Christian can’t get no respect.

Pardon the double negative, but maybe the UT-San Diego poll voters should train an eye on the Patriots of El Cajon.  Me included.

The Patriots are 4-0 and the No. 1-ranked Division IV team in Southern California, according to Cal-Hi Sports.

Should coach Matt Oliver’s club be ranked in the Top 10? It was 12-1 and won the D-IV championship in 2013 .  Its only loss was 24-21 to Mission Bay, the Patriots’ opponent this week.

IT’S ALL RELATIVE(S)

Tradition and family run deep at Christian.

Quarterback David Jeremiah, the leader of this year’s team, is the nephew of  Dan Jeremiah, who quarterbacked Christian to D-IV titles in 1993, ’94, and ’95.

Dan’s older brother and David’s father (also named David) played at Christian in the late ‘eighties.

Another David, last name Beezer, is the athletic director at Christian and was the 23-year-old coach of the Patriots when they won in ’93.

Beezer was 30-9 in three seasons, with three titles.

Results of the voting after Week 4:

#	Team (1st place votes)	W-L	Points*	Previous
1	Oceanside (19)	4-0	190	2
2	Mission Hills	3-0	156	3
3	Cathedral	3-1	144	5
4	Helix	3-1	131	1
5	El Capitan	4-0	112	4
6	Ramona	4-0	98	6
7	St. Augustine	2-2	84	7
8	San Marcos	4-0	42	10
9	La Costa Canyon	3-1	33	NR
10	Eastlake	2-2	17	NR

*Awarded on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis.
NR: not ranked.
Others receiving votes: Steele Canyon, 15; Granite Hills, 11; Sweetwater, 9;  Christian, 3; Rancho Bernardo, 2.

Nineteen sportswriters, sportscasters, and CIF representatives from throughout San Diego County vote in the weekly poll:
John Maffei, Kirk Kenney, UT-San Diego;
Terry Monahan, Tom Saxe, Rick Hoff (UT-San Diego correspondents);
Bill Dickens (eastcountysports.com);
Steve Brand (San Diego Hall of Champions);
John Kentera, Ted Mendenhall, Bob Petinak, (The Mighty 1090);
Jerry Schniepp (CIF San Diego Section);
Rick Willis, Brandon Stone, (KUSI-TV);
Bruce Ward (San Diego City Schools);
Rick Smith (partletonsports.com);
Steve (Biff) Dolan, Rick (Red) Hill (Mountain Country 107.9 FM);
Bodie DeSilva (Sandiegopreps.com);
Drew Smith (sdcoastalsports.com).

Tomrorow’s UT-San Diego football poll undoubtedly will list Oceanside No. 1.

How far will Helix fall from first after its 9-7 loss to Cathedral?

I listed them fourth in my vote, behind Oceanside, Mission Hills, and Cathedral.

“I told you we weren’t that good,” Helix coach Troy Starr reminded writer Don Norcross.

Starr knew whereof he spoke.

Slick and fast, Helix barged down the field for an early touchdown and then…nothing.

Cathedral, recovering from a 55-10 loss to Folsom in the season opener, kept the Highlanders at bay, pounding the ball inside, using the clock, and gathering momentum defensively.

How bad was Cathedral in the opener?

Bad enough, but no worse than Folsom’s next three opponents.

The Bulldogs followed their rout of the Dons by defeating usually strong Clovis North, 49-13; Elk Grove Pleasant Grove, 56-6, and Sacramento Luther Burbank, 61-13.

SWEETWATER RISING

Coach Brian Hay’s Sweetwater Red Devils won their 12^th game in a row and broke an 11-game losing streak to Chula Vista, 17-7, in the preeminent San Diego Section rivalry.

No other schools can boast a series that played out for the 68^th consecutive season.

“This game is almost too important because everyone puts so much emphasis on one game,” said Hay, who has turned around the Sweetwater program with a ground-eating wing-T offense.

Sweetwater’s win gave the Red Devils a 38-28-2 edge in the all-time series.

HOW GOOD ARE KNIGHTS?

