2024 Football Week 13: Lincoln Touchdown Underscores Playoffs Intensity
Mission Hills played keep way, 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 […]
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