SD Prep Sports

2008 California State Games
The California State Games – the state’s largest annual amateur sports festival where participants compete for gold, silver and bronze medals – takes the spotlight at several venues through San Diego County this weekend (July 10-13) to mark its 20th anniversary.

Opening ceremonies are scheduled Friday, July, 11 at Qualcomm Stadium, starting at 7 p.m. An estimated attendance of 30,000 is expected. Events planned at the opening ceremonies include a performance by the Navy parachute team, the Leapfrogs, a fireworks show and a BMX trick exhibition.

“We feel 2008 will surpass the enormous successes of last year’s Games,” California State Games Executiv Director Sandy Hill said. “We truly believe our event offers something for all of California’s youth.”

The Olympic-style experience (20 sports total) will encompass some 10,000 athletes, ranging from elementary school age through adults, in 20 different sports. Fifty percent of athletes fall into the 11- to 14-year-old category, with high school age athletes comprising 21 percent of entrants.

An additional 4,000 athletes participated in regional qualifiers. The State Games utilizes 2,000 volunteers.

Sports (and venues) include archery (Saturday at the Chula Vista Olymp;ic Training Center), badminton (Saturday at the Balboa Park Activities Center), baseball (Friday through Sunday at Tecelote Park, Rios Canyon Park in Lakeside and Coronado High School), basketball (Friday through Sunday at San Diego City College, Municipal Gym in Balboa Park, Coronado High School and the Kroc Community Center), gymnastics (Saturday and Sunday at Toby Wells YMCA), skateboarding (Saturday and Sunday at the Chula Vista Skatepark), soccer (Friday through Sunday at Southwestern College, Bonita Vista High School and the Chula Vista Olympic Training Center), softball (Friday through Sunday at Hourglass Recreation Center, Black Mountain Middle School, Canyonside Recreation Center and Rancho Bernardo Recreation Center), surfing (Sunday at Camp Pendleton, Del Mar jetty), swimming (Saturday and Sunday at La Jolla High School), synchronized swimming (Friday at Allied Gardens pool), table tennis (Saturday at the Balboa Park Activities Center), taekwondo (Saturday at USD’s Jenny Craig Pavilion), track and field (Saturday and Sunday at Vista High School), water polo (Friday through Sunday at Coronado High School, the Kroc Community Center and Helix High School), weightlifting (Saturday at the Town and Country Hotel) and wrestling (Saturday and Sunday at Rancho Bernardo High School).

The junior lifeguards competition was scheduled Thursday at South Mission Beach in advance of opening ceremonies while the roller skating competition will be held Saturday at Holiday Skate in Orange. The judo competition was previously held June 22 at Southwestern College.

The wrestling tournament is divided into a high school teams tournament on Saturday and a youth freestyle tournament on Sunday. Competition both days is slated from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

For complete schedules, visit the Web site at www.calstategames.org.

2008 Spring Sports
Lacrosse
Boys & Girls Lacrosse Game Reports

Swim & Dive
Boys & Girls Swim & Dive Reports

Track & Field
Boys & Girls Track & Field Reports

Baseball
Baseball Game Reports/Prfeviews

Boys Volleyball
Boys Volleyball Game Reports/Previews

2007-08 Winter Sports
Roller Hockey
Roller Hockey Statistics (Standings, statistical leaders)
Roller Hockey Game Reports (Feature stories, game summaries)
Roller Hockey Preview (First-half season archive)

Basketball
Boys & Girls Basketball Game Reports

Soccer
Boys & Girls Soccer Game Reports

Girls Water Polo
Girls Water Polo Game Reports

2007 Fall Sports
Prep Football 2007
Prep Cross Country
Prep Boys Water Polo

Prep fall sports practices start Aug. 13 (2006 Fall Sports in Review)

Breaking News
2007 Alex Spanos Senior All-Star Classic

San Diego Section says thanks
Posted Nov. 6, 2007
The CIF-San Diego Section and its board of managers, with the support of the County Superintendent of Schools and the superintendents of all county school districts, thanks member schools, coaches, athletes and parents for their support of the determination to cancel all activities and athletic contests during the recent firestorm that devastated San Diego County.

Those firestorms caused the evacuation of 600,000 residents, including student athletes, coaches and athletic administrators who lost homes. Out of respect for those families who suffered unexpected losses and need to begin the road to recovery, it was decided that focused determination and support of those families was most important.

High school athletics is an educational experience that teaches the lessons of selfless commitment to others, leadership, and good citizenship; it is not about playing games. The CIF-SDS commends those schools and athletic teams who seized the teachable moment and put aside their want to play a game, to teach the need to be good citizens, and support others in a time of need.

The lesson of fairness taught by the sacrifice of unaffected schools is that sometimes one must give up something for the greater good. The CIF-SDS and its board of managers is committed to its educational mission and fairness to all when making its decisions. At the moment, the decisions may seem harsh, but on quiet reflection, they support the belief that we are a team focused on building good character and good people.

