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2014-15: Playoffs Now Get Serious
Ugly blowouts apparently in the rear view mirror, the San Diego Section basketball playoffs reach the semifinals round this week in the Open and Divisions I-V. The so-called CIF power ratings, with their comprehensive reviews of statistics, scores, strength of schedule, etc., raised questions when Vista was accorded an Open Division berth, resulting in Francis Parker and Morse […]
Read More1956: “Smiley” is San Diego High Legend
San Diego coach Duane Maley said it best: “He can run sideways faster than most backs can forward.” Maley spoke of a favored player, 5-foot, 4-inch, 145-pound halfback Cleveland (Smiley) Jones, who literally carried the 1956 Cavemen. Jones was the City Prep League player of the year despite missing almost all of two games and […]
Read More1979: Eighteen Hours Later Komets Emerge as Winners
Kearny High and Point Loma kicked off at 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 26, 1979, and the Komets clinched a 9-6 victory on Oct. 27, 1979, about 18 hours later. Five seconds remained on the clock when the Komets’ Jim Goosens attempted the first field goal of his life and booted a 25-yard placement that sent […]
Read More1956: Then and Now for Hoover’s Engle
A stunning, 20-12 victory over archrival San Diego High brought back a flood of memories to Hoover coach Roy Engle. —That hazy afternoon in Balboa Stadium in 1935 when Engle drove the Cardinals to a fourth-quarter, 7-6 victory over San Diego. —Engle, the senior ball carrier, gaining the final 25 yards in three carries in […]
Read More2015: Ron Dargo, Ace of Crawford Staff
Ron Dargo, 69, who pitched Crawford High to the 1962 San Diego Section baseball championship, passed away recently at his home in Spring Valley. Dargo, a lefthander, and John Allison, who pitched from the right side, led a late-season Colts playoff push after they finished second to San Diego in the Eastern League race. The […]
Read More1953: Avocados And New Schools
Lincoln and Mission Bay took their first, tentative steps. St. Augustine continued to push for league affiliation. North County schools wanted to be closer to home. Army-Navy and Brown Military didn’t want to be left out. Such was the landscape, which promised to change. Joe Rindone, principal of Chula Vista High and president of the CIF Southern Section […]
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