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2023-2024 Boys Week 9A: The Hall Truth: Carlsbad Tops Montgomery for Open Title
Jake Hall’s two, late three-point baskets got No. 1 seed Carlsbad past Montgomery, 56-47, Saturday, February 24, for the San Diego Section Open Division championship. The victory, before more than 3,000 persons at U.C. San Diego’s LionTree Arena avenged a 63-55 loss to the No. 3 Aztecs (28-3) in December, was the Lancers’ 19th straight […]
Read More2023-2024 Girls Week 9A: Grizzlies Roar, Division Champs Crowned!
Mission Hills earned its fourth Open Division title, after three straight failed attempts, with a hard fought win over La Jolla Country Day, 63-56. The Grizzlies held off a late comeback by the Torreys, and coach Chris Kroesch credited a 14 point blitz, and 18 total, by Lindsay Jones as the difference maker, saying “She […]
Read More1974 Track: Banks and Jefferson Bring Home Gold Again
Willie Banks of Oceanside and Elijah Jefferson of Crawford offered a historic footnote to the 56th state meet in Bakersfield. Banks and Jefferson we’re the first from the San Diego Section to win successive state championships since Chula Vista’s Tim Danielson in 1965-66 and only the second and third from the area to repeat since […]
Read More2023-2024 Girls Week 9: A Couple Semifinals Upsets
Scores through Friday, February 23, are included below. A playoffs wrap-up will appear later along with pairings for the Southern California regionals. Almost all divisions met seeding expectations, without even a “last second thriller”, but there were some surprises. Division IV No. 4 Escondido Charter upset No. 1 La Jolla. Power ratings notwithstanding, the White […]
Read More2023-2024 Boys Week 9: Carlsbad-Montgomery Rematch for Championship
Scores through Friday, February 23, are included below. A playoffs wrap-up will appear later along with pairings for the Southern California regionals. No. 1 Carlsbad will try to reverse a 63-55 loss in December to No. 3 Montgomery when the Lancers and Aztecs meet in the San Diego Section Open Division championship Saturday at U.C. […]
Read More1974 Baseball: Oceanside and Ciammachilli Come Close
For the first time in the San Diego Section’s 14 years, a team not from the city or the eastern suburbs had reached the playoff finals. Twenty-six squads, including Hoover, Helix, El Capitan, Crawford, Point Loma, San Diego, Santana, Kearny, Clairemont, and University had won or gotten to the championship game from 1961-73, and they […]
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