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2025-26 Basketball Week 3: Ramona Sharpshooter Lights Up Scoreboard
Tayden Bryant of Ramona set a school record of 51 points in a 77-43, Valley League victory over San Pasqual last week. Fifty points was once an extremely rare accomplishment. There have been many games of 50 points or more by an individual player since St. Augustine’s Tom Shaules scored 60 in the 1957-58 season […]
Read More2025-26 Basketball Week 2: Santa Fe Christian Dominates
First-place votes in parenthesis. Previous ranking (if changed) in italics. Cal-Hi Sports rankings are by Mark Tennis, the newsletter’s publisher, with contribution from his statewide correspondents. Max Preps essentially relies on individual school representatives. TEAM RECORD POINTS PREVIOUS MAXPREPS.COM CAL-HI SPORTS 1. Santa Fe Christian 17-1 (18) 180 1 12 (15) 28 (Not Ranked) 2. […]
Read More1955-56 Basketball, Looking Back: Islanders Square Account
Originally posted June 22, 2017. Coronado paid an old debt. Hoover’s playoff advance was halted at the foul line. Merrill Douglas ended a great run at San Diego High. Lincoln showed that patience had virtue. —John Kovac was a football coach who happened to come along at the right basketball time at Coronado. The dour […]
Read More2025-26 Basketball Week 1: John Maffei Madness
We bided our time for several weeks before tuning in to the Union-Tribune writer’s 2025-26 season weekly poll, which he began weeks earlier. That explains our Week 1 designation for winter Maffei Madness. So far, other than a few intersectional victories along the way, it’s been a relatively quiet season in the San Diego Section. […]
Read More1935-36 Basketball, Looking Back: Great Season for Cavers; Strange End for Cardinals B’s.
Originally posted Dec. 18, 2017. Unlikely season, unlikely conclusion. —A rare playoff run by San Diego teams in the Southern California playoffs. —San Diego High marched through four rounds to win its only CIF Southern Section championship, along the way setting a school single-game scoring record…maybe. —Hoover’s Class B team blitzed opponents in an attempted […]
Read More1955 Football, Looking Back: Cavers in Epic Struggle
Originally posted Dec. 30, 2016. By the grace of a 17-14 advantage in first downs, San Diego High survived a 20-20 standoff with Anaheim in the CIF playoff semifinals before 10,271 persons at Long Beach Veterans’ Memorial Stadium. A heart-thumping conclusion represented the final shot in a frenetic battle of undefeated teams that brought an […]
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