2016-17 Regionals: Saints, Torrey Get Rugged First Tests
Thirty-one teams from the San Diego Section begin play Wednesday and Friday nights in the Southern California regional  playoffs. Regional winners will qualify for the state championships against Northern California winners. The CIF state committee which created the seedings and brackets based on the power ratings model didn’t think highly of the San Diego Section’s 15 boys’ […]
Read More1942: Imperiled Season is Saved
The rubber didn’t hit the road. So it was with the endangered 1942 season, buffeted by the winds of war that thrust San Diego to the forefront of the defense effort. Gasoline rationing shortly would go from volunteered to mandatory. Â Night football was out. So was travel. The long-distance conference call became a popular means […]
Read More2016-17, Week 10: Happy Trails, Saints Landmark
Dougherty Gymnasium went out in a blaze…of technicals! The final two games at  St. Augustine were in  keeping with the history of the  64-year-old building, a bandbox of often ear-splitting noise, tightly-packed crowds, and  barnburner finishes. Foothills Christian coach Brad Leaf will be serving a suspension when the Knights open play in the Southern California regionals of […]
Read More1941-42: Season Survives After Pearl Harbor
San Diego High players weren’t thinking of tomorrow. They were more interested in savoring a 27-24 victory at Coronado as the team boarded the ferry for the short ride back to the docking slip near Pacific Highway and Market Street. The Cavers may even have been discussing the merits of crosstown rival Hoover’s 52-36 victory […]
Read More2016-17 Week 9: Saints Figure to be Wary in First Round
St Augustine finished No. 1 in the Union-Tribune regular-season poll, is the San Diego Section’s No. 1 seed in the Open Division playoffs, and is 11th in the state, according to Cal-Hi Sports as the Saints await No. 8 seed La Costa Canyon in a first-round game Saturday night in perhaps the last game ever at […]
Read More2016-17 Week 8: Playoffs Next as Leagues Finish
The regular season ends on Friday night and power ratings to determine divisional playoff appointments will follow on Saturday. St. Augustine lost another first-place vote to Torrey Pines in the weekly Union-Tribune poll, but is number one in the present power ratings, with Torrey Pines third. Vista, which hasn’t played the marquee schedules of the […]
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