High School Football Final games from around the area.
Friday November 24
St. Monica 28 Walnut 21
Jurupa Hills 21 Charter Oak 14
Rio Hondo Prep 29 Santa Monica 27
La Serna 49 Corona Del Mar 29
Bell Gardens 27 Lynwood 14
Mater Dei 35 St. John Bosco 7
Saturday November 25
Mayfair 31 El Dorado 28
St. Bonaventure 24 Warren 21
Torrance 23 West Covina 7
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Everyone gets a game 11. Bowl game.
About 200 games.
25 bowls a night for 8 days.
1st night is the Thursday after the regular season. Last bowls are 2 Saturdays later.
Fans can attend multiple games.
CIF Gets 50% of each gate.
Ring and patch companies sell more rings and patches.
More players end their season with a win.
Teams play less games resulting in fewer injuries.
Easier for football players to play a winter sport.
I say give everyone who even thought about going out for football an award. If anyone questions the honor, sue them for hurting the hallucinator’s feelings.
As wild and satirical as your suggestion might sound , there’s a lot of people who would say this is a good idea ….
Those teams that don’t make playoffs go to HSBS High School Bowl Series and square off vs closest rival as determined by CalPreps. Everyone gets at least one more game and CIF
gets 60 more “winners” . Everyone has
“something to play for” at seasons end. Coaches
save their jobs with bowl victories and everyone is happy .!
This could happen
Let’s play the Belmont vs West Adams game at coliseum. How much are tickets ???
Give every team 1 bowl game. You play the closest ranked team. This year L.A.Belmont -92 rated would play -90 West Adams. Every body gets a bowl game and a trophy.
So that means 60% of teams make playoffs
218/373
6% of those are Champs
CIF wants more winners . Don’t forget two 8-man champs as well. Go Chadwick!!
These are complex issues . I’m not against more winners but the quantity impacts the quality and that get lost in the confetti under CIF banner
Those crying for inclusion of everyone and his little brother are actually urging us to water-down the value of all football banners hanging in school gyms, including the ones from decades ago. Enough with this endless congratulation of everyone…make winning more difficult and challenge the kids to aim higher.
@New Classification,
There are 373 schools that play 11-man football in the CIF Southern Section. That is more schools than over 3 quarters of the rest of the states in the country. There are 14 teams who can cal themselves CIF champions. 14 out of 373. That’s hardly handing out trophies.
To state the obvious, high school football has evolved into two camps: the teams that are loaded and the teams that have leftovers. It’s not hard for the major rating organizations such as Maxpreps and Calpreps to figure out which is which. It’s not hard for the average keyboard warriors on this site to do the same.
My view is that, among the elites, there are two categories: the super elite (what would be CIF divisions 1 and 2) and the knocking on the door elites (divisions 3, 4 and 5). We need to cut the crap and form just two divisions out of all these programs. Call them Elite 1 and Elite 2.
Next down the ladder, we have the vast group of teams who are up to their necks in decent-to marginal players. So we make two divisions out of this bunch of football ballast, calling them Leftovers 1 and Leftovers 2.
What would this accomplish? It would take CIF back to its original state of having only four playoff divisions. It would recognize the truth of how things really are, not how some people try to spin them.
Most importantly, it would make a CIF championship meaningful, not just one of 14 awards given out like so much candy.
@ T-Bone
While there are many here that may find some BS reason to counter your statement, I am one who couldn’t agree more with your well thought perspective.
Best of luck to Mayfair, La Serna, Rio Hondo Prep and Bell Gardens
“La Serna players were born on third base and they think they hit a home run.”
It’s pretty clear a lot of commenters don’t know anything about what goes on at La Serna. If you think there is recruiting/poaching going on, you’d be sorely mistaken. Any transfer that has shown up has done so on their own.
And as for the kids who live in the other district schools’ jurisdiction, let’s be honest with ourselves. If it was your kid, would you be lining up to send them to one of the other DRL schools? The head coach positions are just revolving doors. No consistency anywhere. Why would you sign your kid up for that?
Just give the kids the respect they deserve, tip your cap, and get to prepping for your D19 playoff run next season. Congrats to the champs.
His coach,
Who is “denigrating the efforts of these young”? The Lancers were congratulated for their dominance throughout the regular season AND D4 Championship title! Even stated that they should submit their design for the 2nd ring they will win in the D2-AA South Regional title game this Friday.
There are some problems with CalPreps ratings. They cap victory margin at 30 points , so as to not give credit to teams for running up scores . The margin between LaSerna and Del Rio foes is 40-60 points , so their rating for those games is capped at a low number . This in effect La Serna is rated off their nonleague ( and pre-transfer eligible) performance thus placing them in lower division,
I love CalPreps , but ratings were not created for the purpose CIF using them for
Because someone talked how much BG had improved since they played Schurr
When you play horrible teams it looks like you’ve improved a lot
Credit to BG for winning 4 games ! Having played Schurr and other decent squads made the other D14 squads look easy
They were all bad teams by definition
218 teams in playoffs . They beat #214, #206 #203and #202
Anonymous dude. The LS program does what it does and plays the games assigned…a couple of years ago after a tough loss to St. Francis the next opponent would have been Long Beach Poly….yes THAT Poly….we would have prepared and competed like we do for every game we play…no whimpering or sniveling like u seem to be doing. Instead of denigrating the efforts of these young men better u just keep your mouth shut until you have words of substance to speak
Two CIF titles in two seasons for the Almont league. Although, I do agree 14 Divisions is too many.
