Melanie Barcenas scored four minutes in, Trinity Byars doubled the lead in the 52nd minute, and San Diego Wave FC held off the North Carolina Courage 2-1 on Saturday in Cary. The win guarantees the Wave a top four finish and a home quarterfinal in the 2026 NWSL Playoffs.
Shut out 3-0 on Friday, the San Diego Gulls scored 73 seconds into Saturday's rematch in Tucson and won it in the first minute of overtime. Nico Myatovic bookended the night, Matthew Phillips scored on the power play, and Damian Clara held off Tucson's comeback for a 3-2 win.
San Diego State lost its starting quarterback in the second quarter, blew a 13 point lead, and still beat Fresno State on Saturday night at Snapdragon Stadium. Cooper DiLeva's fourth field goal of the game, a career long 53 yarder in the final minute, settled the Old Oil Can rivalry, 26-23.
Cal Fire's 6:35 a.m. update added more than a thousand acres to the Camp Pendleton fire's mapped footprint overnight, while containment stayed at the 20 percent crews first reached on Friday evening. Interstate 5 stayed open on Saturday morning.
The package forwarded Wednesday would put a group's top five donors on its mailers, force look-back disclosure from candidates backed before they filed, curb year-round fundraising and require disclosure of computer-generated campaign images. It advances as independent spending in San Diego elections passes a record $3.15 million.
SANDAG has talked about a phased opening as early as late 2027. Its own business case says early 2028. Either way, the region is still waiting.
Cal Fire's 6:35 a.m. update added more than a thousand acres to the Camp Pendleton fire's mapped footprint overnight, while containment stayed at the 20 percent crews first reached on Friday evening. Interstate 5 stayed open on Saturday morning.
The National Institutes of Health told researchers to hold off on launching studies that cannot finish before funding expires on Nov. 30, 2027. Renewal notices expected in August still have not appeared, and UC San Diego is among the campuses feeling it first.
The Oct. 13 vote approves the 2020 SeaWorld Master Plan Update for the 189.4-acre Mission Bay park, with a hotel among the horizon projects. The council also ordered most fireworks shows wound down, and questions raised the next day ask what rising water does to the roads in.
Melanie Barcenas scored four minutes in, Trinity Byars doubled the lead in the 52nd minute, and San Diego Wave FC held off the North Carolina Courage 2-1 on Saturday in Cary. The win guarantees the Wave a top four finish and a home quarterfinal in the 2026 NWSL Playoffs.
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