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  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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

  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) ...

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 ...

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)  ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

San Diego High was in the playoffs and San Dieguito was out. Oops, San Dieguito was  in and San Diego was out. The seeds of a legislative tempest had germinated in the spring when the San Diego Section Coordinating Council requested that the County Football Coaches’ Association prepare an analysis of the 1973 playoffs. Point Loma’s Bennie Edens, ...

Will it be once every 57 years? That’s how long it took El Cajon Valley High to win its first league basketball championship, a feat not accomplished since the school opened in the 1955-56 school year. The Braves (19-8) have yet to enter the UT-San Diego basketball poll Top 10 but  their exploits have created a stir ...

It was a question never answered, because it seldom was asked. Which was the better team? The 25-1 San Dieguito Mustangs, who won the Class A championship, or the tradition-rich, 24-3 Hoover Cardinals, who won the AA title in the 1960-61,  first season of the CIF San Diego Section . Some 50 years later a reader of ...

FIRST TEAM OFFENSE Quarterback Ezell Singleton San Diego 1958 Running Backs C. R. Roberts Oceanside 1953 Tyler Gaffney Cathedral Catholic 2008 Darrin Wagner Lincoln 1987 Receivers Patrick Rowe Lincoln 1986 Art Powell San Diego 1954 Line Jack Harrington Rancho Buena Vista 1988 Lincoln Kennedy Morse 1988 Steve Riley Castle Park 1968 Robbie Coffin Mira Mesa 1983 Steve Vieria Carlsbad 1999 Athletes Deron Johnson San Diego 1955 Charlie Powell San Diego 1950 Reggie Bush Helix 2002 Bill Fudge El Capitan 1970 FIRST TEAM DEFENSE Line Ed Imo Kearny 1973 La’Roi Glover Point Loma 1991 Tamasi Amituani Vista 1988 Arthur Smith Lincoln 1963 Linebackers Junior Seau Oceanside 1986 Pisa Tinoisamoa Vista 1998 Greg Slough Point Loma 1964 Travis Hitt Grossmont 1971 Secondary Marcus Allen Lincoln 1977 Willie Buchanon Oceanside 1968 Monte Jackson St. Augustine 1970 Eric Allen Point Loma 1982 Athletes Dave Grayson Lincoln  1956 Dokie Williams El Camino 1977 Darnay ...

With nine days until the first round of San Diego Section playoffs,  Cathedral Catholic still is No. 1. UT-San Diego’s CIF basketball ratings did not change from the previous week. One through 10, no one moved up or down, although Army-Navy cleared up a nettling mark on its record. The Warriors, 21-4 and ranked second, defeated La Jolla ...

Army-Navy, gathering steam behind the long, shot-blocking, 7-foot, 1 inch Cheikh N’Diaye and slick-shooting guard Devin Watson now is second in the UT-San Diego boys’ basketball poll. N’Diaye had six blocked shots and 20 rebounds to with his 20 points and Watson scored 29 as the Warriors eased past Santa Fe Christian 64-53 in a Coastal ...