2013: Is Eastlake Underrated?
Cal-Hi Sports honcho Mark Tennis continues to build a case for Eastlake as the San Diego Section’s No. 1 team, although the 31 members of the U-T San Diego voting panel have re-installed Oceanside as No. 1, followed by Mission Hills. Eastlake is third. Answers should be forthcoming in the Open Division playoffs, which begin […]
Read More2013: Don Hegerle, 82, Player and Coach
Don Hegerle, a leader and playmaker for 1950s San Diego State basketball teams and who later coached at Escondido High, passed away on Sept. 9. Hegerle, 82, was a fast, slashing guard who fearlessly drove to the basket and fired jump shots for one of the best teams in Aztecs history. He was a vital […]
Read More2013: Kenny Hale, 90, Played and Coached Basketball
Kenny Hale, one of the last surviving members of San Diego State’s 1940-41 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics basketball championship team, passed away at age 90. A 1938 San Diego High graduate, Hale eventually went into coaching and had winning records at Hoover and Mission Bay. Led by superstar Bill McColl, Hoover was 20-8 in […]
Read More2012-13: Saints 10th in State; Horizon tops in D-V
St. Augustine’s 6-0 run through the San Diego Section, Southern California regionals, and CIF State championship game resulted in the Saints making a huge leap to overall No. 10 in Cal-Hi Sports’ final rankings for 2012-13. Horizon finished No. 1 in Division V. The Saints were “On the Bubble”, meaning unranked, at the end […]
Read More2012-13: Saints and Horizon Win Cliffhangers
The circumstance and the stage may have made for the most defining athletic moment in St. Augustine’s 91-year history. It wasn’t that the Saints pulled away from San Francisco Sacred Heart Cathedral in overtime Saturday in Sacramento and won the State Division III championship, 59-52. That would be second. No. 1 would be the gutty, cold-as-ice […]
Read More2013: Saints Gain Regional Final
St. Augustine won the best 2 out of 5 with Cathedral Catholic. The Saints defeated the Dons with a 25-13 fourth quarter tonight and earned a berth in the Southern California regional finals Saturday at Colony High in Ontario. The final score was 55-45. Coach Mike Haupt’s team commanded the backboards and hit the big […]
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