1994-95, Christian Girls Emerge Champions With Buzzer Beating Shot
Originally posted Dec. 11, 2019. Eighty-three teams, 47 boys squads and 36 girls teams, all had their “hoop dreams” (a so-named, popular movie of the day) as they embarked on what would become a postseason of 114 games, ending with a state championship by the Division V Christian girls. BOYS PLAYOFFS FIRST ROUND D-I Poway […]
Read More1994-95 Boys’ Basketball, Looking Back: McCoy, Others made for Dynamic Season
Originally posted Dec. 10, 2019. DECEMBER, 1994 –Six-foot, 11-inch Jelani McCoy started the season with 41 points and set a San Diego Section record with 16 blocked shots in an 85-82 win in the Hilltop/Pizza Hut tournament. El Camino’s Dee Boyer blocked 15 shots in a 1989 game. –Dimitri Hodgkinson scored 37 points and El […]
Read More2019-20 Weeks 1-2: San Ysidro Frosh Challenges Dad
Mikey Williams, a 6-foot, 3-inch guard heralded as one of the outstanding ninth grade players in the country, scored 50 points in one game recently as the San Diego Section basketball season got under way. But the San Ysidro freshman can’t claim family bragging rights. That’s because Mikey’s father, Mahlon Williams, a three-year star at […]
Read More1984-85: Zarecky’s Red Devils Runnin’…and Travelin’
Sweetwater, the San Diego Section’s International team. After trips to Hawaii and Canada in recent years, Coach Gary Zarecky’s Red Devils visited the Continent this season. They played four games in Yugoslavia after Christmas, meeting some of that basketball-savvy nation’s top junior teams. The roadrunners from National City also found time to set a San […]
Read More1984-85: It’s Poway’s Way Again
Sweetwater fired a season-opening shot to remember on Nov. 21, exploding for 136 points against Coronado in the first game (Seach 1984-85: Zarecky’s Red Devils Runnin’…andTravelin’), but the Red Devils came up short again in the playoffs as Poway, now a team of mostly juniors, ran away with the San Diego Section 3-A title. Other […]
Read More1983-84: Those Running Red Devils
Sweetwater coach Gary Zarecky took over a bottomed-out program in 1972-73 that was 2-22, 6-20, and 1-23 in the three previous seasons and proceeded to go 6-19, 1-23, and 11-15. In Zarecky’s year four the Red Devils saw light at the end of the tunnel and fast-breaked past it. Since 1975-76 Sweetwater is 196-54, a […]
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