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1962 Track: Lincoln Gets Bad Review in State Movie
Track and field, long a Southern California stronghold in San Diego, celebrated some powerful performances. Lincoln lost only a late-season, nonleague dual meet at Helix, 57-47, won its third straight Eastern League dual meet championship and the San Diego Section title for the second year in a row, and contended for the state team championship. […]
Read More1962 Baseball: Crawford Begins Dominant Decade
Crawford was emerging as a legendary power and would appear in the San Diego Section championship game six times, winning four, by the end of the decade. The Colts’ coach was Bill Sandback, a hockey-playing Minnesota transplant who, after seeking more agreeable weather, moved west, and taught one year at Memorial Junior High before becoming […]
Read More2020-21: Evolution of Individual Game Most Points
The innumerable number of games and points and lack of sustained record keeping, or reporting, in earlier years make basketball a most challenging sport when it comes to posting stats of the “most”. The table below, which begins decades after the game came to San Diego, lists an evolution of individual high scoring for one […]
Read More2020-21 Week 3: Top 3 Teams Are Combined 37-0.
RANK TEAM RECORD POINTS LAST WEEK 1. Torrey Pines 16-0 (10) 127 1 2. Cathedral 6-0 (2) 112 2 3. San Marcos 15-0 (1) 109 3 4. Santa Fe Christian 10-2 89 4 5. Carlsbad 10-2 71 6 6. El Camino 11-3 57 5 7. St.. Augustine 6-2 53 8 8. Orange Glen 14-2 30 […]
Read More2020-21 Week 2: Power is on Del Mar Heights Road*
San Diego Section teams have been staying close to home because of the pendemic, but the season is in full swing with usual powers Cathedral and Torrey Pines almost neck and neck. San Marcos and a few others appear to be lying in the weeds. Coach John Olive’s Torrey Pines Falcons managed to get in […]
Read More1993-94: Lincoln Boys, Christian Girls Dominate D-IV
Strength in the lower divisions, boys’ and girls’, continued to be the signature of San Diego Section teams. The Christian girls followed the sensational mid-1980s stretch of four state championships by Point Loma by reaching the state Division IV championship game for the fourth season in a row. Lincoln boys won the state D-IV title […]
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