No. 1 Lincoln is the only team in The San Diego Union’s Top 10 with two losses as action moves into the sixth week after many clubs took a mid-season bye. The Hornets’ schedule is one of the most difficult in California and there’s still a game with legendary Southern Section opponent Los Alamitos this week and what figures to be a Western League championship showdown with Cathedral in Week 9.
The Hornets upped their record to 3-2 with a 49-19 win over the Sacramento Grant Pacers, one of the top teams in the Sac-Joaquin Section. Coach David Dunn’s squad already has met 5-0 Las Vegas Arbor View (45-44 loss), the No. 2-ranked team in Nevada; 5-0 San Juan Capistrano JSerra (28-19 loss), No. 6 in California, and Henderson Coronado (51-14 win), No. 4 in Nevada. There also is a 42-14 victory over Long Beach Poly.
Quarterback Akili Smith completed 6 of 13Â passes for 144 yards and one touchdown last week and wide receiver Ty Olsen caught one touchdown pass to give Olsen 45 for his career, six with the Hornets and 39 at Del Norte, where he played three seasons before transferring this year.
Smith was able to employ another weapon when Junior Curtis, a transfer from Madison, became eligible after the mandatory CIF sit-out period of four games. Curtis had 130 yards and two touchdowns in eight carries, and Aden Jackson scored twice and had 84 yards in 14 attempts.
Lincoln is 0-1 against the Los Alamitos Griffins, losing a 21-17 road game in 2021.
Cal-Hi Sports publisher Mark Tennis photographed Lincoln’s Akili Smith (left) and Ty Olsen after the Hornets’ 49-19 win at Sacramento Grant in Week 5.
MAFFEI FEELS IT
But CalPreps.com doesn’t and then it does (see below).
John Maffei’s The San Diego Union Week 6 poll: Points awarded on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis. *First-place votes. Previous ranking in (italics).
Bold indicates latest. NR–Not ranked. MaxPreps‘ and Cal-Hi Sports‘ are state rankings.
| RANK | TEAM/RECORD | POINTS | MAXPREPS | MAXPREPS.COM | CAL-HI SPORTS |
| 1. | Lincoln (3-2) 22* | 291 (1) | 16 (16) | 54.2 (53.3) | 14 (16)Â |
| 2. | Cathedral (4-1) 2* | 253 (2) | 36 (38) | 40.2 (38.3)Â | 41 (43)Â |
| 3. | Granite Hills (3-1) 6* | 244 (3) | 47 (44) | 35.8 (36.7)Â | 17 (18) |
| 4 | Mission Hills (4-1) | 195 (4) | 53 (53) | 32.9 (33.1)Â | 32 (32) |
| 5. | La Costa Canyon (5-0) | 194 (5) | 34 (34)Â | 40.7Â (40.4) | 35 (35) |
| 6. | San Marcos (4-1) | 151 (6) | 59 (61) | 30.3 (30.3) | 46 (46) |
| 7. | Carlsbad (4-1) | 134 (7) | 54 (56)Â | 32.7 (32.4)Â | On Bubble (Bubble) |
| 8 | El Camino (4-1) | 79 (9) | 87 (106) | 25.2 (21.3) Â | On Bubble (Bubble) |
| 9. | Mount Miguel (4-1) | 60 (8) | 126 (125) | 18.6 (19.3) | NR (Bubble) |
| 10. | Â Rancho Bernardo (4-1) | 18 (10) | 124 (124) | 19.8 (18.5)Â |
NR (NR) |
OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES
University City (5-0, 14 points), La Jolla (4-1, 9), Scripps Ranch (5-0, 3), Oceanside (3-3, 2), Brawley (5-0), Del Norte (3-2), Imperial (6-0), Mt. Carmel (4-1), Torrey Pines (2-3), 1 point each.
VOTING PANEL
Twenty-nine sportswriters, sportscasters, administrators from San Diego County, plus Max Preps.com.
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- John Maffei (San Diego Union-Tribune).
- Don Norcross, Steve Brand, Rick Hoff, Kevin Farmer (Union-Tribune Freelance contributors).
- Joe Heinz, Todd Cassen, Ron Marquez (CIF San Diego Section).
- Brandon Stone, Allison Edmonds, John Carroll, Chase Izidor (KUSI, Channel 51).
- Rick Smith (partletonsports.com).
- Bodie DeSilva (ScorebookLive.com).
- Braden Suprenant (97.3-FM The Fan).
- Christian Pedersen (San Diego Sports Association).
- Tom Helmantoler, (Southern Conference advisor).
- Rex Johnson, Bruce Ward (CIF Advisory Committee).
- Mike Dolan, Joe Evangelist (San Diego Coaching Legends).
- Raymond Brown (SDfootball.net).
- John Kentera, Steve (Biff) Dolan, Dennis Ackerman, Eric Williams, Thomas Gutierrez, Tom Ronco, Adam Paul (Freelance contributors).
CALPREPS.COM SHUTDOWN NOTICE:
“As many fans of our site know, we are contracted to provide data (national schedules/scores/ratings/projections/league & division alignments) to MaxPreps. Recently, for the eighth time since acquiring MaxPreps in 2007, CBS went back into breach and is willfully refusing for some unknown reason to act in a legal fashion and honor their legal/contractual obligations in terms of paying money owed to Calpreps. We are out of funds at this point and have been forced to cease operations.
“As you’d expect, we are in the process of suing CBS to recover owed monies plus damages, but that will no doubt not be resolved until many months or years after the conclusion of the 2024 playoffs, so we encourage any section/state associations who were relying on our ratings in order to run your playoffs this season to apply any pressure you may have the pull to apply to the rogue CBS accounting department, to attempt to persuade them to finally start to act in accordance with federal contract law. Thank you and we’re sorry it’s come to this, but frankly it was destined to never work with a company owned by CBS. We hope to partner with a non-CBS owned company in future seasons, but it’s presumably not reasonable to expect that a deal could be struck with another company during the 2024 season, but if you are such a company and have interest, our ears are certainly open.”
Not long after that statement CalPreps changed course: “We have reached a quick resolution with MaxPreps, and the full site information will return in time for this weekend.”
MaxPreps.com’s computer ratings were used this week in lieu of CalPreps’. The ratings of both sites usually are identical.
