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Basketball

2023-24 Basketball Week 11: Happy Trails, San Diego Section Ballers

The girls from Grossmont and Montgomery closed the San Diego Section basketball season on losing notes in championship games in Sacramento. Montgomery (25-12) dropped a 56-50 decision to Oakland High (23-10) in the Division V final and Grossmont (27-8) was beaten in D-IV, 42-29, by Eureka St. Bernard (30-5). But a losing performance probably was […]

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Basketball

1948 Baseball: Hilltoppers Team of Year, Stagnaro Player of Year

It was another great season by coach Mike Morrow’s San Diego High Hilltoppers, who won their second Southern Section championship in the last three seasons. (San Diego also won the team championship in track and field and reached the finals in football, losing, 13-12, to Santa Monica). The Hillers were 69-16, a .812 winning percentage,  […]

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2023-2024 Boys Week 10A: Carlsbad Loses Epic Struggle Against Top Seed

San Diego Section boys teams exited early from the Southern California regional tournament, but No. 4 seed Carlsbad stuck around and almost knocked out No. 1. Coach Clark Allard’s Lancers lost a semifinal battle, 73-72, at Studio City Harvard-Westlake, the same team that had routed Carlsbad, 83-44, in the season’s first game. The Lancers led […]

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Basketball

2023-24 Boys Week 10: It’s Unanimous, Carlsbad No. 1 in Final Poll

John Maffei’s weekly, final regular-season Union-Tribune poll and the final  Max-Preps and Cal-Hi Sports ratings, inclusive of the state playoffs. # TEAM RECORD POINTS PREVIOUS MAX-PREPS CAL-HI SPORTS 1 Carlsbad 29-2 (17) 161 1 8/9 10/16 2 Montgomery 28-3 159 2 17/20 27/20 3 St. Augustine 25-5 139 3 21/21 31/24 4 La Jolla Country […]

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2023-2024 Boys Week 9A: The Hall Truth: Carlsbad Tops Montgomery for Open Title

Jake Hall’s two, late three-point baskets got No. 1 seed Carlsbad past Montgomery, 56-47, Saturday, February 24, for the San Diego Section Open Division championship. The victory, before more than 3,000  persons at U.C. San Diego’s LionTree Arena avenged a 63-55 loss to the No. 3 Aztecs (28-3) in December, was the Lancers’ 19th straight […]

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Track & Field

1974 Track: Banks and Jefferson Bring Home Gold Again

Willie Banks of Oceanside and Elijah Jefferson of Crawford offered a historic footnote to the 56th state meet in Bakersfield. Banks and Jefferson we’re the first from the San Diego Section to win successive state championships since Chula Vista’s Tim Danielson in 1965-66 and only the second and third from the area to repeat since […]

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2x,3x,... Overtime
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1T, 2T, ...
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All boys, 2x enrollment
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CA tiebreaker win,
loss
#, ##
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Forfeit win, loss
Game called, shortened or postponed
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