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Jerry Culp starred on a vanishing stage. The Oceanside High senior  became the eighth prep high jumper to clear seven feet, scaling the height three times and winning the state championship with a leap of 7 feet, ¼ inch. But since an Oregon State high jumper had perfected a new, drastically event-changing style and won an Olympic ...

Bill Sandback, who coached Crawford to four San Diego Section championships in nine seasons, was moving on, succeeding retiring Ed San Clemente at Mesa College. Sandback, an erstwhile hockey player from Minnesota, coached teams that posted an overall record of 164-60, a .732 winning percentage.  His 1964 squad (22-4) was declared the top team in the ...

San Diego Section boys and girls accounted for 19 Top 5 performances in California, according to Athletic.net; 34 Top 10, and 87  top 25 in the season which ended last weekend at the 103rd State Championships before a two-day total of 14,134 persons at Clovis Buchanan High. The season belonged to the females.  They were responsible ...

@CLOVIS BUCHANAN HIGH San Diego Section athletes scored two first places in the waning hours of the two-day, 103rd state track meet at Clovis Buchanan High over the weekend. The Section had no gold medals in 2022 and the meet was canceled in 2020 and ’21. The results, although not as impressive as the record seven gold ...

More than 60 athletes from the San Diego Section will leave a cloudy, drizzly May gray  for very warm Clovis and the 103rd state track meet Friday and Saturday. First three finishers plus others who finished from fourth and beyond in their events and who met the state meet standard in last week’s Section finals earned ...

Current as of May 20, 2023 EVENT NAME, SCHOOL MARK/STATE RANK STATE 100 Shaheed, Madison :11.58, 4th Redmond, L.A. Carson, :11.45 Shaheed 24:06w, 9th :23.36w, Neal, Gardena Serra 200 Smith, La Jolla :24.08w, 10th 400 Smith :54.12, 4th :52.71, Luckey, L.B. Wilson Burkhardt, Steele Canyon :55.13, 12th 800 Riggins, Del Norte 2:06.69, 2nd 2:03.7, Browne, Riverside North Buswell, Poway 2:08.30, 4th D. Janik, Torrey Pines 2:10.74, 14th Arciaga, Westview 2:10.89, 16th Makenna Herbst 2:11.37 17th Biesinger, La Costa Canyon 2:12.27, 21st Echsner, Del Norte 2:12.36, 22nd 1600 Dailey, La Jolla 4:42.62, 3rd 4:34.50, Engelhardt, ...

Current as of May 20, 2023 Current as of May 20, 2023 EVENT NAME, SCHOOL MARK/STATE RANK STATE 100 Wells, La Costa Canyon :10.49, 16th :10.09w, Pleasant, Gardena Serra Arrington, Helix :10.58w, 21st, tie 220 Parker, Helix :21.26, 13th :20.53, Pleasant Arrington :21.29w, 14th 400 Parker :46.48, 2nd :45.92, Stanley, Granada Hills Slaughter, Mt. Carmel :48.14, 14th McCoy, Hilltop :48.52, 24th 800 Correia, Point Loma 1:51.44, 7th 1:49.07, Sahlman, Newbury Park Thomas, Torrey Pines 1:52.04, 12th Cordero, Olympian 1:53.43, 19th, tie 1600 Thomas 4:07.90, 4th Sahlman, 3:58.96 Correia 4:09.83, 11th Sanchez, Liberty Charter 4:11.64,25th 3200 Sanchez, Liberty Charter 9:06.53, ...

Current as of May 13, 2023 EVENT NAME, SCHOOL MARK/STATE RANK STATE 100 Shaheed, Madison :11.73, 6th Redmond, L.A. Carson, :11.45 Smith, La Jolla :11.93, 22nd 200 Smith :24.08w, 8th :23.56, Lowe, Seaside Chartwell Shaheed :24.10w, 9th 400 Smith :54.12, 4th :53.23, Luckey, L.B. Wilson Burkhardt, Steele Canyon :56.24, 24th 800 Riggins, Del Norte 2:06.69, 2nd 2:03.7, Browne, Riverside North Arciaga, Westview 2:10.89, 11th Buswell, Poway 2:11.01, 12th Makenna Herbst, Carlsbad 2:11.37, 14th Biesinger, La Costa Canyon 2:12.27, 19th Echsner, Del Norte 2:12.36, 20th 1600 Lopizzo, La Costa Canyon 4:45.94, 5th 4:34.50, Engelhardt, Ventura Riggins 4:46.36, ...