What is CIF seeing that the rest of us aren’t? La Serna, with the exception of the 3 games lost (which they competed well into the 3rd/4th quarters), demolished their season scheduled “competition”. Yet, instead of appropriately slotting them in D3, they dropped them to D4.
Once CIF did this, we all saw it coming…the Lancers made the D4 playoffs look like just a step, maybe 2, above their Del Rio league schedule. And now the Southern Section 17th ranked (most updated) Lancers, instead of facing a formidable opponent in St. Bonaventure (ranked 18th) for the Division 1-A Regionals, will face off against a 33rd ranked Orange Vista team having been slotted for the D2-AA Regionals.
Would like to wish LS best of luck on Friday, but there really is no need. The Lancers might as well submit their 2nd ring design to Jostens. What a treat for the La Serna community, which consists of not just the Friendly Hills, but all of Whittier, and parts of: La Mirada, La Habra, Hacienda Heights, Pico Rivera, Norwalk, Santa Fe, and from what I read recently on someone’s post, as far as Inland Empire/Hawaii!! Congratulations to all!!!!
Nobody is hating on teenagers , please point out where I’ve done that
You are the one name calling
Every team looks better when they’ve been relegated to the worst division in high school football .
Enjoy your celebration
3rd place in Almont is ticket to CIF title these days
What is D14 ? The sixteen worst teams in the playoffs , by definition
Nobody is taking anything away from BG , just pointing out what it is . Enjoy your celebration .
I don’t have to punch a wall; my team performed admirably in much higher division
The quality of your team is defined by division placement and not by arbitrary CIF playoff run
@Joseph Lianoz,
Every high school needs a bunch of supportive teachers like you. Go Bell Gardens!
BG was the #5 seed they beat #12, #4, #1, and #2
People want the ratings of the teams BG played. Go
Rate your own team. Trying to take away from BG cif title is a joke you guys are bitter. Probably punching the walls Friday night.
Not to take anything away from BG, but this curious to know what the ratings were for the teams they paid in the playoffs ? Can someone provide this info please? Full disclosure, I am a Schurr grad smh
To low life I mean profile what did your team win this year ? they planing the banquet dinner ? Why you hating on teenagers life got you that bitter.
If we’re going to continue with playoff divisions of double digits, how about lowering tickets prices for those games to single digits? If we’re going to give the lesser teams their day in the sun, give the fans a break too.
Why is schurr being mentioned here lol who cares what they did or should I say didn’t do. Congrats BG !
You will
really gloat after you crush weak City squad !
My post isn’t negative , just realistic
To low profile you won’t bring down the BG community with your negative post. It was just last year that BG blew out Shurr and yrs they beat BG this year with a heavy sophomore team. If you think Ramos is going to win anything you’re wrong. Nova and his staff have done more in two years than Ramos did here as a player and a coach stop the hate and go to your corner and sulk. Next order of business is L.A. Jordan I know Nova will have the boys ready. BG you know Gurkha pride
Ocean View struggled with Pioneer …..won by a touchdown ….nuff said !!
Great !
If they played Schurr again they would lose by several touchdowns.
D14 by definition is a bunch of horrible teams and BG was high seed in this group.
I think this is great for the school and community , but by no stretch does this mean they were good , and the current system rewards mediocrity . This is a big reason for the downfall of football in the SGV….
BG in D14 ????
