2025 Football Week 4: About Undefeateds, Coach 100, and Hornets’ Slip
Nine teams are 4-0 as the regular season moves to the halfway mark for most squads this week. Seven, including Mission Bay, Mission Hills, La Costa Canyon, Carlsbad, Santa Fe Christian, Imperial, and El Centro Central, have been 4-0 before in this decade. Steele Canyon hasn’t been 4-0 since 2019 and Olympian needs a reintroduction, […]
Read More1951, Looking Back: Heads We Win, Tails You lose!
The narrative originally was posted Oct. 10, 2012. Duane Maley felt like the guy who discovered that his wallet had been lifted after being jostled in a crowded theater. Maley ended up on the wrong side of the coin minutes after conclusion of a tight, competitive City Prep League season. Maley’s San Diego Cavemen and […]
Read More2025 Football Week 3: Lincoln, Cathedral in Cal-Hi Sports’ Top 10
Lincoln and Cathedral scored significant intersectional victories last week and Cal-Hi Sports noticed. The Hornets reversed a 2024 loss to Arbor View with a 50-31 victory over the Las Vegas team, 0-3 but third-ranked in Nevada by Max Preps, and Cathedral outlasted Chandler, a tough customer and No. 4 in Arizona, 24-23. Lincoln, up to […]
Read More2025 Football Week 2: Top 6 Unchanged; 5 in Cal-Hi Top 25
Brady Palmer (left) ran for one touchdown and passed for another and Parker Johnson caught a touchdown pass and returned a kickoff 98 yards for a touchdown in Cathedral’s 35-7 win at the Central Coast Section’s Mountain View St. Francis. Courtesy, Mark Tennis, Cal-Hi Sports. John Maffei’s The San Diego Union Week 2 poll: Points […]
Read More2025 Football Week 1: No Change From 1-6 in 2024 to 2025
John Maffei’s The San Diego Union Week 1 poll: Points awarded on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis. *First-place votes. Previous ranking (2024) in (italics). NR–Not ranked. MaxPreps‘ and Cal-Hi Sports‘ are state rankings. RANK TEAM/RECORD POINTS MAX PREPS CAL PREPS CAL-HI SPORTS 1. Lincoln (1-0) 25* 295 (1) 10 52.4 10 2. Cathedral (1-0) 5* 248 (2) 17 […]
Read More2025 Football Week 0: Maffei Tabs Hornets and Dons as Season Gets Under Way
San Diego Union-Tribune prep maven John Maffei issued a week-of-the-first-game top 20, with Western League leaders Lincoln and Cathedral at the top. Both teams aren’t afraid to schedule tough opponents, ala legendary Duane Maley during San Diego High’s great run from 1948-59. Lincoln coach David Dunn, a former player at Morse and a five year, […]
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