2019-20 Week 15: Favored Teams win 78% as San Diego Section Playoffs Move Into Semifinals
Shockers, upsets, and surprises (maybe) shook up the first week of the San Diego Section playoffs, which resume Feb. 25 following 120 games in boys and girls first- round and quarterfinals competition. Twenty-seven games have been won by teams with less attractive (higher) seeds. Favorites won 93 games, a 77.5 winning percentage, according to results […]
Read More2019-20 Week 14: Just 27 of 133 Can Claim League Superiority
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 will 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 banners […]
Read More1989-90 I: Coaching Icons Trepanier, Saner Step Down
Two legendary mentors pulled the pin. Point Loma’s Lee Trepanier, whose Pointers teams dominated the state and earned national recognition throughout the decade, retired after 14 seasons, with a 331-56 record and .855 winning percentage. Neville Saner, whose Poway teams won four Division I titles in his seven seasons, retired after posting a 139-42 (.768) […]
Read More1989-90 II: Sports Arena Out, Golden Hall In
For the first time in 14 years the San Diego Section championship games did not take place in the Sports Arena (13,700 capacity) on Midway Drive or Peterson Gymnasium (3,668 capacity) on the San Diego State campus. The championships were played at Golden Hall, a downtown facility of 3,200 seats that was more known as […]
Read More2019-20 Week 11: San Ysidro Cougars Continue to Run
San Ysidro is making noise again. Not enough to earn a top 10 ranking, but the Cougars have won five in a row and scored more than 100 points for the fifth time this season, including a post-poll vote,106-30 victory over Castle Park last night. The fall of the Trojans marked the third time in […]
Read More1988-89: Kane Raised Cavers From Depths
As Steve Brand of The San Diego Union wrote, Dennis Kane began preparing the day after San Diego High concluded the 1986-87 season. The coach moved to quickly put the worst year in school history in the Cavers’ rear view mirror. San Diego had bottomed out at 0-20 in Kane’s first season. No Cavers squad, […]
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