2018: Hickey, Christon, Jackson, Ward, Farmer, Lippert Put Stamp on Mt. Carmel Meet
The warm days of spring aren’t here, but San Diego Section girls and boys performed above the temperature last Saturday in the season’s first major meet, Dennis McClanahan’s Mt. Carmel Invitational. McClanahan, the 35-years-plus coach at Mt. Carmel and former Helix shot putter and discus twirler, has built his late-March event into one of the […]
Read More1961-62: Cardinals Challenged But Prevail
Hoover’s 25-2 record and second consecutive San Diego Section Class AA championship did not reflect a season-long struggle to stay ahead of the Eastern League posse. Back-to-back league losses for the first time since 1957-58 and top-to-bottom league challenges, including one from rising Crawford, tested the Cardinals’ mettle. Coach Charlie Hampton’s team showed its grit, […]
Read More2017-18 Week 15: 3 Finalists Come up Short
It officially was a down year in San Diego Section basketball. Every team in the final Union-Tribune Top 10 poll was eliminated by the quarterfinals round of the Southern California regional tournament. Three of the six from the original 32 in five divisions made it past the semifinals into a championship game, but all were […]
Read More2017-18 Week 14: Six Remain Out of 32 in Regionals
Six San Diego Section teams, from the original 32, reach the semifinals of the Southern California state regional playoffs tonight. An all-San Diego Section final is possible in Boys Division V, but both teams, 5 San Diego and 11 San Diego Southwest, face higher seeds on the road, 1 Canyon Country Santa Clarita Christian and […]
Read More2017-18 Week 13: Mission Bay Finishes No. 1.
Mission Bay, by virtue of late-season wins over Torrey Pines and Foothills Christian, emerged as the No. 1 team in the final Union-Tribune poll. The Buccaneers defeated favored Torrey Pines on the Falcons’Â floor, 64-62, in the semifinals of the San Diego Section Open Division playoffs and then beat Foothills Christian, 52-45, in the finals […]
Read More2017-18 Week 13: Bonita No. 1 in Girls’ Seedings
San Diego Section teams are favorites in 5 of the 17 boys games and in 6 of the 15 girls contests in the Southern California regional playoffs that begin Wednesday in Divisions I-V. Open Division teams tip Friday. Eleven of the San Diego entries have earned home games. The other 21 are on the road. […]
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