2019-20 Week 11: San Ysidro Cougars Continue to Run
San Ysidro is making noise again. Not enough to earn a top 10 ranking, but the Cougars have won five in a row and scored more than 100 points for the fifth time this season, including a post-poll vote,106-30 victory over Castle Park last night.
The fall of the Trojans marked the third time in the last 12 days that the also identified “Border Boyz” have reached triple digits.
Century scores are not common, but not rare. There have been hundreds in the thousands of games played in San Diego County since the first, a 104-19 St. Augustine romp over San Diego Vocational at the still-standing Municipal Gym in Balboa Park on Jan. 12, 1952.
MIKEY’S MATES SCORE, TOO
The Cougars are not a one-man (freshman Mikey Williams) show. Jurien Dixon (551 points, 24.0 average) and Kailen Rains (445 points, 20.2) have added to the firepower of Coach Terry Tucker’s team, which has an 87.1 average.
Dixon, a 6-foot, 4-inch freshman, scored 29 points against Castle Park. Rains had 33 and Williams 24.
Williams leads California with a 32.6 average in 21 games (he missed two) and has scored 685 points. According to Max Preps, Williams ranks 22nd in the country, behind another frosh, Marcus Robinson, who has a 45.3 average for an 8-8 team in Penfield, N.Y.
Jailen Nelson of Carlsbad (24.3) is 23rd, a notch ahead of Dixon, giving the San Diego Section three of the top 25 scorers in California. Not all teams, however, contribute individual scoring stats to Max Preps.
BROKE 14-YEAR-OLD RECORD
Williams set a County record with 77 points in a 116-42 win over Kearny on Dec. 13, one day short of the 14th anniversary of the 76, by Crawford’s Tyrone Shelley, coached by Tucker, in a 138-26 win over a British Columbia team on Dec. 14, 2005.
The Colts’ outburst, tied for second all-time in the County with Vista (138-57, Bonita Vista, 1992-93), behind La Jolla Country Day (143-60, Mountain Empire, 1991-92), was their only 100-plus effort.
San Ysidro is 15-8 after last night’s game but not yet on the trajectory of that Shelley squad, which was 23-9 and lost to Rancho Santa Margarita, 51-46, in the Southern California Regional playoffs.
A youngster on that Santa Margarita club was a 6-foot, 3-inch sophomore, Klay Thompson, now of much greater renown with the Golden State Warriors.
First-place votes in parenthesis. NR—No ranked.
| Union-Tribune | Team
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Record | Points | Last Week | Max Preps | Cal-Hi Sports |
| 1. | Cathedral | 16-6 (10) | 122 | T-1 | 30 | Bubble |
| 2 | St. Augustine | 19-4 (3) | 120 | 3 | 19 | 19 |
| 3. | Torrey Pines | 17-4 | 99 | 4 | 44 | NR |
| 4. | Foothills Christian | 15-7 | 80 | T-1 | 43 | NR |
| 5. | Francis Parker | 16-2 | 79 | 7 | 31 | Bubble |
| 6. | Mater Dei | 17-3 | 73 | 5 | 38 | NR |
| 7. | Poway | 18-4 | 60 | 6 | 37 | NR |
| 8. | Christian | 17-4 | 39 | 8 | 71 | NR |
| 9. | Santa Fe Christian | 16-6 | 20 | 9 | 68 | NR |
| 10. | Carlsbad | 15-7 | 10 | 10 | 134 | NR |
Others receiving votes: 11. Helix (17-6, 3 points), 12. El Camino (16-5, 3) 13. San Ysidro (14-8, 2), 14. Bonita Vista (16-6, 1).
Panel: John Maffei (The San Diego Union-Tribune), Terry Monahan, (Union-Tribune) correspondent, Aaron Burgin (Fulltime Hoops), Steve Brand (San Diego Sports Association), John Kentera, Braden Suprenant, (97.3 FM The Fan), Steve (Biff) Dolan (Mountain Country 107.9 FM), Christian Pedersen (SoCal Preps Insider), Bodie DeSilva (scorebooklive.com); Adam Paul (ecpreps.com), Brad Enright (L.A. Court report), Rick Smith (partletonsports.com).