BOYS PLAYOFFS

3-A

Feb. 20, 1987.

LEAGUE PLAYOFFS TO QUALIFY AND FOR SEEDINGS

GROSSMONT

Monte Vista 54, Mount Miguel 47.

PALOMAR

Torrey Pines 41, San Dieguito 40.

FIRST ROUND
Madison 82, Hilltop 58 (15-14.)
San Dieguito 56, Patrick Henry 50 (11-12).
Mira Mesa 67, Valhalla 54 (15-8).
Mount Miguel 60, at Torrey Pines 53 (20-7).

Three steals by Anthony Rivera that resulted in layup baskets got Mount Miguel rolling in the third quarter. This after Rivera was issued a technical foul for hanging on the rim following a missed slam dunk.

“Coach (Art Edge) told me I didn’t need to play to the crowd,” said the 5-10 guard.

QUARTERFINALS

Morse 66, San Dieguito 39 (16-10).

“We weren’t so concerned with stopping them,” said Tigers coach Ron Davis.  “We were more concerned with stopping us.”

Mount Miguel 61, Sweetwater 55 (15-10).

The Matadors avenged an 88-48 loss to the Red Devils in the 1985-86 playoffs.

Mt. Carmel 56, Mira Mesa 39 (19-7).
Monte Vista 59, Madison 38 (17-8).

SEMIFINALS

Monte Vista 44, Mt. Carmel 43 (22-4), @Serra.

The Sundevils’ John Krainock missed a 22-foot shot at the buzzer. Cue celebration on Monte Vista bench.

Not so fast.

Referee Mike Morrow whistled a foul on a Monte Vista player and went to the scorer’s table.  Convinced that the foul took place after the buzzer, Morrow signaled a Monte Vista win.

Cue a second Monarchs celebration.

Morse 58, Mount Miguel 54 (17-9), @Serra.

Reserve Chris Prather, who entered the game when starter Rey Parson fouled out with less than a minute to go, converted three free throws in the final 58 seconds to preserve the Tigers’ victory.

SEASON LEADING SCORERS, BY AVERAGE

NAME	TEAM	GAMES	POINTS	AVERAGE
Phil Holoubek	La Jolla Country Day	25	651	26.04
Edmund Johnson	El Camino	22	569	25.86
Junior Seau	Oceanside	22	500	22.72
Charley Applegate	St. Augustine	24	543	22.62
Johnny Walker	Southwest	16	329	20.56
Shaun Stoll	Carlsbad	20	411	20.55
Lee Cobb	El Camino	22	445	20.22
Vince Bucca	Castle Park	26	500	19.23
Tim Barry	Santana	23	430	18.69
Mike Walker	Hoover	17	317	18.64

CHAMPIONSHIP

Morse 59, Monte Vista 51 (19-6), @San Diego Sports Arena.

–“The last group we had was a little intimidated by the big crowd,” said Davis of an 87-63 finals loss on the same Sports Arena floor to Poway in 1985-86.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL

Santa Monica (19-9) 71, Morse (22-3) 57, @San Diego State.

–“We couldn’t keep them off the boards,” said Morse’s Rey Parson of the first quarter.  “They killed us inside. They got two and three shots each time.”

Morse actually out rebounded the visitors, 27-25, and, after shaking off an 11-0 Santa Monica run in the first quarter, battled back to trail, 47-43.

“When we got it down to four we had a shot at them,” said Parson.  “But we came down and took some bad shots and that was it.”

The Vikings, who won their 10^th game in a row, went on a 14-0 run to lead, 61-43.

2-A

Feb. 20, 1987.

CENTRAL LEAGUE PLAYOFF

St. Augustine 66, Christian 62.

–Lincoln’s Ken Thompson had been named Central League player of the year, inspiring St. Augustine boosters to hoist a sign that said, “Applegate the REAL Player of the Year.”

–Charlie Applegate responded with 40 points and 16 rebounds for the Saints, who won  14^th game in the last 17.

MESA LEAGUE PLAYOFF

Hilltop 67, Bonita Vista 58 (9-14).

–Future Chula Vista football coach Judd Rachow had 19 points and 19 rebounds for the Lancers.

–The Barons had forced the extra game by defeating Hilltop in the regular-season finale, 66-62.

FIRST ROUND

St. Augustine 54, San Marcos 49 (15-11).

Oceanside 48, University City 37 (9-11).

La Jolla 58, Southwest 57 (7-16).

The Vikings scored the game’s first 13 points.

Christian 49, at Clairemont 47 (16-8).

