2014 Week 11: Top Teams, Enjoy Your Week Off
The computer and the writers, broadcasters, and administrative honchos are in agreement. The elite, top 10 teams in the UT-San Diego poll won’t be asked to mingle with the proletariat in the first round of the Division I-V postseason. The CIF’s computer-based seedings byed each team, from Oceanside to San Marcos. The top 10 clubs have a combined, 89-11 record. […]
Read More1996: Essence of the Game
Virtues and moments that identify high school football: Overflow crowd of more than 4,000 at San Pasqual High, under Friday night lights, for neighborhood bragging rights. Tom Kirovski carried the ball on 24 of San Pasqual’s 28 second-half possessions and gained 155 of his game total of 173 yards as the Eagles defeated Orange Glen, 28-17, in the […]
Read More2014 Week 11: Revenge of the Cardinals
What a difference 70 years makes. Jerry Ralph’s speedy, competitive Hoover Cardinals took a 63-0 halftime lead and then called off the jam, activated the running clock, and ran out the game against former arch rival San Diego. The 63-point victory gave Hoover the City League championship and its first outright league title since Roy Engle’s 1963 […]
Read More2014 Week 11: It’s Helix’ Turn to Scratch Head
A panelist who voted for Helix as the No. 1 team in the UT-San Diego top 10 in the last two polls apparently was dissatisfied and cast his vote for Oceanside this week. Helix’ 56-10 victory over Grossmont last week seemingly was not impressive enough when compared to Oceanside’s 35-6 win over La Costa Canyon. Oceanside is 9-0 but had seen first-place […]
Read More1995: Bennie Burns as Monte Vista Begins Title Run
Bennie Edens was pissed. “I don’t appreciate being embarrassed,” Edens heatedly responded to a question from Paula Mascari-Bott of the Union-Tribune. “Playing your starters in the fourth quarter, it’s poor sportsmanship,” steamed Edens. “I’ve been coaching forty-one years and I’ve never embarrassed anyone when they’re that far behind. That’s wrong.” The Pointers had just finished […]
Read More2014 Week 10: Fallbrook Fells Foes
Give it up for Fallbrook! The Warriors claimed their first league title since 2003 this week with a 31-6 victory over Orange Glen. The Valley League championship might also get the Warriors more than a cursory look from area observers. Quietly, almost surreptiously, Fallbrook has crept to a 7-2 record but hasn’t received one vote of a […]
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