2017 Week 17: Cougars Were Steeled in Stretch Run.
Steele Canyon’s winning the State Division 3-A championships was comparative to an NFL team sneaking into the playoffs as a wild card and taking home the Super Bowl trophy. The Cougars of Coach Scott Longerbone were 4-4 at midseason, got into the San Diego Section playoffs as a No. 7 seed, won 4 games in […]
Read More2017: Hamamoto, Hauser, Jackson Jump 3 Places
Three coaches each moved up three spots in the annual review of those with at least 100 victories in their careers in this area or in the San Diego Section. Monte Vista’s Ron Hamamoto now has 218 victories and is fifth all-time behind Herb Meyer (339), John Carroll (248), Bennie Edens (239) and John Shacklett […]
Read More1935-36: Hilltoppers Win; Cardinals’ Feathers Ruffled
Unlikely season, unlikely conclusion. —A rare playoff run by San Diego teams in the Southern California playoffs. —San Diego High marched through four rounds to win its only CIF Southern Section championship, along the way setting a school single-game scoring record…maybe. —Hoover blitzed Class B opponents in an attempted sequel to championships in 1931-32, 1933-34, […]
Read More2017 Week 16: Helix Faces Hostile Environment on Neutral Field
The San Diego Section has four chances to win at least one of the six state championships this week. Last year the Section was 2-3, with victories by Cathedral in Division I-AA and Madison in D-3. Most of this week’s games appear tossups, but no team has a challenge like that facing the Helix Highlanders, […]
Read More2017: Week 15: Helix Game Site in Question
Note: Westlake Village Oaks Christian closed school today because of smoke and ash from the nearby wildfires. Helix is scheduled to play there Friday night, Dec. 7. The field at Southwestern faces south to North but the football moved east. Helix, Steele Canyon, and Monte Vista, from the two Grossmont leagues in the foothills of […]
Read More1945-46: “We Got (Expletive)!”
“Elevator! Elevator! We Got The Shaft!” The shout is almost as old as the game. Visiting teams’ supporters furious that the referees or the timekeeper were unjust, a polite term for being “homered”. The Huntington Beach Oilers felt that way when the Oilers, 4-0 on the season and a reported 20-1 in 1944-45, were on […]
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