2019 Week 0: Cathedral Wins Preseason Vote
Football, which used to open with 90-degree practices under blazing Labor Day suns, is back with a now usual berginning in August’s semifinal week. The dates have changed, but not the weather. Cathedral is the San Diego Union-Tribune voting panel’s No. 1-ranked team in the first weekly poll. Dons coach Sean Doyle, who should become […]
Read More1981-82: Zarecky Thought He’d Seen it All
“I’m confused,” said Sweetwater coach Gary Zarecky. “I’m baffled,” continued the Red Devils mentor. Zarecky also could have noted that he was dumfounded. Sweetwater had just beaten Castle Park, 94-1 Zarecky could have 1, in a Metropolitan Mesa League game, which followed an earlier, 106-37 Sweetwater rout of the Trojans. What made Zarecky (Zar-skee) figuratively […]
Read More1981-82 Basketball: No Outside Competition for San Diego Squads
Local teams were just that, local. That’s because San Diego Section bosses, most of whom did not know if the ball was made of leather or composed of rubber, continued to defy the state CIF. –For the first time in the history of the game in San Diego County, going back at least 60 years, […]
Read More1980-81: Red Devils Break Scoring Record
Records are made to be broken, but it took 11 years, until Jan. 23, 1981, for Bill Walton and Helix to surrender the San Diego Section’s signature team scoring achievement. Helix slammed Mount Miguel, 127-31, in the 1969-70 season and the Highlanders’ record seldom was in trouble, other than a couple 122-point assaults by free-wheeling […]
Read More1980-81: Patrick Henry Preseason Favorite for Third Title, But…
Moments from the season: 11/29/80 Nine players returned to the defending champion and preseason No. 1 Patrick Henry Patriots, including 1979-’80 San Diego Section player-of-the-year Steve Brown, fellow all-CIF selection Billy Washington, and Tom Dobyns, son of a 1957-58 Hoover standout. Five players also moved up from a 19-2 junior varsity. Coach Alan (Fritz) Ziegenfuss, […]
Read More1980-81: Twenty-Six Seconds Took Five Minutes
Referees’ whistles echoed throughout the Bonita Vista gymnasium. From a 1/14/81 the account of a Metropolitan League game by Linda Murphy of The San Diego Union: Seven-foot, one-inch Bonita Vista center Larry Irwin was fouled by Chula Vista’s Louie Romero as Irvin went up for a rebound. Bonita Vista led, 65-61, with 26 seconds remaining […]
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