Is San Marcos stronger than the 9-5 team that lost to Christian, 19-7, in the IV finals in 2013?

The Knights are 4-0 for the first time since 1984 after a 13-8 victory over Fallbrook.

“Right now I don’t feel very 4-0,” said coach Jason Texler to writer Terry Monahan.  “Throwing is what we do best and we struggled.”

Quarterback James Harwell was more pragmatic:  “I’ll feel better about being 4-0 in the morning.”

FOOTHILLERS EXPLOSION

Grossmont’s 75 points against Hilltop (25) have been bettered only 20 times in County history and tied the Foothillers for the 31^st highest one-game total by an 11-man team.

Under coach Tom Karlo, who moved from Mount Miguel to his alma-mater in 2013, the Foothillers have made the scoreboard blink.

Grossmont scored 61, 63, and 69, in three games last season.  It had scored at least 60 points only twice before in the school’s 95-season history.

The Foothillers defeated Monte Vista, 61-7, in 2010 and West Hills, 65-8, in 1989.  They also had a 59-0 victory over Escondido in 1929.

The gentle breezes of Oahu were calling San Diego Section football teams.

Morse coach John Shacklett, who first brought his club to the Hawaiian Islands in 1985, led a vanguard of four local squads, there to play in the annual Shawn Akina Classic.

Shawn was a University of Utah football player who passed away suddenly at age 19.  His older brother, Skip, honored Shawn by conceiving the football series.

Hawaiian teams began play two weeks before school started in San Diego.

Getting to Hawaii meant relentless fund-raising during the year and mid-August practices for locals.

The San Diego Section ruled against the early games after the 1999 season, saying the participating San Diego squads were forced to begin football practice too early, weeks before the start of the school year.

But the experience created a lifetime of memories for all involved, and the game results, while important, were not the most important part of the trip.

Kamehameha defeated Mount Miguel, 17-0.  Farrington blanked Bonita Vista, 12-0.  Punahou whipped Morse, 36-22, and University topped Damien, 10-0.

WHAT’S IN A NAME?                                                   

Patrick Henry’s Errick Williams was known as Rickey when he scored 25 touchdowns and 150 points as a junior.  This season started with Williams answering to his given name, for awhile.

Press reports soon were again identifying him as Rickey.

However he wished to be called made no difference in Williams’s performance on the field.

Runner-up to the 154 points scored by Marlin Carey of Mt. Carmel a year ago, Williams let no one get close this season, leading the Section with 156 points.

PATRIOTS PULL PLUG

Williams gained 244 yards in 19 carries and scored twice on 60-yard runs, but Helix scored 21 points in the final 3:33 to win, 28-13, in the season opener.

Despite his heroics, it was a frustrating evening for Williams.

Williams’ second score put Henry ahead, 13-7.  The next time the Patriots got the ball they went three downs and out and Williams did not get a carry.

The tide of momentum swung to Helix.

PLAYS HURT

Williams maneuvered with a calf bruise throughout the playoffs, but managed 110 yards in 28 carries in a 21-17, semifinal win over Rancho Buena Vista.

The Patriots were handcuffed, 13-0, by Morse in the Division I final and Williams was held to 48 yards in 12 carries.

“It was sore more than in past games,” said Williams.  “It hurt when anybody fell on it, especially big David (Gates, the 285-pound Morse lineman).”

CART BEFORE HORSE

Christian coach Dave Beezer told Chris Ello of the Union-Tribune that he had approved the printing of “Christian High School Back to Back CIF champions” T shirts.

The shirts were produced days before Christian went out and won the IV championship, 28-7 over La Jolla Country Day.

“Hey, we live by faith,” explained the 24-year-old Beezer.

