It all comes to a head this week. All the rest of the CIF Section champions will be crowned. Only section champions can win a state title.
Several have already been clinched, including North Coast Section Open Division winner De La Salle, which won its 33rd straight section championship, a remarkable feat. They were largely outplayed by Pittsburg, which didn’t get eliminated but now drops down to the section’s Division I championship game.
Pittsburg, which remained No. 17 in the state, takes on previously No. 25 Cardinal Newman, which manhandled previous No. 24 Acalanes.
With all the movement in the Southern Section, De La Salle (12-0) has climbed all the way to No. 3 but will have 21 days to prepare for whichever team wins the Southern Section’s Division I game between Los Alamitos and Corona Centennial.
The last time De La Salle won a state title was in 2015 when it defeated Matt Logan’s Centennial squad.
Another section champion crowned was Riordan, which climbed from No. 11 to No. 10, with a decisive Central Coast Section title win over San Mateo Serra, which, like Pittsburg, drops down to Division I and will play Los Gatos in a title game.
A third section champion crowned among the Top 25 was Central East, which captured the Central Section Division I crown in remarkable form by scoring 70 points in a win over Clovis.
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