David Jeremiah’s late basket saved the day after Clairemont had rallied from 17 points behind.

QUARTERFINALS

Kearny 60, @St. Augustine 58 (16-8).

Oceanside 59. @Lincoln 52 (16-9).

“I knew if they kept us in the ‘fifties we’d be in trouble,” declared Lincoln coach Ron Loneski.

Castle Park 75, Christian 63.

The Patriots were feeling good, leading by five points after a 25-11 third quarter but the No. 2 seed Trojans rebounded with a 25-8 fourth quarter.

El Camino 79, La Jolla 76, OT. Steve Carr’s only two points came with four seconds remaining and gave the Wildcats a three-point lead.

SEMIFINALS

Oceanside 66, Castle Park, 62 (21-5) @Mira Mesa.

Junior Seau, playing in pain with an inflamed navel, was 13×18 from the field and scored 28 points.

–“I pulled him out in the third quarter and said, “You’re done, big guy,” recounted Pirates coach Don Montamble to Mark Zeigler of The San Diego Union.

“Junior looked back and said, ‘No, I’m not done, coach.’”

–Seau played.

El Camino 70, Kearny 48 (19-7).

The Wildcats went on 13-2 spree in three minutes of the first quarter and never looked back, assuring an “Oceanside Bowl” final.

CHAMPIONSHIP

Oceanside 53, El Camino 51 (23-4), at San Diego Sports Arena.

The Pirates led, 29-18, at the half, outshooting city neighbor El Camino, 47 per cent to 19 per cent, but the Wildcats hit back, converted 16×24 from the floor for 67 per cent, and tied the game at 45 with 5:29 to play.

–Junior Seau, who was 10×11 from the floor for 91 per cent and scored 23 points, scored with 34 seconds left to get the Pirates to the finish line.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL

Saugus (23-9) 47, Oceanside 39 (21-8), @Newhall College of the Canyons.

Junior Seau bowed out with 22 points and Saugus coach John Clark declared, “He’s probably the best player we’ve seen all year and we’ve seen the best.”

1-A

COASTAL LEAGUE SEMIFINALS

La Jolla Country Day 81, Army-Navy 50 (8-11).

The Bishop’s 52, Francis Parker 51.

Charles Bolton’s 20-foot jump shot with two seconds remaining earned the victory.

COASTAL LEAGUE FINALS

La Jolla Country Day 65, The Bishop’s 58, @University City.

CHAMPIONSHIP

Calipatria 63, La Jolla Country Day 55 (15-6), @Sports Arena.

The Hornets, whose only loss was to 2-A finalist El Camino, qualified by winning the Desert League championship.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL

Cerritos Whitney 68, Calipatria (22-2) 61, @El Centro Central.

The Hornets could not overcome a 20-8 deficit in the second quarter.

GIRLS PLAYOFFS

3-A

FIRST ROUND

Fallbrook 68, Grossmont 43 (17-7).

Madison 60, Monte Vista 50 (15-11).

Mount Miguel 67, @Mt. Carmel 51 (20-5).

Helix 67, Chula Vista 45 (16-8).

QUARTERFINALS

Point Loma 81, Fallbrook 47 (18-8).

Terri Mann almost outscored the Warriors, with 47 points and added 24 rebounds for a San Diego Section career record of 633.

Santana 59, Madison 53 (15-7).

Vista 56, Helix 29 (17-5).

Mt. Carmel 77, Bonita Vista 45.

Lynda Jones led  the Sundevils with 29 points.

SEMIFINALS

Point Loma 67, Mt. Carmel 27 (21-4), @Serra.

It was 30 in a row this season and 55 straight over two, on Terri Mann’s 18^th birthday, punctuated by her 31 points, 24 rebounds, nine steals, and five assists.

Vista 64, Santana 34 (21-5), @Mira Mesa.

The Panthers shocked the Sultans, 39-12 in the middle two quarters after Santana took a 14-13, first-quarter lead.

CHAMPIONSHIP

Point Loma 52, Vista (26-3) 39, @San Diego Sports Arena.

“This was the best, because it came in my senior year,” Terri Mann told Linda Murphy of The San Diego Union.  “The last three years we won it for the seniors and this year it was for myself and the team.”

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL

SEMIFINALS

Point Loma 56, Granada Hills Kennedy 50 (22-3), @Serra.

–A virtual home court advantage and a bye in the quarterfinals did not make it easy for the Pointers, who outlasted their tough Los Angeles City Section opponent.

–Point Loma had beaten Kennedy, 46-36, last year in the regionals but the Golden Cougar got its claws on the Pointers and had pulled ahead, 44-43, with six minutes to play and were in front, 50-49, with 1:03 remaining.

