2013: North County, City Take 4 Top Spots in Final Grid Poll
Win or lose Saturday evening, coach Chris Hauser’s Mission Hills Grizzlies are an almost unanimous choice as the No. 1 football team in the San Diego Section. The final Top 10 poll of the season was voted on after conclusion of the  five San Diego Section championships. The Grizzlies will host the Central Section champion […]
Read More2013-14: La Costa Canyon Opens on Top
The discussion already is in full swing.  Who’s No. 1? The U-T San Diego preseason basketball poll has La Costa Canyon No. 1 and St. Augustine No. 2. North County bias by a majority of the voters aside,  I’ll take the Saints.  Call me South-of-Highway-56-biased, at least for this vote. Saints Coach Mike Haupt, 330-173 in 18 […]
Read More2013: Bakersfield is Stranger in These Parts
San Diego High first played Bakersfield, then known  as Kern County Union High, in 1917. The Drillers, who play at Mission Hills Saturday night in a State Southern Regional playoff, last met an area team in  1952. San Diego holds a 6-5, all-time advantage over the Drillers, the Cavemen having won the last five meetings. […]
Read More2013: Mission Hills In; Christian Waits
One San Diego team is in the State Bowl Southern Regional playoffs and another will learn its fate Monday. Mission Hills (12-1) was invited to play host to the Central Section champion Bakersfield Drillers (11-2) Saturday night, Dec. 14, in Division I. Christian, which defeated San Marcos, 19-7, for the San Diego Section III title, […]
Read More1950: As Powell Goes, So Go Cavers
This team may have been the best of all coached by Duane Maley at San Diego High, but the Cavemen lost two of their best players and five reserves as practice started and their best player at the most important time of the season. They came up short in the Southern California playoffs. Starting halfback Darnes […]
Read More2013: Season May Not Be Over
Is a state bowl game series game  in the offing for a San Diego Section team? Cal-Hi Sports is suggesting that Mission Hills could meet the winner of  tonight’s Southern Section, Vista Murrieta-Corona Centennial Division I championship contest.  Such a game would take place on  the weekend of Dec. 13-14 and be a Southern California […]
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