- 2013-14: Powell Has Moved on and Lincoln Struggles
Lincoln could have used Norman Powell last night at St. Augustine, but Powell is busy rising at UCLA under first-year coach Steve Alford.
It should have been expected. There’s a connection between Powell and Alford.
That was apparent three years ago at a Lincoln-St. Augustine game in the Saints’ old Daugherty Gym.
The date, Feb. 15, 2011.
Alford, then ...
- 2013-14: Bennie Edens Basketball Classic?
Amid the flourishing mid-season “shootouts” is Point Loma High, among the increasing number of schools hosting all-day, nonleague “showcase” games.
The contests don’t always turn out to be showcases, because games often have to be scheduled a year in advance and teams’ fortunes change, ebbing and flowing for myriad reasons.
The Pointers call their annual event Saturday, ...
- 2013: San Diego Teams Land 4 in First 25
No state champions, but there were four San Diego Section teams in Cal-Hi Sports‘ final, overall top 25.
San Diego tied for second with the Sac-Joaquin Section in number of top 25 squads from the 10 state sections.
Mission Hills (11-2) was 11th, Oceanside (10-3) 13th. St. Augustine and Cathedral, each 11-2, were 24th and 25th, respectively.
The ...
- 2013-14: South Bay Teams Make Noise
Rumblings out of the South Bay have become a roar.
Mater Dei Catholic and Sweetwater barged into the upper half of the ratings in the U-T San Diego poll this week.
Mater Dei, a 26-7 squad and Southern California Division IV regional semifinalist in 2012-13, is no surprise, posting a 12-2 record and losing only to San ...
- 2013-14: Saints Hold off Damien
St. Augustine saw an 18-point lead in the third quarter dwindle to 4 but finally put away La Verne Damien, 73-63, as a full house of about 800 persons nervously looked on at St. Augustine Saturday night.
Trey Kell had 22 points for the winners but it was six free throws in the final 38.7 seconds by ...
- 1922: Student Gives Newspaper Inside Scoop
San Diego High had an unusual relationship with The San Diego Union.
Student Alan McGrew, who also served in a business position as the “Temporary Football Manager of San Diego High School,” was the de facto Hilltoppers beat writer for the newspaper.
McGrew filed daily reports on the Hilltoppers, the headline sports attraction in the city. He ...
- 2013: Freeman Sets Scoring Pace
Royce Freeman of Imperial scored 43 touchdowns and 258 points in 12 games to lead the San Diego Section for the third year in a row and finished sixth in the state, according to unofficial statistics provided by Max Preps.
Freeman amassed 39 touchdowns and 3 two-point conversions for 240 points in 2011 and 36 touchdowns ...
- 2013-14: Saints Now 10-0 and on 24-0 Run
St. Augustine is 10-0 and has a 24-game winning streak after a 65-49 victory over the host team in the first annual Rancho Santa Margarita Tournament today, climaxing a 4-game run through the Orange County event.
The Saints beat Trabuco Hills, 62-61, Seattle Prep, 79-60, and Alta of Sandy, Utah, 63-56, in earlier games. Santa Margarita ...
- 2013: 38 Coaches Are Members of Club 100
La Jolla Country Day’s Jeff Hutzler, who stepped down recently, became the 37th coach in the San Diego Section to have a career total of at least 100 victories. Jack Mashin of Grossmont recorded 125 victories in the Southern Section.
Eleven active coaches have 100 or more (see complete list here):
John Carroll (234-74-6, .755), Ron Hamamoto ...
- 2013-14: Saints Switch Places With Mavericks
The season’s first showdown came in the Horsman Invitational at West Hills and the tournament championship and this week’s No. 1 ranking went to St. Augustine.
Trey Kell fired from three-point range and, driving to the hoop, twisted around Torrey Pines defenders to score 28 points and lead the Saints to a 60-55 victory in a ...
- 2008: It Was Gaffney, Seale, and Rouse…and 28 Others
That Tyler Gaffney led Cathedral to a State championship and scored a record 56 touchdowns in 14 games only reinforced the notion that this was a year of the running back.
Thirty-one San Diego Section players rushed for at least 1,000 yards and none were more productive than Gaffney, Escondido’s Ricky Seale, and Madison’s Robbie Rouse.
NORTH-SOUTH ...
- 2013: North County, City Take 4 Top Spots in Final Grid Poll
Win or lose Saturday evening, coach Chris Hauser’s Mission Hills Grizzlies are an almost unanimous choice as the No. 1 football team in the San Diego Section.
The final Top 10 poll of the season was voted on after conclusion of the five San Diego Section championships.
The Grizzlies will host the Central Section champion Bakersfield Drillers ...
- 2013-14: La Costa Canyon Opens on Top
The discussion already is in full swing. Who’s No. 1?
The U-T San Diego preseason basketball poll has La Costa Canyon No. 1 and St. Augustine No. 2.
North County bias by a majority of the voters aside, I’ll take the Saints. Call me South-of-Highway-56-biased, at least for this vote.
Saints Coach Mike Haupt, 330-173 in 18 seasons, guides the state’s ...
- 2013: Bakersfield is Stranger in These Parts
San Diego High first played Bakersfield, then known as Kern County Union High, in 1917.
The Drillers, who play at Mission Hills Saturday night in a State Southern Regional playoff, last met an area team in 1952.
San Diego holds a 6-5, all-time advantage over the Drillers, the Cavemen having won the last five meetings. Hoover and ...
- 2013: Mission Hills In; Christian Waits
One San Diego team is in the State Bowl Southern Regional playoffs and another will learn its fate Monday.
Mission Hills (12-1) was invited to play host to the Central Section champion Bakersfield Drillers (11-2) Saturday night, Dec. 14, in Division I.
Christian, which defeated San Marcos, 19-7, for the San Diego Section III title, filed suit ...
- 1950: As Powell Goes, So Go Cavers
This team may have been the best of all coached by Duane Maley at San Diego High, but the Cavemen lost two of their best players and five reserves as practice started and their best player at the most important time of the season.
They came up short in the Southern California playoffs.
Starting halfback Darnes Johnson and ...
- 2013: Season May Not Be Over
Is a state bowl game series game in the offing for a San Diego Section team?
Cal-Hi Sports is suggesting that Mission Hills could meet the winner of tonight’s Southern Section, Vista Murrieta-Corona Centennial Division I championship contest. Such a game would take place on the weekend of Dec. 13-14 and be a Southern California playoff ...
- 2013: Cathedral & San Pasqual Both Winners
So shocked were San Pasqual defenders they just watched.
Cathedral’s Jack Onstott ran 98 yards with an intercepted pass and brought a stunning conclusion to the Division I, San Diego Section championship game.
It was the most thrilling finish since…since Auburn beat Alabama with a 99-yard field goal return a week ago.
But Cathedral’s three-overtime, 37-31 victory over ...
- 2013: Championship Predictions…er, Guesses
Imperial’s dream run and Crawford’s miracle run each came to an end…with a thud.
The Tigers of the Imperial Valley were no match for St. Augustine in the San Diego Section Division II semifinals, losing 56-12, despite a good performance by Royce Freeman.
Crawford, which had stepped down a division and rekindled success of years past, was ...
- 2013: Warren Vinton, 89, Led Helix in ‘Sixties
Warren Vinton, who helped Helix establish itself as an athletic force as San Diego schools moved to form their own CIF section, passed away in Murrieta in Riverside County recently at age 89.
Vinton posted a 25-9-1 record as the Highlanders’ head coach from 1964-67, winning two Grossmont League championships and taking his team to the ...
