The CIF San Diego Section’s top-ranked Lincoln Hornets play to a different beat.

The Hornets play an up-tempo offense, with speed all over the field. The defense flies around, hitting with ferocity.

But the music emanating from the Vic Player Stadium speakers in pregame warm-ups and on timeouts through-out Friday night’s Western League battle with No. 4 Cathedral Catholic that reminds you where you are.

The Hornets were leading 14-7 at the end of the first quarter.

The soundtrack at a Lincoln home game is not the marching band playing “On Wisconsin,” USC’s “Fight On,” or Michigan’s “The Victors.”

The Lincoln tracks are straight out of Southeast San Diego. Songs like “Five Star,” “Take This L” and “The Factory,” written and recorded by Lincoln’s own Charles “Mitchy Slick” Mitchell spe

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