- 2022-23 Week 6: Cross-country Challenges for No. 1 Saints and No. 4 Cougars
San Diego Section No. 1-ranked St. Augustine and No. 4 San Ysidro go national this week, traveling to Western Massachusetts for a games in the Spalding HoopHall event at Springfield College.
The Saints will meet Max Preps‘ No. 2 team in Connecticut, Manchester East Catholic (7-0 in reported games), at 10:30 a.m. Saturday. The Cougars (8-7) ...
- 2022-23 Week 5: The Saints Are Still Marching In
Exhausted from a week of travel and tip-ins at numerous venues and in numerous events, San Diego Section teams now gear for league play and some “classics”, such as on Martin Luther King weekend later this month.
So busy and so competitive was last week, today’s Union-Tribune poll revealed a seldom-seen jockeying for position. Only St. ...
- 1958 Track: Lincoln’s Drive to CIF Southern Section Title Crashes
Always striving for higher, faster, further, San Diego -area track and field competitors delivered a bevy of outstanding marks and a consensus that Lincoln, in its fourth season, could become the Southern California team champion, following San Diego’s 1957 championship.
The Hornets didn’t make it, their season ending in disappointment. Lincoln’s troubles in the Southern Section ...
- 1958 Baseball: Cavers Can’t Get Past Long Beach Poly
Another great San Diego High team? Or a very good San Diego team that had punished mostly mediocre opponents?
The Cavemen, 23-1 and one of the favorites for a Southern Section championship, were eliminated in the quarterfinals of the playoffs at Long Beach Poly, a team with a 20-3 record but had not participated in the ...
- 2022-23 Week 4: 80 Teams (from 55 cities, 10 states) Converge for Torrey Pines Event
Dozens of tournaments and nonleague games make the weekly vote for the top 10 in San Diego County almost superfluous. Action is daily and will be through the end of the year, notably with the massive, 32nd Torrey Pines Holiday Classic, which began this morning at several venues.
No.1 St. Augustine (9-2) opens at home at ...
- 2022-23 Week 4: Montgomery Wins Consolation Championship in Las Vegas
While the St. Augustine boys and La Jolla Country Day girls competed against the best this week, Montgomery came home with a championship, of sorts.
The Aztecs (8-3), won the Baller TV consolation bracket in the Tarkanian Classic in Las Vegas, defeating Las Vegas schools Sierra Vista, 71-46; Valley, 60-58, and Clark, 54-36, after a first-round ...
- 2022-23 Week 3: Saints Idle, Stay Atop Union-Tribune Vote
The San Diego Union-Tribune Week 3 poll:
First-place votes in parenthesis.
Points on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis.
*First-place votes. Last entries in columns indicate previous rank.
The San Diego Union-Tribune Week 3 poll:
First-place votes in parenthesis.
Points on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis.
*First-place votes. Last entries in columns indicate previous rank.
Cal-Hi Sports’ and Max Preps’ represent state rankings. NR—Not ranked.
TEAM
RECORD
POINTS
LAST
MAX-PREPS
CAL-HI SPORTS
1. St. Augustine
7-0
190
1
6/7
/10
2. Carlsbad
10-2
163
2
31/30
/NR
3. Torrey ...
- 2022: Doyle and Hauser Move Up; Burner, McNair, Starr Move In.
Eleven wins in 2023 could elevate Sean Doyle to as high as a fourth-place tie with Bennie Edens on the list of San Diego County coaches’ all-time victories.
Eleven wins in 2023 would move Chris Hauser into the club of eight who have won 200 games.
The late Bennie Edens of Point Loma is fourth with 238 ...
- 2022 Week 16: San Diego Section is 4-0 in State Bowls.
The final act for 98 teams and the 561** games they played was a quaternary of success, 4 games, 4 victories in the state bowl championships.
San Diego Section teams enjoyed their most successful year since the inaugural Southern California and state bowl championship series in 2006.
Lincoln (13-1) went on a 21-0 blitz in the third ...
- 2022-23 Week 2: Saints to Meet Florida Power in Las Vegas
St. Augustine, 7-0 and the unanimous first-place choice in the Union-Tribune weekly poll, will take that and its Cal-Hi Sports No. 10 state ranking and Max Preps’ No. 7, to Las Vegas Monday.
