St. Augustine, 7-0 and the unanimous first-place choice in the Union-Tribune weekly poll, will take that and its Cal-Hi Sports No. 10 state ranking and Max Preps’ No. 7, to Las Vegas Monday.
The Saints of coach Mike Haupt, slotted in the Platinum Division of the Tarkanian Classic at Orleans Arena, will open against Orlando Oak Ridge, 7-0 and Florida’s No. 2 team, according to Max Preps.
San Diego teams will be awash in intersectional games through the end of the year.
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San Ysidro, 95-70 and 90-66 loser to Corona Centennial and Perry of Gilbert, Arizona, respectively, and 74-70 to El Camino, still ranks third in San Diego and 21st by Cal-Hi Sports.
The San Diego and Cal-Hi judgments could be described as the Mikey Williams affect, although Williams’ Cougars strangely are the 182nd team in California, according to Max Preps.
Williams, back for his senior season after two years at a North Carolina academy, is averaging 17.5 points and 9.2 assists and is the No. 2-rated player in the Country, according to 24/7 Sports. J.J. Swift leads San Ysidro scoring with a 25-point average.
The Cougars are part of a event in the desert this week at Imperial High, opening against Indio Shadow Hills (4-5), a 42-40 loser to Valhalla in its most recent outing. It was at a tournament at Imperial on Dec. 14, 2019, that the 6-foot, 4-inch Williams, then a freshman, scored a County record 77 points in a 116-42 win over Kearny. Williams had 51 points the night before against Brawley.
Carlsbad (9-2) lost to St. Augustine, 74-60, last week and then recorded the first century score this season, 100-67 over neighboring Sage Creek.
The San Diego Union-Tribune Week 2 poll:
First-place votes in parenthesis.
Points on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis.
*First-place votes. “Last” is previous rank. NR—Not ranked.
| TEAM | RECORD | POINTS | LAST | MAX –PREPS | CAL-HI SPORTS |
| 1. St. Augustine | 7-0 (19*) | 190 | 1 | 7 | 10 |
| 2. Carlsbad | 9-2 | 156 | 2 | 30 | NR |
| 3. Torrey Pines | 7-1 | 149 | 4 | 24 | NR |
| 4. San Ysidro | 3-3 | 135 | 3 | 182 | 21 |
| 5. Montgomery | 4-1 | 110 | 5 | 38 | NR |
| 6. Mission Bay | 9-2 | 88 | 6 | 86 | NR |
| 7. La Costa Canyon | 4-3 | 57 | 7 | 188 | NR |
| 8. Otay Ranch | 6-1 | 44 | NR | NR | NR |
| 9.Mission Hills | 6-2 | 33 | 8 | 126 | NR |
| 10. Mater Dei | 4-3 | 27 | 10 | NR | NR |
Others receiving votes
San Diego (5-2, 20 points), Cathedral (4-4,10), Del Norte (5-3, 10), Bonita Vista (5-1, 4), Chula Vista (6-0, 3), La Jolla Country Day (5-2 Lincoln (5-1, 2), El Capitan (8-0, 1), Rancho Buena Vista (6-1, 1).
VOTING PANEL
- John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune.
- Steve Brand, Terry Monahan, Eric Williams, Freelance contributors.
- Rick Smith, partletonsports.com.
- Adam Paul, eastcountysports.com.
- John Kentera, Braden Supremant (97.3 FM The Fan).
- Bodie DeSilva, scoreboardlive.com.
- Steve (Biff) Dolan, Mountain Country 107.9 FM.
- Christian Pedersen, San Diego Sports Association.
- Todd Cassen, Joe Heinz, Ron Marquez, CIF San Diego Section.
- Rex Johnson, CIF Advisory Committee.
- Joe Evangelist, San Diego Coaching Legends Committee.
- Tom Helmantoler, Southern Conference Advisor.
- Aaron Burgin, fulltimehoops.com.
- Max Preps.
Good morning!
So, after all of these years of enjoying your site I realized that I wasn’t “subscribed” yet, so finally now I am.
I truly enjoy reading (and sharing) the accounts of the “good old days” as well as current events. In another life I was a high school Principal (Sweetwater and Mar Vista) but I had the good fortune of growing up around, learning from and idolizing Hal Mitrovich, Bill Whitaker, etc as a kid growing up in North Park. Although I (barely) lived in the San Diego High attendance boundary and was a “Caveman”, most of our youth sports events for North Park Recreation Center were held at Hoover, hence my connection to Hal an Coach Whitaker. Hal’s son David and I have been friends for close to 50 years now and he also enjoys your website.
As luck would have it I’m having lunch today with a couple of the guys in the attached photo. Although we all have changed dramatically from 1976 it might not be too hard to pick me out of the group, lol. My other two lunchmates for today, Steve Morrow and Robert Williams are also pictured. We were all support players for Willie Brigham and Percy Gilbert, but we played our roles as best we could.
So, lunch combined with your website had me wondering if you had any access to at least the cover page of the Sports section from the drubbing that SDHS gave to Mt. Miguel in the 1975 final? 1976 was another story and although we arguably would have won CIF that year as well (my buddy Marty Hughes from Kearny might beg to differ) self-imposed “circumstances” brought on himself by one of our players precluded that Kearny vs SDHS finals matchup from occurring.
In any case, whether you have that headline or not, keep up the good work!