PAID TO PLAY

Twenty-one area football players made NFL opening day rosters or hooked on with teams after being released or were inactive:

Name	Position	NFL Team	College	High School
Eric Allen	Cornerback	Philadelphia	Arizona State	Point Loma
Marcus Allen	Running Back	Kansas City	USC	Lincoln
Matt Brock	Defensive End	Green Bay	Oregon	University City
Brad Daluiso	Kicker	N.Y. Giants	UCLA	Valhalla
Charles Dimry	Cornerback	Tampa Bay	UNLV	Oceanside
Robert Griffith	Safety	Minnesota	San Diego State	Mount Miguel
Ron Hall	Tight End	Detroit	Hawaii	San Pasqual
Clifford Hicks	Cornerback	N.Y. Giants	Oregon	Kearny
Keith Kartz	Center	Denver	California	San Dieguito
Lincoln Kennedy	Tackle	Atlanta	Washington	Morse
John Lynch	Safety	Tampa Bay	Stanford	Torrey Pines
Lenny McGill	Cornerback	Green Bay	Arizona State	Orange Glen
Dan Saleamua	Nose Guard	Kansas City	Arizona State	Sweetwater
Sean Salisbury	Quarterback	Minnesota	USC	Orange Glen
Darnay Scott	Wide Receiver	Cincinnati	San Diego State	Kearny
Junior Seau	Linebacker	San Diego	USC	Oceanside
Will Tate	Wide Receiver	Arizona	San Diego State	Southwest
Jay Taylor	Cornerback	Kansas City	San Jose State	St. Augustine
Rich Tylski	Center	New England	Utah State	Madison
Tommy Vardell	Fullback	Cleveland	Stanford	Granite Hills
Bryan Wagner	Punter	San Diego	Cal State-Northridge	Hilltop

 “I ‘PEESE’ ICE WATER”

It was San Diego Chargers kicker Toni Fritsch, in his fractured English, who once spoke of how he was not affected by the pressure of critical field goal attempts.

Fritsch’s deathless words also resonated with St. Augustine’s Craig Meathe.

The Saints’ senior kicked three field goals, including the overtime winner, in a 23-20 playoff victory over Lincoln.

Meathe silenced grumbling Saints parents, who were unhappy when coach Joe Medina sent Meathe out to attempt a 44-yard field goal on a windy day at Lincoln and with the Saints trailing, 20-6.

Meathe converted that attempt, then cranked a 47-yarder with a tailwind that tied the score at 20 with 1:21 left in the game.

Meathe’s 26-yard placement during the California Tiebreaker came after St. Augustine had shut down Lincoln in four attempts from the 10-yard line.

“The field goal, however many yards it was, to tie the game was the most pressure,” said Meathe.  “I knew if I didn’t make that one we wouldn’t get another chance.”

La Jolla eliminated St. Augustine, 30-18, the following week as Meathe, who also punted and lined up at wide receiver and defensive back, was taken to a hospital at halftime after hyperventilating.

LOSING BAD ENOUGH, BUT…

A 34-0 loss to University in the D-III finals was bad enough for La Jolla, but the departure from Jack Murphy Stadium was worse.

A bus driver, one player, two team  managers, and a ball boy were hospitalized with minor injuries after the bus in which in which they were riding was rear-ended by the team’s second bus.

The buses were preparing to exit Friars Road and turn onto the I-15 Southbound on-ramp.

“The driver of the (second) bus was trying to avoid a Uni cheer bus that had some girls hanging out the windows,” said La Jolla coach Dick Huddleston. “I think he got distracted and hit our bus.”

Huddleston was riding in the first vehicle.  He said the driver was hospitalized with whiplash and the others had shoulder and back bruises and whiplash.

“It was the end of a brutal day,” summed up Huddleston.  “We were just glad to get back home.”

La Jolla was 4-0 against Uni dating to 1989, but the Dons of coach Ron Hamamoto forced three, first-quarter fumbles that quarterback Mike Cavanaugh converted into touchdown runs of 4, 4, and 11 yards.

Uni scored all its points in the first half and Hamamoto fulfilled a promise made to the team after their opening-game victory over Honolulu Damien.

Hamamoto promised his team that if they reached Jack Murphy Stadium he would wear the same Hawaiian shirt that he donned at Aloha Stadium.

HOW DO YOU REALLY FEEL?

