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Twas a time when San Diego Section teams finished their tournament and intersectional obligations as the calender moved to the New Year and league play began, determining the playoffs picture. That’s not the case today as teams continue to play nonleague games against out-of- the-area competition and make quick, weekend trips for so-called “classics.” St. Augustine still ...

Through games of Monday, Jan. 13. Union-Tribune Points Last Week Max Preps Cal-Hi Sports 1. St. Augustine (13) 16-3 130 1 13 14 2. Foothills Christian 12-5 117 2 29 Bubble 3. Cathedral Catholic 13-5 103 3 35 Bubble 4. Torrey Pines 13-4 90 4 83 NR 5. Mater Dei 12-3 76 5 73 NR 6. Poway 15-4 67 6 38 NR 7. Santa Fe Christian 13-5 49 7 72 NR 8. Christian 15-3 31 8 51 NR 9. Francis Parker 12-2 21 NR 50 NR 10. Carlsbad 12-5 8 NR 134 NR Others receiving votes: 11. Mission Hills (14-4, 7 points) 11. San Diego (12-5, 7), 13. San Marcos (11-3, 3), 14. Bonita Vista (13-4, 2), 14. Otay Ranch (15-3. 2), 16. San Ysidro (9-8, 1), 16. Helix (12-5, ...

Playoffs this year moved toward an Indiana model, used by that state’s schools for decades and which was immortalized in the basketball movie/drama “Hoosiers”, starring Gene Hackman and Helix graduate Dennis Hopper in 1986. The Indiana way meant that all teams were eligible, in one division, including many with hopeless records.  The San Diego Section positioned ...

The “3”  game arrived in San Diego Section gymnasiums this season. The three-point basket, which  revolutionized basketball, was first used on an experimental basis at colleges in the East as far back as 1945 and was adopted by the  fledgling American Basketball Association in 1967-68. The NBA got with the program in 1979-80,  followed by international ruling ...

One San Diego County team, Lincoln, made it to a state championship final, but there were two Hornets at the Oakland Coliseum Arena.  Lincoln’s were joined by the Hornets of Calipatria, 140 miles to the East in Imperial County and since 1980 members of the San Diego Section. Scores and some recollections from the longest-ever playoff ...

“We need a rest,” St. Augustine coach Mike Haupt was heard to utter after the Saints had played in three late November and mid-December tournaments and this was before the Torrey Pines Tipoff, one of the great events in the country. The Saints (15-3) reached the New Year with 18 games already under their belts, league ...

As the year ended last week USA Today listed its best 150 teams in the 150-year history of collegiate football. Standing third behind the 1943 and 1945 Army squads, was the University of California “Wonder Team” of 1920. No less than seven players from the national champion, 12-0 San Diego High Hilltoppers of 1916 played for that ...

BOYS PLAYOFFS 3-A Feb. 20, 1987. LEAGUE PLAYOFFS TO QUALIFY AND FOR SEEDINGS GROSSMONT Monte Vista 54, Mount Miguel 47. PALOMAR Torrey Pines 41, San Dieguito 40. FIRST ROUND Madison 82, Hilltop 58 (15-14.) San Dieguito 56, Patrick Henry 50 (11-12). Mira Mesa 67, Valhalla 54 (15-8). Mount Miguel 60, at Torrey Pines 53 (20-7). Three steals by Anthony Rivera that resulted in layup baskets got Mount ...

When it was all over, there was just one honor that eluded Terri Mann. She was runner-up in voting for the Gatorade U.S. high school player of the year. Go figure. Mann hadn’t been second in anything during her four brilliant years and four consecutive state championships at Point Loma. Mann was the Gatorade Circle of Champions player of ...

Basketball is in beast mode as the New Year beckons, with games every night and tournaments galore, including the big one, the Torrey Pines Tipoff this week directed by Falcons coach John Olive. There was an interesting matchup in a preliminary tipoff to Torrey Pines Monday night after John Maffei of The San Diego Union coordinated ...

