The La Costa Canyon girls lacrosse team did something no team has done before: finish a season undefeated. The Mavericks also ran their winning streak to 38 games with a gut-wrenching 11-10 win over Coronado to capture back-to-back CIF San Diego Section championships in a game broadcast live on KBCsports.com from Rancho Bernardo High School. KBCsports.com Players of the Game, senior Tara Arolla and junior Jackie Canderlaria, combined for eight goals in the game. Arolla, who missed the championship game last season because she was attending a tryout for the U.S. National team, scored four goals in the first half to give the Mavericks an 8-4 lead at intermission. Arolla totalled five goals and finished the year with a team-high 98 goals. Candelaria finished the season with 65 goals.

La Costa Canyon boys lacrosse coach Dallas Hartley said his team always makes a run at some point during the game. "I don't know when it will be, but we always make a run." His squad didn't keep him in suspense very long as the Mavericks ran out to a 5-0 first quarter lead and cruised to a 15-5 win over Coronado in the CIF San Diego Section championship game broadcast live on KBCsports.com from Rancho Bernardo High School. KBCsports.com Players of the Game, junior T.C. Whaley and senior Brian Kovary, started the run got midway through the first quarter. Whaley scored a man-up goal to give LCC (19-3) the lead and then Kovary followed with a goal one minute later. After a goal by senior Stedman Slaughter, Whaley and Kovary scored again to give the Mavericks a comfortable five-goal lead. Whaley, Kovary and Slaughter each finished with three goals and Kovary added an assist.

La Costa Canyon boys lacrosse coach Dallas Hartley couldn't understand why his players doused him with water after the Mavericks beat Santa Fe Christian 12-6. "It's only the semifinals," Hartley said. "I didn't even know." What he claims he didn't know was that he had just coaches his 100th career win at La Costa Canyon en route to leading the top-seeded Mavericks to their sixth straight section finals. In a KBCsports first, Harltley the coach, was named the Player of the Game.

  The Coronado Islanders will make their first ever trip to the CIF San Diego Section boys lacrosse championship after a 6-5 semi-final win over Torrey Pines. It was the second trip to Coronado for the Falcons this season, and each visit to the Island resulted in a one-goal loss. In picking up the win, Coronado erased the bad memory of a heart-breaking semifinal loss in 2007. Sophomore goalie Peter Zeller was chosen as KBCsports.com player of the game as he set the tone early in the game making some sensational saves and pitching a first-half shutout. A pair of Olivier Schmied goals in the first half led the way as Coronado built a 4-0 lead at the intermission. Kodie Englehart and Eddie Vita also chipped in with tallies and senior Cory Couture added two assists. The third quarter started with the third Schmied goal and the game had the makings of an Islanders' whitewash. But then the Falcons jump-started their offense thanks to JoJo Wilkinson. The senior midfielder dented the net and dented the scoreboard as the Torrey Pines offense came alive. A pair of Geordie Shafer goals and solo score by Brant Riedman got the Falcons to 6-5 and that is how the game would end. Filling in for an injured Chris Brown, Erik Samuels played an effective attack and managed to score, but the night would belong to the Islanders as they knock off the defending lacrosse champions and advance to the CIF title game. The 2008 boys championship game between Coronado and La Costa Canyon can only be heard on KBCsports.com.