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Dozens of tournaments and nonleague games make the weekly vote for the top 10 in San Diego County almost superfluous. Action is daily and will be through the end of the year, notably with the massive, 32nd Torrey Pines Holiday Classic, which began this morning at several venues. No.1 St. Augustine (9-2) opens at home at ...

While the St. Augustine boys and La Jolla Country Day girls competed against the best this week, Montgomery came home with a championship, of sorts. The Aztecs (8-3), won the Baller TV consolation bracket in the Tarkanian Classic in Las Vegas, defeating  Las Vegas schools Sierra Vista, 71-46; Valley, 60-58, and Clark, 54-36, after a first-round ...

The San Diego Union-Tribune Week 3 poll: First-place votes in parenthesis. Points on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis. *First-place votes. Last entries in columns indicate previous rank. The San Diego Union-Tribune Week 3 poll: First-place votes in parenthesis. Points on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis. *First-place votes. Last entries in columns indicate previous rank. Cal-Hi Sports’ and Max Preps’ represent state rankings. NR—Not ranked. TEAM RECORD POINTS LAST MAX-PREPS CAL-HI SPORTS 1. St. Augustine 7-0 190 1 6/7 /10 2. Carlsbad 10-2 163 2 31/30 /NR 3. Torrey ...

Eleven wins in 2023 could elevate Sean Doyle to as high as a fourth-place tie with Bennie Edens on the list of San Diego County coaches’ all-time victories. Eleven wins in 2023 would move Chris Hauser into the club of eight who have won 200 games. The late Bennie Edens of Point Loma is fourth with 238 ...

The final act for 98 teams and the 561** games they played was a quaternary of success, 4 games, 4 victories in the state bowl championships. San Diego Section teams enjoyed their most successful year since the inaugural Southern California and state bowl championship series in 2006. Lincoln (13-1) went on a 21-0 blitz in the third ...

St. Augustine, 7-0 and the unanimous first-place choice in the Union-Tribune weekly poll, will take that and its Cal-Hi Sports No. 10 state ranking and Max Preps’ No. 7, to Las Vegas Monday. The Saints of coach Mike Haupt, slotted in the Platinum Division of the Tarkanian Classic at Orleans Arena, will open against Orlando Oak ...

Mater Dei’s recovery from an 0-21 hole to a 22-21 win over Downey in the Southern California playoff last week wasn’t the only remarkable achievement by the South Bay club this year. The Crusaders’ 10-game winning streak, following four straight losses to open the season, is unprecedented, according to researcher and webmaster Henrik Jonson, who estimated ...

Matchups involving San Diego Section teams in the state bowl championship series this week: Lincoln (12-1) versus Concord De La Salle (10-3), North Coast Section, Friday, 8 p.m., Mission Viejo Saddleback College. Calpreps pick: Lincoln, 65 per cent chance of winning. Mater Dei versus Oakland McClymonds (Oakland Section), Friday, 4 p.m., Mission Viejo Saddleback College. Calpreps pick: Mater Dei, 65 per ...

Lincoln, riding with Hot-Roderick Robinson, a 228-pound running back committed to the University of Georgia, will attempt to do what no San Diego Section team has done in this week’s CIF state bowl Division 1-AA championship: Win a game against Concord De La Salle, the North Coast Section champion with the pedigree of 151 consecutive wins ...

Heralded Mikey Williams  has returned for his senior basketball season at San Ysidro after two years at an academy in North Carolina.  Updated Max Preps stats show Williams with an 18.3 average in the Cougars’ five games, in which San Ysidro is 3-2, including a 95-70 loss to Corona Centennial. Williams scored 24 points.  J.J. ...

The San Diego Section and the rest of California prepare for a final act in the 2022 season with CIF state bowl championships this week. Teams from here have a 15-18 record (victories below in bold type) in the competition that resumed in 2006 after an 80-year hiatus. Lincoln, Mater Dei, Granite Hills, and Classical will ...

Classical (10-3) makes a first-ever appearance in the Southern California playoffs, host at neutral Del Norte to Lancaster (9-5) in Division VI-AA. Despite finishing with a 1-2 record and in third place in the Pacific League, the Caimans rolled in the playoffs, upsetting Crawford, 33-14, in the D-V championship. OPPONENT DOWN AND UP Lancaster won eight of its ...

Pasadena Muir (8-6) travels to Blythe Palo Verde (13-1) for a Division V-AA playoff These aren’t the 1935-vintage Muir Mustangs, featuring a future baseball great named Jackie Robinson, who came South and manhandled unbeaten Hoover, 27-0. These Mustangs are more like the Mustangs who came South from 1947-54 and lost seven of nine games to San Diego, ...

University City is not trying to climb Mt. San Jacinto this week; the Centurions are attempting a different climb, over San Jacinto High, but the calpreps.com computer suggests that neither the hypothetical or real option favors coach Paul Lawrence’s team. Calpreps gives the Tigers a 65 per cent chance of winning the Division III-AA playoff on ...

Mater Dei’s opponent hasn’t been seen by a San Diego team in 65 years. Such are the Southern California playoffs. The Crusaders open defense of their state Division II-AA title this week on the road against the Downey Vikings, who upset San Diego, 24-7, in the Southern Section championship game in 1957. That contest, before 12,500 persons in ...

This is the final Union-Tribune poll, as reflected in the first three columns in the table below and coordinated by  John Maffei, but there will be a final, final poll when calpreps.com, Max Preps, and Cal-Hi Sports (columns 4, 5, and 6) weigh in with their final ratings, after the state bowl championship games in ...

Notes about this week’s Southern California playoff teams, including contributions from Webmaster and researcher Henrik Jonson: TRAVELIN’ HIVE The state CIF announced a few weeks ago that it would rely on calpreps.com’s rating system in choosing sites for the Southern California playoffs and state bowl games. Lincoln’s 11-1 record is superior to Chatsworth Sierra Canyon’s 10-4, but ...

Notes about this week’s San Diego Section finalists. Webmaster and researcher Henrik Jonson contributed much of the information: DIVISION I 1 Mission Hills (9-3) vs. 3 Mater Dei (8-4), tonight, 7:30 p.m., Southwestern College. The Grizzlies advanced from the semifinals with a 28-21 win over No. 5 El Camino. Mater Dei defeated No. 2 Cathedral, 14-9. Chris Hauser is the ...

Notes about this week’s San Diego Section finalists. Webmaster and researcher Henrik Jonson contributed much of the information: Division V 1 Crawford (11-1) vs. 3 Classical (8-3), Saturday, 2 p.m., Escondido High. Crawford moved on after a 26-7 victory in the semifinals versus No. 5 Mar Vista. Classical retired 2 Escondido Charter, 28-14. Crawford’s Matt Marquez is in his fourth ...

Tonight’s Lincoln-Carlsbad game for the San Diego Section Open Division championship in Snapdragon Stadium  will be the first since 2013 not involving Helix or Cathedral. Lincoln and Carlsbad have been here before, as recently as 2019 and 2021, and each is looking for a breakout. The Hornets lost in the Division I championship game to Oceanside, 28-10, ...