Flores, who scored 22 points in the 68 - 51 Jamboree Diamond
Division championship game loss to Dimond of Anchorage, Alaska, has continued to thrive on the court after the October wildfires that devastated the North Bay Area hit her particularly hard.
Amat had come into California's Southern Section
Division I championship game against Mater Dei High (from Santa Ana) as the top - ranked team in the nation — unbeaten, untied and unseen by the person who had made Amat No. 1 for most of the season in USA Today's Super 25 national high school football rankings.
MATCHUP: No. 1 Bishop Montgomery - Torrance (29 - 2) vs. No. 2 Mater Dei - Santa Ana (33 - 2), 8 p.m., March 18 at Long Beach State HISTORY: Bishop Montgomery defeated Mater Dei, 70 - 55, just weeks ago in the CIF Southern Section Open
Division championship game at Honda Center.
That team won every match that year, all the way up until the last match of the season, the NCS
Division I championship game, when No. 3 seed Liberty - Brentwood handed the Mustangs a stunning 2 - 1 defeat.
Shelton helped Chino Hills reach the CIF State
Division I championship game during his freshman season and was the sixth man on the Huskies record - setting 35 - 0 team that won the Southern Section Open Division and CIF Open Division championships during his sophomore campaign.
The two programs have faced each other in each of the last 10
Division I championship games.
Not exact matches
The Davis water polo program has owned the Sac - Joaquin Section, and on Saturday the boys and girls team laid their claims with
Division I section
championships in back - to - back
games at the Woodcreek Aquatics Center in Roseville.
With furious winds pounding Sacramento State's Hornet Stadium throughout the CIF
Division 2 - A state
championship game, completing passes was a lofty challenge.
This season, they finished third in the extremely competitive West Catholic Athletic League, then came up a two - point conversion short in a 31 - 30 loss in the Central Coast Section Open
Division II
championship game to Serra - San Mateo, which also won a state bowl title in Sacramento.
Nearly captured the program's first North Coast Section
championship, falling short 53 - 51 to De La Salle - Concord in March's
Division I title
game.
But the Big 12 decided to add a conference
championship game for next season, even though it only has 10 teams and no
divisions, in part because the conference believed it would improve its chances of making the Playoff.
LSU, which can win the Western
Division of the SEC by beating lowly Mississippi and Arkansas in its final two
games, helped prove what had already been suspected, that Alabama's offense doesn't pack enough punch for the Tide to be national
championship material.
In overtime Swampscott pulled off the win and punched their ticket to the
Division 3 state
championship game.
Even with the first section
championship and perfect season in the school's 10 - year history, the Jaguars were not selected for the CIF
Division II Bowl
Game, although they were Northern California's only unbeaten team on the board.
Both teams will be heavy favorites in their final two DVAL
games and are all but certain to be on a collision course in the North Coast Section
Division II playoffs «'' where the
championship might very well determine a California Interscholastic Federation Northern Regional bowl berth.
The Seniors team includes recent grads, including guards Connor Noah and Ryan Parilla from the James Logan - Union City team that played in the CIF
Division I state
championship game in March.
Well, the Dodgers did win a
division title last year, and the 1984 Tigers won a world
championship without even one
game started by a lefthander.
FOOTBALL — NFL: GREEN BAY, playing with its third Western
Division title safely won, subdued the surprisingly plucky last - place Los Angeles Rams 20 - 17 to set up a
championship game with New York on Dec. 30.
With two remaining
games for the Wolverines in the regular season (@Penn State and Ohio State), Michigan still has a shot at taking home the Big Ten East
division championship.
In his first tenure as coach of the Trojans, from 1976 to» 82, he led them to three Rose Bowl wins and the 1978 national
championship and won 82 % of his
games, third highest among currently active
Division I coaches.
Saco has since led the CIF in adding regional playoff
games to qualify the section
championship teams for the state bowl
games, and also added an Open
Division — for championship games between the state's top NorCal and SoCal programs regardless of division and enrollment — in both football and bas
Division — for
championship games between the state's top NorCal and SoCal programs regardless of
division and enrollment — in both football and bas
division and enrollment — in both football and basketball.
The school has been open just over a decade, but the baseball program saw some success in its short existence, with the high mark being a 21 - 7 record in 2012 that saw the Wildcats reach the NCS
Division II
championship game.
In the next - to - last
game of that season, which was the CIF
Division III state
championship, future Golden State Warrior Klay Thompson put on a show to lead his team from Santa Margarita - Rancho Santa Margarita to a 72 - 55 victory over Sacramento High.
In 2012, Carondelet got a rematch with Amador Valley in the North Coast Section
Division 1
championship game, which was played at Dublin High School.