–At that point Terri Mann took a pass from Monica Filer and scored, was fouled, and added a free throw for a 52-50 lead.

–“The kids had to grow up,” Pointers coach Lee Trepanier said to Steve Brand of the Union.

–Trepanier thought “we might be in trouble when we called a time out with 1:06 left and turned the ball over.  However, we got the ball back, ran the same play and we scored.

–“When you have won as easily as we have, you don’t know how the players are going to react,” said Trepanier.  “We haven’t been in a game like this, but we didn’t get rattled.”

–Trepanier and Kennedy coach Craig Raub agreed that the absence of the Cougar’s leading scorer Diane DeCree for 14 minutes of the first half was a major factor.

–“If they’re going to let Mann push and shove and get away with that stuff, they ought to let my kid get away with a little shove now and then,” said Raub, who added, “The officials didn’t beat us.”

FINALS

Point Loma 58, Huntington Beach Edison 45 (31-2), @Los Angeles Sports Arena.

–Edison coach Dave White had assistant Mark Shannon play the role of Terri Mann in practice during days leading to the game.  “He played some college ball,” said White, “and I didn’t think she could play any better than him. I might have been wrong.”

–Mann had 19 points and 18 rebounds, statistically lower than her usual output, but Mann got strong support from Monica Filer and Liza Carrillo and took on the task of bringing the ball up court.

–Trepanier said he made the decision to inbound the ball  to Mann “after I saw Edison beat (Ventura) Buena (in the semifinals).  They ran Buena ragged.”

STATE CHAMPIONSHIP

Point Loma 60 (34-0), Sacramento Grant (33-2) 44, @Oakland Coliseum Arena.

–According to Mark Zeigler of the Union, Mann attracted several “oohs” and “ahhs” from the crowd of more than 8,000 persons.

–Mann scored 30 points, had 10 offensive rebounds of 25 overall, 6 blocked shots, 12×22 shooting from the field, and was 6×6 from the free throw line.

–Mann closed her career with four consecutive state titles, 59 wins in a row, and a four-season record of 122-1 (the loss, 62-43, to Pasadena Muir in a Santa Barbara Christmas tournament the previous year).

2-A

FIRST ROUND

Ramona 50, Castle Park (10-14).

Oceanside 50, at San Diego 45 (14-7).

San Marcos 51, Mission Bay 37 (8-13).

A 12-0 run in the last five minutes of the first half sealed the Buccaneers’ doom.

Crawford 69, Coronado 30 (11-12).

QUARTERFINALS

La Jolla 57, San Marcos 37.

Lincoln 61, Ramona 54 (17-6).

San Pasqual 37, Oceanside 28.

Crawford 53, @Southwest 52.

Karla Salmi’s free throw with three seconds left clinched for the Colts.                                            SEMIFINALS

San Pasqual 56, Crawford 51 (16-8), @Mira Mesa.

Crawford was 22-2 on the court but had been hit with six forfeit losses because of the “Dreaded Administrative Glitch” involving  an ineligible player.

–The Colts, whose only other loss was to Point Loma, outscored the Knights, 16-4, in the fourth quarter after trailing, 52-35.

La Jolla 46, Lincoln 44, @Serra.

CHAMPIONSHIP

La Jolla 44, San Pasqual 40, @San Diego Sports Arena.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL

D-II

Cerritos Valley Christian (26-2) 82, La Jolla 48 (18-6).

1-A

COASTAL LEAGUE SEMIFINALS

Calvin Christian 42, Lutheran 21 (10-14).

La Jolla Country Day 40, Julian 33 (13-8).

COASTAL LEAGUE FINALS

Calvin Christian 45, La Jolla Country Day, 41 (15-6).

CHAMPIONSHIP

Calvin Christian 38, Desert League champion Holtville 32 (15-7).

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL

D-III

Woodlake 61, Calvin Christian 31 (20-5), @Visalia Redwood.

 

When it was all over, there was just one honor that eluded Terri Mann.

She was runner-up in voting for the Gatorade U.S. high school player of the year.

Go figure.

Mann hadn’t been second in anything during her four brilliant years and four consecutive state championships at Point Loma.

Mann was the Gatorade Circle of Champions player of the year in California and for the Gatorade Pacific Region, but the 6-foot, 2-inch Point Loma senior was nosed out for the national player–of-the-year award by Kris Durham, a 5-foot, 8-inch guard from Union Catholic in Scotch Plains, N.J.

Eastern bias?

