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Leon Gillis of Steele Canyon has a 6-foot, 9-inch high jump that ties Gillis for first in California with a jumper from San Bernardino Cajon. Gillis and other qualifiers from the three divisional meets in the San Diego Section last week will attempt to better their season bests in Saturday’s 61st San Diego Section championships at ...

San Diego Section girls have the best performances in California in three events, leading in the 100 and 300 hurdles, and shot put. Aaliyah McCormick of Scripps Ranch is first in the short hurdles at :13.46 and Kapiolani Coleman of Cathedral is first in the longer barriers in :42.19.  Kennedy Clarke of Cathedral leads with a ...

Bill Sandback, a transplanted Minnesota hockey player who came West in 1960 and spent a year teaching at Memorial Junior High before becoming coach at Crawford in 1961, was building a dynasty. The Colts won their third San Diego Section championship in the last four seasons and eventually were named state team of the year by ...

The 15th annual Lions baseball tournament began with all eyes on the sky. Rain had played havoc with the schedule this spring and had a wet and dreary history with the event, actually resulting in cancellation in 1964. San Diego High, winner of the tournament six times since 1951, was top seed among the 16 Unlimited Division ...

A promising Class B 660 yards runner in 1964 who bypassed cross-country for football in the fall, Chula Vista junior Tim Danielson ran down defending state champion Mike Ryan and scored a stunning, 20-yard victory in the mile in the 47th state meet, defying the evening heat of Bakersfield. Danielson’s time of 4:08 was a meet ...

A  North County dustup was decided in Oceanside’s favor when the Pirates won the Avocado League championship-deciding dual meet at Vista, 61-52. The event, scheduled at Vista, originally was rained out several weeks before. The schools, approximately 11 ½ miles and about 20 minutes apart along the State 78 corridor, could not agree on an agreeable makeup ...

San Diego High and Grossmont were kings of the majors and La Jolla ruled the smaller schools. Hal Norris, Charlie Powell, Jerry Wood and Darnes Johnson were names of note. It was a solid if unspectacular season in the San Diego area, but Norris, the first of a generation of outstanding shot putters at Grossmont under ...

Dewey (Mike) Morrow ended a remarkable, 20-season run at San Diego High that included 15 Coast League championships and 10 Southern California titles from 1927, excluding the World War II, 1942-45 seasons. Morrow’s final Hillers team was 17-10 and its .630 winning percentage, excellent by almost any measure, his lowest. Morrow’s overall record against high school ...

Bill Sandback had just coached Crawford to its second San Diego Section baseball championship in three seasons and he was hesitant when Harlon Bartlett of the Evening Tribune asked for a comparison of the team and the winning 1962 club. “This year’s team had a better attitude,” Sandback finally allowed after the taut, eight-inning victory over ...

Bob Hose gave us a glimpse as a sophomore at Clairemont in the San Diego Section finals in 1962, when Hose finished fifth in the 880 in 1:58. It was a promising if overlooked run by Hose, as attention was focused on Hoover’s John Garrison, who would finish second in the state meet and tie the ...

Scripps Ranch joined Gardena Serra, Bellflower St. John Bosco, and West Hills Chaminade as teams that have won state championships in football and basketball in the same school year since the state CIF reinstated the football championship in 2006. The Falcons, behind gridiron stars Jax Leatherwood, Dean Paley, and Lamont Wilkerson, who scored 19 points, defeated ...

RATINGS GAME The San Diego Union-Tribune final 2021-22 poll. First-place points in parenthesis.  Points on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis. Records do not include Southern California playoffs. (The final Cal-Hi Sports rankings, which were published after the state playoffs:  St. Augustine No. 20, San Ysidro, 35, Torrey Pines, 39, and La Costa Canyon, 40). RANK TEAM RECORD POINTS PREVIOUS 1. St. Augustine (16) 23-7 160 1 2. San Ysidro 23-8 141 4 3. Torrey Pines 23-6 122 2 4. La Costa Canyon 20-7 112 6 5. San ...

The Imperial Girls, who have become road favorites of Triple-A, having amassed about 670 miles of travel in their last three playoff games, and the long-range shooters from Scripps Ranch will be in Sacramento on Saturday, each with a chance to come home with a state championship. Max Preps, the computer outlet which coordinated the CIF ...

GIRLS DIVISION TEAM OPPONENT SCORE IV 6 Imperial (28-6) @1 Yucca Valley (21-8) Travel-weary Tigers pull off another surprise, 52-46. V 2 Victory Christian (20-12) 4 L.A. Shalhavet (23-6) Knights fall in championship game second year in row, 62-52. BOYS IV 2 Scripps Ranch (25-11) 16 Valley Village Valley Torah (30-4) Falcons put away scrappy visitors, 68-54

Win Tuesday evening and play a state championship game in Sacramento on Friday. That is the goal this week for the three remaining girls and boys basketball teams from the San Diego Section. Victory Christian, formerly Lutheran, located in Chula Vista, was coached until mid-season this year by Sa’de Wiley-Greenwood, a legendary high school player at Lynwood, ...

The Scripps Ranch boys and Victory Christian girls won respective division semifinal games in the Southern California regionals playoffs. BOYS DIVISION TEAM OPPONENT SCORE III 10 Mt. Carmel (25-10) @3 Calabasas Viewpoint SunDevils head home after 90-57 loss. IV 2 Scripps Ranch (24-11) 3 Bakersfield Golden Valley (23-9) Falcons’ 3-point snipers (Caden Flint, six treys, 20 points) shoot down visitor, 70-57. GIRLS DIVISION TEAM OPPONENT SCORE OPEN 2 La Jolla Country Day (25-3) 3 Chatsworth Sierra ...

The road gets longer and theoretically with more bumps for Mt. Carmel and coach Greg Lanthier’s three-point-shooting snipers. Lanthier, who won a San Diego Section championship as coach at Vista in 1992-93, takes his Divison III 10th-seeded SunDevils (25-9)  up the Coast Highway 160 miles to play 4 seed Calabasas Viewpoint (20-6). Mt. Carmel is ranked 18th ...

The Bishop’s, the only remaining Division II team in the state with a seed as high as No. 13,  moves into the Southern California playoffs semifinals Saturday night. The Knights (17-7), under first-year coach Paris Johnson, who played at San Diego High and San Diego State and replaced mentor Marlon Wells, now face their stiffest test ...

The ladies delivered.  Five of seven San Diego teams won their quarterfinals matches. Joining the others in the semifinals is The Bishop’s, a 13th seed and the only state Division II club still in play.  The Knights ushered out Los Angeles Brenwood, 74-69. DIVISION TEAM OPPONENT Open 2 La Jolla Country Day (25-2) 3 Chatsworth Sierra Canyon (27-2) Will meet in semifinals II 9 Bonita ...

DIVISION TEAM OPPONENT SCORE II 8 Carlsbad (22-12) @1 Santa Ana Foothill (29-3) Lancers, up 20 points in third quarter, beaten in epic, triple overtime, 97-96. III 10 Mt. Carmel (25-9) 15 Harbor City Narbonne (17-11) SunDevils scorching 16×26 from 3-point arc in 80-59 victory over L.A. City Section’s Gauchos. IV 2 Scripps Ranch (23-11) 10 L.A. Center for Enriched Studies (19-14) Falcons  in control, 66-54.