- 2020-21 Week 5: Torrey Pines Makes Jump in State Ratings
Torrey Pines this week ranks second in one California poll, third in another, and a unanimous No. 1 in San Diego.
John Olive , who became head coach at Torrey Pines before the 1997-98 season and whose teams have averaged 23 victories a season, commands a Falcons squad that has reached this juncture of the season ...
- 2020-21 Week 4: Torrey Pines’ Run Now at 19 in Row
Coach John Olive may have passed the word around the Torrey Pines campus on Del Mar Heights Road: Do not even think about an undefeated season.
The coach would plead, “It’s too early.” Or, “We’re just thinking about our next game.”
But three impressive victories last week have put the Falcons at 19-0, with a No. 2 ...
- 1962 Track: Lincoln Gets Bad Review in State Movie
Track and field, long a Southern California stronghold in San Diego, celebrated some powerful performances.
Lincoln lost only a late-season, nonleague dual meet at Helix, 57-47, won its third straight Eastern League dual meet championship and the San Diego Section title for the second year in a row, and contended for the state team championship.
The Hornets’ ...
- 1962 Baseball: Crawford Begins Dominant Decade
Crawford was emerging as a legendary power and would appear in the San Diego Section championship game six times, winning four, by the end of the decade.
The Colts’ coach was Bill Sandback, a hockey-playing Minnesota transplant who, after seeking more agreeable weather, moved west, and taught one year at Memorial Junior High before becoming the ...
- 2020-21: Evolution of Individual Game Most Points
The innumerable number of games and points and lack of sustained record keeping, or reporting, in earlier years make basketball a most challenging sport when it comes to posting stats of the “most”.
The table below, which begins decades after the game came to San Diego, lists an evolution of individual high scoring for one game. ...
- 2020-21 Week 3: Top 3 Teams Are Combined 37-0.
RANK
TEAM
RECORD
POINTS
LAST WEEK
1.
Torrey Pines
16-0 (10)
127
1
2.
Cathedral
6-0 (2)
112
2
3.
San Marcos
15-0 (1)
109
3
4.
Santa Fe Christian
10-2
89
4
5.
Carlsbad
10-2
71
6
6.
El Camino
11-3
57
5
7.
St.. Augustine
6-2
53
8
8.
Orange Glen
14-2
30
9
9.
Mission Hills
9-4
29
7
10.
Mater Dei
5-1
21
10
Others receiving votes: Coronado (11-3, 9 points), Bonita Vista (5-3, 4).
First-place votes in parenthesis.. Points awarded on scale of 10 down to 1.
Poll voters:13 sportswriters, sportscasters from around San Diego County.
John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune.
Aaron Burgin, fulltimehoopos.com.
Terry Monahan, Steve Brand, Union-Tribune correspondents.
John ...
- 2020-21 Week 2: Power is on Del Mar Heights Road*
San Diego Section teams have been staying close to home because of the pendemic, but the season is in full swing with usual powers Cathedral and Torrey Pines almost neck and neck. San Marcos and a few others appear to be lying in the weeds.
Coach John Olive’s Torrey Pines Falcons managed to get in a ...
- 1993-94: Lincoln Boys, Christian Girls Dominate D-IV
Strength in the lower divisions, boys’ and girls’, continued to be the signature of San Diego Section teams.
The Christian girls followed the sensational mid-1980s stretch of four state championships by Point Loma by reaching the state Division IV championship game for the fourth season in a row.
Lincoln boys won the state D-IV title and were ...
- 2020 Weeks 4-6: Strangest Season is a Wrap
The world pandemic almost brought the San Diego Section to its knees, but the governing athletic body survived, thanks to determined coaches, players, and administrators.
Thirteen of the 96 schools fielding varsity teams were able to play a maximum six games, as mandated by the ...
- 2020 Week 5: Cathedral at Top of Final Poll
The San Diego Union-Tribune‘s final football poll in shortened season.
First place votes in parenthesis. Points on scale of 10 points to 1 point.
RANK
TEAM
RECORD
POINTS
PREVIOUS
1.
Cathedral
5-0
170
1
2.
Carlsbad
5-0
153
2
3.
Mission Hills
5-0
136
3
4.
