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Nine teams are 4-0 as the regular season moves to the halfway mark for most squads this week. Seven, including Mission Bay, Mission Hills, La Costa Canyon, Carlsbad, Santa Fe Christian, Imperial, and El Centro Central, have been 4-0 before in this decade. Steele Canyon hasn’t been 4-0 since 2019 and Olympian needs a reintroduction, having not ...

Bonita Vista (9-0),  Carlsbad (12-2), and Torrey Pines (12-4) top the local rankings. The Lady Barons have yet to be challenged; their next test may be Steele Canyon (9-2). Carlsbad’s Lady Lancers have proven themselves with wins over Classical (twice) and Grossmont, and could rise with success over Westview. The Falcons losses are to non-San Diego ...

The narrative originally was posted Oct. 10, 2012. Duane Maley felt like the guy who discovered that his wallet had been lifted after being jostled in a crowded theater. Maley  ended up on the wrong side of the coin minutes after conclusion of a tight, competitive City Prep League season.  Maley’s San Diego Cavemen and Walt Harvey’s ...

Lincoln and Cathedral scored significant  intersectional victories last week and Cal-Hi Sports noticed. The Hornets reversed a 2024 loss to Arbor View with a 50-31 victory over the Las Vegas team, 0-3 but third-ranked in Nevada by Max Preps, and Cathedral outlasted Chandler, a tough customer and No. 4 in Arizona, 24-23. Lincoln, up to eighth in ...

Brady Palmer (left) ran for one touchdown and passed for another and Parker Johnson caught a touchdown pass and returned a kickoff 98 yards for a touchdown in Cathedral’s 35-7 win at the Central Coast Section’s Mountain View St. Francis.  Courtesy, Mark Tennis, Cal-Hi Sports. John Maffei’s The San Diego Union Week 2 poll: Points awarded on ...

Bonita Vista (6-0) and Carlsbad (9-2) top local rankings with Torrey Pines (5-2) and Classical (6-4) in pursuit. The Barons bounced back from a disappointing first-round playoff loss in 2024, and a 12-7 record but have outscored their opponents this season, 179-49. Carlsbad is building on a 15-10 inaugural season and a loss in the 2024 Division ...

John Maffei’s The San Diego Union Week 1 poll: Points awarded on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis. *First-place votes. Previous ranking (2024) in (italics). NR–Not ranked. MaxPreps‘ and Cal-Hi Sports‘ are state rankings. RANK TEAM/RECORD POINTS MAX PREPS CAL PREPS CAL-HI SPORTS 1. Lincoln (1-0) 25* 295 (1) 10 52.4 10 2. Cathedral (1-0) 5* 248 (2) 17 49.6 11 3. Mission Hills (1-0) 225 (3) 60 34.9 36 4. Granite Hills (1-0) 213 (4) 39 30.6 30 5. La Costa Canyon (1-0) 185 (5) 24 36.7 17 6. Carlsbad (1-0) 155 (6) 28 32.8 On the Bubble 7. Mount Miguel (1-0) 117 (8) 174 28.4 On ...

San Diego Union-Tribune prep maven John Maffei issued  a week-of-the-first-game top 20, with Western League leaders Lincoln and Cathedral at the top. Both teams aren’t afraid to schedule tough opponents, ala legendary Duane Maley during San Diego High’s great run from 1948-59. Lincoln coach David Dunn, a former player at Morse and a five year, tight-end veteran ...

The narrative originally was posted Dec. 7, 2013. This team may have been the best of all coached by Duane Maley at San Diego High, but the Cavemen lost two of their best players and five reserves as practice started and their best player at the most important time of the season. They came up short in ...

San Diego County competitors had been stalwarts in track and field since the California Interscholastic Federation was formed 67 years before. But equipment, training, evolution, and population growth also had taken place in other parts of the state and competition had correspondingly stiffened. El Cajon Valley’s Chris Mose was the only  individual champion when she won the ...

The narrative originally was posted Dec. 30, 2013. San Diego High had an unusual relationship with The San Diego Union. Student Alan McGrew, who also served in a business position as the “Temporary Football Manager of San Diego High School,” was the de facto Hilltoppers beat writer for the newspaper. McGrew filed daily reports on the Hilltoppers, the ...

