California Voice: In high school football, state champions of competitive equity take the field

In their football season opener, St. Pius X-St. Matthias Academy, a Catholic school in Downey in Los Angeles County, lost 38-0. The next week, the school’s Warriors fell 56-14. 

Six consecutive losses followed before St. Pius X-St. Matthias notched its first win. But after dropping their regular season finale, the Warriors, with a 1-9 record, thought their season was over.

Except it wasn’t.

Instead, the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) awarded St. Pius X-St. Matthias...