Category Archives: Football Scores/Game Writeups
State TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
The biggest SoCal & NorCal games of the week were on Saturday with No. 5 Centennial of Corona and No. 7 Folsom both recording big wins. With No. 1 Mater Dei (Santa Ana) and No. 3 Servite (Anaheim) both idle this week, the big winners on Friday in matchups between two top 25 squads were […]
State TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
As No. 1 Mater Dei was about to begin slaughtering perhaps the best team in Texas in a big national game, many of the top teams in Northern California were in scramble mode as the air quality numbers moved into unsafe levels. Many games were cancelled, others moved to later in the weekend and others […]
State TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
Welcome to the first week of the 2021 fall season, which is still one week out for many schools in Northern California. No. 2 St. John Bosco was the highest ranked team in action and opened with a win over nationally ranked Miami Central. Highest ranked team to lose was No. 12 Alemany (Mission Hills), […]
State FB TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
No. 2 Mater Dei gets four TD passes from its freshman QB in 34-17 win over No. 1 St. John Bosco on Saturday night. The highest-ranked team to lose on the weekend was No. 5 Mission Viejo, which fell to South Coast League rival San Clemente (No. 12). Sierra Canyon, Cathedral Catholic and Folsom also […]
State FB TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
With just two weeks to go for the vast majority of teams in the state for this very different spring season, we’ll treat Friday and Saturday nights like we do for the fall with the compilation of a weekend scoreboard involving the state’s top-ranked teams. Two expected showdowns on Friday fizzled for different reasons, then […]
State FB TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
For the next few weeks, we’ll treat Friday and Saturday nights like we do for the fall with the compilation of a weekend scoreboard involving the state’s top-ranked teams. Saturday was the bigger day and night of this weekend with a big upset in Riverside County and a win by No. 2 Mater Dei over […]
State FB TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
For the next few weeks, we’ll treat Friday and Saturday nights like we do for the fall with the compilation of a weekend scoreboard involving the state’s top-ranked teams. The game of Friday night was in Bellflower where No. 1 St. John Bosco was pushed by No. 3 Servite but came out on top, 38-28. […]
State FB Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard
For the next few weeks, we’ll treat Friday nights and the weekends like we do for the fall with the compilation of a weekend scoreboard involving the state’s top-ranked teams. Highest ranked team to lose Friday was Helix (La Mesa). In biggest game between ranked teams, Serra of San Mateo topped Valley Christian of San […]
2008 Season Replayed (Final)
This is how the season looked after it was completed in 2008. This is the third of three posts in which our week-by-week replays for three of the most exciting, unpredictable football seasons we’ve covered in our 40-plus years — 1981, 1994 and 2008 — is concluding with one post focusing on how each wrapped...
1994, ’08, ’81 Season Replays Week 13
This is how the season looked after the 13th week during our week-by-week replay for three of the most exciting, unpredictable football seasons we’ve covered in our 40-plus years: 1981, 1994 and 2008. And at this point in those seasons section playoff finalists were getting done and tough decisions in some cases were looming. The...