1935 Baseball: Slow Beginning Didn’t Stop Hilltoppers From 10th Championship
Coach Mike Morrow’s team started with an uneven, 2-3-1 record and needed a tie-breaking playoff win over Long Beach Poly for the Coast League championship and berth in the Southern…
2025 Football Week 16: Doyle (251 Wins), Cathedral Go For Another State Championship
Cathedral’s 42-21 victory over Los Alamitos last week in the state regional Division I-AA playoffs was the 251st in coach Sean Doyle’s career. That’s right, 251. The Dons’ victory over…
2025 Football Week 15B: Final Top 10, Doyle’s All-Time Wins
MAFFEI MADNESS John Maffei’s The San Diego Union-Tribune final 2025 poll: Points awarded on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis. *First-place votes. Previous rankings in (italics). NR–Not ranked. MaxPreps, Cal Preps, and Cal-Hi Sports are…
2025 Football Week 15A: San Diego Section Clubs Begin State Playoffs
Six area teams, from Granite Hills in the East suburbs of El Cajon to Valley Center in the rural North, won San Diego Section championships and are moving on and…
2025 Football Week 14: Championship Game Coaches, At a Glance
This is perhaps the finest pair of Open Division and Division I championship game matchups since the San Diego Section was formed in 1960. Mainly because of the four coaches…
2025 Football Week 13: Two No. 1’s Eliminated in Playoff Quarterfinals
Eight more underdogs overcame seeding challenges last week as the San Diego Section playoffs tightened in the quarterfinals. A second week of 26 games saw two No. 1-ranked squads go…
2025 Football Week 12: Favorites Are 18-8 in Playoffs’ Openers
Rankings and favoritism didn’t matter to eight underdogs in the 26 San Diego Section first-round playoff games. Two each of 11, 10, and 9 seeds prevailed over sixes, sevens, and…
2025 Flag Football Week 12: All Top Seeds Fell As Defenses Took Charge
The finals results displayed the overall skill quality and parity of the leagues in the San Diego Section’s third season, plus the effect of 2025 defensive rule changes. Not a…
1994-95, 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…
2025 Football Week 11: Grizzlies Win Regular-Season Top 10 Poll
The postseason begins this week and the Open Division is so stacked that season-long No. 1 Lincoln is out and placed in Division I. Mission Hills, Open Division-seeded No. 1…
