2020-21 Week 6: Games of Truth for Torrey, San Marcos
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: 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.