- 2012-13: St. Augustine Shuts Riverside North
St. Augustine scored an impressive victory but San Diego teams lost three of four games in the Long Beach Jordan-hosted Public-vs.-Private showcase Saturday at Long Beach City College.
The Saints defeated high-scoring Riverside JW North, 63-54. Cathedral was beaten by Etiwanda, 60-54. Santa Monica topped La Jolla Country Day 60-39, and Corona Santiago edged Army-Navy, 58-53.
A ...
- 2012: Oceanside Among Best in Final Rankings
Cal-Hi Sports has spoken.
Oceanside, 12-1, and San Diego Section II champion, is 15th in the newletter’s final 2012 state rankings. The Pirates are fourth in Southern California D-II, following Gardena Serra, West Hills Chaminade, and Huntington Beach Edison.
Other San Diego Section entries were far down the list.
In D-II Poway (10-3) is 41st overall and ninth in the ...
- 2012: Freeman Imperialist Among Scorers
Royce Freeman’s touchdowns are as common as July’s 110-degree days in the Great Imperial Valley.
The 6-foot, 1-inch, 215-pound junior continued to make history this season at Imperial High, whose football lineage dates to 1942 and whose list of graduates goes all the way back to 1908.
Freeman led the Tigers to a 9-3 record and won the San Diego Section scoring championship ...
- 2012-13: Lincoln Tops in 2nd Poll
Lincoln remained first in the second UT-San Diego basketball poll despite losing in the Drew Gooden Showcase in El Cerrito Saturday night.
San Jose Mitty, defending state champion in Division II, defeated the Hornets 71-60 in the event named for Milwaukee Bucks NBA player Gooden, who starred at El Cerrito High, near Oakland.
It was the end of a grueling trip for the Hornets, ...
- 2012, Week 16: Gritty Madison Wins State III title
Down 21-0, Madison battled back to defeat Kentfield Marin Catholic 38-35 in a dramatic State III Championship game at the Stub Hub in Carson.
A 50-yard touchdown pass play, which began with the center snap going over the quarterback’s head and ended with Kareem Coles’ pass to Lee Walker, ignited a 31-point Warhawks run.
After Marin’s heralded ...
- 2012, Week 16: 90-year Record to Fall
Madison and Santa Fe Christian are about to break the oldest record, often tied, in San Diego County.
The Warhawks (13-1) and Eagles (11-3) will play their 15th games of the 2012 season when the Southern champions tee up in State Bowl Championship games against Kentfield Marin Catholic and Modesto Central Catholic, respectively, this week at Cal State Dominguez Hills in ...
- 2012, Week 15: Madison Wins with Defense, Special Teams
Madison has a State Bowl III Championship date with Kentfield Marin Catholic at 4 p.m. next Saturday at Cal State Dominguez Hills in Carson.
The Warhawks (13-1) advanced after a pulsating, 21-17, come-from-behind victory at Monrovia (12-3), which managed to shackle Madison’s big-play weapons, outgained the visitors 448 yards to 119, and led until a 91-yard kickoff return ...
- 2012, Week 15: Santa Fe Christian Advances
Santa Fe Christian’s first venture into the State bowl regional playoffs was against Arcadia Rio Hondo Prep, a Southern California small schools power for almost 40 years.
‘Hondo had won 10, eight-man championships and was runner-up four times since 1973 before moving up to 11-man football.
But Santa Fe Christian fought to a come-from-behind, 30-28 victory over ...
- 2012, Week 14: Monrovia, Then and Now
Will history repeat?
Madison will play at Monrovia in the Division III State Bowl playoffs this week in the first playoff ever matching a San Diego Section team against one from the Southern Section.
San Diego’s last playoff appearance as a member of the Southern Section was in 1959.
San Diego High’s 53-0 victory over Monrovia for the Southern ...
- 1945: Cavers No. 1 in Country Until…
The headline below screamed at the top of the lead sports page in The San Diego Union on Nov. 13, 1945.
