- 2022 Week 3: Helix-Cathedral Could Answer Some Questions; Warhawks Take over First Place
How far has Cathedral fallen and how high has Helix risen?
The Dons are coming off two huge losses and Helix is undefeated.
They’ll meet this week at Helix and the Highlanders might smell blood in the water after Cathedral’s successive losses of 42-7 to Corona Centennial and 63-7 to Chandler, Arizona, in the 12th annual Honor ...
- 2022 Week 3: Another Hot Night for Preps…in 1963
The thermometer is expected to reach three digits in San Diego Friday, recalling a similar day and high school football 59 years ago.
On Thursday, Sept. 26, 1963, an all-time high of 111 degrees scorched the area. The next day the high was 104.
I was in the Hoover stadium when the Cardinals and Helix, two of ...
- 2022 Week 2: Carlsbad No. 1 in San Diego; Cathedral Still High in State
Despite a 42-7 loss to state No. 3 Corona Centennial, in which it manufactured only 138 yards offense, Cathedral still is held in high esteem by the computer services.
Max Preps ranks Cathedral fifth and gives the Dons a 60.7 strength-of-schedule rating, highest among any team in California. Anaheim Servite (60.4) and Norco (60.1) are closest.
Cathedral ...
- 2022 Week 1A: Calexico and Blythe Have Unusual Ending
Visiting Calexico was in a 7-7 tie in the fourth quarter in the season’s first game when the lights went out at the Blythe Palo Verde Valley stadium.
The final score was reported to Max Preps as a tie, a result increasingly uncommon as teams nowadays usually find a conclusion in overtime. A few hours later ...
- 2022 Week 1: Parker’s Williams Scores 4 Ways that equal 52
Francis Parker’s Chris Williams set a San Diego Section record when he scored all 52 points in the Lancers’ 52-27 win over Pasadena Poly, according to information provided to The San Diego Union.
Williams did it all: Six touchdown runs, 10, 23,25,27,27, and 45 yards. A 62-yard pass interception for a touchdown. Seven points after and ...
- 2022 Week 0: Preseason Top 10, Coaching Changes, League Moves
John Maffei of The San Diego Union-Tribune and three other ranking services have offered their opinions on 2022 football in the San Diego Section.
Maffei canvassed coaches, noted the results of summer 7-on-7 passing competitions, and compared roster compositions, among other factors. The U-T’s weekly poll will begin after this week’s opening round of games.
Cal-Hi Sports ...
- 1946 Baseball: Morrow is Back and so are Hilltoppers
Dewey J. (Mike) Morrow, a University of California at Berkeley graduate from Montana, returned from the war to San Diego High and coached the Hilltoppers to his eighth CIF Southern Section championship in Morrow’s 16 seasons and first since 1939.
Writer Norrie West of the Evening Tribune said of Morrow’s return:
“Not a soul will deny that ...
- 1946 Track: Balboa Stadium Site of Southern Section Championships
San Diego High, led by quartermiler Norman Stocks, sprinter-broad jumper Jimmy Barrera, hurdler Harry West, shot putter Joe Acevedo, and half-miler Harry Taylor, among others on a deep and talented squad, was in full force, posting an 8-0 record in dual meets, winner of 16 in a row, and 20-2 since Bill Patten became coach ...
- 1966 Baseball II: Strom’s Rubber Arm Leads Cavers to Title
San Diego’s surprising, late-season ride on the left arm of pitcher Brent Strom resulted in the Cavers’ first major championship since they won the Southern Section title in 1952.
And it was to be the Cavers’ last, ending a run that began with a state championship in 1918.
Changing demographics, new schools, new neighborhoods, revised enrollment borders, ...
- 1966 Baseball I: Cardinals to Honor Ted Williams With New Ball Yard
On March 21 the Hoover student body announced a fund-raising drive for a new baseball facility, Ted Williams Field, in honor of the January, 1937, graduate and major league baseball Hall of Fame inductee.
For years the Cardinals played home games in the school’s football stadium, with a rightfield fence, beyond the track, a Little League-dimensioned ...
- 1966 Track I: Arnie Robinson and a Glimpse of the Future
Arnie Robinson was coming to the end of four brilliant seasons at Morse.
Robinson high jumped 6-7, long jumped 24 feet, and won the 120-yard high hurdles in :14.8 in his last competition (see below) at the school on Skyline Drive in Encanto that Robinson watched open in September, 1962.
