Category Archives: Football Scores/Game Writeups
State TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
Saturday updates added. All of the results are in before pairings were announced Saturday in one section with others coming on Sunday. The regular season still has one week to go in the S.F. Bay Area sections. The biggest winners of the night — with no upsets in the top 10 — were Lincoln of […]
State TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
Saturday updates added. On a Friday night when No. 7 Long Beach Poly passed Bakersfield on the all-time state wins list for a school, there were some crazy games and big upsets. No. 9 Chaminade was one of those upset victims. Perhaps the craziest of all games was one we saw in person: previously unbeaten […]
State TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
On a weekend in which five of the top 10 teams in the state plus 14 of the top 25 all had byes, the focus shifted north as No. 5 Folsom edged No. 6 De La Salle of Concord on a touchdown with 15 seconds left in the game. No. 4 Serra of San Mateo […]
State TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
On Saturday, No. 2 St. John Bosco defeated the top-ranked team in Hawaii. In a pair of key matchups between top teams from different CIF sections on Friday, Folsom of the Sac-Joaquin Section topped Pittsburg of the North Coast while De La Salle of the North Coast defeated Cathedral Catholic of San Diego. There also […]
State TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
On a bizarre Friday night when tropical thunderstorms plagued games in the south while a wildfire in Placer/El Dorado counties caused games to be cancelled or postponed in the north, the beat rolled on for the state’s top three teams. The biggest winner of the night may have been No. 19 Serra (Gardena), which got […]
State TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
On Friday, No. 3 Corona Centennial doesn’t get close this time in loss to No. 1 Mater Dei. No. 2 St. John Bosco rolls over No. 14 Bishop Amat. No. 5 Serra (San Mateo) nips No. 6 De La Salle on last-second FG. Plus, No. 4 Mission Viejo falls to No. 13 Long Beach Poly. […]
State TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
With No. 2 St. John Bosco waiting to open up on a huge road trip next week in Texas, No. 1 Mater Dei did start out this week and rolled past a top team from a different state. The biggest loss on Friday may have been an injury as big-time TE Walker Lyons of Folsom […]
Warren (Downey) FB History Highlights
There was only one really good team at Warren of Downey going from its first season in 1956 until just the last two seasons (both in 2021). The Bears really struggled in the early 2010s, but have turned it around under head coaches Raul Lara and Kevin Pearson. Go inside for a snapshot look at […]
One Day, Two CIF SoCal Titles
Huntington Beach baseball & Oaks Christian of Westlake Village softball have learned that losing in a section playoff game does not mean the season is over. It’s a lesson many teams in other sports that have CIF regional and state competitions have known for many years. Both teams won CIF Division I regional titles on […]
