San Diego, CA
Carlsbad beats Cathedral Catholic, advances to Open Division final
CARLSBAD — It’s a rematch.
For the second season in a row, Carlsbad High School and Montgomery High School will play for the San Diego Section Open Division boys basketball championship.
But the road to Friday’s title game at Frontwave Arena was anything but easy for Carlsbad, the defending champions.
In a game that was tied six times and the lead changed hand eight, the Lancers used a 7-0 run midway through the fourth quarter to finally take control en route to a 73-61 win over Cathedral Catholic before a full house at Carlsbad.
It was the eighth win in a row for the No. 2-seeded Lancers (25-5), who haven’t lost since a 69-68 overtime decision at Torrey Pines on Jan. 31.
“Going back to the championship game means everything,” said Carlsbad senior Jake Hall, who finished with 22 points and had to push his career total to 3,045, second all-time in the San Diego Section.
“Playing Montgomery again is what everyone wanted.”
The Lancers got a career-high 24 points from 3-sport star Jett Kenady, who has signed to play baseball at Cal. Hall is headed to UC San Diego.
“For sure, we knew Cathedral was tough,” Kenady said. “We knew it was going to be tough. But we just do what we do.”
Cathedral Catholic led 19-17 at the end of the first quarter with Steven Evans-Glynn and Patrick O’Brien both scoring six.
Hall had eight points for Carlsbad, but was called for his second foul midway through the quarter and played the rest of the half with two fouls.
Carlsbad got eight points from Kenady in the second quarter and led 33-31 at the break. Roman Payne, a 7-foot volleyball player, who is bound for Hawaii, played his most extended minutes and had six rebounds.
Max Meza hit three straight 3-pointers to keep Cathedral Catholic in the game.
The score was tied five times and the lead changed hands eight times in the first 16 minutes.
“Roman gave us some great minutes,” said Carlsbad coach Clark Allard. “We were in a 2-3 zone and did a great job.”
Cathedral Catholic (20-10) cut Carlsbad’s lead to six with 1:40 to play, but the Dons could get no closer.
Jordan Garner finished with 16 points and eight rebounds for Carlsbad while Hall had 10 rebounds.
Evans-Glynn led the Dons with 18 points and had eight rebounds. O’Brien added 14 points and nine rebounds. Meza finished with 10 points.
Carlsbad is 140-47 since its last losing season in 2017-18. The Lancers are 94-30 in Hall’s four seasons, and 80-20 the last three seasons. The Lancers have beaten Santa Ana Mater Dei, ranked No. 29 in the state; Los Alamitos, ranked No. 16 in the state; and Georgetown Prep, ranked No. 9 in Maryland.
Two of the team’s losses are to Father Judge, ranked No. 1 in Philadelphia, and JSerra, ranked No. 18 in California.
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City considering cutting funding to resource center for those experiencing homelessness
Last week Mayor Todd Gloria released the budget proposal for the 2027 fiscal budget. Protected homeless services is among his top priorities mentioned in the proposal. However, some of the reductions he’s proposing could impact thousands of San Diegans experiencing homelessness.
Located on 17th and K Street, the Neil Good Day Center offers an array of services to nearly seven thousand people experiencing homelessness. The services include giving them a place to shower and do laundry, and connecting them to a case manager, among others.
“These are critical services that are helping people off the streets, but really better their lives and their health and their employment situation as well,” Deacon Vargas with Father Joe’s Villages said.
Deacon Jim Vargas heads Father Joe’s Villages, which runs the center. He said through their prevention and diversion strategies, they’ve managed to keep nearly one thousand individuals from falling into homelessness.
“So by helping them pay rent, or helping them with their utilities, or helping them to reunite with family,” Vargas said.
Right now, the city allocates at least $850,000 per year to the Neil Good Day Center, according to Vargas.
But the future and funding for these services are in limbo because of Mayor Todd Gloria’s proposed budget cuts.
“The impact to those whom we’ve been serving the Daily Center would be very severe,” Deacon Vargas said.
In a statement to NBC 7, Mayor Todd Gloria said in part, “We must find more efficient and cost-effective ways to address this crisis and prioritize funding for programs that provide shelter beds and maximize resources to programs that place people into permanent housing.”
Since it’s still at a proposal stage, Deacon Vargas said it’s unclear how the city will decide to move forward.
However, Deacon Vargas said services would be significantly reduced because they would be forced to operate solely on a budget of about half a million dollars they receive from philanthropy.
“The hours would be cut. Some days would be cut. We would have showers that might be impacted because they’re given seven days a week and we’d close two days a week, then the showers would be five days a week, the case management,” Deacon Vargas said.
Deacon Vargas is certain of one thing.
He would like to continue offering services at the Day Center, even if the city goes through with the funding cuts.
“As we work with individuals at the Day Center and at Father Joe’s Villages, the community becomes healthier as a result of it,” Deacon Vargas said.
The budget also recommends additional cuts to homeless services, but does not give specifics as to where those cuts would be.
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Solans, Luna, Guilavogui help RSL beat slumping San Diego, extend unbeaten streak to 6 games :: WRALSportsFan.com
SANDY, Utah — SANDY, Utah (AP) — Sergi Solans had two goals and an assist, Diego Luna added a goal and two assists, and Real Salt Lake beat San Diego FC 4-2 on Saturday night to extend its unbeaten streak to six games.
Morgan Guilavogui scored his first goal in MLS and had an assist for Real Salt Lake (5-1-1). The 28-year-old designated player has five goal contributions in his first six career games.
RSL hasn’t lost since a 1-0 defeat at Vancouver in the season opener.
San Diego (3-3-2) has lost three in a row and is winless in five straight.
Luna opened the scoring in the fifth minute when he re-directed a misplayed pass by Duran Ferree, San Diego’s 19-year-old goalkeeper, into the net.
Moments later, Solans headed home a perfectly-placed cross played by Luna from outside the right corner of the 18-yard box to the back post to make it 2-0. Solans, a 23-year-old forward, flicked a header from the center of the area inside the right post and past the outstretched arm of Ferree to make it 3-1 in the 37th minute.
Guilavogui slammed home a first-touch shot to give RSL a three-goal lead in the 45th.
Marcus Ingvartsen scored a goal in the 14th minute and Anders Dreyer converted from the penalty spot in the 66th for San Diego.
Ingvartsen has five goals and an assist this season and has 10 goal contributions (seven goals, three assists) in 16 career MLS appearances.
Rafael Cabral had three saves for RSL.
Ferree finished with five saves.
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