Point Loma coach Lee Trepanier said he received a plaque honoring Mann as “national player of the year in big, bold letters”, but a Gatorade official told Trepanier that, no, the plaque was just for her state and regional honor.

DREADED ADMINISTRATIVE GLITCH   

”They just screwed up (with the plaque).  They should be embarrassed,” Trepanier told Mark Zeigler of The San Diego Union.

“Where they really screwed up is not choosing Terri in the first place,” said Trepanier.  “If there’s a better player in the United States, they’ve got her hidden under a rock somewhere.”

Durham averaged 28 points, eight rebounds, six assists, and five steals,and finished with a career total of 2,574 points.

Mann averaged 35.57 points with 1,174 this season.  Her career total of 3,188 was second all-time in California to the 3,446 of Riverside Poly’s Cheryl Miller.

Mann also holds San Diego Section career records for one-season rebounds (816), career rebounds (2,256), season steals (250), and career steals (652)

COACH EXONERATED

San Diego Section commissioner Kendall (Spider) Webb ruled that allegations of violations against Point Loma coach Lee Trepanier were unfounded.

Trepanier was investigated for allegedly recruiting star Terri Mann by visiting her home before she was in high school.

Trepanier also was cleared of spending what would have exceeded state CIF limits on state championship rings for the 1985-86 team.

“I have never done anything illegal.  I never intend to do anything illegal,” said Trepanier.

“I’’m glad Kendall came up with that decision,” Trepanier confirmed to Mark Zeigler.  “I know that it’s going to make some people unhappy, because if you’re winning there’s some people out there who think you’ve cheated….”

More moments of the regular season:

12/6/86

Mahlon Williams, who turned out late after playing linebacker for the football team, warmed up in his second game of the season with 36 points for Sweetwater in an 86-74 win over Hoover.

12/9/86

Sweetwater’s Mahlon Williams was declared academically ineligible and 6-5 center Sean Styles left the team. The Red Devils fell to Point Loma, 65-53. Days later, guard Scott Catlin was sidelined with a groin injury.

Styles would return. So would Catlin and Williams became eligible in early February.

–Liza Carrillo scored 29 and Monica Filer 22 as a sore back forced Terri Mann sit out a 55-24 win over Torrey Pines in the Point Loma 7-Up Classic.

VARSITY WOWED

12/10/86

Unusual for the era, Morse scheduled an alumni team and was surprised, 84-70, by the well-conditioned graduates.

“There was a lot of all-CIF talent out there,” noted Tigers coach Ron Davis.

David Gayden, class of 1984, scored 19 points.

12/11/86

Crawford actually led the Point Loma girls, 12-6, at the end of the first quarter.  Final score, Pointers 72, Colts 41.  Liza Carrillo (23) Monica Filer (21), and Terri Mann (18) roused Coach Lee Trepanier’s somambulant club.

12/17/86

Terri Mann was hit with a fourth personal foul and went to bench three minutes into the second quarter.  The opponent was 8-0 Vista, the second-ranked team in the County.

Not to worry. The 6-foot, 2-inch Mann returned after a 9-2 Vista run and led the Pointers to a 62-42 victory, scoring 23 points and avoiding a fifth personal.

MUST RETURN HOME

12/19-20/86

Morse and Sweetwater were co-hosts to Wilmington Banning of the Los Angeles City Section and Pasadena Muir of the Southern Section.

Morse was the home team on Friday night and defeated Banning, 66-53.  Sweetwater, jolted by the loss of three starters, was a 99-52 victim of Muir.

Banning could not stay overnight, so Madison played Sweetwater Saturday evening and scored a 70-52 victory.

A 23-10 third quarter was enough to offset a 24-11 fourth quarter by Morse as Muir went home a 75-69 winner.

12/22/86

Point Loma scored a 1-0 forfeit over the San Marcos girls.  The Knights’ bus broke down in Del Mar and the team could not get to the Pointers’ gym in time for a game.

12/23/86

Junior Seau, out to practice late from football, was tournament most-valuable player and scored 20 points as Oceanside edged crosstown rival El Camino, 37-31, for the championship of the Lt. Jim Mitchell event at San Dieguito.

12/28/86

Morse (Unlimited Division) defeated Mira Mesa 60-54; Seal Beach Los Alamitos (Limited) topped La Jolla, 68-48, and St. Augustine (Classified) nipped Clairemont, 68-65, for championships in the 40^th Kiwanis Tournament.

