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Forty-six flag teams, many with quickly organized, short schedules, played a total of about 325 games in the inaugural 2023 season. The 2024 season, with 72 teams and a potential full schedule of 20 in the regular season, plus two dozen playoff jousts, the total should surpass 700 games. The  schedule continues to grow. Most of ...

The hand shake was a vise grip. I first shook that hand in September, 1964, when Eddie Olsen was hired to manage the Billiard Den, a trendy, new watering hole and pool parlor at 58th Street and El Cajon Blvd. I last saw Eddie months before he passed recently at age 89 and the handshake had not ...

The San Diego Section’s 65th season opens this week with the usual fare of nonleague games, intersectionals, and interstates. Five interesting matchups: CARLSBAD @LAKEWOOD. Lancers coach Thadd MacNeal will return to where he had a very successful program in the Long Beach Poly-dominated, Southern Section Moore League, posting a 41-19 record from 2006-10, including 21-4 in his last ...

San Diego produced three state champions, the most since 1929. David Russell of Patrick Henry won the boys’ 100 (:09.61) and 220 (20.97 with 2.2 wind, over the allowable 2.0), and the Crawford girls’ 440 relay squad of Danita Young, Judy Reed, Jewell Lovelady, and Katie Gaston, set a national record, :46.14. Forty-eight years before San Diego ...

Dallas Evans , who passed away recently, was a star end on the 1953 San Diego High football  team, a sub 49-second quarter-miler at San Diego State, and a coach and teacher more  than 30 years in the South Bay area. Dallas earned all-City Prep League honors on the 7-3 San Diego team that won the ...

There were many good marks during the season, but it remained for Poway’s Kathy Middleton to bring home the only gold medal for the San Diego Section in the 58th State Track meet at Edwards Field in Berkeley. Middleton had a winning discus throw of 134-5, topping Susan Springer of Salinas (132-11) after Middleton’s 131-6 in ...

The numbers 1, 2, 4, and 5 seeds were eliminated in the first round of the San Diego Section playoffs. Only third-ranked Hoover survived and the Cardinals were ousted in the quarterfinals. That left the door open for No. 6 seed Madison, which edged No. 12 Crawford, 1-0, for the championship. Probably most disappointed was Clairemont and coach ...

Lincoln and Cathedral, traditional big shots in the Western League and San Diego Section, appear to be trying to outdo each other. The Hornets of coach David Dunn, 24-2 over the last two seasons, are signed to play road games at Long Beach Poly, Sacramento Grant, and Coronado High of Henderson, Nevada, plus home games against ...

San Diego High won its third consecutive CIF championship under fifth-year coach Mike Morrow and posted a 19-3 record, according to Don King’s Caver Conquest. The Great Depression was raging, unemployment was high, young men had time on their hands, and many played baseball. Possibly without budget for travel beyond obligatory Coast League games, Morrow’s clubs played ...

I’ve seen at least 40 state meets since my first in 1957 at Edwards Field in Berkeley and they evolve each year, becoming arguably one of the best high school events in the country. Buchanan High in Clovis has been the venue since 2009 and the site of some of the San Diego Section’s finest moments, ...

There were three competitors, hurdlers Anisa  Bowen-Fontenot and Morgan Herbst, and distancer Jaelyn Williams, with No. 1 rankings, and 15 performances that ranked in the top five, as compiled by Athletic.net. EVENT MARK NAME, SCHOOL STATE OTHER NAME SCHOOL 100 :11.50w Shaheed, Madison 4th :11.38w Wright Temecula Chaparral :11.64w Gilhooly, Coronado 14th :11.83 Smith, La Jolla 22T 200 :23.52 Shaheed 2nd :23.48w Wright :23.67w Smith 5th :24.36 Gilhooly 400 :53.39 Smith 2nd :53.17 Mosby Inglewood St. Mary’s :54.38 Burkhardt, Steele Canyon 7th :55.94 Arciaga, Westview 24th 800 2:06.51 Buswell, Poway 3rd 2:03.48 Engelhardt Ventura 2:07.23 Makenna Herbst, Carlsbad 5th 2:07.32 Arciaga 6th 2:09.87 Williams, Eastlake 10th 2:11.89 Dailey, La Jolla 20th 2:12.53 Scuba, Sage Creek 25T Aguirre, Patrick Henry 25T 1600 4:40.29 Williams 3rd 4:29.86 Engelhardt 4:42.26 Dailey 3rd 4:50.61 Lopizzo, La Costa Canyon 22nd 3200 9:57.11 Williams 1st 9:59.81 Thomsen Santa ...

