1982-83: Falcons’ Dudley Played 25, Count ‘Em, Years
Torrey Pines’ 6-foot, 11-inch Chris Dudley was among the San Diego Section’s leading scorers with 438 points and a 16.8 average. A fine season and a productive four years at Torrey but not a blueprint for the future. The future stretched…and stretched. Dudley went on to play four years at Yale University and then embarked […]
Read More1982-83: It Happened in Hoops This Season
The game still was played from December until early March, but San Diego Section basketballers seemingly were playing more and scoring more. Ninety points, once considered elite, had become almost routine. 100 points no longer was surprising. There were more highs than lows but some stunning legislative moves captured the headlines, as usual caused by […]
Read More1982-83: Morse is Out of Playoffs And Then Back In
There would be state basketball playoffs this season and Morse liked its chances to represent the San Diego Section. Ray Epton, whose 25.0 average at Madison in 1981-82 was highest in the San Diego Section, had transferred to the school on Skyline Drive, where Epton joined 6-foot, 7-inch preseason all-America Lawrence West, 6-6 Shawn Bell, […]
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 […]
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