The nephew of 1940s San Diego High ...
- 1966 Track II: The Big 3, Tim, Doyle, and Terry
Tim Danielson, Terry Rogers, and Doyle Steel were state champions and would have been favored in their events if there were a prep national championship meet.
Chula Vista’s Danielson, the second to better four minutes in the mile, was undefeated on the prep level the last two years and he competed nationally and internationally well into ...
- 2022 Boys Track (5): Final San Diego Section and State Leaders
Thirty-three boys, counting one for relays, posted 43 marks that made the state Top 25 in the standard 16 events, as noted by Athletic.net. Numbers in parenthesis represent placement.
EVENT
NAME
MARK
STATE
100
Tucker, Lincoln
:10.51w, (17T), :10.54 (21T)
:10.14, Pleasant, Gardena Serra
Priest, Maranatha
:10.56 (23T)
200
Brock, Cathedral
:21.40 (20)
:20.40, Pleasant
Tucker, Lincoln
:21.47w (22), :21.74
400
Parker, Helix
:46.82 (3)
:46.75, Goode, Santa Clarita West Ranch
Brotschi, Otay Ranch
:48.12 (12T)
800
Harder, San ...
- 2022 Girls Track (5): Final San Diego Section and State Leaders
Forty-five girls, counting one for relays, posted 54 marks that made the state Top 25 in the standard 16 events, as noted by Athletic.net. Numbers in parenthesis represent placement.
EVENT
NAME/SCHOOL
MARK
STATE
100
Shaheed, Madison
:11.66 (4)
:11.45, Redmond, Carson
McCormick, Scripps Ranch
:11.71w (3), :11.76 (11)
Hatton, Sage Creek
:11.91w (21T), :12.18
200
Bean, Poway
:24.25 (8)
:23.82, :23.65w, Currie, Santa Clarita Golden Valley
Shaheed
:24.45 (15)
400
Bean
:55.09 (8)
:53.19, Cenci, Clovis North
Cramer, ...
- 2022 Boys Track (4): No Gold Medals, But Helix and Parker Solid
Adren Parker drove Helix to a fifth place finish in the 4×400 relay as the Highlanders ran 3:15.79, 11th all-time in San Diego. An added plus was Helix’s breaking the school record of 3:16.23, set in 2003.
Parker, a junior, also put 2023 rivals on notice with a fourth-place, :47.68 performance in the 400 meters that ...
- 2022 Girls Track (4): James, Coleman Hurdle to Championships
Charlize James and Kapiolani Coleman held up under the grind of carrying the mantel of favorites and winning gold medals in the state meet in Clovis.
Cathedral’s Coleman, the state leader for most of the season, won the 300 hurdles in :42.23. James, chasing Scripps Ranch Aaliyah McCormick all season, took the 100 hurdles in :13.95 ...
- 2022 Girls Track (3): Charlize Charges in 100 Hurdles
San Diego High’s Charlize James defines competitor, at her best, and better, since the season moved into May. James ran the second fastest 100 hurdles in San Diego Section history Friday, :13.67 in the state track trials.
James, whose time also is No. 2 in California this year and 12th in the United States, will not ...
- 2022 Boys Track (3): Parker No. 1 All-Time in 400 Meters
Adren Parker of Helix yesterday became the third San Diego Section runner to shade 47 seconds in the 400 meters, setting an all-time record of :46.82 Friday in trials of the 102nd state track meet.
Parker’s time was bettered only by the :46.81 of Jeremiah Walker of Fresno Central. Two other runners who have run under ...
- 2022 Boys Track (2): Parker, Harder Advance in Section and State Marks
The top three finishers in last week’s San Diego Section championships move on to the state meet in Clovis this week.
In addition, any contestant who met the state qualifying standard in the section meet also is eligible.
For example, two 800-meter runners in the list below qualified, but a third, who ran 1:54.54, missed because the ...
- 2022 Girls Track (2): Four Still Lead With Week Remaining
Four San Diego athletes lead the state as they head for state this week.
“State” is an often-used euphemism for an event such as the California championships, renewed for the 102nd time this year after being canceled because of the pandemic in 2020 and ’21.
Aaliyah McCormick continues to lead all 100 hurdlers with a best time ...