San Diego Section
Parade of Champions
Fall Sports
Football
Division I: Poway Titans
Division II: Oceanside Pirates
Division III: Cathedral Catholic Dons
Division IV: Valley Center Jaguars
Division V: Bishop's Knights

Boys Cross Country
Division I: Rancho Buena Vista Longhorns
Division II: Steele Canyon Cougars
Division III: Valley Center Jaguars
Division IV: La Jolla Country Day Torreys
Division V: Tri-City Christian Eagles

Girls Cross Country
Division I: Torrey Pines Falcons
Division II: Mt. Carmel Sundevils
Division III: University City Centurions
Division IV: Bishop's Kn ights
Division V: Julian Eagles

Boys Water Polo
Division I: Carlsbad Lancers
Division II: Coronado Islanders

Girls Volleyball
Division I: La Costa Canyon Mavericks
Division II: Westview Wolverines
Division III: Cathedral Catholic Dons
Division IV: Santa Fe Christian Eagles
Division V: Tri-City Christian Eagles

Girls Field Hockey
Division I: La Costa Canyon Mavericks
Division II: Scripps Ranch Falcons

Girls Tennis
Division I: Torrey Pines Falcons
Division II: Mt. Carmel Sundevils
Division II: La Jolla Vikings

2006-07 Season Archive

Photo: Cory Nasoff, Torrey Pines Falcons

Metro Conference
2006-07 Parade of Champions:
The Year of the Mustang

San Diego Multi-Event Championships
Is Eric Avila the best ever?

2007 Spring Sports
Track and field: 2007 Season Log
Swimming and Diving: 2007 Season Log
Boys Lacrosse: 2007 Metro Conference Log
Boys Volleyball: 2007 Metro Conference Senior All-Star Games
Baseball: Foothillers bask in CIF three-peat
Softball: San Diego Section Report

2006-07 Winter Sports
Boys Basketball: 2006-07 Metro Conference Log
Girls Baketball: 2006-07 Metro Conference Log
Roller Hockey: 2006-07 CIF/Metro Conference Archive
Girls Water Polo: 2006-07 Metro Conference Archive
Boys Soccer: 2006-07 Metro Conference Archive
Girls Soccer: 2006-07 San Diego Section Archive

2006 Fall Sports
Football: 2006 San Diego Section Archives
Boys Water Polo: 2006 San Diego Section Archives
Cross Country: 2006 San Diego Section Archives
Girls Field Hockey: 2006 San Diego Section Archives

Prep Football

Alex Spanos Classic:
One last chance to shine
The college football season is right around the corner, with training camps starting in early August. A select group of recent San Diego County high school graduates are headed off to programs like SDSU, Colorado State, Hawaii, Idaho State, UCLA, Tennessee Tech and USC, while others will play at area community colleges such as Grossmont, San Diego Mesa, Palomar and Southwestern before making the transition to the major collegiate ranks.

For one last time, however, they had the opportunity to showcase their talents on the gridiron as graduated high school seniors in the 17th annual Alex Spanos All-Star Classic July 13 at Mesa College. The game served to place a punctuation mark on standout high school careers as well as offer a preview of their upcoming college careers.

A near-capacity crowd took in this year’s 14-0 South victory over the North to mark the second consecutive year that the South (players from the Metro Conference, Grossmont Conference and City Conference) had defeated its North County rivals.

West Hills' Trevor Kolocheski (San Diego Mesa) helped spark the South victory with four catches for 112 yards and a one-yard touchdown run late in the fourth quarter to earn Most Valuable Player honors in the game.

Kolocheski’s score came with just under three minutes to play in the game to essentially seal the outcome in the South’s favor. El Capitan's Ryan Lindley, who earned honors as the San Diego Section Player of the Year for 2006 after passing for 3,521 passing yards and 35 touchdowns, had set up Kolocheski’s TD with a pass to the Wolfpack standout at the one-yard line.

Earlier in the contest, Lindley (169 passing yards on 12 completions in 18 attempts) hit Kolocheski on a 66-yard bomb to set up a one-yard run by Point Loma’s Lester Arnold (61 rushing yards on eight carries) to give the South a 7-0 lead. That score came with just under five minutes left in the third quarter as both teams played to a scoreless halftime stalemate
Otay Ranch’s Brian Lewis (Grossmont) added the point-after touchdown conversion on both South scores.

Impressively, the South defense shut down the prolific passing combo of Poway’s Donnie McKillop (3,031 passing yards, 24 touchdowns) and Oceanside’s Steve Carroll (2,518 passing yards, 22 touchdowns), holding the North to just more than 50 yards in total offense. The South recorded five sacks, including two by La Jolla’s Richard Moore (Grossmont) and one each by El Capitan's Mike Holz (Grossmont), St. Augustine’s Bobby Erskine (Choate Rosemary) and Otay Ranch’s Robert McCurdy (UCLA).

But defense was highlighted throughout the contest by both sides. Rancho Buena Vista’s Mike Reid earned MVP honors for the North team with two sacks. Nick Witzman (La Costa Canyon) also registered two sacks for the North.

Point Loma’s Mike Hastings served as the South coach while El Camino’s Trace Deneke served as the North coach.

Summer Passing Leagues
Eastlake High School captured the SDSU passing tournament held June 22-23. Twenty-four high school football teams participated from California and Arizina. Eastlake went undefeated (3-0) in pool play, then 4-0 on the final day of competition, defeating Mission Bay, Poway, Canyon Dorado and Basha, the latter from Chandler, Ariz. Basha had defeated California state champion Orange Lutheran in the semifinals of its bracket.

Basha, whch had been beating teams by 20 to 30 points while scoring an average of 40 throughout the tournament, was held to 20 in the championship game while Eastlake scored 27 points, led by quarterback Derek Witte whose favorite receivers included Dennis Clay, Jeremiah Andujo, Michael Holt, Jordan Koopman, Sal Adame, Wil Duka and Marco Carr.

Clay, Andujo, Holt, Adame, Carr, Dyson Wattles, Patrick Jarin, and Tony Jefferson spearheaded the Titans' defense.

2005-06 Season Archive

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Pictured at right: Grossmont Foothillers celebrate 7-2 San Diego Section Division 2 title victory against two-time defending CIF champion El Capitan.

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