2024 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…
2024 Flag Football Week 10: Playoffs Next as Regular Season Ends
The CIF flag playoff structure follows the format and selection process used for tackle football, one based on the Power Ranking algorithm of the MaxPreps/Calpreps system*. Four divisions, based primarily…
2024 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…
1938 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…
2024 Flag Football Week 9: Penultimate Week; Playoffs Loom
519 MATCHES PLAYED, JUST 88 REMAINING During the last 10 days of the regular season, most are focused on their League opponents, as the San Diego Section playoffs are on…
2024 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….
2024 Flag Football Week 8: Playoff Divisions Set; Brackets Later
San Diego Section playoffs will consist of four divisions/brackets of 12 teams each, to be chosen by a CIF committee. Only criteria given is that seeding is based on record…
2024 Football Week 8: It’s Winning Time for Hornets, Dons, Falcons, Centurions
Number 1 Lincoln is at No. 2 Cathedral and unranked Scripps Ranch visits No. 10 University City Friday with the winners the likely champions in the Western and Eastern leagues….
2024 Flag Football Week 7: 414 Down, 152 To Go
State No. 3 Classical (17-4), with a 36-26 win over local No. 9 Torrey Pines (10-7), remains the team to emulate. A month is left in the season and more…
