- 2024 Track Week 2: Atilano Adds Distance, Earns No. 1 Ranking
Cathedral’s Vincent Atilano lost his California lead in the 300 hurdles, but gained a first, and national standing, in another at the 64th Mount San Antonio Relays over the weekend.
Atilano eschewed his usual 300 race, in which his :37.42 ranked first until a runner from Eastvale Roosevelt ran :37.06. The Dons’ senior instead entered a ...
- 1975 Baseball: Hoover Coach Moves On After Third Section Championship
Jerry Bartow ended a 14-season run at Hoover with his third San Diego Section championship and with an overall record of 226-119 (.656) then headed off to Southwestern College, where the Apaches won more than 900 games in the next 39 years before Bartow retired in 2014.
Until Ted Williams Field was built on the Hoover ...
- 2024 Week 1A: Arcadia Invitational Results, Second Day
GIRLS
EVENT
NAME
SCHOOL
MARK
PLACE
Seeded 100
Lauren Gilhooly
Coronado
:11.70
First
Open 100
Ily Barclay
Steele Canyon
:12.20
—
Taylore Hoagland
Rancho Bernardo
:12.29
—
Tianna Rustkovich
Mt. Carmel
:12.32
—
Chanel Burton
Helix
:12.36
—
Laraigh Allen
Helix
—
—
Open 220
Gilhooly
:24.82
11th
Rustkovich
:25.26
—
Arynn Sanders
Otay Ranch
:25.84
—
Invitational 400
Payton Smith
La Jolla
:53.56
Second
Nicoletta Burkhardt
Steele Canyon
1:03.20
Eighth
Seeded 400
Kaitlin Donnelly
La Costa Canyon
:57.69
18th
Tiffany Stoughton
Scripps Ranch
:59.05
—
Allen
1:09.55
—
Invitational 800
Tessa Buswell
Poway
2:10.41
Third
Makenna Herbst
Carlsbad
2:12.09
Sixth
Seeded 800
Kaitlin Arciaga
Westview
2:09.26
First
Open 800
Miriam Aguirre
Patrick Henry
2:14.39
Seventh
Harper Diaz
Santana
2:18.25
—
Navah Lipsky
Francis Parker
2:27.11
—
Open Mile
Kaya Scuba
Sage Creek
4:57.44
Third
Sydney Kosa
Olympian
4:58.53
Eighth
Arciaga
4:59.24
10th
Lipsky
5:13.41
—
Emily Russo
Del Norte
5:14.47
—
Invitational 3200
Jaelyn Williams
Eastlak
10:02.56
Third
Giona Lopizzo
La Costa Canyon
10:05.65
Fifth
Chiara Dailey
La Jolla
10:09.78
Ninth
Invitational 100 Hurdles
Anisa Bowen-Fontenot
San Diego
:14.03
Eighth
Open ...
- 2024 Week 1: Arcadia Invitational, First Day
Opening event of the marathon 56th Arcadia Invitational was Friday afternoon, April 4, followed by a Saturday spectacular that goes from not long after sun-up to late-night TV.
San Diego Section boys and girls Friday participated in many events, some with four classifications, Invitational, Open, Seeded, and Rated. “Rising Stars” events below, usually are reserved for ...
- 1975 Track: Jefferson Close, But Missed Third in Row
Elijah Jefferson’s quest for a record, third consecutive state meet 100-yard dash championship was short circuited by the blindingly fast start (a “flyer”, some suggested) on the Balboa Stadium track by Kevin Williams of San Fernando.
Jefferson had tied his meet record of :09.4 in the trials and Williams, known for tremendous acceleration at the sound ...
- 2023-24 Basketball Week 11: Happy Trails, San Diego Section Ballers
The girls from Grossmont and Montgomery closed the San Diego Section basketball season on losing notes in championship games in Sacramento.
Montgomery (25-12) dropped a 56-50 decision to Oakland High (23-10) in the Division V final and Grossmont (27-8) was beaten in D-IV, 42-29, by Eureka St. Bernard (30-5).
But a losing performance probably was the highlight ...
- 1948 Baseball: Hilltoppers Team of Year, Stagnaro Player of Year
It was another great season by coach Mike Morrow’s San Diego High Hilltoppers, who won their second Southern Section championship in the last three seasons.
(San Diego also won the team championship in track and field and reached the finals in football, losing, 13-12, to Santa Monica).
The Hillers were 69-16, a .812 winning percentage, since Morrow ...
- 2023-2024 Girls Week 10A: Believe It! D-IV & V Regional Frontrunners From Here
The San Diego Section girls are 21-8 overall in the Southern California regional tournament and guaranteed two teams in next week’s state finals in Sacramento. That’s because the D-IV and V finals will offer a rarity among rarities:
All four regional finalists are from the San Diego Section.
Fallbrook’s 42-35 D-IV win over Oceanside advanced the No. ...
- 2023-2024 Boys Week 10A: Carlsbad Loses Epic Struggle Against Top Seed
San Diego Section boys teams exited early from the Southern California regional tournament, but No. 4 seed Carlsbad stuck around and almost knocked out No. 1.
Coach Clark Allard’s Lancers lost a semifinal battle, 73-72, at Studio City Harvard-Westlake, the same team that had routed Carlsbad, 83-44, in the season’s first game.
The Lancers led by as ...
- 2023-2024 Girls Week 10: 8 of 18 Teams Make Regional Semifinals
Only games with a San Diego section team are listed. Complete brackets are here.
All games played at higher (low number) seed.