Current as of May 12, 2023. EVENT NAME, SCHOOL MARK/STATE RANK STATE 100 Wells, La Costa Canyon :10.55w, 19th tie :10.09w, Pleasant, Gardena Serra Arrington, Helix :10.58w, 21st, tie 200 Adren Parker, Helix :21.26, 13th :20.53, Pleasant Arrington :21.29w, 14th 400 Parker :46.63,3rd :45.92, Stanley, Granada Hills McCoy, Hilltop :48.52, 22nd, tie 800 Correia, Point Loma 1:51.44, 7th 1:49.07, Sahlman, Newbury Park Thomas, Torrey Pines 1:52.04, 12th 1600 Thomas 4:07.90, 4th Sahlman, 3:58.96 Correia 4:09.83, 11th 3200 Sanchez, Liberty Charter 9:06.53, unranked Parra, Long Beach Millikan, 8:46.50 110 Hurdles Martin, Helix :14.24w, 9th :13.85, Davis-Lyric, Upland 300 Hurdles Atilano, ...

League championship meets are complete and San Diego Section athletes charge into the final three weeks of the season. Trials in San Diego Section boys and girls competition will be held May 13 at Del Norte (large schools), University City (medium) and Canyon Hills (small).  Finals are May 20 at Mt. Carmel.  The state meet is ...

Twenty-nine San Diego Section athletes, plus three relay teams, rank in the state top 25 in the 17 events that will be contested at the 103rd state championships May 26-27 at Clovis Buchanan High. Ten athletes are in the top 10, including Ranch Buena Vista’s Tyler Knowles, second in the discus and eighth in the shot ...

Dick Tomlinson, assistant coach and in charge of weight events at Mount Miguel, was suspicious, so he got a long tape measure and began surveying. Tomlinson said he discovered that the 440-yard oval track at his school was six feet short (two yards) of regulation distance. The coach told Evening Tribune writer Bill Finley that he also ...

A road map would have been easy to follow in the first nine years of the San Diego Section: Start at 44th Street and El Cajon Boulevard and travel about 1.5 miles East and Southeast to 55th and Trojan Avenue. The Hoover Cardinals and Crawford Colts, neighbors in the East San Diego enclave eventually known as ...

The shots wouldn’t go down for Bonita Vista, which converted 14 per cent of its attempts from the field in the first half to trail, 29-18, and went on to lose to  Fresno Central, 52-41, in the CIF state Division II championship at the Sacramento Golden Center Saturday afternoon. In a game in which the 3 ...

And then there was one. The Bonita Vista Barons girls  won the Southern California Regional Division II championship, 80-67, over Lawndale Leuzinger, while Del Norte was defeated in the D-I final at Corona Centennial, 52-39. Bonita Vista will play the Fresno Central Grizzlies (22-12), who defeated Chico Pleasant Valley, 62-51, in the Northern final, at 2 p.m. ...

From a starting lineup of 36 teams, there are two survivors as the San Diego Section season nears the finish line with the State Regional playoff championships Tuesday night, winners of which then moving on to state championships against Northern California opponents in Sacramento March 10-11. St. Augustine, the last Boys squad to reach the semifinals, ...

Winning San Diego teams highlighted. BOYS QUARTERFINALS DIVISION TEAM/VISITOR SEED OPPONENT/HOME SEED SCORE Open St. Augustine (27-4) 4 Valencia West Ranch 5 63-60  III Lincoln (30-3) 10 Culver City (19-12) 2 82-77, OT. San Luis Obispo Mission Prep (23-9) 11 Mission Bay (24-10) 3 67-57   Ventura Buena (29-5) 8 La Jolla Country Day (24-8) 1 48-44 IV Victory Christian (24-9) 6 Ventura St. Bonaventure (25-9) 3 59-48  V Cerritos Whitney (22-10) 11 Ramona (22-10) 3 77-59 GIRLS QUARTERFINALS DIVISION TEAM/VISITOR SEED TEAM/HOME SEED SCORE Open La Jolla Country Day (29-3) 2 Bye   I Del Norte (22-10) 5 Mission Hills (22-12) 4 61-57 Mount Miguel (25-7) 14 Granada Hills Charter (26-6) 11 53-45  II La Canada Flintridge (30-3) 8 Bonita Vista (22-9) 1 93-61  III Oak Park ...

First round action in the Southern California regional playoffs saw San Diego’s 36-team Boys and Girls contingent dwindle to 13, which will begin semifinals play tonight. Wiped out with an 0-8 record in Boys’ Divisions I  & II, it was left to the Open Division’s St. Augustine. The 4 seed Saints rallied to a 63-60 victory ...

St. Augustine wrapped the San Diego Section season—the Southern California regionals are next–with an 85-53 win over Montgomery before about 3,000 persons at Cathedral Saturday night, finishing off the Aztecs with a 28-11 fourth quarter. The Saints were the No. 1-seed team in the Open Division and played like it, winning by a combined total of ...

Records are current with the finals of the San Diego Section playoffs and does not include CIF State Regional playoff results. The San Diego Union-Tribune Week 11 final poll First-place votes in parenthesis. Points on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis. First-place votes in parenthesis. Last entries in columns indicate previous rank. Cal-Hi Sports’ and Max Preps’ represent state rankings. NR—Not ranked. Records as ...