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2021-22 Week 14: Girls Southern California Regionals First-Round Results
San Diego Section girls won eight of 16 first-round games, including 14th-seeded The Bishop’s knocking off host No. 3 Rancho Santa Margarita, 67-53. La Jolla Country Day, Rancho Bernardo, Scripps Ranch, Victory Christian, Imperial, and Carlsbad were favored and won. My hunch “Should Win” clubs, Scripps Ranch, Carlsbad, Rancho Buena Vista, Victory Christian, all moved […]
Read More2021-22 Week 14: Boys’ Southern California Regionals First-Round Results
It was not pretty. San Diego Section teams posted a 3-15 record in the opening round of the Southern California regional playoffs. My “should win” hunches, San Ysidro, Torrey Pines, San Diego, Monte Vista, and St. Joseph, were 0-5. Most upper level seeds were ousted in a disappointing finish to an arguably mediocre season. Division […]
Read More2021-22 Week 13: Top Seeds Reign in 7 of 10 Boys’ and Girls’ Championships
Seven of the No. 1 seeds in the San Diego Section boys’ and girls’ playoff divisions of five each made it through the four rounds to championships. Most of the surprises were in boys Division V, a distant bracket appealing mostly to friends and relatives of the competing teams. The computer, from which most pairings […]
Read More2021-22 Week 12: Regular-Season League Champions and Rankings
Playoffs begin Wednesday, February 16, for boys, Tuesday, February 15, for girls. BOYS LEAGUE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE TEAM LEAGUE OVERALL AVERAGE Avocado San Dieguito 7-1 16-7 66.1-56 Central *Kearny 5-3 14-6 66-52.9 Citrus Victory Christian 6-0 18-10 63.3-51.5 City Patrick Henry 6-2 16-11 55.9-51.8 Coastal Santa Fe Christian 11-1 19-9 64.8-56.4 Desert Imperial 7-2 14-8 54.6-50.9 […]
Read More1961 Track: First-Year Section Finding Its Way
Divorced from the Southern Section after 47 years, the new San Diego Section was one of the smallest in the state, 28 schools, and found itself with one automatic qualifier for each event in the state meet. The legislation by the state CIF ended the possibility, however unlikely, of as many as three in each […]
Read More2021-22 Week 11: One More Round Then The Playoffs
Regular-season play wraps up this week and pairings for the San Diego Section playoffs will take place Saturday morning. BOYS John Maffei’s The San Diego Union-Tribune poll. First-place points in parenthesis. Points on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis. RANK TEAM RECORD POINTS LAST WEEK 1. St. Augustine (15) 18-7 159 1 2. San Marcos (1) 20-4 140 3 […]
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