2020-21 Boys Weeks 9-10: Torrey Pines Still Unbeaten; props to Sage Creek
Unbeaten and 29-0 Torrey Pines continued its march toward a place where no San Diego Section boys team has gone, winning a championship in the largest division in Southern California (the 1935-36 San Diego High team won the Southern Section title but had a loss in a 15-1 season; the 1944-45 Hoover team won the […]
Read More2020-21 Week 7: Add ’63-64 Vikings to Undefeated Regular Season Teams.
We owe an apology to the starting five, Charlie Buchanan, John Walters, Bill Canning, John Schroeder, and Rick Eveleth, and coach Bill Reaves. They were the major players for another team that posted an undefeated regular season, the 1963-64 La Jolla Vikings, who were 26-0. We omitted the Vikings in our post last week. Rick […]
Read More2020-21 Week 6: Games of Truth for Torrey, San Marcos
Torrey Pines and San Marcos are on the cusp of becoming the fifth and sixth teams in San Diego County history to complete undefeated regular seasons. (Editor’s note: Challenges and additions to this stat welcomed.) Hoover was 24-0 in the 1959-60 regular season and got to the Southern California semifinals before bowing to Anaheim, 39-34. […]
Read More2020-21 Week 5: Torrey Pines Makes Jump in State Ratings
Torrey Pines this week ranks second in one California poll, third in another, and a unanimous No. 1 in San Diego. John Olive , who became head coach at Torrey Pines before the 1997-98 season and whose teams have averaged 23 victories a season, commands a Falcons squad that has reached this juncture of the […]
Read More2020-21 Week 4: Torrey Pines’ Run Now at 19 in Row
Coach John Olive may have passed the word around the Torrey Pines campus on Del Mar Heights Road: Do not even think about an undefeated season. The coach would plead, “It’s too early.” Or, “We’re just thinking about our next game.” But three impressive victories last week have put the Falcons at 19-0, with a […]
Read More2020-21: Evolution of Individual Game Most Points
The innumerable number of games and points and lack of sustained record keeping, or reporting, in earlier years make basketball a most challenging sport when it comes to posting stats of the “most”. The table below, which begins decades after the game came to San Diego, lists an evolution of individual high scoring for one […]
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