We all keep forgetting what a CIF Championship win does for many of our students and the community it belongs too! This CIF Championship was long awaited by BGHS 26 years to be exact! since it last played in a FINAL. It was the same BG team that lost earlier in the season to Schurr in a poor performance , but sometimes you need that kind of loss to create and trigger a reality check for the team. THE BG team huddled around coaches on campus who reminded them that this was a new season the CIF Playoffs and they were challenged to look at each game with a goal in mind to WIN! I know I am a teacher of 23 years at BGHS and have many of the Football players in my classes and even have my door open having lunch visits and conversations with some of the players. The CIF Playoffs have somehow transformed the same BG Team and players from the regular season to play with intensity and motivation. Each week the players were focused on each game and listened to CHALK TALKS given by coaches to focus only on preparing and winning each game against each opponent.BG was not picked to win any of the playoff games in fact MVS picked Ocean View, Artesia(#1 seed) and Lynwood to beat BG, La Puente was a coin flip choice? The BG Players Thrived on this knowing they were the underdogs in each game. The turning point was the Ocean View game away down 14-0 in the 2nd Quarter BG scored 28 unanswered points and created turnovers late in that game to win 28-21. This win I believe gave confidence to the BG Team to win the CIF Title! They were reminded at each PEP Rally on campus NOT TO TAKE ANY TEAM FOR GRANTED! I agree this was a NEW BG TEAM IN THE PLAYOFFS with the same players with a NEW MOTIVATING MIND SET. I have never seen anything like this at BGHS in my 23 years of teaching on campus. The BG Football Alumni(hundreds) made its presence known at each playoff game many standing in back of the sidelines reminding the team each win was for EVERYONE AT BG!. I spoke to former BG Alumni and my student in the classroom Jimmy Do the QB who lead BG to the semifinals in 2002 only to lose a heartbreaking game that season he was there to support BG! Lynwood made the mistake of going to YOUTUBE after the CIF Luncheon last Wednesday and posted a video with 4 players The Championship game was going to be an EASY WIN OVER BG.! That’s all BG needed to come out and score on the first series to lead 8-0! Leading 21-14 in the 4th quarter when the the final touchdown was scored with only a few minutes remaining MAKING THE SCORE 27-16, The BG Team and Community knew the CIF CHAMPIONSHIP was moments away! The celebration started when the clock expired and Players, Coaches, Parents, Students, teachers including myself embraced the victory with TEARS of Joy crying Together.! When the CIF Trophy was handed to second year coach Hector Novoa, without hesitation he handed the TROPHY to his Coach Dave Newhell who attended the game, in tears he lifted the CIF Trophy Championship the DNA OF BG FOOTBALL! All the hard work all these years had paid off! This win was for the entire BG Football Alumni and the BG Family! and has transform the BG players that anything is possible if you BELIEVE! I covered all the league games and CIF playoff games for BG and know this CIF Title has brought so much POSITIVE IMPACT to the entire Bell Gardens Community! 10, 450 followers on MAXPREPS LIVE last Friday is just one example! and the Standing room only Crowd that celebrated the CIF WIN! And the Journey continues with The CIF Southern State Regionals next week. I speak daily to the players in my classroom as a TEACHER and knew 4 weeks ago we had something special that was transforming at BGHS for the playoffs. That’s the insights that MVS and media and outsiders do not know about a team! The BG FIRST FOOTBALL CIF Championship was the best THANKSGIVING for the entire BG Family! BG gives thanks to those who did BELIEVE!
Small schools lol , knock it off. Are you comparing rural towns in our country to
Cities in Los Angeles county ? Wowzers. I’ve heard it all now.
You say the BG team that won a title is a completely different one from earlier? Did the bus roll over and the whole squad get replaced? Fact is, CIF rolled over and started making divisions for just about everyone. We need a new rule: no divisions with double-digits.
***And CONGRATS to Mayfair also***
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Congratulations to Rio Hondo Prep, La Serna and Bell Gardens on earning a CIF Championship in their divisions. Job well done.
And to all who did not achieve their title, your season’s success is still to be celebrated as well.
“Pursuing Victory With Honor”
Congrats to Schurr for making mark the Sharks top 10. Now that’s an accomplishment
The truth is the BG team that played earlier this year was a completely different team than the one that went into the playoffs. You sound like a sore Spartan who had high hopes but later an egg.
These aren’t small schools . Rio is a small school!
These are big schools with crummy programs and coaching that get lumped in with the small schools now because they are bad
They have individual players but as teams they are lacking . Stop trumping up SG
Only in socal. To those critical of small program football you should make it a point to go to small town playoff football in states like Colorado, Utah. Oregon, Washington. Those small towns close up on Friday’s. Its a weekly event win or lose. And no one laughing at them for coming from a small program. Shame on MVS commentors that denigrate these socal schools. You know nothing.
If walnut ran just a little bit more of a dynamic offense that fluker kid would be a monster, absolutely no reason a kid like that should be getting 1 or 2 targets in a cif championship game, walnut truly had every shot to win that game and kept blowing it.
Bernard, BP didn’t win a 7 on 7 championship during passing league??
Nah, they didn’t give participation trophies back then… they do now though.
Truth is it ain’t that easy to win in d13. BP has a 3 star qb, and another d1 receiver and couldn’t get it done. Walnut has a 6’7 receiver who will be playing on Saturdays and they couldn’t get it done.
@ TRUTH
Maybe you would feel better if your school won a CIF ““participation” trophy”.
I saw BG get worked by Schurr earlier this year. They looked small and poorly coached. Shocking to see them as cif champs. Really makes you think about past cif winners such as sg, El Monte, arroyo. 20 years ago there were on X or 10 divisions. Crazy to see there now being 14 and schools getting “participation” trophies.
Congrats Noah Penunuri and RHP! Noah is a tremendous athlete, excelling in Muay Thai (he is a Champion) and Football! He is an even better human being! So happy for him and his team! He holds a Muay Thai Championship Belt and now a CIF ring!
#TheShackSystem
Yucca Valley High, whose motto is Character Courage and Cactus, will do battle with the pride of the 605, the mighty Cerritos Dons, tonight at the historic and hallowed grounds of Gahr High. It is hoped the hot-weather guys will prove to be a juggernaut who will forever be called a dynasty, or at least a kingdom.