- 2013: Coach Ray Baksh, 80
Ray Baksh, 80, who coached football at Helix, La Jolla, and St. Augustine and lived with an entrepreneurial spirit, passed away in San Diego.
Baksh was a graduate of Imperial High and is in the Imperial High football Hall of Fame. A Marine Corps veteran and San Diego State graduate, Ray and his wife Virginia, owned ...
- 2013: West Hills Ace (Not Song) Rolls at Arcadia
A West Hills athlete dominated Saturday in the Arcadia Invitational, but it wasn’t state-leading discus thrower Brenden Song.
Sophomore Melissa Mongiovi, running in the afternoon seeded session, blew out a :55.28, for the overall first-place finish in the Girls’ 400-meter run. The best the invitational runners could do in the evening was :56.18.
Song, who increased his ...
- 2013: Arcadia on; Song Reaches 191-5 Here
A few San Diego athletes stood out in the Friday portion of the Arcadia Invitational.
Doton Ogundeji of Madison led a group of discus throwers at 169 feet, 8 inches, third best in the County.
Four Mt. Carmel runners averaged 1:57.63 in each of their 800-meter legs as part of the 4×800 seeded races. Mt. Carmel’s time ...
- 2013: Track Season Heats up at Arcadia Invitational
“Arcadia is the big one,” says Steve Brand. “It’s the first real indicator of what to expect in the important, late-season meets in May and June.”
The Arcadia Invitational track meet at Arcadia High, east of Pasadena, begins this evening and by around 10 p.m. Saturday, April 6, more than 4,000 high school athletes will have ...
- 2013: John Fawcett, 93; Star Quartermiler
On April 17, 1937, John Fawcett of Coronado High came out of the chute on the straightaway at Chaffey High in Ontario and traversed 440 yards in 49.5 seconds.
Fawcett handily won his one-turn race in the Chaffey Invitational and set a San Diego County record that would last nine years and a school record that ...
- 2002: Opponents Were Bushed Chasing Reggie
Reggie Bush’s high school career ended on a quiet note, but its brilliance probably outshone any other in the 42-year history of the San Diego Section.
Bush scored 75 touchdowns and rushed for 60 touchdowns in three seasons. He caught passes for nine TD’s, and returned 6 punt and kickoff returns for touchdowns. He even punted ...
- 2012-13: Saints 10th in State; Horizon tops in D-V
St. Augustine’s 6-0 run through the San Diego Section, Southern California regionals, and CIF State championship game resulted in the Saints making a huge leap to overall No. 10 in Cal-Hi Sports’ final rankings for 2012-13.
Horizon finished No. 1 in Division V.
The Saints were “On the Bubble”, meaning unranked, at the end of the regular ...
- 2002: Oceanside Finally Gets Past Oceanside
The memory of 10-28, 30-41, and 35-43 was erased with one 42-14.
After three straight losses to Helix, including one in the San Diego Section Division II finals and another in the semifinals, Oceanside put up the right numbers and stunned the Highlanders, No. 2 in California and No. 25 in the U.S.
“We were committed to ...
- 2012-13: Saints and Horizon Win Cliffhangers
The circumstance and the stage may have made for the most defining athletic moment in St. Augustine’s 91-year history.
It wasn’t that the Saints pulled away from San Francisco Sacred Heart Cathedral in overtime Saturday in Sacramento and won the State Division III championship, 59-52. That would be second.
No. 1 would be the gutty, cold-as-ice performance at ...
- 2001: Helix Prevails in Topsy-Turvy Classic With Oceanside
Helix’ 41-30 victory over Oceanside in a matchup of Cal-Hi Sports’ Nos. 1 and 2 Division II teams ranks among the all-time San Diego Section playoff games, not only for brilliance but for the bizarre.
“It was a game for the ages,” wrote Tom Shanahan of The San Diego Union.
Coach Gordon Wood’s Highlanders defended their 2000 ...
- 2013: Saints Gain Regional Final
St. Augustine won the best 2 out of 5 with Cathedral Catholic.
The Saints defeated the Dons with a 25-13 fourth quarter tonight and earned a berth in the Southern California regional finals Saturday at Colony High in Ontario. The final score was 55-45.
Coach Mike Haupt’s team commanded the backboards and hit the big shots in ...
- 2013: Tonight’s the Night
San Diego Section basketball gets its most severe test.
Tonight’s Southern California regional semifinals could provide the most definitive view of how local teams stack up against some of the strongest Los Angeles-area teams.
The most intriguing matchups take place about 10 miles from each other in L.A.’s Westside beach communities.
Division II No. 3 seed Hoover (31-5) ...
- 2013: “Stayin’ Alive”
Six San Diego Section teams, out of the original 13, still are practicing and still preparing as the Southern California regional playoffs reach a critical semifinals round.
At least one of the remaining six will be eliminated in games Tuesday, March 12, and one will qualify for the finals Saturday, March 16, at Colony High in ...
- 2013: San Diego Section Holds Up in Openers
Eight of 11 San Diego Section teams won first-round games and advanced to Saturday’s Southern California regional quarterfinals. Two others which received first-round byes will swing into action.
Pairings, records ( ) and seeds ):
DIVISION I
5) Inglewood (19-10) at 4) Mission Hills (27-4).
II
5) La Costa Canyon (28-5) at 4) Westlake Village Westlake (27-5).
11) San Marcos (27-5) ...
- 2013: “Teddy” Wilson, 70, From Family of Athletes
Ted Wilson passed away in Maui, Hawaii, last month.
To hundreds of San Diegans who knew him, Teddy was your basic, friendly, next-door neighbor who would laugh at your jokes, no matter how corny, and be Johnny-on-the-Spot in times of need.
Wilson, 70, was an outstanding athlete who came from a family of athletes.
Teddy was a two-year ...
- 2013: Saints No. 1 in UT Poll and State Regional Pairings
St. Augustine saved its best best game for last and earned the No. 1 rating in the final UT-San Diego boys’ basketball poll.
The Saints (25-4) raced to a 16-2 lead after the opening tip against Cathedral Catholic in the San Diego Section Division III finals. They opened the second quarter with another withering burst of ...
- 2013: Army-Navy Struggles but Moves On
Cheikh N’diaye did a double-pump fist salute to the gallery of Army-Navy students sitting behind the Warriors’ basket in Viejas Arena Saturday.
It was a relieved, if rare show of emotion for N’Diaye, whose team had just survived a tense struggle with a tough Mater Dei Catholic squad in the San Diego Section IV finals.
Army-Navy’s 56-50 ...
- 2013: Hoover Rallies
The Hoover Cardinals earned their seventh trip in 10 years to the San Diego Section finals last night, overcoming the deep and long San Marcos Knights, 68-63.
Hoover (28-5) takes on La Costa Canyon (27-4) Saturday in Viejas Arena for the San Diego Section II championship. The Cardinals defeated the Mavericks 56-55 earlier in the season.
After ...
- 1974: Drastic Difference Between Night and Day
Attendance for afternoon games involving city teams was noted weekly in newspaper stories, for the first time in years. Prep writers had gotten out of the habit.
An edict that forced city schools to play home games in the afternoon resulted in some actual figures, as in counting the house, one by one.
A total of 326 ...
- 2013: Saints March in and Over First-Round Foe
St. Augustine students residing in “The Pit,” were off their game last night.
When the score reached 79-20, the vocal cheering section in a corner of the Saints’ tiny gymnasium began serenading visiting Mar Vista players with “This game is over! This game is over!”
The game actually was over barely a minute after it began, the ...
