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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.
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.
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.
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.
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. -
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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A 41-year-old man accused of killing his girlfriend in their shared Encinitas home last year then trying to secure permission to travel to Israel as her body lay undiscovered for several days was ordered Thursday, Jan. 23, to stand trial on a murder charge.
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Deeply divided crowd debated whether site was suitable
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Alan Alda appeared in the auditorium at Scripps Research in La Jolla on Jan. 16 to announce a partnership that will teach scientists how to communicate more effectively to the public and to other scientists. The Emmy-winning actor is making Scripps the West Coast home of Alda Communication Training, a Long Island-based program that sharpens the communication skills of people who spend much of their days staring at computer screens and microscope slides and speaking in the language of their academic papers.
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The Del Mar, Solana Beach, Encinitas, Encinitas Coastal, Rancho Sante Fe and Solana Beach Eco Rotary Clubs held their annual 6-Way meeting Jan. 13 at the Del Mar Hilton.
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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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Football: La Costa Canyon rallied from a 10-point halftime deficit to defeat Torrey Pines 21-13 in an Avocado League finale for both teams on Nov. 1.
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An improving La Costa Canyon girls volleyball team overcame a shaky first set Saturday, Nov. 2, to roll past visiting La Jolla, 3-1 (22-25, 25-12, 25-20, 25-14) in the Quarterfinal round of the CIF Open Division playoffs.
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After an incredibly tense Division 1 battle that went into overtime, the La Costa Canyon Mavericks 14U team defeated the Temecula Attacking Grizzlies to become the 2019 Palomar Conference Pop Warner Football Champions.
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In a battle of two longtime rivals, both trying to erase the built-up frustration of uncharacteristically difficult seasons, La Costa Canyon rebounded from a trying first half to overcome host Torrey Pines, 21-13, in the Friday, Nov. 1 annual Surf Bowl match-up.
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Taking their initial steps toward a potential rematch in the CIF Open Division Girls Tennis Championship, North Coast representatives No. 1-seeded Canyon Crest and third-seeded San Dieguito won quarterfinal matches Tuesday, Oct. 29, on their home courts to advance to the Wednesday Oct. 30 semi-finals.
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When the final five teams tee it up Monday at Admiral Baker Golf Course for the first round of the 2019 CIF Division I Girls Golf Championship, it would be hard to pick anybody outside of Rancho Bernardo as the choice to be hoisting the section trophy when the 36-hole event concludes with Wednesday’s second round.
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Volleyball: Torrey Pines extended its winning streak to 18 as the Falcons defeated Canyon Crest Academy 25-10, 27-29, 25-7, 25-12 in an Avocado League West match on Oct. 25.
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Host La Costa Canyon gave No. 4 Carlsbad all it could handle Friday night but, in the end, the visiting Lancers demonstrated the type of mettle championship teams do, knocking off the gritty Mavericks, 14-7, to finish as undefeated (6-0) champions of the Avocado League.
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