2022 Week 12A: An Evenly Matched Open Division Title Game
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 […]
Read More2022 Week 12: Seeds and Pairings Free of Acrimony; Playoffs Move on to Quarterfinals.
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 […]
Read More2022 Week 11A: As Regular Season Ends, Playoffs Begin
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 […]
Read More2022 Week 11 B: Overtime, How it Began; Lincoln Regular-Season Champion
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 […]
Read More2022 Week 10: Many League Races Too Early to Call
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), […]
Read More2022 Week 9: Cathedral and St. Augustine Renew “Holy” Rivalry
The so-called “Holy Bowl” tees up for the 61st time this week when St. Augustine visits Cathedral. They have met every year since 1966 except 2007, including playoff games. Cathedral leads, 38-22, in a series that began six years after Cathedral, then known as University of San Diego High, played its first season of varsity […]
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