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2024-25 Week 7: Boys League Champions Gear for Second Season
What’s in a league championship? Especially in this era of power ratings and strengths of schedules and what they mean in playoff pairings and postseason division assignments, which were to be announced today. A league title represents essentially just bragging rights, but ask the players and coaches who achieved it and what they think when […]
Read More2024-25 Week 6: First 4 Separates From Next 6
John Maffei’s weekly The San Diego Union poll. First place votes in parenthesis. […]
Read More2024-25 Basketball Week 5: No 1 Montgomery Makes it Unanimous
John Maffei’s weekly The San Diego Union poll. First-place votes in parenthesis. Points on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis. Bold entries in columns are up-to-date rankings, followed by previous. Cal-Hi Sports’ and Max-Preps’ represent state rankings. NR—Not ranked. Records as of Feb 2. TEAM RECORD POINTS PREVIOUS MAXPREPS CAL-HI SPORTS 1 Montgomery 22-2 (18) 180 1 11/13 16/15 […]
Read More1979 Baseball: Hats Off! Hilltop, Metropolitan League
The long game ended the longest wait in the 18-season history of the San Diego Section. Hilltop’s 3-1 victory over Vista in the 17-inning 2-A finals marked the first year that a team not from the Eastern, Western or Grossmont leagues had won the title. Championships had been won by Eastern League schools Hoover (4), […]
Read More2024-25 Basketball Week 4: No Change from 1 Through 8.
The January grind continues with virtually no change in the Top 10 last week as teams try to position themselves for the February stretch run. The only movement was all the way down in ninth and 10th places. St. Augustine moved up to No. 9, and San Diego High made its first appearance at No. […]
Read More2024-25 Basketball Week 3: Montgomery Loses, But Still No. 1
Olympian upset (?) Montgomery, 53-47, in a Metro Mesa League game but the voters weren’t too impressed. The Aztecs remained No. 1 in the poll and the Eagles advanced only from eighth to fifth despite an overall record of 16-2. Montgomery is 18-2. Olympian’s losses were 60-56 to Francis Parker and 63-60 to now-No. 2 […]
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