2024 Football Week 15:Â Now for the Regionals
Beginning with hot summer practices in late July through close to 1,000 games and 14 weeks of action, six teams still are standing. Champions Lincoln (Open), Granite Hills (Division I), Poway (D-II), St. Augustine (D-III), El Capitan (D-IV), and Monte Vista (D-V) embark on another season in the CIF State Southern Regional this week. San […]
Read More2024 Week 14, Con’t: On Hiatus
We’ll return next week. Rick Smith, Henrik Jonson.
Read More2024 Football Week 13: Lincoln Touchdown Underscores Playoffs Intensity
Mission Hills played keep away, controlling the ball for 34 plays to 8 in the second half, and the strategy almost worked, until Lincoln scored an overtime touchdown to win the Open Division semifinal playoff, 13-7. It won’t be the Hornets’ touchdown that will be remembered. Mission Hills’ Giovanni Harte, who battled the Lincoln defense, […]
Read More2024 Football Week 12A: Can St. Augustine Do It Again?
Many of the San Diego Section cognoscenti declared an upset when winless St. Augustine defeated La Jolla Country Day, 16-0, in the first round of the Division III playoffs last week. That the Saints (0-10) were seeded seventh in the division and the 5-5 Torreys were 10th, according to CIF power ratings, didn’t seem to […]
Read More2024 Football Week 11A: They’ll Always Be Champions
Bloated playoff fields, minimal competition in some instances, such as three games to determine a winner, doesn’t diminish the team accomplishment. So Hats Off to the eighteen San Diego Section league champions. It’s been awhile for a few. La Costa Canyon hasn’t claimed a title since 2011, Hoover and Oceanside since 2014, three others since […]
Read More2024 Football Week 10: Mabel O’Farrell Wins Again
Mabel O’Farrell is on a roll. The Falcons won their second consecutive game and fourth all-time last week, dating to 2018 and 54 losses. Bruce Newland is Mabel’s third coach since the Falcons began playing football seven seasons ago. The 27-6 win over Mountain Empire followed a 38-12 triumph over Rock. Heady stuff for the […]
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