Story byVictorville Daily PressJason Reed, Special to the Daily Press, Victorville Daily PressSat, December 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM UTC·4 min readThe Barstow football team’s magical 2025 season continued on Friday night with a 13-12 win over Immanuel to win the CIF Division 4AA Southern California regional championship. With the win, the Aztecs will go somewhere no High Desert football team has ever gone — the state championship. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAll after starting the season with an 0-3 record. More: Find out who Barstow will face for the state championship“We faced the 0-3, we came back, we practiced, we stopped playing around,” Barstow quarterback Jarvis “JJ” Applewhite said after the victory. “The coaches didn’t let anything slack, and we started playing like a team.”It was an entire team effort on Friday, Dec. 5, for Barstow to defeat Immanuel, which entered the game undefeated through 13 games.
