Torrey Pines and San Marcos are on the cusp of becoming the fifth and sixth teams in San Diego County history to complete undefeated regular seasons. (Editor’s note:Â Challenges and additions to this stat welcomed.)
Hoover was 24-0 in the 1959-60 regular season and got to the Southern California semifinals before bowing to Anaheim, 39-34. Mount Miguel was 28-0 and went on to the San Diego Section championship and 32-0 in 1967-68. Helix was 29-0 and finished 33-0 in 1969-70, and Kearny was 28-0 and went to 32-0 in 1973-74.
The Falcons (24-0) finish this week with a Avocado (actually, Coastal) League, home-and-home series with La Costa Canyon (8-7). San Marcos (22-0) has a couple tough Palomar League jousts with 16-5 Mission Hills, its neighborhood rival.
Next week’s San Diego Section Open Division playoffs will have a bracket of eight teams. No matter how those eliminations play out, all eight squads will advance to the eight-team Southern California playoffs.
This week’s The San Diego Union-Tribune poll:
RANK | TEAM | RECORD | POINTS | LAST WEEK |
1. | Torrey Pines | 24-0 (13) | 130 | 1 |
2. | San Marcos | 22-0 | 114 | 2 |
3. | Cathedral | 12-3 | 107 | 3 |
4. | St. Augustine | 12-4 | 90 | 4 |
5. | El Camino | 20-5 | 72 | 5 |
6. | Santa Fe Christian | 15-3 | 58 | 6 |
7. | Mission Hills | 16-5 | 52 | 7 |
8. | Carlsbad | 13-7 | 35 | 8 |
9. | Mission Bay | 14-7 | 19 | NR |
10. | Bonita Vista | 10-5 | 13 | nr |
Others receiving votes: Coronado (15-5, 5 points), Mater Dei (9-4, 3), Orange Glen (19-5, 3), San Ysidro (16-5, 2), Madison (16-7, 1), Valhalla (14-4, 1).
First-place votes in parenthesis.. Points awarded on scale of 10 down to 1.
Poll voters:13 sportswriters, sportscasters from around San Diego County.
- John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune.
- Aaron Burgin, fulltimehoops.com.
- Terry Monahan, Steve Brand, Union-Tribune correspondents.
- John Kentera, Braden Suprenant, 97.3 FM The Fan.
- Bodie DeSilva, scorebooklive.com.
- Ramon Scott, EastCountySports.com.
- Adam Paul, ECPreps.com
- Steve Dolan Mountain Country 107.9 FM.
- Christian Pedersen, San Diego Sports Association.
- Rick Smith, partletonsports.com
- Brad Enright, L.A. Court Report.
How others see San Diego Section’s top 10 in their California ratings*.
TEAM | RANK | CAL-HI SPORTS | MAX PREPS |
Torrey Pines | 1 | 2 | 2 |
San Marcos | 2 | 20 | 11 |
Cathedral | 3 | 16 | 9 |
St. Augustine | 4 | NR | 20 |
El Camino | 5 | NR | 44 |
Santa Fe Christian | 6 | NR | 19 |
Mission Hills | 7 | NR | 35 |
Carlsbad | 8 | NR | 55 |
Mission Bay | 9 | NR | 63 |
Bonita Vista | 10 | NR | 86 |
*Cal-Hi Sports‘ ranks a Top 25.