Mission Bay High School’s winter sports teams take their final lap of the regular season with wrap-up games against league foes.
• BOYS’ BASKETBALL will headline the remaining schedule with an away game against neighborhood rival La Jolla High School on Feb. 18 at 7:30 p.m. “When I took the job, the athletic director [coach Dennis Pugh] said I only needed to beat one team: La Jolla,” said Coach Dennis Kane. The playoff fates for boys’ basketball will become clear the following morning, as team seeds will be determined and announced. Playoffs for boys’ basketball begins Feb. 23. Despite being in the bottom four of their league, the Bucs will make an appearance. “We will make the playoffs,” Kane said. “It’s a matter of whether or not we’ll be in the top seeds.” Kane cites the league’s difficulty as a reason. “Our league is tough,” Kane said. “It’s the fifth-toughest league in the state. It looks like the champion will come out of our league.” Other Mission Bay teams have similar hopes. • SOCCER: “I think we’ll end up making the playoffs,” said boys’ soccer coach Joe Panian. “We won’t know what seed until next Saturday. I am guessing about the sixth to ninth seed. It will depend on the last two games.” • LADY BUCS: Two teams which earned playoff mention early in the season are girls’ water polo, which is looking for its highest seed in program history, and girls’ soccer, which is looking to jump out of its runner-up history.