Perhaps the biggest win ever in Sacramento history was when coach Mike Alberghini’s team at Grant beat Long Beach Poly in the 2008 Open Division. Photo: Scott Kurtz.
Another of St. John Bosco’s recent teams (2018) joins the party among this group, which also includes school’s 2016 CIF state champions despite two losses. Part of the reason for that is how highly regarded Mater Dei was at the time of Bosco’s avenging win in the CIF Southern Section D1 final. Both teams from famous 1956 CIFSS title game that drew more than 50,000 fans – Anaheim and Downey – are written up among this group as well. Plus, we welcome newly written up teams from Bakersfield, St. Paul of Santa Fe Springs and Edison of Huntington Beach and we have a list of 40 other all-time great teams from California that just missed.
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