Escondido’s 20-7 loss to Orange Glen was the Cougars’ 10^th in a row to its city rival, prompting this post mortem:

“I did a crummy job coaching my team,” Escondido coach Tom Everest  told writer Ed Graney. “It’s my fault.  Period.  The kids played how I coached them.”

Introspection was the theme of the day.

Said Orange Glen coach Rob Gilster, who won for the first time after nine consecutive losses and a 1-9 campaign in 1993:

“We needed to win, but this just makes it more special,” Gilster told Graney.  “Last year was miserable.  I lost control of my team.

“We had too many guys wanting to be the superstar, too many ‘me’ guys,” said Gilster.

Fast forward.  Orange Glen improved to 5-5-1 and made the playoffs.  Escondido went from 5-6 to 7-4-1 and got to the postseason quarterfinals.

OLDEN DAYS

It had been so long since Castle Park played in a CIF championship game that the Trojans may have asked for directions to Jack Murphy Stadium.

After eliminating El Camino, 14-7, in the semifinals, Castle coach Gil Warren said, “The last time we played, the stadium wasn’t there.”

“It was in 1968 and we played in Balboa Stadium,” said Warren.

The coach was a year off.  The then-named San Diego Stadium opened in 1967, but the high schools still used the smaller, more compact venue next to San Diego High.

ONE PROFESSIONAL TO ANOTHER

Castle Park’s 24-21 win over Torrey Pines in the D-II final reminded of a meeting during the summer.

Trojans coach Gil Warren was going to install the wing T offense and sought the counsel of Ed Burke, a guru of that alignment.

Burke also was the coach at Torrey Pines.

Burke was asked after the championship game loss if he regretted tutoring Warren.  “I love Gil,” said the veteran mentor.  “I’d do it tomorrow.”

Warren was especially proud of his team, which took a difficult path to the title and 12-2 finish.

The Trojans’ three final playoff games took them through an Avocado League gauntlet of Carlsbad, El Camino, and Torrey Pines.

“We kept winning and kept having to play another tough team from the same league,” said Warren.  “I’d hate to have to do that every year.”

Warren coached at Castle Park from 1967-77 and won a section title in 1968. He was an assistant coach at Southwestern College from 1978-91 and returned to guide the Trojans in 1992.

Castle Park’s championship was the first by a South Bay school since 1984.

FRESHMEN ARE  BACK

Ninth graders were eligible to play football again in the Grossmont League, after a 15-year hiatus.

Proposition 13, a property tax measure in 1978, created budget cuts in many California school districts, resulting in some extracurricular activities, such as freshmen sports programs, being cut.

The Grossmont School District superintendent approved the reintroduction of freshmen football for the 1994 season.

Supt. Jo Ann Smith pointed out that high school drop-out rates were on the rise and she was open to any suggestions that might help keep kids in school.

CAVERS IMPROVE BUT DON’T MEET MORSE

San Diego was 5-0 for the first time since 1958 and its 7-5 record represented the most wins in a season since the 1969 club went 8-3-1 and tied for the San Diego Section championship.

In a strange dynamic, San Diego and Morse, though members of the Eastern League, did not play.  They weren’t even scheduled.

The Cavers refused to play Morse, according to a coach with knowledge of the situation.

Rowdiness and violence had plagued the series in recent years.

The Eastern League’s six-game schedule would be completed only by Patrick Henry, Mira Mesa, Serra, Kearny, and Point Loma.

Patrick Henry defeated Morse, 20-17, and finished with a 5-1 record.  Morse was 4-1, followed by Point Loma (4-2), Mira Mesa (3-3), San Diego (2-3), Serra (2-4), and Kearny (0-6).

The skewed schedule did not have a material effect on the standings.  Of the seven Eastern League squads, only Kearny and Serra did not go to the postseason.

Morse evened the score with Patrick Henry, scoring a 13-0 victory in the D-I finals.

DUKE TOUGH ON ALMA MATER

Eastlake won its opener at Hoover, 28-7, giving coach Alan Duke a 2-0 record against the school from which he graduated in 1961.

