CIF Football Playoff Pairings- Finals
Saturday November 29
DIV 5
Rio Hondo Prep at Redondo Union
DIV 11
Baldwin Park at Valley View
Friday November 28
DIV 13
Woodbridge at Montebello
DIV 14
South El Monte at Pioneer
CIF Football Playoff Pairings: Finals
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Be honest: if Pioneer were to play SEM in the preseason, and Montebello had Woodbridge on the same night, how much buzz would this cause? But if CIF, the almighty high school authority, declares that these games are “championships” everyone gets in a dither. How many people are being led around by the nose this way? Thankfully, not that many, as proven by the number of empty seats we’ll see tonight.
juggernaut is silly to include la serna with those two powerhouses of the southern sections greats
I thought Peterson didn’t allow obscenities in the comments, yet here we have Mr. Riser putting Rio Hondo Prep in the same sentence as Pioneer. That’s as rude and crude as it gets.
Pioneer and RHP, the only real Juggernauts today.
Feels kinda odd.
The last time that at least 1 of these FB Juggernauts
La Serna,
Mater Dei, or
St John Bosco
didnt at least play for a CIF-SS Title was………….
way back in 2010.
i wouldnt mind winning any level of a cif championship for sure. Coach Juarez of pioneer has always gotten the best of his players ; when he had little talent he could build a decent team around one or two best players and place in the middle of the pack in league when he was competing with teams/schools with at least twice the population of pioneer high school. And in the late nineties when he got a super quality running back transfer from Crenshaw high school, and had a very good supportig cast of athletes, pioneer ( I think i am correct but not one hundred percent positive) won the del rio league title . Pioneer had very successful finishes in league for a few straight seasons. La Serna was not a quality team at that time. Cal hi and santa fe ( who was getting quality transfers from the norwalk areas) were the teams usually at the top two places in league.
This marks the first year in a long while that neither Bosco nor Mater Dei is in the D1 title game. The matchup this time around features Carson Palmer’s Santa Margarita Eagles versus Matt Logan’s Corona Centennial Huskies. A breath of fresh air as far as I’m concerned.
You can talk negatively about the lower division championships all you want but it looks like year in and year out, these lower division championships are played by teams that have very reputable coaches. Juarez, Gallardo, and Gonzalez have all been around a while and all have done a great job building their programs. Two times around for Juarez. And Maxie is obviously considered one of the better young coaches in the SGV.