1974 Track: Banks and Jefferson Bring Home Gold Again
Willie Banks of Oceanside and Elijah Jefferson of Crawford offered a historic footnote to the 56th state meet in Bakersfield. Banks and Jefferson we’re the first from the San Diego Section to win successive state championships since Chula Vista’s Tim Danielson in 1965-66 and only the second and third from the area to repeat since […]
Read More2023-2024 Boys Week 9: Carlsbad-Montgomery Rematch for Championship
 Scores through Friday, February 23, are included below. A playoffs wrap-up will appear later along with pairings for the Southern California regionals. No. 1 Carlsbad will try to reverse a 63-55 loss in December to No. 3 Montgomery when the Lancers and Aztecs meet in the San Diego Section Open Division championship Saturday at U.C. […]
Read More1974 Baseball: Oceanside and Ciammachilli Come Close
For the first time in the San Diego Section’s 14 years, a team not from the city or the eastern suburbs had reached the playoff finals. Twenty-six squads, including Hoover, Helix, El Capitan, Crawford, Point Loma, San Diego, Santana, Kearny, Clairemont, and University had won or gotten to the championship game from 1961-73, and they […]
Read More2023-2024 Boys Week 8B : Playoffs Enter Semifinals Round of 4
Two rounds of San Diego Section playoffs produced at least four shockers, sending power ratings analysts diving for cover. No. 8 seed Scripps Ranch defeated No. 1 Santa Fe Christian in a second-round game, 60-51, in Division IÂ in the week’s most significant reversal. There were others:Â A 6 seed over an 11, a 12 […]
Read More2023-24 Boys Week 8A: The Playoffs Are Here, Follows Last Regular-Season Vote.
John Maffei’s weekly, final regular-season Union-Tribune poll. # TEAM RECORD POINTS PREVIOUS MAX-PREPS CAL-HI SPORTS 1 Carlsbad 26-2 (8) 161 1 8/9 15/15 2 Montgomery 26-2 (9) 159 2 17/20 20/21 3 St. Augustine 24-4 139 3 21/21 21/20 4 Torrey Pines 21-7 108 4 40/37 On the Bubble 5 La Jolla Country Day 22-5 […]
Read More2023-24 Boys Week 7: Hats Off! Champions and Co-Champs of 22 Leagues
What’s in a league championship? Especially in this era of power ratings and strengths of schedules and what they mean in playoff pairings and postseason division assignments, which were to be announced today. A league title represents essentially just bragging rights, but ask the players and coaches who achieved it and what they think when […]
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