The match game was not favorable to Santa Barbara teams in postseason playoffs last week. UCSB was ousted by its nemesis, Cal State Fullerton, on a penalty-kick shootout in the Big West men’s soccer tournament. The Gaucho women did reach the conference championship game, won by Long Beach State, 2-0.
In the first round of CIF football playoffs, strong foes to the south resoundingly dismissed all four Channel League entries by scores of 55-7, 43-7, 35-0 and 24-7. Bishop Diego played one of the best games of the weekend and suffered the pain of coming close: a 38-35 defeat at Saugus that was decided by a last-play field goal.
Cate School will be around a while in the 8-man playoffs. The No. 1–ranked Rams opened with an 88-15 thrashing of Desert Christian. Their high-powered attack will blow against Windward in Los Angeles on Friday afternoon.