The narrative originally was posted on Nov. 16, 2012. 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 ...

Baseball and track and field continued to feel the effects of the World War II with shorter seasons and limited participation. Teachers and students were answering the call from Uncle Sam and leaving for the military.  Allied forces continued to fight fierce battles in Europe and the Pacific. No official count of the number of baseball games ...

Looking Back: The narrative originally was posted on June 9, 2014. As far back as early season 1989, Morse coach John Shacklett was able to smile through a 2-2 start and a forfeit win, supported by a belief that the best was yet to come. This was after the Tigers had defeated Orange Glen, 31-28, for the ...

Looking Back:  The narrative originally was posted on Nov. 25, 2018.  Walton’s and Helix’ historic season, game by game, with quotes and attributions by and to Bill Center of The San Diego Union: Wednesday, Dec. 3, 1969. HELIX 74, MADISON 60. Mike Dupree scored 28 and Walton 24, off-setting a 30-point performance by Dave Smith, whose Warhawks were down, ...

Looking Back:  The narrative originally was posted on Nov. 5, 2012. Hoover’s Eddie Crain (31) set up Hoover touchdown before being brought down from behind by San Diego’s Everett Posey (36). No. 21 in all-white helmet is Cardinals’ Bennie Edens. The most important letter in the alphabet was V. World War II was nearing the halfway point.  The ...

There would be no state meet for the fourth consecutive year and the Southern California Divisional and Finals, highlights of the season, were financially inconvenient or unattractive to some schools with San Diego connections. Wartime shortages, away from the battlefields. Only El Centro Central from the Imperial Valley and Army-Navy and Escondido from the Southern League, representing ...

A set of twins and a brother and sister produced some of the San Diego Section’s, and the state’s and the country’s, greatest performances this season. Morgan Herbst of Carlsbad raced to a No. 2 U.S. all-time 330 hurdles clocking of :39.64 and she and her sister each logged :52.5 400 legs on the 4×400 relay ...

105TH  STATE FINALS, @CLOVIS BUCHANAN HIGH BOYS EVENT NAME SCHOOL MARK PLACE 100 Burston Helix :10.90 9th 800 Bowman Sage Creek 1:52.55 8th 110 Hurdles Fontenot San Diego :13.21w 1st 300 Hurdles Bailey Mission Bay :39.15 9th 3200 Wilber Cathedral 9:15.96 14th Luecht Rancho Bernardo 9:18.26 16th Beighley Mission Hills 9:34.26 18th 4×400 Relay Helix 3:11.62 7th 4×800 Relay Scripps Ranch 7:54.53 13th Point Loma 7:59.65 16th High Jump Cheeks Mission Bay — 9T Long Jump Evans-Glynn Cathedral 22-3 ¼ 10th Triple Jump Daley El Camino 47-3 ¼ 6th Discus Gibbs Oceanside 170-06 9th Pole Vault Sbuttoni IV St. Augustine 16-0 6th Anderson University City 15-8 9th Yarbrough San Dieguito 15-2 12th

GIRLS  105TH STATE FINALS, @CLOVIS BUCHANAN HIGH EVENT NAME SCHOOL MARK PLACE 400 Gonzales Torrey Pines :54.98 6th Hawkins Olympian :56.51 8th 800 Makenna Herbst Carlsbad 2:02.28 1st 1600 Dailey La Jolla 4:42.30 3rd 100 Hurdles Bowen-Fontenot San Diego :13.07 1st Thomas Grossmont :13.84 4th 300 Hurdles Morgan Herbst Carlsbad :39.64 1st Bowen-Fontenot :40.88 3rd Mack Otay Ranch :41.81 5th Garcia Holtville :42.88 9th 4×100 Relay Steele Canyon :46.40 3rd 4×400 Relay Carlsbad 3:44.998 4th 4×800 Relay Del Norte 9:02.24 7th Cathedral 9:03.91 10th Long Jump Estes Canyon Crest 17-6 ¾ 11th Triple Jump Jones Oceanside 39-2 4th Shot Put Davis Oceanside 39-1¼ 9th Pole Vault Echsner Del Norte 12-10 1st Humer Rancho Bernardo 11-8 7T Khieu Del Norte — 9T Edit Edit visibility