Category Archives: Football Scores/Game Writeups
Section Finals Weekend Scoreboard
Saturday championships have now been added, including big wins for Mission Viejo, St. Bonaventure and Rocklin. On Friday, state No. 2 Mater Dei of Santa Ana proved once again how hard it is for either itself or No. 1 St. John Bosco of Bellflower to beat the other one twice in the same season with […]
State TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
From Saturday, Granite Hills wins battle of unbeatens vs Lincoln for CIF San Diego Section Open Division title. After Friday results, it will be No. 1 St. John Bosco and No. 2 Mater Dei playing each other for the seventh time in the last eight seasons in next week’s CIF Southern Section D1 final. It […]
State TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
(Saturday score added) There were a lot of teams that lost on Thursday and Friday, but the only ones who did to lower ranked teams were No. 7 Carlsbad, No. 12 Long Beach Poly and No. 22 Rancho Cucamonga. The CIF San Diego Section Open Division semifinals (one played Thursday, the other Friday) were about […]
Redwood Empire Football Weekend
There wasn’t a wine glass in sight as the schedule for the final weekend of the regular season in the CIF North Coast Section made it possible to see San Marin of Novato (9-0) play Marin Catholic of Kentfield (9-0) plus Windsor (7-1-1) play Cardinal Newman of Santa Rosa (9-0) on back-to-back days. Here’s what […]
State TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
Key Saturday scores added. Most common result this weekend is “Bye” or “Did Not Play.” There were some huge matchups in the CIF Southern Section D2 playoffs since the losing team is going home for the season and all 16 teams in the bracket (due to competitive equity seeding) are all top 50 teams or […]
State TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
The highest ranked team to lose to a lower ranked team on either Thursday or Friday was No. 12 Rancho Cucamonga on Thursday to Upland. The most head-turning score was Friday’s 49-0 victory by JSerra over Servite of Anaheim, especially after Servite had just defeated Santa Margarita. Congratulations to all the teams that wrapped up […]
MD-Bosco & Centennial Highlights
For perhaps the first time in our history (which goes back 45 plus years), we were able to see the top three ranked teams in the state in the regular season on the same weekend. The top two of them, of course, played each other on Friday night in Bellflower. But on Thursday night it […]
State TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
Now updated with Saturday results, the No. 1 vs No. 2 matchup between Mater Dei & St. John Bosco on Friday sent shockwaves throughout Southern California not because the No. 2 Braves won, but how they thoroughly dominated the Monarchs. Friday’s other big game was up north as two huge streaks by No. 11 De […]
Prep Notes With A Twist
We’re doing a combo column this week on our trip to see two of the state’s top three small school football teams face off, an early look at CIF state/regional bowl possibilities for Clovis North and why a win by Southwest High of San Diego caused us to go through our book of all-time win-loss […]