2023 Week 15B: State Regional Playoffs, At a Glance

San Diego Section teams in bold.  Columns 4, 5, and 6 are prep outlets’ ratings of opponents.

DIVISION TEAM OPPONENT CAL-PREPS.COM MAX PREPS CAL-HI SPORTS
I-AA Granite Hills (12-0) @Mission Viejo (11-3) 65.9/69.7 7/5 6/12
I-A St. Augustine (10-4) Ventura St. Bonaventure (11-3) 46.4/51.4 39/31 43/29
III-AA Del Norte (11-1) Lake Balboa Birmingham (11-2) 32.2/33.0 99/94 On Bubble/Not ranked
III-A Mount Miguel (12-1) @Lakewood Mayfair (11-3) 21.8/27.1 161/131 NR/NR
V-A La Jolla Country Day (11-3) @Wilmington Banning (8-6) 15.8/7.8 213/286 NR/NR
VI-A Sweetwater (7-6) Santa Monica St. Monica (11-3) -5.4/-8.9 471/507 NR/NR


2022-23 Week 11: Hat’s Off! 42 Boys’ and Girls’ Champions

The leagues and teams sometimes are different and some teams play football in one league and basketball in another.  Some teams don’t play football and some of these leagues don’t offer football.

MaxPreps ranks any team in California that provides information and Max’s information is not always complete.  Cal-Hi Sports rates from 1 to 25 and then cites many more considered to be on “On the Bubble.”

Max received information from 124 San Diego Section schools this season, compared to 84 football-playing schools in 2022.

Winning a league championship is the first step  to the playoffs for aspiring teams, although teams that did not win their league may be seeded higher in the postseason and may have better overall records.

But that doesn’t diminish the achievements of the champions of the 42 Boys’ and Girls’ circuits in the San Diego Section.  Ask any coach, the initial goal at the start of the season is to “win our league.”

The 22-23 league champions with state rankings by MaxPreps and Cal-Hi Sports:

BOYS

TEAM LEAGUE WON-LOSS OVERALL AVERAGE  SCORE MAXPREPS CAL-HI SPORTS
Del Norte Avocado 10-0 18-7, .720 64.2-58.5 112 NR
High Tech San Diego Central 8-0 19-8, .704 59.8-46.6 NR
Lincoln City 8-0 25-2, .926 60.2-41.2 148 NR
La Jolla Country Day Coastal 11-1 19-7, .731 65.1-49.6 120 NR
Santa Fe Christian 11-1 24-4, .857 70.9-53.3 70 NR
Imperial Desert 8-1 16-8, .667 59.8-51.8 NR
Scripps Ranch Eastern 7-1 15-11, .577 62.3-58 NR
Helix Grossmont Hills 8-0 17-11, .607 66.3-57.3 NR
Steele Canyon Grossmont Valley 7-1 16-12, .571 61.4-61 NR
El Centro Central Imperial Valley 7-1 18-9, .667 61.9-56.3 NR
San Pasqual Academy Manzanita 9-0 11-2, .846 51.8-31.8 NR
Montgomery Metro Mesa 11-1 23-5, .821 73.4-51.7 53 NR
Ramona North County Coastal 9-1 18-9, .667 64.6-55.1 NR
Rock Ocean 11-1 20-6, .769 59.1-38.4 NR
Maranatha Pacific 8-2 17-11, .607 53.4-52.4 NR
Carlsbad Palomar 9-1 23-5, .821 78.4-61.8 35 Bubble
Gompers Prep Patriot 11-1 16-5, .768 59.4-41.3 NR
High Tech Mesa Pioneer 12-0 16-12, .571 48.9-40.9 NR
High Tech North County Sierra 6-0 14-9, .609 45.7-43.7 NR
Victory Christian South Bay 10-2 20-8, .714 79.6-57.1 NR
High Tech Chula Vista Summit 6-0 14-10, .583 66.7-53.5 NR
Mission Vista Valley 7-1 18-8, .692 60.5-55.7 NR
St. Augustine Western 10-0 24-4, .857 75.5-56.9 9 6

