- 1968 Track: Great Marks, But No Additional State Entries
The season was outstanding, perhaps the best ever overall in San Diego, but the section was a legislative loser.
San Diego Section commissioner Don Clarkson made a request to the state CIF during a meeting in Berkeley the week of the state meet.
Clarkson asked that his section be allocated three berths in each event at future ...
- 1968 Baseball: Colts Pluck Cardinals’ Hat Trick in Fourth Try
Hoover was favored and aiming for what sportswriters euphemistically called a hat trick. The term, more favored in ice hockey and soccer, meant a player had scored three goals.
The Cardinals were shooting for a third title, having won the Lions Tournament and Eastern League (they could have claimed a fourth after being selected No. 1 ...
- 2022 Week 12: Seeds and Pairings Free of Acrimony; Playoffs Move on to Quarterfinals.
The 62nd San Diego Section playoffs, 64 teams strong, opened last week, with favorites prevailing in 16 of 22 first-round games, a 72.7 winning percentage.
Hats off to CIF commissioner Joe Heinz and his staff, and the voting representatives from the City, North, East, Desert, South, Coastal, and eight-man regions who got the seedings and pairings ...
- 2022 Week 11A: As Regular Season Ends, Playoffs Begin
Ten things, among many, to remember about the 63rd San Diego Section regular season:
–Nineteen teams won or tied for 18, eleven-man league championships. Fallbrook and San Pasqual deadocked for first in the Valley.
–Carlsbad ruled the Avocado League for the fourth consecutive year.
–Chula Vista won an outright championship for the first time since 2003.
–Poway is undefeated ...
- 2022 Week 11 B: Overtime, How it Began; Lincoln Regular-Season Champion
Granite Hills’ epic, four-overtime, 46-44 win over Helix for the Grossmont Hills championship represented the longest game in San Diego County history, although the first overtime contest also was long, for another reason.
From the 1976 season narrative:
NEW TIE-BREAKER TESTED
“History-making events are supposed to be heralded with sounding trumpets and helium-filled balloons,” wrote Steve Brand of ...
- 2022 Week 10: Many League Races Too Early to Call
Five league championships have been decided in the San Diego Section and 14 more will be settled this week or end with ties. No. 1 Madison is at No. 2 Lincoln for the Western League flag and No. 7 Granite Hills is at No. 5 Helix for Grossmont Hills honors in featured jousts.
Carlsbad (Avocado), University ...
- 1967 Baseball: Go East, Young Man; Power Continues to Shift From Cavers
San Diego High, one year removed from a San Diego Section championship, posted a 10-12 record. The sub-.500 finish represented the Cavemen’s poorest record since the 1907 squad of coach Lawrence Carr, Sr., was 0-7.
Yes, 1907, according to Don King’s Caver Conquest.
Power had moved East after being seated for most of the last 60 years ...
- 2022 Week 9: Cathedral and St. Augustine Renew “Holy” Rivalry
The so-called “Holy Bowl” tees up for the 61st time this week when St. Augustine visits Cathedral. They have met every year since 1966 except 2007, including playoff games.
Cathedral leads, 38-22, in a series that began six years after Cathedral, then known as University of San Diego High, played its first season of varsity football.
University’s ...
- 2022 Week 8: City League on Center Stage This Week
Point Loma, 6-1 for the first time since 2014, visits University City Saturday evening in a City League game with championship implications.
The Centurions are 2-0 in league play and the Pointers 1-0. Mission Bay, Morse, and Canyon Hills all have at least one defeat.
U. City is feeling good about itself, 5-2, and back in friendlier ...
- 1967 Track: Valencia’s National Lead Comes on Short Track
Sweetwater High was the site for several outstanding performances over the years in the National City Junior Chamber of Commerce Relays and other events of distance, usually in early March.
Few of those individual or team marks were repeated or equaled, one of which drew the most attention and eventually called for surveyors and tape measures.
El ...
- 2022 Week 7: Lincoln Pressing Warhawks for No. 1.
Lincoln, now No. 2, crept up on No. 1 Madison in the Top 10 poll this week by virtue of the Hornets’ 31-17 win over Cathedral and trail the Warhawks by four first-place votes and six overall.
The Hornets and Warhawks won’t meet until the season’s final regular-season game, but Madison’s status will be challenged this ...
