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Prior to Saturday night’s CIF Girls Division I Basketball quarterfinal between top-seeded Mission Hills and No. 8 seed Carlsbad, Coach Chris Kroesch told his team that “all they needed to do was win by one.”
When it comes to girls’ high school soccer in San Diego, the North Coast is where the action is.
Two years ago, in the wake of a relatively nondescript 13-16 regular season that included a fifth place finish in the Avocado West League, the San Dieguito Academy girls’ basketball team re-centered and got on a roll that took it to the CIF Division IV championship game where the Mustangs knocked off Castle Park, 55-36.
The third-ranked La Costa Canyon girls basketball team concluded the regular season this week by extending its winning streak to 10 with stress-free triumphs over Carlsbad (76-47) and Torrey Pines (76-38).
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When it comes to girls soccer, La Costa Canyon has a legacy of success that most schools would envy. -
Sophomore guard Megan Quain scored a game high 17 points and fourth-ranked (Max Preps) La Costa Canyon out-pointed host San Marcos by 20 in the second half on the way to a 58-38 Avocado West League triumph Tuesday night.
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After collecting victories in its first two Avocado West League games and sitting tied with Torrey Pines at the top of the league table, the La Costa Canyon boys’ basketball team and its longtime Head Coach Dave Cassaw have run into the mother of all storms.
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Last season, while winning a second consecutive Avocado West girls’ soccer championship on its way to a CIF Open Division title, Carlsbad went 9-0-1 and surrendered a grand total of two goals in 10 league contests.
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Senior guard Jailen Nelson exploded for 15 of Carlsbad’s 23 fourth quarter points and the No. 10 Lancers came back from a 13-pt. deficit to knock off visiting San Marcos, 60-57, in Avocado West League boys’ basketball action Friday night.
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Senior Izzy Flores sank seven threes and scored a game high 28 points to lead visiting San Marcos to a wire-to-wire, 56-39, victory over Carlsbad Friday night.
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It was only three days into the Avocado West League girls’ soccer schedule but the two teams that took the field at La Costa Canyon Thursday night, both with designs of finishing on the upper half of the league table, were each 0-1 and already in somewhat desperate need of a victory.
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La Costa Canyon scored five points in the final 18 seconds but came up one short as visiting Mission Hills pulled out a 51-50 decision in the Avocado West League girls’ basketball opener for both schools Tuesday night, Jan. 14.
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Call it the “big two” and the “chase pack” when the Avocado West League girls’ soccer schedule kicks off Tuesday (Jan. 14) night.
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No home for the weak—that’s been an apropos nickname for the Avocado West boys’ soccer league over the past several years.
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You can have your CIF Championships, State Tournaments and high caliber invitational tournaments—all are aspirations and dreams of most young athletes and coaches.
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With the 2020 edition of the Avocado West girls’ basketball season fast approaching, it would not be far out of line to suggest that the ultimate order of finish might be awfully close to the way it looked last year.
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Defending CIF Open Division champion Torrey Pines may have a virtually new boys’ basketball roster in 2019-20 but Coach John Olive got a big boost from a familiar source Thursday night when his Falcons defeated visiting Santa Fe Christian, 57-39.
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Boys basketball Torrey Pines defeated Orange Glen 79-51 in a nonleague Jeff Armstrong/Horsman Automotive Tournament game on Dec. 7.
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Volleyball The Torrey Pines volleyball team won its first state championship in school history as the Falcons concluded a season of dominance with a decisive 25-11, 25-23, 25-14 victory over Marin Catholic of Kentfield (Marin County) in the Open Division title game on Nov. 23.
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The day began with the prevailing narrative surrounding La Costa Canyon’s four-time defending CIF boys and girls cross country champions lamenting a wave of sickness which swept over the program the previous week, likely bringing with it an untimely end to the school’s dynastic run.
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Football: No. 4-seeded Santa Fe Christian rallied from a fourth-quarter deficit to defeat No. 5 Morse 24-22 in a San Diego Section Division II playoff quarterfinal on Nov. 15.
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