Lincoln
4-1
105
7
5.
La Jolla
5-0
102
6
6.
Eastlake
4-0
57
9
7.
Granite Hills
5-1
54
5
8.
Ramona
5-0
50
8
9.
Poway
5-0
43
NR
10.
St. Augustine
2-2
36
4
Others receiving votes: Torrey Pines (3-3, 19 points), Otay Ranch (3-1), Sweetwater (5-0, 3 each), Mater Dei (4-2, 2), El Centro Central (5-0, 1).
Voting panel: Seventeen sportswriters and ...
- 1960: San Diego’s Final Act in Southern Section: Baseball, Track and Field.
A couple newcomers led the shouting in a last hurrah for San Diego.
Area schools were preparing to leave the Southern Section after 47 years and embark on their own, 31 institutions forming the San Diego Section in the next school year.
Clairemont and El Capitan, numbers 30 and 31, ignored usually unsuccessful results for start-up programs.
Clairemont’s ...
- 1992-93: Playoffs Now Have 5 Divisions
CIF bosses approved a fifth division for playoffs.
“Those who worried that five playoff divisions would take some of the glitter off league races needed to be in the stands at Christian and San Diego High this past weekend,” wrote Steve Brand before the start of the postseason.
“When Christian beat Our Lady of Peace there was ...
- 2020 Week 2: Tough Going at Point Loma
Point Loma canceled its season, hours after the story below was published.
Joel Allen, who quarterbacked Christian to a Division IV championship in 2002 and created a brilliant coaching record at The Bishop’s (11 seasons, 100-39-1 record, .739 winning percentage) had stepped down.
Allen was going to go into business with his brother and was stepping back, ...
- 2020 Week 3: Cathedral No. 1 Here, No. 7 in California
Comparisons are building for Cathedral.
The Dons are a unanimous No. 1 in The San Diego-Union-Tribune poll and seventh for the second week in a row in the respected Cal-Hi Sports ratings.
At No. 7, Cathedral is at its highest level in the Cal-Hi eye test rankings since the 2016 club finished fifth. Coach Sean Doyle’s team ...
- 2020: Active coaches with 50 or more wins through 2019
Football season is just beyond the horizon in this chaotic year, but many coaches are actively preparing for a January start (in the usual basketball season), including those who have reached 50 victories in their San Diego Section football careers.
Earlier postings listed the Top 10 active football coaches in victories, and the all-time Top 27 ...
- 2020: Bill Rainey, Crawford Football Star and CIF Track Champ
Bill Rainey left with a couple championships when he graduated from Crawford High in 1962 and went on to the University of Southern California.
Rainey, who passed away recently at his home in Seattle, was the San Diego Section football player of the year in 1961 and also was the first San Diego Section track-and-field champion ...
- 1981 Football: Population=New Leagues+New Names+More Games
The CIF board of managers passed a resolution at the end of the 1980-81 school year that resulted in the dividing of three leagues and the board-approved addition of a 10th regular-season game.
Cause and effect was County population, which had grown to 1.8 million in the 1980 census, with almost 1 million in the city.
–The 10-team ...
- 2020: Winningest Active Coaches, Through 2019
Will there be a season?
Even a truncated season with no playoffs and play restricted to league games will be cause for rejoicing, it says here.
The state CIF is scheduled to make a decision July 20 on whether there will be games in the fall.
Meanwhile, coaches and players wait.
Active top 10 in career victories:
NAME
YEARS
W-L-T
PCT
Rob Gilster
1989-2019 (31)
230-129-5
.639
Ron ...
- 2020: Veteran Coaches Move On, Others Move Up
Address changes and new names represent most of the news-making activity these days in the San Diego Section as it pushes on to a critical date and still looking for light at the end of the pandemic tunnel.
The state CIF is scheduled to make a decision later in July on the 2020 future of football ...
- 1951 Baseball & Track: Two Sports, Almost Two Champions
Grossmont was the champion in baseball. San Diego High was the champion in track and field…for three days.
San Diego lost a title after a review of film from the 440-yard race in the Southern Section finals revealed that Hal Espy had finished fifth and not fourth, taking away a point from the Cavemen and awarding ...
