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2013: Hoover Rallies
The Hoover Cardinals earned their seventh trip in 10 years to the San Diego Section finals last night, overcoming the deep and long San Marcos Knights, 68-63. Hoover (28-5) takes on La Costa Canyon (27-4) Saturday in Viejas Arena for the San Diego Section II championship. The Cardinals defeated the Mavericks 56-55 earlier in the […]
Read More1974: Drastic Difference Between Night and Day
Attendance for afternoon games involving city teams was noted weekly in newspaper stories, for the first time in years. Prep writers had gotten out of the habit. An edict that forced city schools to play home games in the afternoon resulted in some actual figures, as in counting the house, one by one. A total […]
Read More2013: Saints March in and Over First-Round Foe
St. Augustine students residing in “The Pit,” were off their game last night. When the score reached 79-20, the vocal cheering section in a corner of the Saints’ tiny gymnasium began serenading visiting Mar Vista players with “This game is over! This game is over!” The game actually was over barely a minute after it […]
Read More1974: CIF Teams Caught in Game of Musical Chairs
San Diego High was in the playoffs and San Dieguito was out. Oops, San Dieguito was in and San Diego was out. The seeds of a legislative tempest had germinated in the spring when the San Diego Section Coordinating Council requested that the County Football Coaches’ Association prepare an analysis of the 1973 playoffs. Point […]
Read More2013: It’s a Brave(s) New World!
Will it be once every 57 years? That’s how long it took El Cajon Valley High to win its first league basketball championship, a feat not accomplished since the school opened in the 1955-56 school year. The Braves (19-8) have yet to enter the UT-San Diego basketball poll Top 10 but their exploits have created […]
Read More1960-61: Where’s Aretha? Mustangs Want Respect
It was a question never answered, because it seldom was asked. Which was the better team? The 25-1 San Dieguito Mustangs, who won the Class A championship, or the tradition-rich, 24-3 Hoover Cardinals, who won the AA title in the 1960-61, first season of the CIF San Diego Section . Some 50 years later a […]
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