The Rancho Cucamonga High School football season came to a close Friday night, four points short of a semifinal berth.

San Juan Hills beat Rancho Cucamonga 16-12 in a CIF Southern Section Division 2 quarterfinal played at Rancho Cucamonga on November 13.

Scoreboards published by Sports Illustrated, the Los Angeles Times and OC Sports Zone all listed the same final.

It was a tight, low-scoring night in a bracket that also produced a couple of lopsided results.

SoCalFootball.com's live scoreboard showed San Juan Hills in front 6-0 shortly before 8 p.m.

According to MaxPreps, the loss was Rancho Cucamonga's first at home this season.

How they got here

Rancho Cucamonga opened the playoffs a week earlier with a 33-24 first-round win over Crean Lutheran.

That victory earned the team a home game in the quarterfinals.

Two other city schools saw their seasons end in that first round.

Etiwanda fell to La Habra 42-35 in Division 4.

Alta Loma lost to Martin Luther King 15-7, also in Division 4.

What's next in Division 2

San Juan Hills moves on to face Chaparral in the semifinals, with MaxPreps listing a 7 p.m. kickoff this coming Friday.

Chaparral reached the semifinals with a 63-7 win over Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks.

Palos Verdes edged Inglewood 22-19 in another Division 2 quarterfinal.

Oxnard Pacifica also advanced with a win over Chaminade.

That made Rancho Cucamonga's four-point margin the second-closest of the division's four quarterfinals.

Around the area

Several neighboring schools also played quarterfinal games Friday, according to the Sports Illustrated scoreboard.

Fontana lost to Anaheim 15-7 in Division 13.

Summit fell to Beaumont 42-22 in Division 6.

Ontario dropped a 24-20 decision to Lakeside in Division 12.

Ontario Christian lost to Rancho Mirage 41-21 in Division 10.

All scores here are as reported by media scoreboards and should be considered unofficial until confirmed by the CIF Southern Section.

The bottom line

For Rancho Cucamonga, the year ends with a playoff win and a place among the final eight teams in Division 2.

The Southern Section football playoffs are split into 14 divisions, and Division 2 sits near the top of that ladder.

A replay of Friday's game is available through the NFHS Network, according to MaxPreps.

Sources: Sports Illustrated High School, CIF Southern Section quarterfinal scores (https://www.si.com/high-school/california/cif-southern-section-football-quarterfinal-playoff-scores-divisions-1-14-01m7bznk8d0a); Los Angeles Times via Yahoo Sports, Friday's playoff scores (https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/high-school-football-fridays-playoff-065159643.html) and playoff brackets (https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/california-high-school-football-playoff-234501395.html); OC Sports Zone (https://ocsportszone.com/friday-night-cif-football-playoff-final-scores-for-orange-county-teams/); MaxPreps game recap (https://www.maxpreps.com/news/7RxrMyv2rECwsWTWrES5EA/football-recap-rancho-cucamonga-comes-up-short-against-san-juan-hills--how-to-watch.htm); 210 Prep Sports (https://210prepsports.com/2026/11/07/rancho-cucamonga-muir-rio-hondo-prep-west-covina-south-hills-among-winners-in-first-round-of-cif-ss-playoffs/); SoCalFootball.com scoreboard (https://socalfootball.com/scoreboard.html).

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