Helix picked up 4 additional first place votes in this week’s Union-Tribune poll and now has eight, half the total of front running mission Hills, which remained No. 1 for the ninth consecutive week and moved into top 10 in the weekly Cal-Hi Sports‘ state rankings.
The Highlanders, ranked 13th by Cal-Hi Sports, have trailed Mission Hills since a 23-19 loss in the opening game to Scottsdale Chaparral, now ranked fifth in Arizona with an 8-2 record.
The regular season ends in the San Diego Section this week the playoffs could lead to and Helix’s and Mission Hills’ meeting in the Open Division championship.
It was a shaky week for teams in the Top 10. Madison jumped from seventh to fourth, La Costa fell from fourth to eighth, Cathedral moved from ninth to sixth, and Mission Bay disappeared, perhaps not to be seen again this season.
The 8-0 Buccaneers walked into a 41-0 knockout punch by Point Loma, which sustained a 48-0 TKO and fourth-quarter running clock by Madison the week before.
RIVALRY?
Grossmont is 46-24-1 since 2010 and coach Tom Karlo has fielded a 7-2 this season, but don’t tell that to Helix.
The Highlanders won another “battle” for the Musket last week, scoring a 68-16 victory in a series that began in 1951 and has become a Helix runaway.
The Scots have won the last 16 meetings by a combined score of 690-177 and hold an all-time lead of 38-18-2.
The 52-point margin last week wasn’t the widest. Helix won the Musket game, 56-2, in 1982.
Week 11 poll after 10 weeks of games:
| # |
Team (1st place votes) |
Points |
W-L |
Previous |
| 1. |
Mission Hills (16) |
231 |
9-0 |
1 |
| 2. |
Helix (8) |
222 |
7-1 |
2 |
| 3. |
St. Augustine |
187 |
7-2 |
3 |
| 4. |
Madison |
136 |
7-2 |
7 |
| 5. |
Rancho Bernardo |
123 |
7-2 |
6 |
| 6. |
Cathedral Catholic |
100 |
5-4 |
9 |
| 7. |
Carlsbad |
57 |
6-3 |
NR |
| 8. |
La Costa Canyon |
56 |
6-3 |
4 |
| 9. |
San Marcos |
37 |
7-2 |
NR |
| 10. |
Westview |
36 |
7-2 |
5 |
NR–Not ranked. Points awarded on basis of 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1.
Others receiving votes (record & points in parenthesis): Mater Dei (8-1, 27), Bonita Vista (7-2, 25), Valhalla (7-2, 15), Oceanside (5-4, 14), Grossmont (7-2, 11), Mission Bay (8-1, 10), Poway (5-4, 9), Granite Hills (8-1, 8), Christian (7-2, 4), Santa Fe Christian (8-1, 2), Point Loma (6-3, 2), Eastlake (4-5, 1).
24 Media and CIF representatives vote each week: John Maffei (U-T San Diego), Steve Brand, Terry Monahan, Don Norcross, Jim Lindgren, Tom Saxe, Rick Hoff (U-T San Diego correspondents), Bill Dickens, Chris Davis (East County Sports.com), Steve (Biff) Dolan, (Mountain Country 107.9 FM), John (Coach) Kentera, Ted Mendenhall, Bob Petinak (The Mighty 1090), Rick Willis, Brandon Stone (KUSI-TV), Rick Smith (partletonsports.com), Jerry Schniepp, John Labeta (CIF San Diego Section), Bodie DeSilva (sandiegopreps.com), Drew Smith (sdcoastalsports.com), Lisa Lane (San Diego Preps Insider), Raymond Brown (sdfootball.net), R. Pena, C. Smith and Montell Allen (MBASports-SDFNL Magazine).