1981-82 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 […]
Read More1980-81: Patrick Henry Preseason Favorite for Third Title, But…
Moments from the season: 11/29/80 Nine players returned to the defending champion and preseason No. 1 Patrick Henry Patriots, including 1979-’80 San Diego Section player-of-the-year Steve Brown, fellow all-CIF selection Billy Washington, and Tom Dobyns, son of a 1957-58 Hoover standout. Five players also moved up from a 19-2 junior varsity. Coach Alan (Fritz) Ziegenfuss, […]
Read More1980-81: Twenty-Six Seconds Took Five Minutes
Referees’ whistles echoed throughout the Bonita Vista gymnasium. From a 1/14/81 the account of a Metropolitan League game by Linda Murphy of The San Diego Union: Seven-foot, one-inch Bonita Vista center Larry Irwin was fouled by Chula Vista’s Louie Romero as Irvin went up for a rebound. Bonita Vista led, 65-61, with 26 seconds remaining […]
Read More1979-80: Three-Division Realignment Okay, But…
The San Diego Section’s decision this school year to realign into three divisions, 3-A, 2-A, 1-A, based on enrollment and breaking from the 19-year, large school-small school arrangement, seemed like a good idea, but allocation of playoff berths left some good teams holding a bag of basketballs. The 3-A group included teams from the Eastern, […]
Read More1978-79: L.A. Teams Still Kings, But So is Kearny
The best of San Diego almost always does not measure up to the best of Southern California. It’s the law of geography and population. There were a little less than 2 million persons in the County this year, compared with more than 8 million in Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and most of Los Angeles County, […]
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