The San Diego Union-Tribune’s last poll, including San Diego Section playoffs: First-place votes in parenthesis. NR–Not ranked. *Includes forfeit win. RANK TEAM RECORD POINTS PREVIOUS 1. Helix (31) 11-1 310 1 2 Carlsbad 10-2 269 2 3. Oceanside 11-3 212 NR 4. Cathedral 8-3 207 3 5. St. Augustine 8-3 168 4 6. Lincoln 10-3* 144 7 7. El Camino 8-6 119 NR 8. The Bishop’s 12-1 64 9 9. Steele Canyon 9-2 58 5 10. Mission Hills 9-3 54 6 Others receiving votes: La Jolla (9-4, 22 points), Madison (7-5, 22), Scripps Ranch (10-0, 10), Santana (1`1-2, 1), Torrey Pines (6-6, 1). Voting panel of 31 sportswriters, sportscasters, various County football honchos: John ...

San Ysidro freshman Mikey Williams has gone off again. The 6-foot, 3-inch guard set a San Diego Section record last night with 77 points in a 116-42 victory over Kearny at the Imperial High tournament, according to Max Preps. A night earlier Williams scored 51 in a 108-61 win against Brawley.  He had 50 in an 85-77 ...

El Camino and La Jolla were highly unlikely candidates to get this far, but they’re in the big games this week, San Diego’s last standing, and hitting the road in search of state championships. The Wildcats travel 50 miles beyond the San Franciso Golden Gate bridge to Santa Rosa, 517 miles North of their campus, taking ...

Originally posted Dec. 11, 2019. Eighty-three teams, 47 boys squads and 36 girls teams, all had their “hoop dreams” (a so-named, popular movie of the day) as they embarked on what would become a postseason of 114 games, ending with a state championship by the Division V Christian girls. BOYS PLAYOFFS FIRST ROUND D-I Poway 80, Morse 61 (11-17). San Dieguito ...

Originally posted Dec. 10, 2019. DECEMBER, 1994 –Six-foot, 11-inch Jelani McCoy started the season with 41 points and set a San Diego Section record with 16 blocked shots in an 85-82 win in the Hilltop/Pizza Hut tournament. El Camino’s Dee Boyer blocked 15 shots in a 1989 game. –Dimitri Hodgkinson scored 37 points and El Cajon Valley reached ...

Cathedral coach Sean Doyle, average nine wins a season for the next 15 years and catch Herb Meyer. To those who think Doyle, should he decide to challenge Meyer’s record of 339 victories, is likely to fall short, consider that the veteran of 24 seasons, all at the same school, has averaged 9.3 wins the last ...

The season continues for the six San Diego Section division champions. Pairings for the Southern California regional playoffs with teams with AA classification playing on Friday, Dec .6, while teams with A designation will play on Saturday, Dec.7. Division Team Record Opponent Record I-AA Helix 11-1 Chatsworth Sierra Canyon 12-1 I-A Oceanside 11-3 Corona del Mar @Newport Harbor 14-0 III-AA El Camino 8-6 Temecula Valley 12-2 IV-A La Jolla 9-4 Huntington Beach Marina @Westminster 12-2 V-AA Serra 11-2 @El Monte 13-0 VII-AA Francis Parker 8-5 Gardena 9-4 HOW OTHERS IN CALIFORNIA RATE ...

Mikey Williams, a 6-foot, 3-inch guard heralded as one of the outstanding ninth grade players in the country, scored 50 points in one game recently as the San Diego Section basketball season got under way. But the San Ysidro freshman can’t claim family bragging rights. That’s because Mikey’s father, Mahlon Williams, a three-year star at Sweetwater for ...

Taking a look at this week’s five division championship games at Southwestern College and a doffing of the fedora to the Helix Highlanders, who overcame the loss of superstar running back Elelyon Noa: DIVISION I No. 9 seed Oceanside (9-3) and No. 2 Lincoln (10-2) were beneficiaries last week, gifted with forfeit victories over San Clemente, which ...

Call it the “Ides of November” or “Beware the Quarterfinals.” Julius Caesar apparently missed the significance and was assassinated in 44 BC after being advised to “beware the Ides of March,” a March 15 date on the Roman calendar noted for religious observances and as a deadline for “settling debts,” according to accepted history. On a similar ...