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he anticipation has been building for the sporting event of the year. It is in North County this weekend, with people traveling far and wide to attend this unique competition that draws only the best. The Breeders’ Cup at Del Mar? Please. It’s the Beach Bowl that tops some lists, and you do know that Torrey Pines and La Costa Canyon are squaring off on Friday night, right? “I’ll be there,” John Kentera, an-ex Torrey Pines player, said. Both teams arrive with marks of 6-3 overall and 3-2 in the Avocado League in this regular-season finale. The visiting Mavericks are ranked No. 7 in San Diego County with the Falcons at No. 5. These friendly foes are battling for playoff seeds, possibly second place and of course, the Golden Surfboard. LCC art teacher Ron Lenc’s students produced this surfing masterpiece 12 years ago. Jerry Trust, a retired
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LCC science teacher, donated the board. The artwork on it symbolizes the San Dieguito Union High School District and this football contest that dates to the mid-1970s. “Of all the rivalry games, this one is up there with the best of them,” said John Maffei, a longtime San Diego Union Tribune prep writer. “This will be a good game.’’ Its roots plunge to when Torrey Pines was sketch marks on a drawing board. Back when San Dieguito Academy was known as San Dieguito High and it had a football team. When Torrey Pines opened in 1974, Kentera was roaming its halls. Actually for the first couple of months the students shared the San Dieguito campus, with the Mustangs going in the morning
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ericks took up the torch for the northern-most campus. When Kentera thinks of that first game he rubs his left knee. “I come back on the sidelines in 1974 and my knee is bloody and I couldn’t figure out why,” Kentera said. A rival had left his cleats exposed on his shoe. A no-no now, but back then ... “I got three little holes in my knee,” Kentera said. “He had just the screws sticking out of his shoes.” Then came that big boot to TP’s pride. The haymaker still stings from the 41-20
shellacking. “With about two minutes left they threw a bomb for a touchdown,” Kentera said. “That didn’t go over too well.” There’s never too many rivalry games and this week shows Torrey Pines-La Costa, San Marcos-Mission Hills and El Camino-Oceanside. There’s little doubt which side Kentera will be on. It’ll be Torrey Pines, but if he squints just right, he might spot San Dieguito on the opposite sideline. Contact Jay Paris at jparis8@aol.com. Follow him @jparis_sports
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and Falcons in the afternoon. Torrey Pines used the football field, just not the lockers which were full with Mustangs gear. “We would get on a bus and go get dressed at Earl Warren Middle School in Solana Beach,” Kentera said. “Then after practice go back to Earl Warren to and bus back home. We got back about 9 every night.” But no night was like that first night, when Torrey Pines played San Dieguito. A close-knit community was now on the opposite sides of the football and you bet it was unique. “It was because we were friends and we had all played with these guys,” said Kentera, who’s with John Boggs sports agency. “Not only football, but every other sport because we were all one community. “Encinitas, Cardiff, Leucadia and Solana Beach guys all hung out together. Del Mar was kind of down by itself.” After LCC opened in 1996 and San Dieguito ended its football program, the Mav-
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SAN DIEGO — Billionaire Joseph Tsai, co-founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba and the owner of the professional lacrosse team that will begin play here next year, has reached a deal to buy 49 percent of the NBA's Brooklyn Nets franchise, it was reported Oct. 27. The agreement, first reported by ESPN, would see Tsai take over majority control of the team in four years and could open the door to him relocating the Nets franchise to San Diego, which has not had an NBA team since the Clippers relocated to Los Angeles in 1984. Tsai's wife and children live in La Jolla, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune, and the couple donated $1 million to the La Jolla Music Society toward construction of the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center. Tsai — owner of the San Diego Seals lacrosse team — spends much of his time in Hong Kong. Also fueling speculation that Tsai could move the team to San Diego, besides his local connections, is the fact that his deal to take over majority ownership of the Nets will reportedly exclude him from acquiring Brooklyn's Barclays Center, where the Nets play. Tsai's San Diego Seals will begin play in the National Lacrosse League a year from November at the Valley View Casino Center. “I have a strong passion for lacrosse, and look forward to bringing the NLL to San Diego,” Tsai said in August when it was announced he would bring the expansion franchise to San Diego. “Our team is committed to creating a fan-first experience and to being an integral part of the local community.” Tsai, who was born in Taiwan and holds a Canadian passport, played lacrosse at Yale. He went on to earn his vast wealth co-founding Alibaba, which in August had a net worth of $420 billion. Tsai is the executive vice chairman of the company and has a personal fortune somewhere between $9 billion and $11 billion, according to Forbes and Bloomberg. The San Diego lacrosse team unveiled its new Seals nickname, logo and team colors earlier this week, saying the name acknowledges the marine mammal and the Navy's elite special forces unit, which trains in Coronado. — City News Service
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