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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Two Fallbrook High School wrestlers placed among the top eight at the Jimmy Hamada Classic tournament, Dec. 6-7, at La Costa Canyon High School, and eight of the 11 Warriors who competed qualified for the second-day rounds of the tournament. “The team performed really well there,” Fallbrook coach Cristian Vera said. “The La Costa Canyon tournament is one of the toughest tournaments in the state. We want to be as competitive as we possibly can, and the boys did just that.” Despite not fielding grapplers in every weight...
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Rocky Long is retiring as San Diego State's football coach after taking the Aztecs to nine straight bowl games, a person familiar with the situation said Wednesday. The person spoke with The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the move hadn't been announced. The school has scheduled a news conference for 2 p.m. PST to make what it said was a major announcement. The Aztecs were 10-3 last season, capped by a 48-11 victory over Central Michigan in... Full story
SAN DIEGO (AP) — San Diego State basketball is back to being the hottest ticket in town. Viejas Arena is hopping again because the undefeated and seventh-ranked Aztecs are playing as well as they did during their two Sweet 16 seasons during the last decade, including the one led by Kawhi Leonard. This time it's a trio of transfers — guards Malachi Flynn and KJ Feagin, and forward Yanni Wetzell — powering the Aztecs (15-0, 4-0 Mountain West Conference). SDSU and Auburn are the nation's only undefeated teams. Besides havin... Full story
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Two-time Farmers Insurance Open champion Jason Day and World No. 21 golfer Rickie Fowler, a Murrieta Valley High School graduate, have committed to the 2020 tournament at Torrey Pines, event organizers announced on Tuesday. Day, who won the 2015 and 2018 Farmers Insurance Open tournaments and tied for fifth in last year's outing, has won the PGA Tour 12 times. The 32-year-old Australian notched four top-five results in the 2018-2019 PGA Tour, including tying... Full story
There have been no Fallbrook Union High School Girls Varsity Basketball teams with a winning overall record at the school since Dan Bachman’s 2014-15 team went 17-8. So far this season, Jessica Ramirez’s Warriors are 5-4 on the young season and making strides. The Warriors had to be feeling good coming into tournament games with West Hills Saturday, Dec. 28, and Valhalla Monday, Dec. 30, (games played after press time) having just won big against Santana, taking down the Sul...
After graduating from Bonsall High School in 2019 Max Collier became the first former Bonsall High School cross-country runner to compete in college, and his Palomar College season ended at the state meet. “It was very fun to continue my cross-country career,” Collier said. Collier said that being the first former Bonsall High School runner to compete in college makes him a role model for others. “It feels great to be one of the first,” he said. Hugh Gerhardt is Palomar College’s men’s cross-country coach. “We met on campus...
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Nearly 30 years after Hayden Fry last worked a sideline in San Diego, the No. 19 Iowa Hawkeyes will remember their former coach when they play No. 22 USC in the Holiday Bowl on Friday night. Iowa will remove the Tigerhawk decals from its helmets to honor Fry, who died on Dec. 17 at age 90. Fry introduced the logo during his 20-year tenure, which included trips to the Holiday Bowl in 1986, 1987 and 1991. The Hawkeyes will continue to wear the ANF (America Needs Farmers) stickers on their helmets, as well as o... Full story
LA JOLLA (CNS) - World No. 8-ranked and defending Farmers Insurance Open champion Justin Rose committed today to the 2020 tournament set for Jan. 22-26 at Torrey Pines Golf Course. Rose has played the Farmers Insurance Open 10 times, with his three top-10 finishes all coming in the last three years. He was ranked World No. 1 when he won the Torrey Pines tournament last year, and counts the 2013 U.S. Open among his 10 career PGA Tour victories. Rose also has 12 international... Full story
A 2-0 home loss Dec. 19 against Rancho Buena Vista gave Fallbrook High School's girls soccer team a season record of 0-4 to begin the 2019-20 season. "We had a rough start," said Fallbrook coach Sergio Garcia. The power rankings which are the primary factor in CIF playoff selection and seeding include strength of schedule as well as win-loss record, and Garcia believes that the Warriors' pre-league schedule will prepare his players for Valley League and postseason play as...
FALLBROOK – Fallbrook Youth Rugby is underway for the 2019-2020 season. Fallbrook Youth Rugby kicked off the season with a clinic run by the Fallbrook High School Warriors boys' rugby team, Nov. 16, as a league fundraiser. "The league had a great turnout with many new players excited to learn the sport of rugby, which is why we hold these clinics, to introduce Fallbrook Rugby to as many athletes as we can," Jen Day said. Youth between the ages of 7 to 12 are welcome to come ou...
FALLBROOK – Before she ever heard of pickleball, Jennifer (Youngren) Lucore grew up in Bonsall and graduated from Fallbrook Union High School in 1984. She played on the varsity tennis team and continued her tennis at Palomar College and onward. She was recently inducted into the Pickleball Hall of Fame, as the first female athlete and competitor, during the USAPA National Championship in Indian Wells in November. The Pickleball Hall of Fame was formed in 2017 to recognize i...