Eastlake’s first-ever game and Duke’s first as a head coach was a 21-0 victory over the Cardinals in the 1993 opener.

THEY SAID IT

“We play the ‘run and shoot’ and if our guys are reading the right coverages, running their patterns to set things up, then all they have to do is play catch.”—West Hills coach Steve Sutton to Jim Geschke of the Union–Tribune after the Wolfpack’s Brian Halsey passed for 316 yards and five touchdowns in a 55-36 win over Crawford.

West Hills scored 358 points in a 7-5 season and bowed out of the playoff quarterfinals, all guns blazing.  They came up short against University, 60-42.

THEY SAID IT, CON’T.

“They not only hit me hard, they hit me often.”—Sore, bruised Marty Graham, after grinding for 148 yards in 27 carries in  Helix’ 20-17, Grossmont League victory over Granite Hills.

Other than a 70-yard touchdown on a draw play, real estate was not easy to come by.  Graham had 78 yards in his 26 other attempts.

The win over the Eagles paved the way to a 4-0 league record in a season in which the Scots were 11-1, losing to Torrey Pines, 21-14, in the D-II semifinals.

THEY SAID IT, III

“Carlsbad didn’t get to be 7-0 with mirrors; our defensive front played a great game.”—El Camino coach Herb Meyer, after the Wildcats defeated the Lancers, 21-6.

Bleachers were filled an hour before kickoff and more than 4,000 were on hand, including USC coach John  Robinson, who stood behind the stadium fence, which was lined 3 and 4 rows deep with spectators.

QUICK KICKS

La Jolla’s winning streak was at 21 before a 21-16 loss to Lincoln, which had recovered from a 60-0 loss to Morse four weeks earlier…future San Diego State and San Diego Chargers coach Don Coryell was head coach at Honolulu Farrington in 1952 and an assistant at Punahou in 1951…Sweetwater listed Malia Fanua, a 6-foot-1, 300-pound,  freshman as a starting defensive lineman…Scripps Ranch linebacker Gary Johnson is son of the former Charger known as “Big Hands”…Tom Barnett, 50-46-2, as Kearny head coach from 1977, returned this season, succeeding Willie Matson…Las Vegas Cimarron Memorial’s Chester Lanczewski hammered a 45-yard field with 10 seconds remaining to send visiting Sweetwater home with a 16-13 loss…the Red Devils beat Las Vegas Chaparral, 7-6, the week before…Corona Christian and Salton City West Shores, members of the Southern Section, competed in the Citrus League, an 8-man circuit that also included Borrego Springs and Midway Baptist…Carlsbad improved from 2-8 to 8-2-1 under first-year head coach Bob McAllister, a former assistant at Vista…

Services for Jeff Staggs will be held at the Immaculate on the University of San Diego campus on Friday, Oct. 3, at 11 a.m.

A celebration of life follows at the San Diego State Hall of Fame center on campus.

A legion of friends remember and mourn Staggs, who passed away at age 70 at his home on Mt. Helix Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014.

He was one of the all-time players to come out of Point Loma High and went on to be a third-round draft choice of the San Diego Chargers and to play eight seasons in the NFL, mostly for the Chargers, from 1967-74.

Staggs became a starting tackle and defensive lineman as a junior at Point Loma and made all-Western League at fullback as a senior in 1961.

Early in that season Pointers coach Bennie Edens had an idea.

He re-positioned Staggs but didn’t want Pointers opponents to know, especially when they were scouting the Pointers and watching their game film.

So Edens instructed that Staggs be given a different jersey and number each week during the season.

What Edens may not have considered was that it was impossible to hide a 235-pounder who could run with the fastest players in the Western League.

Staggs was an all-Pacific Southwest Conference tight end and Junior College All-America on San Diego City College’s 9-1 championship team of 1964.

The Knights, coached by Harry West, overcame a three-touchdown deficit in the second half to defeat Orange Coast College, 28-24, in the Elks Bowl in San Bernardino.

Staggs caught a touchdown pass from quarterback Dan Berry that gave San Diego City a 21-18 lead.