GIRLS

TEAM LEAGUE WON-LOSS OVERALL AVERAGE  SCORE MAXPREPS CAL-HI SPORTS
Poway Avocado 10-0 24-2, .923 56.0-40 39 NR
Crawford Central 8-0 15-12, .556 40.5-41.3 NR
University City City 9-1 16-10, .615 44.3-41.7 NR
La Jolla Country Day Coastal 5-0 25-3, .880 66.7-46.1 3 2
Morse Eastern 8-0 21-5, .808 58.3-33.8 NR
Mount Miguel Grossmont Hills 8-0 22-6, .760 61.9-39.7 26 Bubble
Granite Hills Grossmont Valley 10-0 23-5, .815 44.6-27.4 NR
Imperial Imperial Valley 8-0 24-4, .852 52-29 104 NR
San Pasqual Academy Manzanita 6-2 8-6, .571 23.4-23.4 NR
Warner Springs Warner 6-2 8-9, .471 23.8-31.1 NR
Bonita Vista Metro 8-0 18-8, .692 66.4-47.2 32
Torrey Pines North County Coastal 10-0 21-7, .750 50.9-43.8 156 NR
Escondido Adventist Ocean 9-1 12-8, .600 29.9-28.6 NR
Rock 9-1 14-4, .778 34.9-23.3 NR
Classical Pacific 8-0 15-4, .789 45.5-37.3 NR
Mission Hills Palomar 10-0 19-9, .679 65-51.3 27 Bubble
Preuss UCSD Patriot 6-0 13-11, .542 28.5-30.7 NR
High Tech Mesa Pioneer 5-1 9-7, .563 35.6-32.3 NR
Gompers Prep Sierra 5-1 9-13, .409 22.1-28.7 NR
High Tech North County 5-1 5-12, .294 23.1-36.2 NR
Montgomery South Bay 6-0 20-6, .769 67.3-38.5 NR
Bayfront Charter Summit 5-1 17-8, .680 40.1-33.9 NR
Liberty Charter 5-1 8-16, .333 40.1-47.1 NR
Sage Creek Valley 8-0 19-8, .704 47.4-34 NR
Scripps Ranch Western 8-0 20-5, .800 53.3-35.9 91 NR


2022-23 Week 10: Santa Fe Christian, Mater Dei Rattle the Top 10

One week to go in the regular season and the ranks have been shaken.

St. Augustine, Carlsbad, and Montgomery remained 1-2-3 in the latest Union-Tribune vote, but seven others changed positions. Most notable were Santa Fe Christian’s leapfrogging from No. 8 to No. 4 and Mater Dei’s rising from No. 9 to No. 6.

Santa Fe, its regular season complete at 25-4 and a co-champion in the Coastal League with La Jolla Country Day (19-7), defeated Army-Navy, 99-65, The Bishop’s, 77-64, and Montgomery, 70-69, last week.

The Falcons and Torreys each posted 11-1 league records.  Country Day, unranked in San Diego, won the first meeting, 74-55, and the Falcons took the follow-up, 74-65.  Santa Fe is ranked 66th in California by MaxPreps and Country Day 120th.

Three other teams unranked by the Union-Tribune panel, were given higher state-wide grades by the computer than Lincoln, No. 8 locally but 142 in Max’s algorithms.  Del Norte is 105th, San Diego 114th, and El Camino 122nd.

Mater Dei is 7-4 in the Metro Mesa circuit, third to Montgomery’s 10-0 and San Ysidro’s 8-2.  The Crusaders moved up by the strength of a 92-86 win over San Ysidro after a 74-65 defeat of Otay Ranch.  The Crusaders finish Wednesday against Olympian.

The San Diego Union-Tribune Week 10 poll:

First-place votes in parenthesis.
Points on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis.
First-place votes in parenthesis. Last entries in columns indicate previous rank.
Cal-Hi Sports’ and Max Preps’ represent state rankings. NR—Not ranked.

# TEAM RECORD POINTS PREVIOUS MAX-PREPS CAL-HI SPORTS
1 St. Augustine 22-4 (19) 190 1 9/5 6/7
2 Carlsbad 21-5 165 2 40/29 NR/On the Bubble
3 Montgomery 22-4 145 3 48/46 NR/NR
4 Santa Fe Christian 25-4 114 8 66/72 NR/NR
5 San Ysidro 15-11 94 4 71/67 NR/NR
6 Mater Dei 20-7 79 9 78/89 NR/NR
7 Mission Bay 19-7 77 5 81/79 NR/NR
8 Lincoln 23-2 71 7 142/147 NR/NR
9 Torrey Pines 18-7 69 6 63/72 NR/NR
10 La Costa Canyon 14-11 27 NR 76 NR/NR

Others receiving votes

La Jolla Country Day (19-7, 6 points),  Victory Christian (16-8, 3), El Camino (17-7, 2), Ramona (16-9, 2), Del Norte (15-7, 1).

VOTING PANEL

  • John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune.
  • Steve Brand, Terry Monahan, Eric Williams, Freelance contributors.
  • Rick Smith, partletonsports.com.
  • Adam Paul, eastcountysports.com.
  • John Kentera, Braden Supremant (97.3 FM The Fan).
  • Bodie DeSilva, scoreboardlive.com.
  • Steve (Biff) Dolan, Mountain Country 107.9 FM.
  • Christian Pedersen, San Diego Sports Association.
  • Todd Cassen, Joe Heinz, Ron Marquez, CIF San Diego Section.
  • Rex Johnson, CIF Advisory Committee.
  • Joe Evangelist, San Diego Coaching Legends Committee.
  • Tom Helmantoler, Southern Conference Advisor.
  • Aaron Burgin, fulltimehoops.com.
  • Max-Preps.