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Matchups involving San Diego Section teams in the state bowl championship series this week: Lincoln (12-1) versus Concord De La Salle (10-3), North Coast Section, Friday, 8 p.m., Mission Viejo Saddleback College. Calpreps pick: Lincoln, 65 per cent chance of winning. Mater Dei versus Oakland McClymonds (Oakland Section), Friday, 4 p.m., Mission Viejo Saddleback College. Calpreps pick: Mater Dei, 65 per ...

Lincoln, riding with Hot-Roderick Robinson, a 228-pound running back committed to the University of Georgia, will attempt to do what no San Diego Section team has done in this week’s CIF state bowl Division 1-AA championship: Win a game against Concord De La Salle, the North Coast Section champion with the pedigree of 151 consecutive wins ...

Heralded Mikey Williams  has returned for his senior basketball season at San Ysidro after two years at an academy in North Carolina.  Updated Max Preps stats show Williams with an 18.3 average in the Cougars’ five games, in which San Ysidro is 3-2, including a 95-70 loss to Corona Centennial. Williams scored 24 points.  J.J. ...

The San Diego Section and the rest of California prepare for a final act in the 2022 season with CIF state bowl championships this week. Teams from here have a 15-18 record (victories below in bold type) in the competition that resumed in 2006 after an 80-year hiatus. Lincoln, Mater Dei, Granite Hills, and Classical will ...

Classical (10-3) makes a first-ever appearance in the Southern California playoffs, host at neutral Del Norte to Lancaster (9-5) in Division VI-AA. Despite finishing with a 1-2 record and in third place in the Pacific League, the Caimans rolled in the playoffs, upsetting Crawford, 33-14, in the D-V championship. OPPONENT DOWN AND UP Lancaster won eight of its ...

Pasadena Muir (8-6) travels to Blythe Palo Verde (13-1) for a Division V-AA playoff These aren’t the 1935-vintage Muir Mustangs, featuring a future baseball great named Jackie Robinson, who came South and manhandled unbeaten Hoover, 27-0. These Mustangs are more like the Mustangs who came South from 1947-54 and lost seven of nine games to San Diego, ...

University City is not trying to climb Mt. San Jacinto this week; the Centurions are attempting a different climb, over San Jacinto High, but the calpreps.com computer suggests that neither the hypothetical or real option favors coach Paul Lawrence’s team. Calpreps gives the Tigers a 65 per cent chance of winning the Division III-AA playoff on ...

Mater Dei’s opponent hasn’t been seen by a San Diego team in 65 years. Such are the Southern California playoffs. The Crusaders open defense of their state Division II-AA title this week on the road against the Downey Vikings, who upset San Diego, 24-7, in the Southern Section championship game in 1957. That contest, before 12,500 persons in ...

This is the final Union-Tribune poll, as reflected in the first three columns in the table below and coordinated by  John Maffei, but there will be a final, final poll when calpreps.com, Max Preps, and Cal-Hi Sports (columns 4, 5, and 6) weigh in with their final ratings, after the state bowl championship games in ...

Notes about this week’s Southern California playoff teams, including contributions from Webmaster and researcher Henrik Jonson: TRAVELIN’ HIVE The state CIF announced a few weeks ago that it would rely on calpreps.com’s rating system in choosing sites for the Southern California playoffs and state bowl games. Lincoln’s 11-1 record is superior to Chatsworth Sierra Canyon’s 10-4, but ...

Notes about this week’s San Diego Section finalists. Webmaster and researcher Henrik Jonson contributed much of the information: DIVISION I 1 Mission Hills (9-3) vs. 3 Mater Dei (8-4), tonight, 7:30 p.m., Southwestern College. The Grizzlies advanced from the semifinals with a 28-21 win over No. 5 El Camino. Mater Dei defeated No. 2 Cathedral, 14-9. Chris Hauser is the ...

Notes about this week’s San Diego Section finalists. Webmaster and researcher Henrik Jonson contributed much of the information: Division V 1 Crawford (11-1) vs. 3 Classical (8-3), Saturday, 2 p.m., Escondido High. Crawford moved on after a 26-7 victory in the semifinals versus No. 5 Mar Vista. Classical retired 2 Escondido Charter, 28-14. Crawford’s Matt Marquez is in his fourth ...

Tonight’s Lincoln-Carlsbad game for the San Diego Section Open Division championship in Snapdragon Stadium  will be the first since 2013 not involving Helix or Cathedral. Lincoln and Carlsbad have been here before, as recently as 2019 and 2021, and each is looking for a breakout. The Hornets lost in the Division I championship game to Oceanside, 28-10, ...

The season was outstanding, perhaps the best ever overall in San Diego, but the section was a legislative loser. San Diego Section commissioner Don Clarkson made a request to the state CIF during a meeting in Berkeley the week of the state meet. Clarkson asked that his section be allocated three berths in each event at future ...

Hoover was favored and aiming for what sportswriters euphemistically called a hat trick. The term, more favored in ice hockey and soccer, meant a player had scored three goals. The Cardinals were shooting for a third title, having won the Lions Tournament and Eastern League (they could have claimed a fourth after being selected No. 1 ...

The 62nd San Diego Section playoffs, 64 teams strong, opened last week, with favorites prevailing in 16 of 22 first-round games, a 72.7 winning percentage. Hats off to CIF commissioner Joe Heinz and his staff, and the voting representatives from the City, North, East, Desert, South, Coastal, and eight-man regions who got the seedings and pairings ...

Ten things, among many, to remember about the 63rd San Diego Section regular season: –Nineteen teams won or tied for 18, eleven-man league championships.  Fallbrook and San Pasqual deadocked for first in the Valley. –Carlsbad ruled the Avocado League for the fourth consecutive year. –Chula Vista won an outright championship for the first time since 2003. –Poway is undefeated ...

Granite Hills’ epic, four-overtime, 46-44 win over Helix for the Grossmont Hills championship represented the longest game in San Diego County history, although the first overtime contest also was long, for another reason. From the 1976 season narrative: NEW TIE-BREAKER TESTED “History-making events are supposed to be heralded with sounding trumpets and helium-filled balloons,” wrote Steve Brand of ...

Five league championships have been decided in the San Diego Section and 14 more will be settled this week or end with ties. No. 1 Madison is at No. 2 Lincoln for the Western League flag and No. 7 Granite Hills is at No. 5 Helix for Grossmont Hills honors in featured jousts. Carlsbad (Avocado), University ...

San Diego High, one year removed from a San Diego Section championship, posted a 10-12 record. The sub-.500 finish represented the Cavemen’s poorest record since the 1907 squad of coach Lawrence Carr, Sr., was 0-7. Yes, 1907, according to Don King’s Caver Conquest. Power had moved East after being seated for most of the last 60 years ...