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1989: Gene Edwards Retires, Passes Away
The Handyman set aside his tools when one job was finished and was preparing to use them in another. Gene Edwards’s 29-year run as head coach at La Jolla ended with a 27-0 victory over Clairemont. He was going to continue working for the school in a role best described as “facilities fixer-upper.” Gene had accepted […]
Read More1957-58: Shaules and Saints Lit Up the Scoreboard
January, 1958, was special for Tom Shaules, for St. Augustine High, and for basketball in San Diego. That wintry month annually signals the anniversary of Shaules’ epic run through the City Prep League. The 5-foot, 8-inch senior scored a record 60 points against Crawford, led the Saints in three games in which they scored more […]
Read More2013: Army-Navy Tops No. 1 Cathedral
The UT-San Diego boys’ basketball ratings deadline came a few hours early yesterday. Disaster struck a little later for the No. 1, and No. 5 teams. Cathedral Catholic was stunned by No. 6 Army-Navy, 67-61, as 7-foot, 1-inch Cheikh (Chay) Ndiaye (En-die) dominated the shorter but quick Dons with a 25-rebound-22-point-10-blocked-shots performance in the Martin […]
Read More1982: No Intrigue When Scott Webb Was Kicking
Scott Webb and Jim Arnaiz weren’t joined at the hip. It was more like at the leg. Together three varsity seasons at Helix High, they would be inducted together into the school’s Hall of Fame in 2005. Webb quarterbacked the Arnaiz-coached Highlanders to a 12-1 season and the San Diego Section AAA championship in 1982. […]
Read More1988: Showdown for Morse and Orange Glen
Morse’s 31-28 victory over Orange Glen in the 3-A finals ranks among the most exciting of all San Diego Section championship games. And that game followed Rancho Buena Vista’s 21-10, 2-A victory over San Pasqual, climaxing Rancho’s meteoric rise in the school’s second season. Long runs, NFL-style passing, and two of the County’s all-time coaches, […]
Read More2013: Bob Speidel, Championship Helix coach
The play on words certainly was not original. Roger Conlee and I referred to Bob Speidel as “The Watchman”, in reference to his last name and to the company that made millions of timepiece wrist bands. But Speidel was in the forefront of basketball coaches in the early years of the San Diego Section. He […]
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