There’s an old coaching adage: “If you want to be the best, you have to beat the best.” Some local team high school football teams will get the chance to measure themselves […]
Some matchups worth cheering
Now who’s up and who’s who
Our second poll of the season is – we admit – a bit of a guess, like all rankings. But people like lists and ladders and such, as we are agreeing […]
Chargers are our 1st number 1
It’s Week Two for high school football and everybody’s got at least one game in. The fans are back in the stands and it’s fall – sort of – instead of spring. […]
Mariners sail past Indians, 48-14
By Jim Tortolano As impressive as Pacifica High’s football debut was Friday night, dismantling Fullerton 48-14 at Bolsa Grande Stadium, it’s almost scary to imagine how good the Mariners might someday be. […]
Football kicks off this week
With any luck – maybe some vaccines – high school sports are returning to a more familiar look this year, with familiar seasons, fans in the stands and hope springing eternal. Of […]
A super spring for Mariners
Nobody wants to relive a year in which high schools sports were – in part – cancelled, trimmed or crammed together. However, Pacifica High of Garden Grove is having a pretty good […]
Mariners edge Marina, 3-2, in 11
Valerie Jorgensen singled home Jaiden Stern with the winning run in the bottom of the 11th inning Thursday as Pacifica High opened the CIF-SS Division 1 softball playoffs with a marathon 3-2 […]
Late rally falls short for Mariners
By Christopher Abdelmalek This sports season for high schools has been a weird one, to say the least. The fact that there was a season at all it is a bit of […]
M’s beat Mater Dei, on to semis
Pacifica, the sole local survivor of the CIF-SS girls’ soccer tournament, advanced to the semifinals with a penalty kick win over Mater Dei on Tuesday on the Mariner home pitch. The teams […]
Mariner girls to face Mater Dei
The Pacifica High girls’ soccer team advanced to the CIF-SS Division 1 quarterfinals with a 1-0 win Friday over Newport Harbor. Forward Natalie Oca scored the game-winning goal in the second half […]
