2017-18 Week 10: Contenders Await Playoff Seeds
The dog days of the season will suddenly become the stretch run Saturday, when pairings, fueled by the ratings system associated with Max Preps, will be announced by the San Diego Section. Foothills Christian appears to have a lock on the regular-season Top 10 ratings, which will be announced next week. The Knights, with St. […]
Read More1958-59: Cavers’ Great Season Goes off Rails
Forfeits, ineligibles, nuptials. Three words that sum up a season filled with hot shooting, high scores, and dramatic finishes but ended with flat, early exits for San Diego schools in their next-to-last year in the Southern Section playoffs. –San Diego High, 23-2 on the floor, was 7-18 legislatively after forfeiting 16 victories because of an […]
Read More2017-18 Week 9: No Movement at Top
Static are the San Diego Section ratings. There was no change this week through the first six places. La Jolla Country Day moved from eighth to seventh after St. Augustine dropped a 74-56 decision to Chicago Whitney Young. The Saints now are eighth. Mount Miguel crashed the top 10 with a 22-4 record and an […]
Read More2018: Tom Ault, Crawford Basketball Standout
They gave Tom Ault a tremendous sendoff recently at the Rancho Santa Fe First Presbyterian Church. More than 400 persons, including many San Diego State and sports luminaries from the ‘sixties and ‘seventies, were in attendance. Ault, 72, who passed away recently, helped create a championship legacy at Crawford High. Ault played basketball and baseball […]
Read More1957-58: Shaules Had Records, but Cavers Had Championship
A palpable buzz was heard throughout San Diego gymnasiums this season, hummed to a pitch by a 5-foot, 8-inch sharpshooter with an unorthodox jump shot. St. Augustine’s Tom Shaules set scoring records and drew huge crowds, but Shaules and his husky teammate, Sammy Owens, were a virtual two-man team and the Saints, while making the […]
Read More2017-18 Week 8: Leaders Can Look Down Road
Fast forward about month, to the round of 4 in the San Diego Section Open Division championships. If the Max Preps’ power ratings hold and the first and second rounds play out as expected, Torrey Pines (20-2) would play Mission Bay (21-4) in one semifinal and Foothills Christian (19-5) would meet San Marcos (18-2) in […]
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