- 2023-24 Boys Week 10: It’s Unanimous, Carlsbad No. 1 in Final Poll
John Maffei’s weekly, final regular-season Union-Tribune poll and the final Max-Preps and Cal-Hi Sports ratings, inclusive of the state playoffs.
#
TEAM
RECORD
POINTS
PREVIOUS
MAX-PREPS
CAL-HI SPORTS
1
Carlsbad
29-2 (17)
161
1
8/9
10/16
2
Montgomery
28-3
159
2
17/20
27/20
3
St. Augustine
25-5
139
3
21/21
31/24
4
La Jolla Country Day
23-6
108
5
60/59
NR/On the Bubble
5
Torrey Pines
21-8
103
4
43/40
NR/NR
6
Mission Hills
21-8
79
8
93
NR/NR
7
La Costa Canyon
19-8
50
6
76/76
NR/NR
8
Mission Bay
21-11
64
NR
97/98
NR/NR
9
Santa Fe Christian
21-9
38
7
118
NR/NR
10
Cathedral
20-9
9
9
104
NR/NR
Others receiving votes
Scripps Ranch (20-12, 17 points), San Marcos (24-7, 156), Olympian (28-3, 10), University City (24-8, 10), Mount Miguel ...
- 2023-2024 Boys Week 9A: The Hall Truth: Carlsbad Tops Montgomery for Open Title
Jake Hall’s two, late three-point baskets got No. 1 seed Carlsbad past Montgomery, 56-47, Saturday, February 24, for the San Diego Section Open Division championship.
The victory, before more than 3,000 persons at U.C. San Diego’s LionTree Arena avenged a 63-55 loss to the No. 3 Aztecs (28-3) in December, was the Lancers’ 19th straight victory ...
- 2023-2024 Girls Week 9A: Grizzlies Roar, Division Champs Crowned!
Mission Hills earned its fourth Open Division title, after three straight failed attempts, with a hard fought win over La Jolla Country Day, 63-56. The Grizzlies held off a late comeback by the Torreys, and coach Chris Kroesch credited a 14 point blitz, and 18 total, by Lindsay Jones as the difference maker, saying “She ...
- 1974 Track: Banks and Jefferson Bring Home Gold Again
Willie Banks of Oceanside and Elijah Jefferson of Crawford offered a historic footnote to the 56th state meet in Bakersfield.
Banks and Jefferson we’re the first from the San Diego Section to win successive state championships since Chula Vista’s Tim Danielson in 1965-66 and only the second and third from the area to repeat since the ...
- 2023-2024 Girls Week 9: A Couple Semifinals Upsets
Scores through Friday, February 23, are included below. A playoffs wrap-up will appear later along with pairings for the Southern California regionals.
Almost all divisions met seeding expectations, without even a “last second thriller”, but there were some surprises.
Division IV No. 4 Escondido Charter upset No. 1 La Jolla. Power ratings notwithstanding, the White Tigers were ...
- 2023-2024 Boys Week 9: Carlsbad-Montgomery Rematch for Championship
Scores through Friday, February 23, are included below. A playoffs wrap-up will appear later along with pairings for the Southern California regionals.
No. 1 Carlsbad will try to reverse a 63-55 loss in December to No. 3 Montgomery when the Lancers and Aztecs meet in the San Diego Section Open Division championship Saturday at U.C. San ...
- 1974 Baseball: Oceanside and Ciammachilli Come Close
For the first time in the San Diego Section’s 14 years, a team not from the city or the eastern suburbs had reached the playoff finals.
Twenty-six squads, including Hoover, Helix, El Capitan, Crawford, Point Loma, San Diego, Santana, Kearny, Clairemont, and University had won or gotten to the championship game from 1961-73, and they were ...
- 2023-2024 Boys Week 8B : Playoffs Enter Semifinals Round of 4
Two rounds of San Diego Section playoffs produced at least four shockers, sending power ratings analysts diving for cover.
No. 8 seed Scripps Ranch defeated No. 1 Santa Fe Christian in a second-round game, 60-51, in Division I in the week’s most significant reversal. There were others: A 6 seed over an 11, a 12 over ...
- 2023-2024 Girls Week 8: Finalists Emerge in D-III, IV, V, V-A, and V-AA
See table below for scores and pairings.
All games except final, are at higher (lower number) seed.
- 2023-24 Boys Week 8A: The Playoffs Are Here, Follows Last Regular-Season Vote.
John Maffei’s weekly, final regular-season Union-Tribune poll.
#
TEAM
RECORD
POINTS
PREVIOUS
MAX-PREPS
CAL-HI SPORTS
1
Carlsbad
26-2 (8)
161
1
8/9
15/15
2
Montgomery
26-2 (9)
159
2
17/20
20/21
3
St. Augustine
24-4
139
3
21/21
21/20
4
Torrey Pines
21-7
108
4
40/37
On the Bubble
5
La Jolla Country Day
22-5
103
5
59/58
NR/NR
6
La Costa Canyon
19-7
79
6
58/65
NR/NR
8
Mission Hills
21-7
50
7
76/80
NR/NR
7
Santa Fe Christian
20-8
64
8
98/88
NR/NR
9
Cathedral
19-8
38
9
106/102
NR/NR
10
San Marcos
22-6
9
NR
133/126
NR/NR
Others receiving votes
Vista (19-9, 5 points), Mission Bay (17-11, 5), San Diego Southwest (25-2, 3), Rancho Buena Vista ( 21-7, 2), Olympian (24-3, 1), Victory Christian (18-9, 1),
First-place votes in parenthesis.
Points on ...