2016: Don Donnelly, Longtime Track Coach
A celebration of Don Donnelly’s life will be held at the La Mesa Community Center on Nov. 14 from 2:30-5:30 p.m. Donnelly, 87, passed recently after a lifetime of athletics and coaching, principally track and field and cross country. A 1947 graduate of Hoover High, where he played football and competed in track, Donnelly got […]
Read More2016 Week 11: Cardinals Find the End Zone
Hoover did it. The Cardinals scored, not once but twice, in a 49-14 loss to Patrick Henry. Hoover had not even registered a blip in its first eight games and was closing in on a record set in 1976 by San Diego Southwest. The Southwest Raiders were blanked on the field in a 0-9 season in […]
Read More2016 Week 10: Rivals Face Moments of Truth
Take a good look at this week’s Union-Tribune Top 10 poll. It won’t be the same next Tuesday and likely will change even more after the last of several blockbuster matchups take place 10 days from now on the final Friday of the regular season. THIS WEEK No. 1 Cathedral (8-0) meets Western League rival No. 6 […]
Read More2016 Week 9: Season of Undefeateds and Winless
Six teams are 7-0 (Calvin Christian is 6-0) and the trend figures to continue as San Diego Section clubs head into the stretch run of the regular season. The Bishop’s (7-0) visits La Jolla Country Day (6-1) in the feature game involving one of of the unbeatens. The Knights, who have bigger things in mind, can salt away away […]
Read More1914: On The World Stage
It’s not a stretch to declare that this was the year San Diego, the growing city at the geographical bottom of California, stepped into the modern age. The vision and determination of San Diego’s civic leaders launched the successful Panama-California Exposition on Jan. 1, 1915, even though in competition with the larger, federally-funded expo in […]
Read More2016: Pete Jernigan, Played Baseball, Coached Softball
Paul Douglas (Pete) Jernigan, one of the San Diego area’s most accomplished athletes and coaches, passed away recently at his home in Hereford, Arizona. Jernigan, 75, played 10 seasons of professional baseball and later coached successful high school and Under 18 softball teams. He was named “Mr. Youth Sports” by the El Cajon Parks and […]
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