The team's lone loss was an odd lopsided flop to Monte Vista - Danville in the
championship game of the Leo LaRocca Sand Dune Invitational on Dec. 29, 2016, at St. Ignatius - S.F.. The night before, the Bears posted a 53 - 51 win over James Logan - Union City — a team which would play in the
Division I state final just two hours after Mission's
game wrapped up.
Corcoran won the Amethyst
Division with a 46 - 32
championship game victory over Tennyson - Hayward at Ygnacio Valley High in Concord.
The Thundering Herd (21 - 10) will try to finish their third consecutive season with a win in the final
game as Elk Grove, the
Division I North champion, will face South champion Tracy, in a rematch of the 2016 SJS
Division I
championship series on June 2 - 3 at Sacramento City College.
Entering the
championship game, the Wildcats were No. 1 out of 351
Division I teams this year in points per 100 possessions.
Liverpool, winner of the English
championship three times in the last five years, champion of Europe in 1976 - 77, 1977 - 78, 1980 - 81 and currently leading the English First
Division, has nevertheless scored 65 goals in 37
games this season.
They won the CIF Open
Division state boys
championship in 2015, the
Division I title in 1981 and played in eight other state title
games, as well as earning 17 North Coast Section titles since 1978.
The state
championship basketball
games are on TV, even the
Division V ones.
Las Lomas, the second seed in Northern California, now 31 - 3, will play Chino Hills in the
Division I state
championship game at 8 p.m. Friday at Golden 1 Arena in Sacramento.
The fullback accounted for the majority of the yards during the Grizzlies»
game - winning touchdown drive in the CIF
Division I Bowl
championship on Dec. 14.
FRESNO — A crowd began to arrive at Selland Arena in downtown Fresno for the Central Section
Division II boys basketball
championship game.
He was running hard, but for those watching the CIF Open
Division Bowl
championship game closely enough, it was clear something was bothering the 5 - foot - 10, 200 - pound tailback.
The reason being that the winner of each
division gets to play for the
championship, so it's more doable to win one
game vs. the juggernaut than to outperform them for an entire season.
Despite suffering a shoulder injury on the team's second possession of the CIF Open
Division Bowl
championship game, the senior tailback delivered a vintage Spartans performance.
Comcast shows 12 state
championship games, and instead would have just two — unless someone could convince Comcast that the regional title
games for the lower
divisions would draw just as many viewers.
The Dragons went 30 - 3 with two out - of - state losses and a loss to Windward - L.A., which they would avenge by defeating the then - unbeaten Wildcats 60 - 45 in the CIF Open
Division state
championship game on March 23.
Leaping and stretching with all his might, Meteer outfought an all - league safety to gather in the pass on a play that Serra - San Mateo coach Patrick Walsh would deem as the turning point to Del Oro's 28 - 20 victory in the California Interscholastic Federation
Division I Northern Regional
championship game.
A perfect example is last year's CIF
Division II boys state
championship game, which matched Long Beach Poly and its 4,500 - person student body versus Serra - San Mateo, with fewer than 1,000 boys.
The Panthers advanced to the semifinals of the NorCal Open
Division after Carondelet - Concord forfeited its
game due to a violation of team rules at a postgame party that followed Carondelet's North Coast Section
championship win.
All other
divisions finish their season in the regional
championships, so in this case, for example, O'Dowd's last
game would have been against Vanden for the NorCal title, and that would have been it.
The prototypical point guard had her best
games when it counted: In the Platinum
Division Nob Hill bracket
championship victory over the Northwest Stars Navy, and then in the overall Platinum
Division 67 - 41 title -
game victory over Northwest Stars Black 2017.
Williams led the way, scoring nine points in the final 2:30 of the
game, to earn Sheldon the first
Division I
championship berth for a public school from the Sac Joaquin Section.
On top of that, this could well be a preview of the California Interscholastic Federation
Division II Northern regional
championship game, as both these teams are favored not only to win section titles, but also advance to the finals.
The Monarchs, showing off a uniquely interchangeable, skilled and versatile squad — not to mention tenacious — especially for such a young team, rolled to their fifth state title with a 56 - 54 triumph over equally tough J.W. North - Riverside in the
Division II
championship game at Power Balance Pavilion on March 23.
To aptly embody what transpired in the North Coast Section
Division I softball
championship game June 1 at Saint Mary's College, one simply needs to start with those first two sentences.
With both teams sitting in first place in their respective
divisions and in contention for a first round bye, the thought of the NFL
championship game featuring Blake Bortles and the Saints» -LSB-...]
Every NFL team has played 14
games, and the various races for
division championships and playoff spots are in full swing.