The Saints of coach Mike Haupt, slotted in the Platinum Division of the Tarkanian Classic at Orleans Arena, will open against Orlando Oak ...
- 2022 Week 15C: Mater Dei Tries to Better In-Season Record Run
Mater Dei’s recovery from an 0-21 hole to a 22-21 win over Downey in the Southern California playoff last week wasn’t the only remarkable achievement by the South Bay club this year.
The Crusaders’ 10-game winning streak, following four straight losses to open the season, is unprecedented, according to researcher and webmaster Henrik Jonson, who estimated ...
- 2022 Week 15B: Calpreps.com Favors San Diego Section in 3 State Bowl Games
Matchups involving San Diego Section teams in the state bowl championship series this week:
Lincoln (12-1) versus Concord De La Salle (10-3), North Coast Section, Friday, 8 p.m., Mission Viejo Saddleback College.
Calpreps pick:
Lincoln, 65 per cent chance of winning.
Mater Dei versus Oakland McClymonds (Oakland Section), Friday, 4 p.m., Mission Viejo Saddleback College.
Calpreps pick:
Mater Dei, 65 per ...
- 2022 Week 15A: Lincoln Goes After Title Against Legendary Foe
Lincoln, riding with Hot-Roderick Robinson, a 228-pound running back committed to the University of Georgia, will attempt to do what no San Diego Section team has done in this week’s CIF state bowl Division 1-AA championship:
Win a game against Concord De La Salle, the North Coast Section champion with the pedigree of 151 consecutive wins ...
- 2022-23 Week 1: Mikey Williams is Back at San Ysidro
Heralded Mikey Williams has returned for his senior basketball season at San Ysidro after two years at an academy in North Carolina. Updated Max Preps stats show Williams with an 18.3 average in the Cougars’ five games, in which San Ysidro is 3-2, including a 95-70 loss to Corona Centennial. Williams scored 24 points. J.J. ...
- 2022 Week 15: State Bowl Championship Results, 2007-21
The San Diego Section and the rest of California prepare for a final act in the 2022 season with CIF state bowl championships this week.
Teams from here have a 15-18 record (victories below in bold type) in the competition that resumed in 2006 after an 80-year hiatus. Lincoln, Mater Dei, Granite Hills, and Classical will ...
- 2022 Week 14E: Classical, Granite Hills Seek Titles in D-VIAA & D-IIA
Classical (10-3) makes a first-ever appearance in the Southern California playoffs, host at neutral Del Norte to Lancaster (9-5) in Division VI-AA.
Despite finishing with a 1-2 record and in third place in the Pacific League, the Caimans rolled in the playoffs, upsetting Crawford, 33-14, in the D-V championship.
OPPONENT DOWN AND UP
Lancaster won eight of its ...
- 2022 Week 14D: Blythe Given Computer Edge over Muir in D-VAA
Pasadena Muir (8-6) travels to Blythe Palo Verde (13-1) for a Division V-AA playoff
These aren’t the 1935-vintage Muir Mustangs, featuring a future baseball great named Jackie Robinson, who came South and manhandled unbeaten Hoover, 27-0.
These Mustangs are more like the Mustangs who came South from 1947-54 and lost seven of nine games to San Diego, ...
- 2022 Week 14C: Stats Favor San Jacinto Over Visiting U. City in DIII-AA.
University City is not trying to climb Mt. San Jacinto this week; the Centurions are attempting a different climb, over San Jacinto High, but the calpreps.com computer suggests that neither the hypothetical or real option favors coach Paul Lawrence’s team.
Calpreps gives the Tigers a 65 per cent chance of winning the Division III-AA playoff on ...
- 2022 Week 14B: Mater Dei Visits Old San Diego Acquaintance
Mater Dei’s opponent hasn’t been seen by a San Diego team in 65 years.
Such are the Southern California playoffs.
The Crusaders open defense of their state Division II-AA title this week on the road against the Downey Vikings, who upset San Diego, 24-7, in the Southern Section championship game in 1957.
That contest, before 12,500 persons in ...
- 2022 Week 14: Hornets Win Last Vote For No. 1
This is the final Union-Tribune poll, as reflected in the first three columns in the table below and coordinated by John Maffei, but there will be a final, final poll when calpreps.com, Max Preps, and Cal-Hi Sports (columns 4, 5, and 6) weigh in with their final ratings, after the state bowl championship games in ...
