After splitting games with Mission High School last week, Jordan High School had hope and confidence that it would be able to clinch the school’s first-ever playoff berth by winning Monday’s Academic Athletic Association play-in game at Jackson Playground. Read More

The Mission Bears boys’ basketball team sent a friendly reminder to Academic Athletic Association opponents before the league playoffs Tuesday night at Washington High School: The championship goes through Mission High School. The Bears spoiled Senior Night for Washington with a 77-66 win on the Eagles’ home floor. In a game that determined Lang Division’s top seed, the Bears (21-9, 15-1) rode the hot hand of Gione Edwards. Read More

To the outside observer, the play of Mission High School’s boys’ basketball team may appear to be frenetic and scrambled, but that’s just how they like it. It was the hard-pressing Bears defense, which forced 22 Stuart Hall turnovers and fed an opportunistic offense, that wore down the Knights in a 61-55 win on Thursday at Stuart Hall High School. Read More

After Washington crushed Galileo last week, many coming to Eagle Stadium were expecting a similar result on Thursday, but instead saw an inspired Lions team nearly pull off the upset without star running back Quincy Nelson. But Jeremy Jetton’s interception with 1:34 remaining in the game sealed Washington’s third Turkey Day appearance in four years as the Eagles held off a gritty Galileo bunch 19-13 in the CIF-San Francisco Section-Academic Athletic Association semifinals. Read More