Twice No. 1-ranked Brandon Arrington, Jr., of Mount Miguel was a double winner in the 100 and 200  at the 104th State meet and seven other performances by San Diego Section thinclads made the California top 25 as compiled  by Athletic.net.  Those not in first 25 below are indicated by asterisk: EVENT MARK NAME, SCHOOL STATE OTHERS NAME, SCHOOL 100 :10.27w Arrington, Jr., Mount ...

104th STATE TRACK FINALS CLOVIS BUCHANAN HIGH San Diego Section medal winners in bold. BOYS 4×100 Relay—Pittsburg, :40.77. 1600—Dybdahl (Santa Barbara), 4:08.23. 110HH—McFarland (Elk Grove Consumness Oaks), :13.6. Wind 3.1.  3. Tseko-Biffle (El Capitan), :13.99w. 4. Martin (Helix), :14.07w. 400—Ricks (L.B. Poly), :46.79. 100—Arrington, Jr. (Mount Miguel), :10.33.  Wind 1.3. Section No. 3 all-time. 800—Evans (Carlsbad), 1:50.21. Section No. 2 all-time.  11. Bowman (Sage Creek), 1:54.2.  12. Cordero ...

104th STATE TRACK TRIALS CLOVIS BUCHANAN HIGH Mount Miguel’s Brandon Arrington ran the fastest sprint double in San Diego Section history, a wind-aided :10.27 100 meters and :20.55 200, and Carlsbad’s Cain Evans charged down the stretch to run a 1:51.88 800, the seventh fastest. Fifteen area entries qualified in competition that took place on a cool, windy ...

Anisa Bowen-Fontonot, Payton Smith, Amirah Shaheed, Makenna Herbst, Kaitland Arciaga, and Morgan Herbst, won their first tests in trials at Clovis Buchanan High, the Central Section host of the 104th state meet. Twenty San Diego Section entries qualified for the next day finals. San Diego Section qualifiers for finals in bold: GIRLS 4×100 Relay (heat 1) Calabasas, :45.90; 3. ...

Sophomore Jaelyn Williams of Eastlake scorched a San Diego Section record 4:40.29 in the 1600 meters and eased to a 10:15.40 victory in the 3200, and veteran Tessa Buswell of Poway continued a late-season surge, her 2:07.12 in the 800 narrowing the gap between Buswell and record holder Hannah Riggins’ 2:06.69 in 2023. Williams and Buswell ...

Mount Miguel’s Brandon Arrington, Jr., continues to assault 200-meter standards.  His :20.40 in the San Diego Section finals last week at Mt. Carmel would put Arrington at the top of the 2024 national list and set a San Diego County record, but a 3.1-meter tailwind, more than the allowable 2.0, struck those attempts. Arrington gets another ...

Rashid Shaheed was a :48.54 standout in the 400 meters at Mt. Carmel in 2016 and now is one half of a virtually all-San Diego receiving corps with Chris Olave (Eastlake-San Marcos) for the NFL’s New Orleans Saints. Amirah Shaheed, Rashid’s younger sibling, also is creating a path at Madison.  She  tied for the state lead ...

Even after a withering assault on top 25 performances in the Southern Section meet last week, San Diego boys still command eight spots in the California top five of their respective events heading into Saturday’s Section finals at Mt. Carmel. Mount Miguel’s David Arrington, Jr., ran the 200 in :20.64 in the  Division II finals at ...

San Diego High retained a share of its 1929 state championship after losing its Southern California title to Santa Ana. The Hilltoppers returned 1929 state 100 and 220 champion Jimmy Willson, 440 champ Irvine (Cotton) Warburton, state mile champion Evan Dowers, and sprinter Fernando Ortiz, among others on a deep and talented roster. How could they not ...