Staggs moved on to Don Coryell’s team at San Diego State and, after his junior season in 1965, was selected as a “future” in the third round of the American Football League draft by the Chargers.

He was one of five Aztec players from the 11-0, 1966 national College Division championship squad that were drafted into the NFL.

Staggs became a starting linebacker as a rookie with the Chargers in 1967.

He was runner-up to Houston’s George Webster in voting for the AFL defensive rookie of the year.

Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis once personally complimented Staggs for his play against the Buffalo Bills’ O.J. Simpson, who at the time was the leading AFL receiver coming out of the back field.

The rangy Staggs covered Simpson on at least eight plays and the Bills’ star caught one pass for eight yards.

Jeff also played for the Los Angeles Rams and St. Louis Cardinals before concluding his career with the Chargers in 1974.

Those who saw Staggs play on four levels of football for more than a decade in San Diego remember him as athletic, tough and pugnacious.

He was not afraid to mix it up.

 

 

Fifty-one years ago almost to the week, San Diego football players sweltered.

It was hotter in 1963 than in 2014.

Let’s try that again.

It was hotter in 1963 than in 2014.

Incongruous as its sounds given the recent scorchers, the weather this week was not as warm it was in that long-ago September.

Back then Hoover and Helix, the presumed best teams in the San Diego Section, geared up for an early-season, Friday night battle that figured to set the tone for the playoffs weeks later.

The temperature in San Diego on Thursday, Sept. 27, 1963, was a record-setting 111 degrees, with 6 per cent humidity.

On game day the high was 104.  I worked the sideline at Hoover that night and remember it must have been at least 95 at kickoff.

Hoover’s Rick Shaw drove the Cardinals 77 yards to the winning touchdown with 3:02 to play in a 14-13 game.

Shaw completed only 9 of 23 passes but they went for 228 yards and a touchdown as Shaw outdueled Helix’ Joe Lavage, who hit on 16 of 20 for 187 yards and two touchdowns.

FAST FORWARD HALF CENTURY

Helix is No. 1 again in this week’s UT-San Diego poll, although Oceanside gained a little ground on the Highlanders, idle last week.

Helix’ first place votes dropped from 16 to 14 and Oceanside’s went from 3 to 5.

Hoover, years removed from Roy Engle’s fine teams of the early ‘sixties, has prospered lately under the solid command of coach  Jerry Ralph.

Looking back, Hoover (7-2-1) was upset by El Capitan, 27-12, in the 1963 playoffs.

Helix, losing, 20-0, to Mount  Miguel in the regular-season finale, finished 6-2 and lost the league title to El Cap.

Kearny, shutout by Hoover, 25-0, in the season opener, defeated El Capitan, 20-6, for the championship.

3 LOCALS GAIN IN STATE

Helix (10), Oceanside (11) and Mission Hills (20) each moved up one spot in the weekly Cal-Hi Sports State Top 25.

The Scots should get tested this week by recovering Cathedral.  The Dons, after a 55-10 blowout loss to Cal-Hi No. 5 Folsom in their opener, have won two in a row.

Oceanside, building a resume for the San Diego Section and beyond postseason, topped a solid Temecula Chaparral squad, 33-0, and visits San Pasqual.

Mission Hills is home to Poway.

ELIJAH’S  SONG

The musiical piece of the same name was written in 1994, popularized by Neil Diamond, and essentially was one of hope.

Elijah Preston gives St. Augustine plenty of the latter, but his 295 yards rushing and five touchdowns weren’t quite enough as the Saints dropped a historic intersectional game to Los Angeles Loyola, 42-35.

The Cubs’ first home game since 1949 was a trial run for the school’s anniversary of 150 years in 2015.

St. Augustine was one of the teams to play at Loyola 65 years ago, but school officials, seeking to determine if the Saints were the last team to play a game on  the Los Angeles school’s field, could only determine that all home games were played on campus that year.

Still, it made for a gala night as a packed house of more than 4,000 in temporary bleachers gave Loyola priests an opportunity to guage the feasibility of constructing permanent seats for next season.

RUBBING IT IN?

