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The La Costa Canyon Mavericks Midget Pop Warner football team brought home the Palomar Conference division title and soon head for Florida for the Regional Championships. Courtesy photo
The La Costa Canyon Mavericks Midget Pop Warner football team brought home the Palomar Conference division title and soon head for Florida for the Regional Championships. Courtesy photo
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Midget Mavericks nail down conference

 

CARLSBAD — The La Costa Canyon Mavericks Midget Pop Warner football team is headed for Florida.The team finished its undefeated season with a 38-0 win over the Rancho Bernardo Broncos on Nov. 1. The win clinched the Palomar Conference division title and qualifies them for the Regional Championships, against the Rancho Santa Margarita Eagles Nov. 22 in La Mirada. The team has had a 10-0 season, recording six shutouts and scoring 334 points, while allowing only 28 points to be scored against them.

If the team wins the Regional Championship game, they will be one of only eight Division 1 Midget teams in the nation heading to Florida for the 2014 Pop Warner Super Bowl & Cheer and Dance Championships, which will take place at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Lake Buena Vista Dec. 6 through Dec. 13.

Comprised of 22 boys, ages 13 and 14, from Encinitas and Carlsbad, the LCC Maverick Midgets are currently seeking community, corporate and individual support to help offset travel expenses for their anticipated trip to Florida.

The team is part of the nationwide Pop Warner program, founded in 1929, that continues to grow and serves as the only youth football, cheerleading and dance organization that requires its participants to maintain HYPERLINK “http://www.popwarner.com/scholastics.htm” \o “Scholastics Program”academic standards in order to participate. For more information on the team, go to HYPERLINK “http://www.hometeamsonline.com/teams/?u=LCCPW&s=football&t=c”hometeamsonline.com/teams/?u=LCCPW&s=football&t=c.

For additional sponsorship opportunity information, contact Midget Head Coach Brian Reynolds at (858) 583-1583 or HYPERLINK “mailto:[email protected][email protected].