Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
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In the electric atmosphere at SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, Calif., on Dec. 19, the Bolts lived up to their name. The Los Angeles Chargers hosted AFC West rivals, the Denver Broncos, with the game aired on Prime "Thursday Night Football." The final score was 34-27 in favor of the Chargers. It was a short week for the Bolts to prepare, but still a victorious and historic night. The Defense came to life in the second-half. Chargers Quarterback Justin Herbert's performance was sheer... Full story
The athletic league involving five small middle schools and K‑8 elementary schools in northern San Diego County had a flag football tournament Dec. 5 in Rainbow, and the Vallecitos Elementary School girls won their portion of the Vallecitos Flag Football Tournament while the Vallecitos boys placed second. Vallecitos, Pauma Elementary School, Julian Junior High School, Warner Middle School (Warner Springs), and Borrego Springs Middle School participated in the tournament. The V...
FALLBROOK – Fallbrook Senior Softball is welcoming new players who are 50 plus years of age. Games are played at Ingold Sports Park Mondays through Thursdays at 4 p.m. with warm-ups beginning at 3:30. Each team is scheduled to play two games per week. They are currently looking for new players. Potential players must show for a screening prior to being placed on a team so that an appropriate placement can be made. The league has just completed the last of five 2024 seasons and will be on hiatus until mid-January. The next d...
Mark Glatt trains horses both at the San Luis Rey Training Center and at Santa Anita Park. Several of his horses who have been at San Luis Rey helped Glatt win the 2024 Del Mar fall meet trainer championship. Glatt had 14 wins in his 32 starts during the fall meet. Seven other horses finished second and five of Glatt’s horses took third place. “I think it’s a great accomplishment,” Glatt said. Glatt acknowledged that the fall meet, which had 16 race days, was a short meet. “Nonetheless it’s an accomplishment and a tribute to...
Bonsall High School’s boys soccer team lost the Legionnaires’ first five games of the season, but Bonsall’s record improved to 1-5 with a win in the Dec. 13 game which preceded the start of the Legionnaires’ 2024-25 league season. “The season hasn’t quite started the way I wanted, but we’re slowly improving,” said Bonsall coach Ennis Pipe. The 2023-24 Legionnaires had an overall record of 9-5-3 which included a loss in the CIF Division V-AA quarterfinal. Bonsall was 9‑0‑1 in Pioneer League play and obtained the first...
A Dec. 19 win at San Diego Jewish Academy gave Fallbrook High School's boys basketball team a 9-1 record entering Winter Break. "The guys are playing hard. They're defending," said Fallbrook coach Jonathan Terry. The 2023-24 Warriors, who did not participate in a Winter Break tournament, had a 7-6 record during the Calendar Year 2023 portion of their season. Last season's team was 5-5 after 10 games. Two of last season's starters were seniors. Current seniors Xavier Charland...
The Bonsall Unified School District had a summer sports program this year, but there was confusion about the compensation for the two BUSD classified employees who were coaches. The issue was rectified at the Nov. 20 BUSD board meeting. A 5-0 vote approved compensation of $40 per hour for the classified staff members who coached volleyball and softball. They were initially paid $26.57 per hour. “They are both classified staff members throughout the school year, yet also dedicate their time to serving students within CIF c...
FALLBROOK – This past weekend, Dec. 14-15, the Fallbrook Villa FC Girls 2011 came out on top as the Cardiff Cup Champions. The girls battled the entire way to stay on top. This tournament had two brackets which meant the girls had to secure their first place spot to guarantee themselves a spot in the finals. Their first game against Cardiff Sockers was a Fallbrook win, 3-1. The second game against Oceanside Breakers ended in another Villa win, 6-0. This helped put the girls i...
Ross Johnson has stepped down as Fallbrook High School’s head football coach. Johnson, who coached the Warriors from 2022 to 2024, made the announcement Nov. 25. “It was a family-related decision,” said Johnson, whose children are 5 and 3. After Troy Everhart, who coached Fallbrook from 2019 to 2021, took a head coach position in Ohio, the Fallbrook Union High School District hired Johnson in March 2022. Everhart resigned in January 2022 to give Fallbrook High School a chance to hire a new coach in time for spring pract...
The first 2024-25 dual meet for Fallbrook High School’s wrestling program was actually a quad meet involving four schools Dec. 3 at Army-Navy Academy. Each school had matches against each of the other three schools, and Fallbrook was 2-1 in those competitions. “I’m really happy,” said Fallbrook coach Tom Brockson. Wrestling has both individual scores and team scores. In each match, a wrestler is given one point for an escape, two points for a takedown, a reversal, or a near fall lasting two to five seconds, and three points...
FALLBROOK – Both the "Tiny Mite Small Division" and the "Mitey Might Small Division" squads of the Fallbrook Pop Warner cheer teams took home the first place trophy at the Wescon Regionals recently. It all started back in early October when the squads entered the San Diego County competition at the San Diego Convention Center. Cheer Squads from San Diego County were present to compete. The "Small Division" is defined by the number of participants not to exceed a certain n...