The Scholastic Statistical Bureau of New York, “which every week rates the performances of thousands of high school grid aggregations throughout the country,” selected coach Bill Bailey’s team as No. 1 in the country, according to ...
- 2012: Week 13, Fog, the Ubiquitous Companion
From the Nov. 24, 2012, UT-San Diego:
–Writer John Maffei, at Mission Hills’ 42-17 victory over San Pasqual: “The fog was so thick that the Grizzlies and San Pasqual looked as if they were playing in clam chowder.”
–Dennis Lin, at Lincoln’s 20-7 win over undefeated Olympian: “Looking like some shrouded figure stepping out of an action ...
- 1943: Drink, you dirty Bum?
Not exactly modern hard rap, but school administrators weren’t amused when they heard students in the San Diego High cheering section “dissing” their Hoover counterparts.
The Hilltoppers sung to the tune of an old Army field artillery ditty, “Over hill, over dale, we will hit the dusty trail…as those caissons go rolling along”.
With apologies to Tom Ables, San Diego High, ...
- 1944: The “Temporary Suburbs”
Oct. 5 was bearing down on Kearny High football coach Darrell Smith. His team would play the first football game in school history, a night game no less, at Coronado High against the Islanders’ junior varsity.
Problem.
An important component of the Komets’ uniform was missing, caused by a delay in shipment by the manufacturer.
Coronado coach Hal ...
- 2012 Week 12: Dreaded Administrative Glitch Crushes Cathedral Season
A goof-up in the offices of the bosses is in play in the San Diego Section playoffs.
Cathedral’s honored program took a body blow this week when the Dons were forced to forfeit eight victories in an 8-2 season and were knocked out the postseason.
The Dons self-reported an ineligible player, who appeared in all 10 Cathedral ...
- 2012, Week 11: Army-Navy Among Early Casualties
And then there were 40.
Twenty teams were eliminated in first-round, San Diego Section playoff games last week.
There were no upsets but maybe a mild surprise or two.
Army-Navy, 10-0 and coming off the best regular season in the school’s 102-year history, was knocked out by Calipatria, 41-21, in Division IV.
The teams had one common opponent. Army-Navy ...
- 2012: Game Officials Recognized; Students to be Honored
More than 400 members of the San Diego County Football Officials’ Association, including four active NFL game officials, gathered at the Hall of Champions this week for their annual awards dinner.
Among those attending were referee Mike Carey (University High/Santa Clara University), back judge Don Carey (St. Augustine/California-Riverside), umpire Garth DeFelice (Patrick Henry/San Diego State), and ...
- 2012, Week 10: 60, Yes, 60, Teams Win Playoff Bids
Oceanside won the regular-season poll and could end up meeting No. 2 Helix in the AA finals at Escondido High in four weeks.
And dust is kicking up in the sand dunes around Glamis as the Imperial Valley girds a for a possible second-round meeting of two area big shots. Brawley (9-1) has a first-round bye in Division ...
- 1943: V is Key
The most important letter in the alphabet was V.
World War II was nearing the halfway point. The dark days of early 1942 had receded and Victory, while not yet in sight, was coming.
V had become a symbol, visible everywhere throughout the country. There were hundreds of references, from military training programs (V-12), to graphics on ...
- 1987: In Year of Pointers, Panthers Point Fingers
“Elevator! Elevator! We got the shaft!”
The age-old shout from unhappy cheering sections, usually directed at game referees, was leveled by head coach Dick Haines and Vista partisans at nine coaches charged with seeding and selecting teams for the San Diego Section playoffs.
The mentors, reportedly by an 8-1 vote, nominated San Dieguito as the twelfth and ...
- 2012, Week 9: Julian Wins Barnburner
You could call it the “Battle of Banner Grade.”
Or, as the father of the Julian coach says, “It’s kind of a Cal-Stanford Big Game.”
Coach Tim White, the son of University of California alum and legendary San Diego Chargers lineman Ed White, guided his Julian Eagles to two touchdowns in the final four minutes and then saw his ...