FALLBROOK – At their Christmas luncheon at Pala Mesa Dec. 12, the Fallbrook Niners celebrated 50 years of golf and camaraderie with Champagne, cake and an awards ceremony. President Leticia Maldonado Stamos thanked the 20 long-term members for their loyalty and announced the winner of the 2019 Club Championship – Patti Waterman. She in turn recognized the most frequent winner of this annual event, Maureen Mitzner. An ornament exchange followed, plus donations of food ite...
The Fallbrook Union High School Girls Rugby team started the league season fast with a win over Rancho Bernardo High School Saturday, Dec. 21, at Ingold Field in Fallbrook. Sophomores Julia Tippin and Tiahna Padilla got the Warriors off to a quick start with early tries and conversions by Shelby Tippin....
FALLBROOK – The Fallbrook Senior Softball League is now accepting new and returning players for winter 2020. New players interested in tryouts and practice sessions in December can call the number below for information. Registration fees are due by Jan. 6, and the draft is scheduled on the same day. After the draft, players will be contacted by the team managers and notified of the league start date. This league is for adults age 50-plus. Games begin at 4 p.m., Monday through Thursday, with each team playing two games per w... Full story
The Fallbrook Warriors varsity boys’ rugby team dropped its first match of the season Friday, Dec. 13 to Torrey Pines High School at Fallbrook High School. Torrey Pines is one of the top teams in San Diego County and showed it with a 75-7 win over the Warriors to kick off the season. The Falcons were also victorious in the junior varsity game with the Warriors falling short in a 38-10 loss to the Falcons. The Warriors will next go on the road to play San Clemente High S...
Fallbrook High School girls' cross-country coach Vickie Knox didn't expect the Warriors to place well at the CIF meet Nov. 23 on the Morley Field course in San Diego, but she still achieved her goal. "It was just for experience, getting my girls experience. Many of my girls have not been to CIF," Knox said. Five of Fallbrook's seven runners at the CIF meet had not previously competed at a CIF section race. The exceptions were junior Iselah Cabello and senior Maya Rink, who...
Fallbrook High School's boys' cross-country team placed ninth among the 18 Division 1 schools with the minimum five runners at the CIF San Diego Section meet Nov. 23 on the Morley Field course in San Diego. Cross-country team scores add the positions of a school's first five finishers. The sixth and seventh runners are not scored but can add points to opponents' totals. Fallbrook accumulated 257 points. Holtville, which placed eighth, had 213 points. Grossmont totaled 258...
A stakes win by a San Luis Rey Training Center horse clinched this year’s Del Mar Thoroughbred Club fall meet trainer title for Richard Baltas; San Luis Rey trainer Peter Miller ended the Bing Crosby Season meet third in the trainer standings. Baltas and Miller also combined for three stakes race wins on the final weekend of the meet which began Nov. 8 and concluded Dec. 1. Baltas saddled Next Shares in the Nov. 30 Grade 2 Seabiscuit Handicap; Miller won the Grade 1 H...
The holidays are a difficult time for sports schedules – imagine what it's like trying to mold a new basketball team into one that can compete for a league championship through the holidays. That's what the basketball teams at Fallbrook and Bonsall high schools are trying to do while competing in games all over San Diego County in non-league games and tournaments. GIRLS Head coach Jessica Ramirez and her Fallbrook High School girls' varsity team is off to a 2-2 record early i...
Bonsall High School's girls cross country team placed 11th among the Division V schools at the CIF San Diego Section meet Nov. 23 on the Morley Field course in San Diego. The Legionnaires accumulated 269 points, which are based on the positions of a school's first five finishers. Guajome Park had the 10th-place total of 266 points. Mountain Empire was 12th with 303 points. Fifteen Division V schools had the minimum five girls to obtain a team score. The Ford twins, who are seniors, were Bonsall's first two finishers....
Five members of Fallbrook High School’s boys’ water polo team received all-league recognition for the 2019 season. The Valley League coaches placed Doug Pearce on the first team and Jackson Richards on the second team while providing honorable mention accolades to Roman Honarvar, Kai Maestas and Kayden Trafford. “I’m very proud of such a young class doing so well,” Fallbrook assistant coach Austan Farkas said, who attended the all-league selection meeting in place of Fallbrook head coach Bill Richardson. Richards is a senior....
On Nov. 23, Bonsall High School took part in the CIF San Diego Section Cross Country Finals. Taking place at Morley Field in Balboa Park, BHS and its runners competed for the chance to move on to the 2019 CIF State Cross Country Championship. Out of the 23 boys’ teams in the Division 5 league, only the top three would qualify for state, and only the top two girls’ teams out of 15 would qualify. The three boys’ cross country teams that went to the state meet were from Franc...
Five members of Fallbrook High School's boys' water polo team received all-league recognition for the 2019 season. The Valley League coaches placed Doug Pearce on the first team and Jackson Richards on the second team while providing honorable mention accolades to Roman Honarvar, Kai Maestas and Kayden Trafford. "I'm very proud of such a young class doing so well," Fallbrook assistant coach Austan Farkas said, who attended the all-league selection meeting in place of...
Fallbrook Union High School varsity girls basketball head coach Jessica Ramirez has three goals for her team this season – be disciplined, show commitment and show character. The second-year head coach, assistants Trae Harrison and Nick Cardona, and the Warriors are coming off a 7-20 season last year and have designs on improving this winter. "They have progressed greatly on the defensive end of the floor," Ramirez said. "They are motivated and aggressive." The coach said the...
