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1939-40: Outdoor Inconvenience Becomes Indoor Comfort
There would be raised eyebrows and at least one exclamation of “Really?” and another of “No Way!” should a copy of Charles Byrne’s Jan. 4, 1940, article in The San Diego Union have been placed in a time capsule and opened 20 years later. Basketball was evolving and moving indoors, although the game still was […]
Read More1963-64: La Jolla Gets All the Way to the Final Game
La Jolla, winner of 30 in a row, including 28 consecutive this season, was on the cusp of getting to a place no other team had gone. A 29-0 season was unprecedented. The only San Diego County team to come that close was the 1959-60 Hoover squad that won its first 26 (most reports say […]
Read More2018: Brown Now Tied for Third on 1600-Meter List
There still are a couple weeks before league trials for most San Diego Section athletes, but distance runners are setting themselves up for the big meets in May. McKenna Brown of La Costa Canyon was beaten by Mariah Castillo of Saugus in a hot 1600-meter race in the Mt. San Antonio meet at El Camino […]
Read More2018 Best Marks Here And in California
San Diego Section boys’ 2018 best track and field performances through last week’s Mt. San Antonio meet, which was not held on the once-bucolic junior college campus in Walnut, instead moving about 40 miles West to El Camino College in Torrance. San Diego marks and their rankings in parenthesis are compared below to the best […]
Read More2018: Oscar Foster, 69, San Diego High’s Big O
Oscar Foster never won an individual scoring championship at San Diego High, but Foster finished his legendary prep career with the San Diego Section record for most points. Consistent, often brilliant, Foster’s record was testimony to the popular, team player that he was. Foster passed away recently in Los Angeles at age 69, a victim […]
Read More2018: San Diego Girls Lead State in 1600, Vault, and High and Long jumps
San Diego Section girls turned in season highs in five events and the boys in two at last week’s Arcadia Invitational. The section can boast the best mark or tie for the best mark in the state in one boys and four girls events. Torrey Pines’ McKenna Brown, who took the state lead in the1600-meter […]
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