- 2013-14: First Round: San Diego 7, Opponents 19
Wipeouts like these usually are reserved for the North Shore of Oahu.
San Diego Section boys basketball teams lost 10 of 11 games in the first round of the Southern California regional playoffs.
Girls teams helped ease the pain and won 6 of 14.
In four games in which San Diego boys teams had more favorable seeds their ...
- 2013-14: Mavericks Return to No. 1
What goes around, comes around.
La Costa Canyon, ranked No. 1 in the first UT-San Diego basketball poll in December, is first again after vacating the top spot weeks ago.
The Mavericks defeated St. Augustine, 62-60, in the San Diego Section Open Division championship last week and received 10 first-place votes. St. Augustine dropped to second and Mater Dei, ...
- 2013-14: San Diego Teams Whacked in Seedings
Talk about a kick in the pelvic region. The new State Basketball Tournament Open Division pairings did no favors for two San Diego Section stalwarts.
The seedings and pairings were announced by the state CIF this evening.
St. Augustine (28-3) will visit Santa Ana Mater Dei (31-0), the nation’s No. 2-ranked team, Friday night, March 14.
Santa Ana ...
- 2013-14: Game of Year Revisited
St. Augustine and La Costa Canyon, which played arguably the game of the regular season in January, go for the gold tonight.
The Saints edged the Mavericks, 79-74, as part of a Martin Luther King Day doubleheader at Francis Parker and things haven’t changed. Expect the score to be a little lower but the intensity a ...
- 2013-14: Kearny Knocks Off Sweetwater
Kearny High found the key to ending Sweetwater’s great run Saturday afternoon.
Coach Carl Bronson, ably assisted by UT-San Diego sportswriter Mark Zeigler, exposed the shorter Red Devils’ lack of a low post defense.
The strategy allowed the Komets to repeatedly attack from the low block under the basket for layups and point-blank shots.
Kearny took the lead ...
- 2013-14: Alma Maters Beckoned Coaches
How uncommon is this?
When Kearny (23-2) meets Sweetwater (28-0) Friday afternoon the teams will be coached by alumni of their respective schools.
At stake will be the San Diego Section Division IV championship.
Historian Greg (Stats) Durrant came up with this and other nuggets as the veteran prep sports maven prepared to take in five boys’ and ...
- 2013-14: Foothills Coach Not Quite Boeheim
There are 20.8 seconds remaining in the game. Your team trails, 57-54, after battling back from down 14.
A blocking foul is whistled on one of your players.
The frustration finally got to Foothills Christian coach Brad Leaf.
Leaf channeled his inner Jim Boeheim and was slapped with a technical.
The Knights mentor’s outburst at the officials differed from ...
- 2013-14: Great Matchups in Open Final 4
There will be basketball almost every night this week in the San Diego Section.
Girls begin quarterfinals play in Divisions II, III, and IV tonight and Tuesday night. Boys tip Tuesday night in II, III, and IV.
Open semifinals are Tuesday and Wednesday and finals Saturday at the Jenny Craig Pavilion on the University of San Diego ...
- 2013-14: Saints No. 1 Here, 18th in State
St. Augustine is top-ranked in the final UT-San Diego regular-season poll and is the defending state champion in Division III as playoff teams enter the homestretch of the season.
Coach Mike Haupt’s team, 29-4 a year ago, take a 26-2 record into this season’s playoffs and are ranked 18th in the state by Cal-Hi Sports.
St. Augustine finished 10th overall ...
- 2013-14: Basketball’s Second Season Begins
Seventeen teams with losing records and three .500 squads made the San Diego Section playoffs.
It doesn’t look as ridiculous as in previous years.
Pairings announced Saturday promise good games, even in early rounds, especially considering size of brackets and number of divisions.
Only in Division II is there virtual mediocrity. Seven of the eight, first-round visiting clubs ...
- 1960: For Better or (Mostly) Worse
San Diego County was “free” of the giant Southern Section and on its own, twenty-eight schools strong.
The formation of the local CIF section pleased administrators and assorted education honchos who wielded the sharp end of the stick.
Coaches and most fans were ambivalent.
The great competition against Northern schools and the building excitement of playoffs at foreign ...
- 2013-14: Playoff Seeding and Pairings Next
Selection Saturday is just five days away.
League play wraps up this week, but all eyes are on the postseason and the ensuing rounds that lead to the state championships in Sacramento next month.
Seedings and pairings for the San Diego Section playoffs, to be waged in 5 divisions, will come out of Section commissioner Jerry Schniepp’s ...
- 1916: The Legendary Hilltoppers
The 12-0 season, Southern California championship, and declaration as national champions was just the beginning for coach Clarence (Nibs) Price and many of the San Diego High Hilltoppers.
Price left the school after the 1917-18 school year and made his way back to Price’s alma mater, the University of California at Berkeley, joining the staff of head coach ...
- 2014: Coaching Legend Walt Harvey, 95
Walt Harvey, whose firm and folksy touch resonated with generations of San Diego-area athletes and future coaches, passed away Feb. 7 at age 95.
A memorial will be held at noon Saturday, Feb. 22, at La Vida Real, where Harvey resided the last several years.
La Vida Real is located at 11588 Via Rancho San Diego, El ...
- 1916-2013: Did Hilltoppers Forfeit to Drillers?
It was a moot point for 97 years.
But when Bakersfield defeated Loomis Del Oro, 56-26, in the State Division I championship this season an old dispute surfaced.
Officially the title was Bakersfield’s seventh, along with years of 1920, ’21, ’22, ’23, ’25, and ’27. State championships were not played from 1928-2005.
Bakersfield historians claim the win over ...
- 1916: San Diego Hilltoppers Are National Champions
Follow the 12-0 San Diego High team, which won the Southern California title and was declared No. 1 in the U.S. by the National Sports News Service, as covered by Jack Darroch, “beat writer” for The San Diego Union who was a student at the school or recent graduate.
Darroch’s view took in the inner workings ...
- 2013-14: Sweetwater Runs to Fourth in Poll
Echoes of Gary Zarecky’s fast-breaking teams of the 1980’s are being heard at Sweetwater, where the Runnin’ Red Devils now are 16-0 and inching higher in the UT-San Diego weekly poll.
An 82-66 victory over Morse last week was preceded by five games in which coach Jesse Aguirre’s team scored at least 90 points and 100 ...
- 2013-14: Saints Unanimous No. 1 in Poll
The Martin Luther King Day doubleheader at Francis Parker produced the best game of the season, St. Augustine’s 79-74 victory over La Costa Canyon, and the Saints are unanimous choices as San Diego’s top team in the UT-San Diego poll.
Trey Kell was brilliant for the winners and scored 37 points, but the tough Mavericks hounded ...
- 2009: They Became Booming Sooners
The University of Oklahoma was quick to notice that Randall, Baxter, and Seale weren’t the only San Diego Section football stars with exclamation points next to their names.
Running back Brennan Clay (Scripps Ranch), wide receiver Kenny Stills, Jr. (La Costa Canyon), and free safety Tony Jefferson (Eastlake) all took their diplomas and moved to where the ...
- 2009: No Neon in This Deon
Deon Randall, his jersey in tatters and his high school career at an end, walked off the Carson Home Depot Field.
“It’s a great parallel,” Randall said, “a great analogy, a great symbol to how the game went…it was a rough game.”
Randall was a warrior in the State Small Schools Bowl. He rushed for 276 yards ...
