2024 Football Week 13: Lincoln Touchdown Underscores Playoffs Intensity
Mission Hills played keep away, controlling the ball for 34 plays to 8 in the second half, and the strategy almost worked, until Lincoln scored an overtime touchdown to win the Open Division semifinal playoff, 13-7. It won’t be the Hornets’ touchdown that will be remembered. Mission Hills’ Giovanni Harte, who battled the Lincoln defense, […]
Read More2024 Football Week 12A: Can St. Augustine Do It Again?
Many of the San Diego Section cognoscenti declared an upset when winless St. Augustine defeated La Jolla Country Day, 16-0, in the first round of the Division III playoffs last week. That the Saints (0-10) were seeded seventh in the division and the 5-5 Torreys were 10th, according to CIF power ratings, didn’t seem to […]
Read More2024 Football Week 11A: They’ll Always Be Champions
Bloated playoff fields, minimal competition in some instances, such as three games to determine a winner, doesn’t diminish the team accomplishment. So Hats Off to the eighteen San Diego Section league champions. It’s been awhile for a few. La Costa Canyon hasn’t claimed a title since 2011, Hoover and Oceanside since 2014, three others since […]
Read More2024 Football Week 10: Mabel O’Farrell Wins Again
Mabel O’Farrell is on a roll. The Falcons won their second consecutive game and fourth all-time last week, dating to 2018 and 54 losses. Bruce Newland is Mabel’s third coach since the Falcons began playing football seven seasons ago. The 27-6 win over Mountain Empire followed a 38-12 triumph over Rock. Heady stuff for the […]
Read More1938 Baseball: Strange, Disappointing Ending for Hilltoppers
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 Excelsior in […]
Read More2024 Football Week 9: It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s Penalty Flags!
They were flying last week. John Maffei, The San Diego Union high school expert, noted the many infractions and uneven play in the Western League showdown between Lincoln and Cathedral. “It was choppy,” observed Maffei. Perhaps that was because there was an officiating crew of seven instead of the standard six. Play was interrupted 19 […]
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