Writer Kirk Kenney was alert to stadium sounds.

When Mission Hills kicked short after taking a 30-0 lead over host Bonita Vista with one minute left in the half, the home public address announcer peevishly took note:

“There’s that “Pursuing Victory With Honor” onside kick.”

The Grizzlies actually lightened up in the second half and cruised, 37-0. 

NORTH COUNTY HOPEFULS

San Marcos, 3-0 for the first time since 1984 and a resident of the top 10, takes on Fallbrook, 3-0 for the first time since 1999.

If the Knights top the Warriors, San Marcos will be in position to make a run at its 7-0 start in ’84.  Coach Ken Broach’s team finished with an 8-3 record.

QUICK KICKS

San Diego Section teams were 10-14 in major intersectional games after losses by St. Augustine, Valley Center (40-30 to Redwood City Sequoia) and Eastlake (17-16 to Los Alamitos) and Mar Vista’s 42-6 win at Santa Cruz Harbor…senior George Caragiannides never had played a down until two weeks ago, but was pressed into service and completed 18 of 31 passes for 203 yards and three touchdowns in Grossmont’s 45-27 loss to Ramona…Cathedral scored on two field goals and a safety to defeat Torrey Pines, 8-7….

#	Team (1st place votes)	W-L	Points*	Previous
1	Helix (14)	2-0	185	1
2	Oceanside (5)	2-0	176	2
3	Mission Hills	2-1	139	3
4	El Capitan	3-0	105	6
5	Cathedral	2-1	101	5
6	Ramona	3-0	100	7
7	St. Augustine	1-2	73	4
8	Rancho Bernardo	3-0	56	8
9	Carlsbad	1-2	22	NR
10	San Marcos	3-0	21	NR

*Awarded on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis.
NR: not ranked.
Others receiving votes: Otay Ranch, 14; Sweetwater, 9; Granite Hills, Eastlake, 8 each; Steele Canyon, 7; La Costa Canyon, 6; Christian, 2; Mount Miguel, Fallbrook, 1 each.

Nineteen sportswriters, sportscasters, and CIF representatives from throughout San Diego County vote in the weekly poll:
John Maffei, Kirk Kenney, UT-San Diego;
Terry Monahan, Tom Saxe, Rick Hoff (UT-San Diego correspondents);
Bill Dickens (eastcountysports.com);
Steve Brand (San Diego Hall of Champions);
John Kentera, Ted Mendenhall, Bob Petinak, (The Mighty 1090);
Jerry Schniepp (CIF San Diego Section);
Rick Willis, Brandon Stone, (KUSI-TV);
Bruce Ward (San Diego City Schools);
Rick Smith (partletonsports.com);
Steve (Biff) Dolan, Rick (Red) Hill (Mountain Country 107.9 FM);
Bodie DeSilva (Sandiegopreps.com);
Drew Smith (sdcoastalsports.com).

Blown out 63-6 and 84-6 in its first two games, Calipatria appears to have given up more points in successive games than any 11-man team in the history of San Diego County and San Diego Section football.

History in this case goes back to 1893, when the first reported game was San Diego High’s 8-0 win over the YMCA and noted in Don King’s outstanding publication “Caver Conquest,” the history of San Diego High sports.

There have been almost 47,000 reported football scores since.

Several 6-man and 8-man football games have topped the 147 points the Hornets surrendered in losses to Silver Valley of Yermo (6-63), near Barstow, and CETY’s of Mexicali, Mexico (6-84).

But research indicates the closest any 11-man team has come is the 129 given up by Crawford to Lincoln (0-69) and Ramona (0-60) in 2008.  Montgomery  allowed 128 in 1970 in losses to Chula Vista (0-65) and San Marcos (0-63).

HELIX AND OCEANSIDE GAIN

Impressive performances in the Honor Bowl series last week elevated Helix from 15th to 11th in the weekly Cal-Hi Sports poll and Oceanside from 16th to 12th.  Christian is No. 1 in Division II in the South and El Capitan is third in D-III.

Mission Hills remained 21st in the State top 25.