Author: Rick Smith

Football

1922, Looking Back: Student Gives Newspaper Inside Scoop

The narrative originally was posted Dec. 30, 2013. San Diego High had an unusual relationship with The San Diego Union. Student Alan McGrew, who also served in a business position as the “Temporary Football Manager of San Diego High School,” was the de facto Hilltoppers beat writer for the newspaper. McGrew filed daily reports on […]

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Baseball

1947, Looking Back: A Vote for Point Loma As No. 1

The narrative originally was posted on Nov. 16, 2012. Coach Les Cassie’s Hoover Cardinals were within nine outs of a berth in the Southern California finals.  San Diego High was San Diego High, reliably formidable.  But Don Clarkson’s Point Loma Pointers may have been the best team of all. The Pointers won the prestigious Pomona […]

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Football

2023 Week 15B: State Regional Playoffs, At a Glance

San Diego Section teams in bold.  Columns 4, 5, and 6 are prep outlets’ ratings of opponents. DIVISION TEAM OPPONENT CAL-PREPS.COM MAX PREPS CAL-HI SPORTS I-AA Granite Hills (12-0) @Mission Viejo (11-3) 65.9/69.7 7/5 6/12 I-A St. Augustine (10-4) Ventura St. Bonaventure (11-3) 46.4/51.4 39/31 43/29 III-AA Del Norte (11-1) Lake Balboa Birmingham (11-2) 32.2/33.0 […]

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Basketball

2022-23 Week 11: Hat’s Off! 42 Boys’ and Girls’ Champions

The leagues and teams sometimes are different and some teams play football in one league and basketball in another.  Some teams don’t play football and some of these leagues don’t offer football. MaxPreps ranks any team in California that provides information and Max’s information is not always complete.  Cal-Hi Sports rates from 1 to 25 […]

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Basketball

2022-23 Week 10: Santa Fe Christian, Mater Dei Rattle the Top 10

One week to go in the regular season and the ranks have been shaken. St. Augustine, Carlsbad, and Montgomery remained 1-2-3 in the latest Union-Tribune vote, but seven others changed positions. Most notable were Santa Fe Christian’s leapfrogging from No. 8 to No. 4 and Mater Dei’s rising from No. 9 to No. 6. Santa […]

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Away game
League game
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>>,>>>,...
Overtime
2x,3x,... Overtime
I-V
A-AAA
O
Division I to V
Division A to AAA
Open Division
1T, 2T, ...
}, {
Final standing tie
Win, loss by 45 pt 'mercy' rule
*
**
***
^

^+
^^
1st round playoff
Quarterfinal playoff
Semifinal playoff
Championship
SoCal Championship
State Championship
8
8*
8**

8+
8-man team
Intraleague playoff
Southern Section playoff
8 vs 11-man team
~
-4
All boys, 2x enrollment
4 vs 3 grades, 9-12 vs 10-12
[
]
CA tiebreaker win,
loss
#, ##
!!
Forfeit win, loss
Game called, shortened or postponed
%
T-, T@
Citrus-Desert Playoff
Tournament

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