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How tough is Southwestern League Football? Five of the six teams from the league are ranked in the Top Twenty of the 200 teams that comprise the CIF Southern Section. USA Today High School Sports has Vista Murrieta ranked as the No. 2 football team in California. Coley Candaele’s Broncos are 91-23 in his nine seasons, He has won six Southwestern League titles and one CIF-Southern Section divisional crown. The Broncos have played in the Inland Division title game each of the l...
FALLBROOK – On Dec. 22, the Fallbrook boys varsity rugby team made a strong showing against a powerful and mature Cathedral Catholic team, although ultimately losing the game 33 to 15. Fallbrook’s starting lineup included eight seniors (including captain Tim Majewski), one junior, and six sophomores. The Warriors got off to a good start with a penalty kick from Markus Lewis from about 25 yards out. A quick response from Cathedral Catholic put them up 7 to 3. Landon B...
The Sept. 21 football game at Del Norte High School went into overtime before Del Norte defeated Fallbrook by a 24-21 score. “I think it was an exciting game for a lot of people, but I really felt we should have won the game,” said Fallbrook head coach Joe Silvey. “It was exciting and well-fought,” said Del Norte head coach Leigh Cole. “The kids from both sides played a tough game.” Del Norte opened the scoring in the first quarter when a sweep play gave Patrick Zeller a to...
Fallbrook High School’s boys water polo team won four of its five games in the Sept. 6-8 Poway Invitational tournament. “We finished significantly higher than last year,” said Fallbrook coach Bill Richardson. The official finishes in the Poway Tournament are based on brackets after each round of play rather than on overall record. Thus Fallbrook, whose only loss in the 2012 tournament was in the second round, took ninth place this year in the 28-team tournament. The Warri...
Fallbrook High School’s junior varsity girls basketball team earned a share of the Avocado East League championship. The Warriors’ 9-1 league record was identical to that of Vista, with whom Fallbrook split a pair of league matches. Fallbrook closed out the 2011-12 season February 16 with a 38-30 victory over the Panthers, not only earning a share of the league title but also attaining a 20-win season while finalizing the Warriors’ overall season record at 20-4. “The girls h...
Boys Basketball Ten teams were eliminated in the opening rounds of playoffs and there are four teams left of the fourteen Valley boys basketball teams who qualified to compete in the 2011-12 CIF Southern Section-Ford Boys Basketball Championships, presented by Farmers: #10 Vista Murrieta in Division 1A, #3 Murrieta Valley and #5 Elsinore in Division 2A, and #3 Cal Lutheran in Division 6. Division 1AA: (Top seed: Mater Dei (24-2), Trinity League Champion) OUT: At-large...
Week 9 is when teams start laying claims to league positions and playoff spots. In Other Valley Teams action: there were three shutouts, a win by 40, a loss by 44, and a 2 point loss in a 94-point game. In the Sunbelt League, one team repeated as League Champion by defeating a CIF champion, one team earned a playoff spot with a last minute goal line stand against a team that just forfeited four wins, and one team earned their first league victory behind a 198 yard rushing...
Six players scored three touchdowns each in week 8. In the Sunbelt League, two running backs from the same team each rushed for over 200 yards and scored three touchdowns, another team’s rushing duo scored four touchdowns on twenty carries, and a 95-yd run set up the winning touchdown in another game. In the Southwestern League, one player scored three touchdowns on ten carries while his team rushed for 343 yards, another player passed for 356 yards of his team’s 556 yar...
League play has begun! The aerial show was on in the Southwestern League as six quarterbacks combined for 1,243 passing yards; one QB had 55 attempts for almost 360 yards; and only one running back broke the 100-yard mark. It was quite the opposite in the Sunbelt League where the ground game dominated as the six teams combined for 1072 yards; four running backs broke the 100 yard mark, one with 225 yards; and only two quarterbacks broke the 100-yd mark, one at almost 200 yards passing. The other Valley teams saw a big win in...