Reported tournaments:  Hilltop, Torrey Pines, Mt. Helix, Parker, Foothiller, Elsinore,  Kern County Shootout at Bakersfield, West Coast at San Jose, Mountain Empire, Don Volpi at Goleta, Jim Mitchell, Kiwanis, Rohr-Aztec at Montgomery, Santana, Point Loma 7-Up, Point Loma Ben Fisher,  Bonita Vista Baron Optimist.

MANN, OH MANN!

12/31/86

Terri Mann took over the Ben Fisher tournament on her home court with 65 points in a 109-35 win over Chula Vista and with 48 three days later in a 100-18 rout of Bonita Vista.

Mann broke the San Diego Section single-game record of 60 points by Hilltop’s Linda Nelson in a game against Southwest in the 1975-76 season and by El Camino’s Sharon Turner against Ramona in 1984-85.

MIND OVER MATTER

1/16/87

To the Evening Tribune’s Don Norcross, Junior Seau said, “I was just out there with my body,” after a 22-point game.

Concentration had become a difficult for the Parade Magazine football all-America as recruiters hounded the 6-foot, 5-inch Oceanside superstar.

So Seau told his coaches, “No recruiters for the rest of the week.”

Able to concentrate, Seau scored a season-high 32 points on 14×19 shooting, with 12 rebounds, 4 blocks, and a couple “Magic Johnson-like” assists in a 64-51 win over San Marcos.

–After a steal of an inbounds pass, Granite Hills’ Mark Phillips scored, was fouled, and converted a free throw for a 50-47 win over Helix, ending the Eagles’ 50-game losing streak to the Highlanders, dating to the 1960s.

NOT HAPPY CAMPER

1/24/87

Ron Davis wasn’t pleased after a 68-60 victory over 11-5 Madison.

“We were up by 16 points with four minutes to play (actually 3:25) and they got it down to six,” the 13-1 Morse coach complained to Bud Maloney of The Tribune.  “This is a senior ball club and that shouldn’t happen.”

–Clairemont ended six consecutive years of Western League losses to La Jolla, 47-46.

1/27/87

Terri Mann scored an almost routine 47 points as the Point Loma girls whipped Serra, 73-31.

1/30/87

A devastating threesome of Terri Mann (45 points), Liza Carillo (29), Monica Filer (15)  scored all but five points in Point Loma’s 94-29 win over Morse.

2/3/87

It wasn’t pretty but Mira Mesa persevered, 76-73, over Madison after 21 fouls were called in the first quarter, 56 for the game, and three Warhawks and two Marauders fouled out.

2/4/87

Mahlon Williams returned for Sweetwater after missing 17 games for academic malfeasance and scored 17 points in 19 minutes, with three blocked shots, and eight rebounds in the Red Devils’ 57-50 win over Chula Vista.

–Mira Mesa capped a big week with a 39-38 win over Eastern League front-runner Morse on Scott Cummings’ 15-foot, baseline shot with 15 seconds left.

2/10/87

Six-foot, 5-inch Charley Applegate scored 28 points to lead St. Augustine to an 80-76, overtime victory against Western League leader Lincoln.

Applegate also sent the game into overtime with two free throws with two seconds left and scored the clinching basket in the extra session.

–Terri Mann scored 51 points, Liza Carrillo 16, and Monica Filer 15 as Point Loma topped Madison, 95-36.

2/11/87

Castle Park kept alive a 23-game Metropolitan Conference winning streak by coming from behind in the final 40 seconds to defeat Bonita Vista, 64-62.

The Trojans’ Vince Bucca drained a pair of free throws with 15 seconds left.  “I was just telling myself, ‘Think about how many free throws you’ve made in your life…just relax…just let it flow,’” Bucca said.

2/12/87

Clairemont clinched a playoff spot for the first time since the 1975-76 season, 53-40 over La Jolla.

The Chieftains’ 16-6 record was the best since a 22-8 finish in 1971-72.

Coached by former UCLA star Greg Lee, the orange-and-blue-clad Chieftains of Ute Drive overcame a 1-22 record in 1985-86, Lee’s first season.

2/13/87

El Camino, routed by Oceanside, 67-52, in the first round of Avocado League play, knocked off the front-running Pirates, 65-61, snapping their 10-game winning streak.

Edmond Johnson led the way for the Wildcats with 21 points and 10 assists.

2/18/87

Clairemont’s 57-46 loss to University City allowed Kearny to claim the Western League title with a 76-63 decision against University.

2/20/87

Castle Park ended the regular-season with a Metropolitan Conference home-game winning streak of 25 games, 94-40 over Coronado.

–Madison teams earned playoff bids with 53-31 (girls) and 63-46 boys wins over Patrick Henry.