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San Diego Section athletes in State top 25, according to Athletic.net.  Major invitationals, including the Mt. San Antonio Relay last week,  have been completed. Dual meets virtually have wrapped, with League trials and finals taking place in early May. Brandon Arrington, Jr., of Mount Miguel lowered his Section 100-meter record to :10.21 and San Diego High ...

The San Diego Section was approved for three entries in each event at the state track meet.  The Section was allowed one per event in 1961 and ‘62 and had two each since 1963. All events in the Section finals and state meet were conducted in meters for the first-time. The additional entry provided little succor for ...

After a terrific 57th Arcadia Invitational, action moves on to the Mt. Sac Relays in Walnut and the 105th Russell Cup in Carpinteria this week. League, Section qualifiers and finals, and the 105th state meet in Clovis are on the horizon. Wind of more than accepted 2.0 kilometers is noted with a “w”. BOYS EVENT MARK NAME, SCHOOL STATE OTHER NAME SCHOOL 100 :10.24 Arrington, Mount Miguel, 1st :10.30w Clayton, ...

ARCADIA INVITATIONAL, DAY II, SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 2025 BOYS OPEN, SEEDED, INVITATIONAL EVENT NAME MARK PLACE LEADER Open Triple Jump Daley, El Camino 45-3 13th 49-6, Smith, Quartz Hill Open Pole Vault Yarbrough, San Dieguito 15-8 7th 16-8, McGee, Camas, Washington   Sbuttoni, St. Augustine 15-2 9T     Suhar, Torrey Pines 9T   Open Long Jump (two flights) Sheridan, Rancho Buena Vista 22-8 ½ 8th 23-9, Francis, Rancho Santa Margarita Open Pole Vault Stroschine, Scripps Ranch 15-1 3rd 16-1, Hymas, Fair Oaks Bella Vista   Von Guenther, Otay Ranch 14-7 7th Open 4×100 Relay Helix :42.49 — :41.64, ...

Bill Beane of Mt. Carmel was a star player for the Sundevils and  the first player selected in the 1980 major league draft by the New York Mets. “Billy” Beane played five seasons in the majors and joined the Oakland Athletics as an advance scout in 1990, beginning a front office career in which today Beane ...

San Diego High defeated Excelsior Norwalk in the championship game of the Southern Section playoffs in what was almost becoming routine. The 16-8 victory at the Lane Field home ballpark of the Pacific Coast League San Diego Padres was the seventh since Mike Morrow became coach in 1927. Th Hilltoppers (20-4), also known as Hillers and Cavers ...

GIRLS STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS DIVISION II SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 2 P.M. 7 Rancho Bernardo 37 (26-8), vs. 1 Caruthers, Central 56 (26-6), @Sacramento Golden 1 Center. D-III FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 2 P.M. 5 Mater Dei 38 (21-14), vs. 3 Kentfield Marin Catholic, North Coast 48 (26-11), @Sacramento Golden 1 Center. REGIONAL FINALS TUESDAY, MARCH 11 D-II 7 Rancho Bernardo 35 (26-7), @1 Porterville Monache, Central, 25 ...

San Diego and Hoover were not factors in the Coast, Southern Section, and state meets, while Coronado sprinter-hurdler John Fawcett led a strong showing by athletes from the Metropolitan League. Fawcett set a County record in the 440-yard dash and La Jolla’s Jerry Soule and Jim Tripp and Oceanside’s Bill Huntales were among the best in ...

Two San Diego Section girls teams are still standing: Number seven seed Rancho Bernardo and No. 5 Mater Dei. The Bronchos and Crusaders will take underdog status on the road again in the State CIF Southern Regional Division II and III finals Tuesday, March 11. R.B. (25-7), after a five-hour, 287-mile jaunt and 44-37 victory at D-II ...

Highs and lows in the San Diego Section’s opening round foray into the state regional playoffs. The highs: Torrey Pines coach John Olive maintained a genial presence despite three straight losses in December to San Diego Section teams Mission Bay, San Marcos, and La Jolla Country Day. A 14-1 finish for a 23-6 record, with a benign intersectional ...

Coach Ed Martin thought he should get a home game for his San Diego Section champion Montgomery Aztecs (29-2) in the first round of the state regional Open Division playoffs Wednesday, March 5. The No. 6 Aztecs got a decidedly less attractive assignment,  a road test at 3 seed and Cal-Hi Sports state second-ranked Sherman Oaks ...

Eighty San Diego Section basketball teams began the playoffs 12 days ago, boys and girls each seeking championships in seven divisions. Basketballs were rolled out for a total of 216 games and in only 25 did the seeded favorite not win, but three No. 1’s were defeated on the final weekend of play. Seven teams, including ...

It’s the week that matters most. Semifinal playoffs have advanced  into championship games, which begin tonight, Thursday, February 27, with finals in Boys and Girls Divisions IV, V and VAA. D-IV Games tonight will be at Sage Creek, beginning with 6 seed Del Lago and 1 seed Tri City in Boys , followed by Girls 7 Crawford ...

One week and 96 playoff games in the rear view mirror, San Diego Section playoff teams move into semifinals and championship rounds this week, all six Boys’ and five of six Girls’ No. 1 seeds still standing. The outlier is in Girls’ Division IV,  where Escondido, a No. 9 seed, stunned number one Patrick Henry, 36-34, ...

There were five so-called surprises (highlighted below) in the  first round, but one of those reversals was an upset.  No, it was a lot more than that, Chula Vista, a No. 14 seed  with a 9-17 record, shocked third-ranked Horizon Prep, which entered  the game with a 16-4 record, 44-35, in Division IV.  La Costa Canyon, ...

80 teams and 40 games opened the San Diego Section Boys playoffs last night.  Girls first-round competition is tonight. Surprises, the polite term for upsets, were few. Six that are highlighted below. Most significant was Helix (12-17) a 14 seed but with a long tradition of success, defeating No. 3 and 21-6 Christian, 43-41, in Division II. DIVISION ...

Twenty-eight teams won or shared 24 league championships, according to Max Preps, which provides editorial content as supplied by respondents. Lincoln was the competitive champion in the Central League but was suspended from the playoffs, giving a league co-title to Canyon Hills and Coronado.  There were no signs of life in the Manzanita League; its teams ...

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 banners are ...

John Maffei’s weekly The San Diego Union poll. First place votes in parenthesis.                                                                                      ...

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 2 San Marcos 21-3 160 2 25/30 On Bubble/Bubble 3 Torrey Pines 19-5 137 4 41/51 On Bubble/27 4 Carlsbad 17-5 128 3 30/26 On Bubble/NR 5 Olympian 17-2 113 5 52/40 NR-NR 6 Mission Bay 17-6 87 7 49/53 NR-NR 7 Cathedral 15-8 66 6 85/77 NR-NR 8 Santa Fe Christian 19-4 65 8 57/61 NR-NR 9 San Diego 19-4 25 10 119/130 NR-NR 10 St. Augustine 10-14 21 9 164/171 NR-NR Others receiving votes La Jolla Country Day (14-10, ...