Our Valley Teams went 6-4 this week: 8 teams had byes before entering league play next week; five of six wins were by sixteen or more points; two losses were by 28 or more points and one by forfeit. SOUTHWESTERN LEAGUE: Chaparral (2-3) vs. Indio (0-5). Win 28-10. Review: A tale of two halves. First half: drive ended by interception, drive ended by fumble, drive ended by fumble, roughing the punter penalty ended up with a field goal by Indio; drive ended by fumble, resulting in Indio 1 yd TD. 10-0 Indio at the end of the...
Fallbrook High School’s baseball team not only improved its season record to 4-2 with the Warriors’ 15-2 victory March 24 at home against Del Norte but also won the opener of Fallbrook’s second tournament of the year. Rain had postponed prior scheduled North County Tournament games, giving the Nighthawks the distinction of being Fallbrook’s first opponent in that tournament. Nine different Fallbrook players accounted for 16 hits against four Del Norte pitchers while Fallbrook hurler Justin Hukill allowed seven hits and no...
Although Fallbrook High School’s baseball team lost its 2011 season opener, the Warriors then won their next two games. Fallbrook’s 17-4 home loss March 5 against Temecula Valley was followed by a 13-2 home triumph March 8 against Mount Carmel, which gave new head coach Mark DiBenedetti his first win. The Warriors’ first road game of the season March 10 resulted in an 8-0 victory over Del Norte. All three games were part of the Pirate-Falcon Classic tournament. “I like th...
Fallbrook High School’s girls water polo team returned from Winter break with wins January 5 at Mount Carmel and Jan. 8 at Del Norte. The win over Mount Carmel was by a 6-5 score, and the 21-1 victory against Del Norte gave the Warriors an 8-2 record for the first ten games of the 2010-11 season. Hunter Bowman scored the winning goal against Mount Carmel with seven seconds left and also had a field block on the final Mount Carmel shot which closed out the game. “That was very exciting,” said Fallbrook coach Bob Lamont. Bowma...
Fallbrook High School's girls volleyball team reached the consolation quarterfinals of the October 1-2 Scripps Ranch Tournament. The Warriors won two matches while losing four in the tournament. "We did okay," said Fallbrook coach Peter Peng. Fallbrook finished fourth among the five teams in its pool and posted a 1-2 record in pool play. The Warriors began the tournament with a 25-27, 21-25 loss to Ramona. The Warriors had a seven-point lead in the first game before the Bulldogs overcame their deficit. "Midway through the...
A first reading of the North County Conference league realignment was brought to the CIF Board of Managers during their Feb. 2 meeting. The realignment, which will create a fourth North County Conference league, is expected to be approved at the April 27 meeting of the CIF Board of Managers. The re-leaguing would take effect for the 2010-11 seasons. “With the addition of the two new schools (Del Norte and Mission Vista), the conference felt it was time to expand to a four-league conference,” said Mission Hills High Sch...
On Friday, September 5, the Fallbrook Warriors varsity football team kicked off their season opener at home against the Murrieta Valley Nighthawks. The defense kept Fallbrook in the match for the majority of the game, but the inability of the offense to find the end zone resulted in a loss of 25-13. The Warriors’ first possession was a shaky one, racking up two fumbles on the drive. The second fumble occurred on the punt, recovered by Fallbrook near the five-yard line. The m...
The Fallbrook High School football team’s 10th annual Lift-A-Thon will help fund expenses of the football program. For head varsity coach Joe Silvey and his coaching staff and players, the Lift-A-Thon (which this year will take place May 16) serves another important purpose. “We’re also just trying to kick off our season in a sense and build some community support,” Silvey said. The actual first game of the 2008 season will take place September 5 at home against Murriet...
Fallbrook High School senior T.J. Sumpter has signed a letter of intent to play football at Western New Mexico University. “I’m just excited to play college football,” Sumpter said. “I can keep playing football,” he added. “All that hard work gets to pay off.” Sumpter, whose father spent 12 years in the United States Marine Corps, played football at three different high schools. He spent his elementary and middle school years in Oceanside before the family moved to Murrieta....