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State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard

League showdowns in the Inland Empire take center stage with the biggest upset of the night being No. 23 Upland losing to Rancho Cucamonga with one of the biggest wins turned in by Rancho Verde (Moreno Valley), which beat Heritage (Menifee) and is now poised to make a big move in the next rankings. Big […]

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State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard

San Clemente parties like it’s 1999 after its upset win on Friday over state No. 8 Mission Viejo. One of those moving up in next week’s rankings because of that upset will be state No. 11 Liberty of Brentwood, which earned showdown win against No. 17 Pittsburg and is now in line to win its […]

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Bosco thunders past Mater Dei

There won’t be any disagreements at the top of every national ranking next week after St. John Bosco tops Mater Dei on Saturday night in one of those rare No. 1 vs. No. 2 matchups. The Braves will now be favored to win the CIF Southern Section Division I title and CIF Open Division state […]

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State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard

After a crazy night in Southern California on Friday in which a majority of games were impacted by lightning storms, Saturday was a return to normalcy. The national No. 1 vs. No. 2 matchup between Mater Dei of Santa Ana and St. John Bosco of Bellflower did go off with no problem on Saturday night. […]

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State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard

All of the hoopla surrounding No. 1 Mater Dei and No. 2 St. John Bosco playing each other can begin after both teams won on Friday with the Braves coming on strong in the second half after they were tied 21-21 in the second quarter with No. 9 Orange Lutheran. It’s also going to be […]

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State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard

Highest ranked team to go down in an upset was No. 14 La Costa Canyon of Carlsbad, which lost to San Marcos in its league opener. Friday night also saw No. 2 St. John Bosco edge No. 9 JSerra (San Juan Capistrano), No. 8 Orange Lutheran win in the final seconds over No. 19 Santa […]

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What We’ve Learned So Far 2018

Even though there are some teams that have played six games, this is the week we consider as the halfway point of the 2018 football season. Games that we’ve attended have been Folsom at De La Salle, the Honor Bowl at St. Francis of Mountain View (five games), Stockton St. Mary’s at Central Catholic (Modesto), […]

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State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard

No. 1 Mater Dei wins its showdown with Florida’s IMG Academy, which sets up likely rare No. 1 vs. No. 2 national and state showdown on Oct. 12 with St. John Bosco. No. 3 De La Salle holds on, meanwhile, to win road game in Clovis. There were some shockers, though, as No. 10 Cajon […]

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State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard

No. 3 De La Salle avenges big loss from last season to Bishop Gorman of Las Vegas with a 27-21 win that got very scary in the final minutes. The biggest upset of the night was in Orange County where unranked Villa Park (won’t be unranked next week) knocked off No. 13 Servite of Anaheim. […]

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State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard

The only State Top 25 team to fall to a lower-ranked opponent happened to be the game we went to as Antioch held on to edge host and No. 21 Clayton Valley of Concord 35-34. One of the nights other big winners was No. 8 Folsom, which led 35-0 in the early going and went […]

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