FALLBROOK – Fallbrook Senior Softball is welcoming new players who are 50 plus years of age. Games are played at Ingold Sports Park Mondays thru Thursdays at 4 p.m. with warm-ups beginning at 3:30. Each team is scheduled to play two games per week. They are currently looking for new players. Potential players must show for a screening prior to being placed on a team so that an appropriate placement on a team can be made. The league has just completed the last 2024 season and will be on hiatus until mid-January. The next d... Full story
Fallbrook High School's girls placed 11th among Division II schools at the CIF San Diego Section cross country meet Nov. 16 at Morley Field in San Diego. Cross country team scores add the positions of a school's first five finishers; the sixth and seventh runners from each team are not scored but can add points to opponents' totals. Fallbrook had 323 points, edging 12th-place Central Union (El Centro) by one point. Bonita Vista had the 10th-place score of 312 points. Sixteen...
Three Fallbrook High School 12th-grade boys concluded their high school cross country careers at the CIF San Diego Section meet Nov. 16 at Morley Field in San Diego. Xavier Charland finished 92nd in the Division II boys race; Alex Lugo had the 106th-place time, and Cruz Arroyo was the 118th runner across the finish line. "The guys that showed up gave me their best effort," said Fallbrook head coach Marco Arias. "Everyone ran to their ability today." The CIF San Diego Section...
Bonsall High School's 2024 cross country team only had enough runners to place in a meet as a team once and the Legionnaires boys placed sixth that day, and none of Bonsall's runners earned all-league status. However, Bonsall head coach Manuel Ramirez notes that the season was still successful. "I want to congratulate all the runners for meeting all their goals and having an amazing season," Ramirez said. "Everybody did amazing." The races in the Aug. 31 CCA Ravens XC Invitati...
The top 10 finishers in the Valley League cross country championship race earned berths on the all-league first team while the next 10 finishers were placed on the all-league second team. Two Fallbrook High School girls earned second-team recognition for their performances at the Nov. 9 league championship race at Kit Carson Park. A time of 21:36.3 on the 3.05-mile course gave senior Cynthia Mills 11th place and second-team recognition. "I'm happy with that, but I wish I...
Fallbrook High School’s boys cross country team shared fifth in the final 2024 Valley League standings. The formula for the Valley League team cross country league championship gives 25% for positions at each of the two league cluster meets and the other 50% for the positions at the league championship meet. Fallbrook’s boys were fifth at both cluster meets, which occurred Oct. 4 at Kit Carson Park and Oct. 18 at Guajome Park, and sixth at the league championship meet Nov. 9 at Kit Carson Park. Escondido was sixth in bot...
Hana Winton signed a letter of intent to play collegiate softball at California State University, Fullerton. High school seniors in certain sports were allowed to sign National Collegiate Athletic Association letters of intent on Nov. 13. The San Diego Sports Association and the CIF San Diego Section hosted a signing ceremony at Snapdragon Stadium in San Diego that morning, and Winton signed her letter of intent there. "I'm super excited, and it's a huge privilege to go play...
Although a first-round CIF Division V-A playoff loss gave Fallbrook High School’s football team a season record of 0-11 for the 2024 season, the 34‑33 score Nov. 8 at Fallbrook was the closest the Warriors were all year to winning a game. “I did expect it to be a close game,” said Fallbrook head coach Ross Johnson. “Both teams had some pretty good offensive weapons.” The 242 rushing yards Monte Vista senior Alexander Villanueva gained against Fallbrook brought his season total to 2,104 in 11 games. “They had the leading runni...
The 2024 Del Mar Thoroughbred Club fall meet began Oct. 31, and during the first week of the meet, San Luis Rey Training Center trainers Rolando Quinonez and Peter Miller each saddled two winners. Quinonez and Miller each had a winner on the first day of the meet. Quinonez won the fourth race Oct. 31 with Everything Bugs Me while Miller’s win that day was in the sixth race with Game Warrior. Tisquantum won the first race Nov. 2 to give Quinonez wins in both of his starts the first week of the fall meet. Spirit Rules won the s...
Although Fallbrook High School’s girls tennis team finished third in the 2024 Valley League standings, the Warriors handed league champion El Camino the Wildcats’ only league loss. Fallbrook and El Camino split their league matches, and the Wildcats won the league title with a 9-1 record in Valley League dual match play. El Camino defeated Valley Center in both matches between those teams while the Jaguars defeated Fallbrook twice and finished with an 8-2 league record. The two losses to Valley Center and the split with El...
Fallbrook High School boys basketball coach Jonathan Terry also has the Blue Wave club, and the high school boys participated in a fall league. For Terry, success wasn’t a matter of the win-loss record in the fall league but of preparing the players for the CIF season. “We did good,” Terry said. The fall league began Sept. 9 and concluded Oct. 20. “It’s about development, competition,” Terry said. “We played higher-level competition.” The 2023-24 Warriors had an overall record of 14-15 including CIF playoff results. Fallbrook...
