2025-26 Basketball Week 1: John Maffei Madness
We bided our time for several weeks before tuning in to the Union-Tribune writer’s 2025-26 season weekly poll, which he began weeks earlier.  That explains our Week 1 designation for winter Maffei Madness. So far, other than a few intersectional victories along the way, it’s been a relatively quiet season in the San Diego Section. […]
Read More1935 Baseball: Slow Beginning Didn’t Stop Hilltoppers From 10th Championship
Coach Mike Morrow’s team started with an uneven, 2-3-1 record and needed a tie-breaking playoff win over Long Beach Poly for the Coast League championship and berth in the Southern Section playoffs. Vance Randolph, sidelined a few games because of illness, was the Hilltoppers’ most-valuable player, with a .521 season batting average and pitched the […]
Read More2025 Football Week 16: Doyle (251 Wins), Cathedral Go For Another State Championship
Cathedral’s 42-21 victory over Los Alamitos last week in the state regional Division I-AA playoffs was the 251st in coach Sean Doyle’s career. That’s right, 251. The Dons’ victory over Carlsbad in the San Diego Section finals had been hailed on the Southwestern College scoreboard as No. 250 for Doyle, sending the Dons into the […]
Read More2025 Football Week 15B: Final Top 10, Doyle’s All-Time Wins
MAFFEI MADNESS John Maffei’s The San Diego Union-Tribune final 2025 poll: Points awarded on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis. *First-place votes. Previous rankings in (italics). NR–Not ranked. MaxPreps, Cal Preps, and Cal-Hi Sports are state rankings. RANK TEAM/RECORD POINTS MAX PREPS CAL PREPS CAL-HI SPORTS 1. Cathedral (10-2) 30* 300 (2) 10 63.0 13 (14) 2. Carlsbad (10-2) 259 […]
Read More2025 Football Week 15A: San Diego Section Clubs Begin State Playoffs
Six area teams, from Granite Hills in the East suburbs of El Cajon to Valley Center in the rural North, won San Diego Section championships and are moving on and (possibly/maybe/who knows?) moving up in the super postseason. Regional playoffs are this week, with winners advancing to State championship games Dec. 12-13Â at Saddleback College […]
Read More2025 Football Week 14: Championship Game Coaches, At a Glance
This is perhaps the finest pair of Open Division and Division I championship game matchups since the San Diego Section was formed in 1960. Mainly because of the four coaches leading their teams, veterans who have stood the test of time and turn out winners annually, as their records attest in the table below. Championship […]
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