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More CIF Saturday State Finals

We still have MVPs to pick for every CIF state championship game (we have one for every game played since 2006), but here are recaps of the title tilts played on Saturday at Veterans Stadium in Long Beach and at Fullerton UHSD Stadium. Two of these games went into overtime, one will go down as […]

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Saturday CIF State Football Finals

It’s another CIF Open Division state title for Mater Dei, but this time the NorCal representative, De La Salle of Concord, put up a fight in the third quarter to make it interesting…at least for a few minutes. Monarchs gain their fifth CIF state title since 2017. Edison of Huntington Beach and Palos Verdes of […]

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Friday CIF State Football Finals

San Diego Lincoln makes it two CIF D1-AA state titles in three seasons with 28-26 victory over Pittsburg. We also have what we saw in the CIF D2-AA state championship win by Grant of Sacramento over Pacifica of Oxnard. Others winners were Frontier of Bakersfield and St. Vincent de Paul of Petaluma at Long Beach […]

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Weekend Regional FB Scoreboard (Saturday)

Edison of Huntington Beach opened its season with a loss to a Fresno team but now the Chargers can end it with a win over a Fresno team to win the CIF D1-A state title. Both the Chargers and Central of Fresno won in their regional finals on Saturday night. A new school in just […]

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Weekend Regional FB Scoreboard (Friday)

Thrillers in D1-AA see wins in the final seconds for Lincoln of San Diego over Newbury Park and Pittsburg over Folsom. Newbury Park also wasn’t the only undefeated team to fall as both Hughson and Coalinga in D4-AA both lost and Winters lost as well. Plus, Grant of Sacramento and Pacifica of Oxnard get it […]

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Different MD win vs Bosco for title

It wasn’t close to the 59-14 triumph from earlier this season, but national/state No. 1 Mater Dei of Santa Ana tops state No. 2 St. John Bosco of Bellflower, 31-24, to win its second straight CIF Southern Section D1 championship. They will now go into the CIF Open Division state final in two weeks to […]

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SJS Football Title Game Recaps

Friday’s CIF Sac-Joaquin Section football championships at Hughes Stadium in Sacramento saw one team come up short in trying to get to 13-0, another team succeed in doing that quite easily and finally a thriller in which the winning team three-peated as a section champion. Note: We won’t be able to duplicate these recaps for […]

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Ontario Christian tops Etiwanda

Preseason state No. 4 Knights take down No. 1 Etiwanda, 74-66, on Saturday night in Studio City to win Harvard-Westlake Invitational. First slate of games shows just how much of an impact incoming freshman Sydney “Bean” Douglas is going to have this season, especially paired with scoring phenom Kaleena Smith. We also had a big […]

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What We Saw: De La Salle vs Pitt

The Pirates took a 7-3 lead into the fourth quarter, but came out on the short end of a 10-7 loss to De La Salle of Concord in Friday’s CIF North Coast Section Open Division championship. The Spartans (12-0) no doubt clinched the Northern California berth in the CIF Open Division state final to be […]

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Public School No. 1 Decided?

Friday night’s matchup in the CIF Southern Section D1 quarterfinals between No. 4 seed Mission Viejo and No. 5 Corona Centennial was called a Public School Super Bowl by many in the Southern California media. But did Centennial’s 25-20 triumph over the Diablos wrap up another State Public School of the Year selection for the […]

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