ...

Originally published Oct. 25, 2024. San Diego’s march to a Southern Section championship was derailed by Glendale in the most confusing finish in the 20-season career of coach Mike Morrow. “Bait and switch”  is a often-used political term for what happened to the Hilltoppers. They were told by CIF boss Seth Van Patten that a victory over Norwalk ...

Sophomore Jasir Fontenot of Mater Dei won his second consecutive 110 hurdles championship and Chiara Dailey of La Jolla won her first, in a final try, after a second in the 1600 preceded victory in the 3200.  State season leaders Josiah Bowman and Dylan Yarbrough came up short and Ava Parker, 15-year-old ninth grader from ...

At Clovis Buchanan High. Non-qualifiers places noted with —.  Places determined by times in events with more than one heat. *Junior. **Sophomore. ***Ninth-grader. GIRLS EVENT NAME SCHOOL MARK PLACE 100 **Miyah Holmes San Marcos :12.02 — **Aniya Scott Steele Canyon :12.21 — **Haley Hannemann Mission Hills :12.22 — 200 ***Ava Parker Helix :23.93 8th ***Livia Allison Steele Canyon :24.57 — **Holmes :24.70 — 400 ***Parker :53.91 5th *Emery Gonzales Torrey Pines :56.44 — Elise Datuin Mater Dei :56.80 — 800 Delaney Hennigan Westview 2:09.07 7th **Kareli Rascon Eastlake 2:09,86 9th *Harper Diaz Santana 2:12.39 — 1600 Chiara Dailey La Jolla 4:46.00 1st Ayanna Hickey The Bishop’s 4:48.41 6th Grace Keefe Cathedral 4:49.67 11th 100 Hurdles Gabrille Thomas Grossmont :13.81 2nd *Evie Allison Steele Canyon :13.92 3rd ***McKenzzi Jones Morse :14.61 — 300 Hurdles *Isabel Garcia Holtville :42.13 3rd *E. Allison :43.35 — **Isabelle Taylor-Dixon Eastlake :44.71 — Garcia Holtville :42.68 7th  4×100 Relay Steele Canyon :46.12 3rd Del Norte :47.59 — San Marcos DNF — 4×400 ...

GIRLS PLAYOFFS FIRST ROUND DIVISION I WEDNESDAY, FEB. 26. Orange Glen (12-17) 50, @5 Morse (14-12) 42. Holly Tribbey (16 points) and Rebecca Riddle (13) did the damage to favored Morse. Granite Hills (10-16) 34, @1 Rancho Buena Vista (24-3) 74. Torrey Pines (20-8) 60, Point Loma (15-10) 41. 2 Rancho Bernardo (22-6) 76, San Pasqual (8-18) 31. Mt. Carmel (15-12) 77, @Mira Mesa ...

Can the Steele Canyon 4×100 relay team hang with the favorites?  Can Ava Parker hold her own in a possible four races in two days?  Is this the year that Chiara Dailey wins a state championship? Those are among the questions this week as San Diego Section qualifiers head to Buchanan High in Clovis for the ...

Three state leaders will lead a San Diego Section Boys contingent into the 106th state track championships Friday and Saturday at Buchanan High in Clovis: Sage Creek’s Josiah Bowman, the section record holder at 1:49.54 in the 800 and No. 8 this season in the U.S.; pole vaulter Dylan Yarbrough, whose best of 17 feet, 1 ...

Chiara Dailey has won three state cross country championships but never a state track title. The all-time great San Diego Section competitor has the option of trying to win three Section championships at Mt. Carmel this week, but what will the Stanford-bound La Jolla senior do?  She has a deadline Thursday  to determine if she’ll go ...

His wasn’t the best mark of the day, but Oceanside’s Javen Buchanon continued a family tradition, a couple generations removed, in the San Diego Section Division I track championships at Del Norte’s magnificent facility Saturday. Buchanon, the grandson of former NFL and San Diego Chargers star cornerback Willie Buchanon, triple jumped 47 feet, 8 inches, almost ...

Horizon’s Division V powerhouse reached the state championship game but couldn’t keep up or get up as high as Modesto Christian, which  commanded the backboards and denied coach Zach Jones’ team.  El Camino got to the D-II regional championship but lost to state champion Compton Dominguez. San Diego Section teams generally exited early from the ...

San Diego Section athletes in state top 25 are noted in Athletic.net, except any with the — designation.  *Junior. **Sophomore. ***Ninth-grader. Bold indicates updated season best. GIRLS EVENT MARK NAME, SCHOOL STATE CALIFORNIA NAME, SCHOOL SECTION 100 :11.92w, :11.94 Joelle Frazier, Steele Canyon — :11.33w, :11.51 Kirk, Calabasas Southern :12.00 **Miyah Holmes, San Marcos — Ava Parker, Helix :12.04 *Aniyah Scott, Steele Canyon — 12.10 **Haley Hannemann, Mission Hills — 200 :23.89 ***Parker 11th :23.35 **Collins, Fullerton Rosary Southern :24.20 Frazier 19th :24.35 ***Livia Allison, Steele Canyon — :24.45 **Holmes — :24.60w, :25.39 *Isabel Garcia, Holtville — 400 :53.47 ***Parker 3rd :52.80 Adams, L.B. Wilson Southern :56.19 **Sienna ...

Come May, come marks. San Diego Section boys turned in some of the season’s best efforts in league finals last week, with Dylan Yarbrough of San Dieguito pole vaulting 17 feet, 1 inch, to take the state lead and joining Jestian Richardson of Oceanside (49-7 triple jump), Josiah Bowman of Sage Creek (1:49.54) of Sage Creek ...

San Diego Section athletes in state top 25 as noted in Athletic.net, except any with the — designation.  *Junior. **Sophomore. ***Ninth-grader. Bold indicates season best achieved last week. EVENT MARK NAME, SCHOOL STATE CALIFORNIA NAME, SCHOOL SECTION 100 :11.92w, :11.94 Joelle Frazier, Steele Canyon — :11.33w, :11.51 Kirk, Calabasas Southern :12.00 **Miyah Holmes, San Marcos — Ava Parker, Helix :12.04 *Aniyah Scott, Steele Canyon — 12.10 **Haley Hannemann, Mission Hills — 200 :24.05w, :24.31 ***Parker 10th :23.35 **Collins, Fullerton Rosary Southern :24.20 Frazier 15th :24.66 Ella Joo, Del Norte — :24.72 Holmes :24.89w, :25.46 Valentina ...