Athletics News
The Knights won the last two PCAC championships and started the 2025-26 conference season with a resounding 104-77 home victory over Grossmont. Freshman Dylan Griffin recorded his second double-double of the season with 17 points and 12 rebounds to help City win it's 20th straight over Grossmont.
San Diego City claimed the Grossmont tournament championship for the 7th time in the last nine seasons after defeating Palomar, 75-68, in Sunday's title game. Freshman Dylan Griffin was named tournament MVP and sophomore Junior Camacho joined Griffin on the all-tournament team.
San Diego City won both home games this week, including Friday's 84-69 victory over San Bernardino Valley in which sophomore Dahlia Blake poured in 35 points to go with 17 rebounds, to extend their win streak to three.
San Diego City started the weekend with Mitch Charlens' 400th victory, a 36-point blowout over Barstow, and then ended it with two wins against top-20 opponents, including Sunday's 87-72 victory over No. 18 Allan Hancock.
San Diego City outscored Palo Verde 27-6 in the fourth quarter to turn a six-point lead into a 27-point victory as the Knights wrapped up the weekend on a high note. Sophomore Dahlia Blake scored eight of her 14 points in the fourth period and finished with six rebounds, three assists, five steals, and was selected to the Knights Invitational all-tournament team.
Mitch Charlens, now in his 20th season at San Diego City, reached a major milestone on Friday night by winning his 400th career game, 67-31, over Barstow on the opening night of the Allan Hancock Home Motors Tournament.
San Diego City's 9-year playoff drought is over now that the Knights earned the No. 19 seed in the 3C2A Southern California regional playoffs. They will play at No. 14 Fullerton in the first round on Wednesday, Nov. 19 at 7 p.m.
The Knights came into Friday's PCAC finale needing to get a good result against second place MiraCosta to solidify their playoff hopes and they came away with an impressive 3-0 shutout victory to finish the conference season on a three-game win streak.
Sophomores Dahlia Blake and Aamori Daniels led the way with a combined 30 points and 25 rebounds in a 74-48 home-opening win over El Camino. The Knights took control in the second quarter and went ahead by as many as 28 to earn their first victory of the new season.
On sophomore day, it was sophomore Christiana Macias who scored the only goal of the game in a 1-0 victory over Palomar. Goalkeeper Ximena Flores had six saves to help the Knights earn their fourth shutout of the season.
Saturday's season opener had the feel of a March 3C2A tournament game with the No. 14-ranked Knights squeaking out a 90-88 double overtime victory over No. 8 East Los Angeles on freshman Andrew Azebeokhai Jr's put-back jumper in the lane with 1.2 seconds left.
San Diego City will start the 2025-26 season as the No. 14-ranked team in the state and the No. 7 team in Southern California. The Knights will open the new campaign at home on Nov. 1 against No. 8 East Los Angeles with the tipoff scheduled for 3 p.m.
San Diego City acheived something on Tuesday that it hasn't been able to in over 21 years, which is defeat Mesa. The Knights finally got a 2-1 victory over their PCAC rivals with Alisson Tavarez scoring the game-winner in the 60th minute to end their longest drought against a conference opponent.
San Diego City produced a season-high 10 goals, including seven in the first half, in a 10-0 rout of Imperial Valley with Mateja Hadzibabic and Adam Neto each scoring twice.
Sophomores Shannon Book and Emma Jeffress earned all-PCAC honors after finishing in the top-15 at the PCAC championship on Friday morning, while also qualifying for the Southern California regional championship along with their teammates.
San Diego City played its fourth consecutive road game on Friday and came away with a 3-0 victory at Cuyamaca. It was the second shutout win over the Coyotes this season with the Knights outscoring them 8-0 in the season series.