2024 Football Week 0: Let the Games Begin
The San Diego Section’s 65th season opens this week with the usual fare of nonleague games, intersectionals, and interstates. Five interesting matchups: CARLSBAD @LAKEWOOD. Lancers coach Thadd MacNeal will return to where he had a very successful program in the Long Beach Poly-dominated, Southern Section Moore League, posting a 41-19 record from 2006-10, including 21-4 […]
Read More1977 Track: Lady Colts, David Russell Reach the Heights
San Diego produced three state champions, the most since 1929. David Russell of Patrick Henry won the boys’ 100 (:09.61) and 220 (20.97 with 2.2 wind, over the allowable 2.0), and the Crawford girls’ 440 relay squad of Danita Young, Judy Reed, Jewell Lovelady, and Katie Gaston, set a national record, :46.14. Forty-eight years before […]
Read More2024:Â Dallas Evans, Football and Track Standout
Dallas Evans , who passed away recently, was a star end on the 1953 San Diego High football  team, a sub 49-second quarter-miler at San Diego State, and a coach and teacher more  than 30 years in the South Bay area. Dallas earned all-City Prep League honors on the 7-3 San Diego team that won […]
Read More1976 Track: Poway’s Middleton Earned Section’s Lone State Championship.
There were many good marks during the season, but it remained for Poway’s Kathy Middleton to bring home the only gold medal for the San Diego Section in the 58th State Track meet at Edwards Field in Berkeley. Middleton had a winning discus throw of 134-5, topping Susan Springer of Salinas (132-11) after Middleton’s 131-6 […]
Read More1976 Baseball: Favorites’ Stumbles Open Door for Madison
The numbers 1, 2, 4, and 5 seeds were eliminated in the first round of the San Diego Section playoffs. Only third-ranked Hoover survived and the Cardinals were ousted in the quarterfinals. That left the door open for No. 6 seed Madison, which edged No. 12 Crawford, 1-0, for the championship. Probably most disappointed was […]
Read More2024 Summer: Football is Coming! Hornets and Dons Line Up Impressive Schedules
Lincoln and Cathedral, traditional big shots in the Western League and San Diego Section, appear to be trying to outdo each other. The Hornets of coach David Dunn, 24-2 over the last two seasons, are signed to play road games at Long Beach Poly, Sacramento Grant, and Coronado High of Henderson, Nevada, plus home games […]
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