- 1969: Cavemen Prove Merit With CIF Title Share
The result of the Eastern League’s vote to determine its champion after a three-way tie for first was considered by some so egregious that even the coach of a potential playoff opponent led the shouting.
San Diego High was the selection of the league’s principals after the Cavemen finished with a 5-1 record, same as St. ...
- 2014: Women Tracksters Star and Look to 2015
The names that figure to be shouted out in 2015 are Labrie-Smith and Johnson from Cathedral, Acolatse from Mission Hills, with maybe a raised voice by Mongiovi from West Hills.
All were underclass standouts among the women, who made the most noise on what was, at best, another average season by San Diego Section athletes, at least ...
- 1938: Game Official is Short of First Downs
Not exactly the stuff of Agatha Christie, but mystery surrounded “The Missing First Downs”.
La Jolla and Calexico engaged in a Southern California Lower Division playoff at La Jolla.
The game ended in a 6-6 tie, but The San Diego Union reported the next day that the Vikings “won”, 7-6, and advanced to a championship encounter.
As Union ...
- 2014: Mac’s fleet 1,500 propels Ducks to title
Happy Father’s Day!
Oregon’s Mac Fleet defended his national collegiate 1,500-meter run championship with a time of 3:39.09 yesterday, helping the Ducks win their first men’s championship since 1984.
Nosing out Arizona’s Lawi Lalang, who was seeking a ninth NCAA individual championship, Fleet made a powerful stretch run in front of his parents, Dale and Jana Fleet, and ...
- 1990: Was Morse The Number One Number One?
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 1988 3-A ...
- 2014: Ogundeji, Cathedral Girls Stand Out
A couple hard-knocking hurdlers from Cathedral and a shot putter from Madison furnished the star power for the San Diego Section in the boys’ 96th and girls’ 41st State high school track and field championships over the weekend in Clovis.
Doton Ogundeji of Madison, overcoming a fouled-filled, nonqualifying 163-foot effort in Friday’s discus trials, won the shot ...
- 2014: Ogundeji leads Section State Qualifiers
The San Diego Section has 16 state top 10 performances, compared with 18 two weeks ago and 11 last week as the 96th meet championships loom this weekend at Clovis’ Buchanan High.
There are many scoring opportunities for the local group after a strong finish to the San Diego Section season Saturday at Mt. Carmel, but the ...
- 2014: San Diego Leaders Eye Section Finals
Were the San Diego Section trials yesterday the “proof of the pudding” for area qualifiers who now enter the two most important weeks of the season?
Section finals will be Saturday at Mt. Carmel High, followed by the state meet in Clovis June 6-7.
While the ancient proverb may not apply, San Diego athletes did not come close to season ...
- 2014: League Finals Produce State Contenders
It’s that time of year.
Fire-delayed league finals didn’t slow San Diego Section track and field athletes in their pursuit of May-June honors. Seven new state top 10 performances were recorded (see table below).
Poway’s Brandon Lucas turned a wind-assisted :10.64 100 meters and hustled to a :21.18 200 (County No. 13 all-time) in the Palomar League finals. ...
- 2014: 48 Years After, Danielson’s Marks Still Best
Tim Danielson was convicted last week in El Cajon Superior Court of murdering his ex-wife in 2011. His expected sentence of 50 years to life is pending.
I’d like to remember Danielson as the billiant runner who competed for coach Harry Taylor at Chula Vista High and set San Diego Section standards in 1965-66 that still are unequaled, 48 years ...
- 2014: Titans Run Very Fast 4×100
Poway’s 400-meter relay team was as hot as the 100-degree weather at the Escondido Invitational last night.
A Titans foursome of Will James, Jarod Turnage, Brandon Lucas, and Lance Mudd flawlessly passed the baton and covered the toasty, all-weather layout in :41.62, fourth fastest time in California this year.
It is rarefied air for the Titans, whose previous best was :42.02, and ...
- 1961: Grossmont Teams See The Light(s)
Modified Sportsmen race cars and the arrival of the San Diego Chargers may have saved night football in the hills and valleys east of San Diego.
An unusual alliance.
Grossmont School District teams, faced with an illumination problem, played many games on the infield of the dirt track oval near the Gillespie Field airport from 1958-66.
New schools (Mount Miguel, 1957, ...
- 2014: Escondido Meet Next Up
Madison’s Doton Ogundeji continues to lead state and national shot putters and Mt. Carmel’s Derek Morton has moved in front of California 800-meter runners.
Both are expected to take on some of the nation’s best in the annual Arcadia Invitational Friday and Saturday.
Ogundeji leads the nation with a throw of 65-4 1/2 and is 10th in ...
- 2014: Steve Brand’s April 27 List
Sprints and hurdles times are fully automatic. Some better marks in parenthesis are hand timed. w–wind aided.
BOYS
100— Lucas (Poway), 10.81, Dickens (Grossmont), 10.82, Doan (St. Augustine), 10.84, LeBlanc (University City) 10.88, Brewer (Brawley) 10.90, Dosier (Monte Vista) 10.90, Hennie (San Marcos) 10.94, Miller (Oceanside) 10.95. STATE–Godin (Santa Ana Mater Dei), 10.36.
200— Doan (St. Augustine), 21.76, Lucas ...
- 2014: 2 State Leaders Await Arcadia Invitational
Madison’s Doton Ogundeji continues to lead state and national shot putters and Mt. Carmel’s Derek Morton has moved in front of California 800-meter runners.
Both are expected to take on some of the nation’s best in the annual Arcadia Invitational Friday and Saturday.
Ogundeji leads the nation with a throw of 65-4 1/2 and is 10th in ...
- 2000: New Century & New Faces
There wasn’t just a millennium going on.
Wholesale league changes and the San Diego Section’s second annexation of schools in the Imperial Valley were creating a new landscape.
What started in 1980 with the addition of Calipatria, Holtville, and Imperial, was completed after Blythe Palo Verde Valley, El Centro Central, Brawley, Calexico, El Centro Southwest, and Calexico ...
- 2014: Ogundeji Takes National Lead in Shot Put
Madison’s Doton Ogundeji, who made noise in the state meet in 2013, raised the decibel level to a shout at the Sundevil Invitational Saturday at Mt. Carmel.
The all-San Diego Section football linebacker last season took the national lead in the shot put with a 65 foot, 4 ½ inch heave, almost two feet better than ...
- 2013-14: Section Overwhelmed in state playoffs
La Jolla Country Day’s 60-42 loss to Los Altos Hills Pinewood in the State Girls’ V championship last week was the final, tumbling domino in a disappointing San Diego Section season.
Mater Dei Catholic was the only boys’ team to advance beyond the first round of the Southern California Regional and got to the Division II ...
- 2014: San Diego Legends Meet
Bill Walton and Larry Blum had more in common than just being among the crowd at the University of San Francisco’s National Invitation Tournament game recently.
Both are former San Diego Section basketball players of the year, Blum at Crawford in 1962-63 and Walton at Helix in 1969-70.
Blum set a San Diego Section record with 737 ...
- 1999: Avocado League Avalanche
It only took 46 years.
The population growth of San Diego’s North County coincided with the rise of the once small and remote Avocado League, founded in 1953.
After recent years of ascendancy, a punctuation mark was added this season.
As Tom Shanahan of The San Diego Union pointed out:
–Five Avocado schools ranked in the top six of ...
