2014 Week 8: Oceanside Faces Tough Final 4
Can anyone topple No. 1 Oceanside? We’ll just stick with the regular season for now. The Pirates’ last 4 opponents have a combined 16-8 won-loss record. On paper, no other team in the UT-San Diego weekly top 10 (see below) has a more difficult month ahead except No. 9 El Camino and No. 4 El Capitan, whose […]
Read More1952: 3 Too Much For Chula Vista
“We couldn’t convince ourselves that this team was as good as the Sweetwater and Oceanside teams we defeated.” Such was the lament of Chula Vista coach Chet DeVore, whose Spartans’ season ended with a 19-0 loss to Laguna Beach in a CIF lower division, Southern Group semifinal playoff. The small crowd of about 2,500 at […]
Read More2014 Week 7: Oceanside, Carroll On Move
The opponents and the milestones continue to pass for John Carroll and his Oceanside Pirates. The 42-16 victory over Mission Hills left the Pirates with a 6-0 record and within shouting distance of an unbeaten, 10-0 regular season. Herb Meyer doesn’t hear shouts or footsteps, but Carroll’s 240th career victory moved the Oceanside coach past Point […]
Read More1952, Looking Back: Oh, No, Not Again!
The article originally was posted Oct. 9, 2014. The dreaded coin toss was back. The flip of a silver dollar had elevated La Jolla into the Southern California playoffs after a first-place tie with San Diego in 1951. Now, with a week remaining in the regular season and La Jolla and San Diego again headed […]
Read More2014: Oceanside Gains With Cal-Hi Sports
Rest not only can cure what ails you but can help in the rankings. Oceanside and Mission Hills, idle last week as they ramped up for this week’s battle of the Highway 78 corridor, each was elevated in Cal-Hi Sports’ weekly State Top 25. Oceanside moved from eighth to seventh and was positioned at fifth […]
Read More2014 Week 6: And Now There Are 10
With a nod to the beginning of league play next week, seven of the top 10 teams in the weekly UT-San Diego poll this week took the night off. Through Week 6, ten teams still are undefeated, compared with seven a year ago. The 2014 unbeatens: Team Record Best* Year Borrego Springs 6-0 5-0 2006 El […]
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