- 2022 Week 6: Burner, Starr On Cusp of Joining 100 Club
El Capitan coach Ron Burner and Mount Miguel’s Troy Starr can become the 45th and 46th coaches in San Diego County history to win at least 100 games when the Vaqueros take on neighborhood rival Santana and the Matadors meet Monte Vista this week.
Burner, who became the Vaqueros’ coach in 2005, is 99-94 as a ...
- 2022 Week 5: Idle Madison Retains No. 1 ranking.
The San Diego Union-Tribune weekly poll:
Points on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis.
*First-place votes.
Last entries in columns indicate previous rank.
NR—Not ranked. Cal-Hi Sports’ and Max Preps’ represent state rankings.
RANK
TEAM/RECORD
POINTS
MAX PREPS.COM
CAL-PREPS.COM
CAL-HI SPORTS
1
Madison (4-0)
16*/275/1
37/25
36.4/38.1
26/26
2
Lincoln (4-1)
5*/254/2
25/27
41.7/41.2
23/23
3
Carlsbad (3-1)
3*/230/4
38/31
36
21/21
4
Cathedral (2-3)
6*/223/3
24/18
41.8/41.2
19/16
5
Helix (4-1)
183/5
43/33
34.4/34.5
28/28
6
Poway (5-0)
146/6
45/58
34/31.7
On the Bubble
7
Granite Hills (4-1)
71/9
75/95
26/22.3
NR/NR
8
La Costa Canyon (3-2)
60-10
88/93
22.8/18.1
NR/NR
9
Mater Dei (0-4)
59/7
73/85
23.5/18.2
On the Bubble
10
Mira Mesa (3-1)
59/8
83/91
23.9
NR/NR
OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES
Rancho Buena Vista (5-0, 24 points), Mission Hills ...
- 1947 Baseball: A Vote for Point Loma As No. 1
Coach Les Cassie’s Hoover Cardinals were within nine outs of a berth in the Southern California finals. San Diego High was San Diego High, reliably formidable. But Don Clarkson’s Point Loma Pointers may have been the best team of all.
The Pointers won the prestigious Pomona 20-30 Rotary Club tournament, split two games with Hoover, and ...
- 1947 Track: Barnard, Smith Win Southern California titles
Happy trails, Victory League.
A bi-product of World War II, gasoline rationing, security scares, and travel restriction, the league served its purpose for four calendar years (search 1943: V is Key) as school bosses and students strived for normality.
San Diego and Hoover, which joined teams in the Metropolitan League in1942 and again when the Victory was ...
- 2022 Week 4: Defense, Naturally, Helps Army-Navy Knock Down 1940 Record
Army-Navy broke a school record last week that had been on the books since 1940, when the Warriors were based at the previous Red Apple Inn in Carlsbad.
Four shutouts at the start of the season.
Eighty-two years ago, the cadets of coach T.S. Walker opened with three shutouts by blanking St. Augustine, 6-0, the Hoover sophomores, ...
- 2022 Week 3: Helix-Cathedral Could Answer Some Questions; Warhawks Take over First Place
How far has Cathedral fallen and how high has Helix risen?
The Dons are coming off two huge losses and Helix is undefeated.
They’ll meet this week at Helix and the Highlanders might smell blood in the water after Cathedral’s successive losses of 42-7 to Corona Centennial and 63-7 to Chandler, Arizona, in the 12th annual Honor ...
- 2022 Week 3: Another Hot Night for Preps…in 1963
The thermometer is expected to reach three digits in San Diego Friday, recalling a similar day and high school football 59 years ago.
On Thursday, Sept. 26, 1963, an all-time high of 111 degrees scorched the area. The next day the high was 104.
I was in the Hoover stadium when the Cardinals and Helix, two of ...
- 2022 Week 2: Carlsbad No. 1 in San Diego; Cathedral Still High in State
Despite a 42-7 loss to state No. 3 Corona Centennial, in which it manufactured only 138 yards offense, Cathedral still is held in high esteem by the computer services.
Max Preps ranks Cathedral fifth and gives the Dons a 60.7 strength-of-schedule rating, highest among any team in California. Anaheim Servite (60.4) and Norco (60.1) are closest.
Cathedral ...
- 2022 Week 1A: Calexico and Blythe Have Unusual Ending
Visiting Calexico was in a 7-7 tie in the fourth quarter in the season’s first game when the lights went out at the Blythe Palo Verde Valley stadium.
The final score was reported to Max Preps as a tie, a result increasingly uncommon as teams nowadays usually find a conclusion in overtime. A few hours later ...
