- 1969 Baseball: Cardinals and Colts Battled for CIF Royalty
A road map would have been easy to follow in the first nine years of the San Diego Section: Start at 44th Street and El Cajon Boulevard and travel about 1.5 miles East and Southeast to 55th and Trojan Avenue.
The Hoover Cardinals and Crawford Colts, neighbors in the East San Diego enclave eventually known as ...
- 2022-23 Week 14C: Cold Barons Lose in State D-II final
The shots wouldn’t go down for Bonita Vista, which converted 14 per cent of its attempts from the field in the first half to trail, 29-18, and went on to lose to Fresno Central, 52-41, in the CIF state Division II championship at the Sacramento Golden Center Saturday afternoon.
In a game in which the 3 ...
- 2022-23 Week 14B: Bonita Vista Still Standing, Headed to Sacramento
And then there was one.
The Bonita Vista Barons girls won the Southern California Regional Division II championship, 80-67, over Lawndale Leuzinger, while Del Norte was defeated in the D-I final at Corona Centennial, 52-39.
Bonita Vista will play the Fresno Central Grizzlies (22-12), who defeated Chico Pleasant Valley, 62-51, in the Northern final, at 2 p.m. ...
- 2022-23 Week 13C: Two in San Diego Section Remain after Regional Semifinals
From a starting lineup of 36 teams, there are two survivors as the San Diego Section season nears the finish line with the State Regional playoff championships Tuesday night, winners of which then moving on to state championships against Northern California opponents in Sacramento March 10-11.
St. Augustine, the last Boys squad to reach the semifinals, ...
- 2022-23 Week 13B: Six Teams Move into Regional Semifinals
Winning San Diego teams highlighted.
BOYS QUARTERFINALS
DIVISION
TEAM/VISITOR
SEED
OPPONENT/HOME
SEED
SCORE
Open
St. Augustine (27-4)
4
Valencia West Ranch
5
63-60
III
Lincoln (30-3)
10
Culver City (19-12)
2
82-77, OT.
San Luis Obispo Mission Prep (23-9)
11
Mission Bay (24-10)
3
67-57
Ventura Buena (29-5)
8
La Jolla Country Day (24-8)
1
48-44
IV
Victory Christian (24-9)
6
Ventura St. Bonaventure (25-9)
3
59-48
V
Cerritos Whitney (22-10)
11
Ramona (22-10)
3
77-59
GIRLS QUARTERFINALS
DIVISION
TEAM/VISITOR
SEED
TEAM/HOME
SEED
SCORE
Open
La Jolla Country Day (29-3)
2
Bye
I
Del Norte (22-10)
5
Mission Hills (22-12)
4
61-57
Mount Miguel (25-7)
14
Granada Hills Charter (26-6)
11
53-45
II
La Canada Flintridge (30-3)
8
Bonita Vista (22-9)
1
93-61
III
Oak Park ...
- 2022-23 Week 13: St. Augustine Boys, Mount Miguel Girls Come Through
First round action in the Southern California regional playoffs saw San Diego’s 36-team Boys and Girls contingent dwindle to 13, which will begin semifinals play tonight.
Wiped out with an 0-8 record in Boys’ Divisions I & II, it was left to the Open Division’s St. Augustine. The 4 seed Saints rallied to a 63-60 victory ...
- 2022-23 Week 12C: Champions and Open Division Teams Await Regional Pairings
St. Augustine wrapped the San Diego Section season—the Southern California regionals are next–with an 85-53 win over Montgomery before about 3,000 persons at Cathedral Saturday night, finishing off the Aztecs with a 28-11 fourth quarter.
The Saints were the No. 1-seed team in the Open Division and played like it, winning by a combined total of ...
- 2022-23 Week 11: Nine Teams Change Positions in Final Top 10
Records are current with the finals of the San Diego Section playoffs and does not include CIF State Regional playoff results.
The San Diego Union-Tribune Week 11 final poll
First-place votes in parenthesis.
Points on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis.
First-place votes in parenthesis. Last entries in columns indicate previous rank.
Cal-Hi Sports’ and Max Preps’ represent state rankings. NR—Not ranked. Records as ...
- 2022-23 Week 12B: 5 More Upsets; D-III and D-V Finals Tonight
Montgomery knocked off favored Carlsbad in a battle of Open Division 3 and 2 seeds and 3 seed Ramona edged No. 2 High Tech San Diego in Division III, but the most surprises have been in IV and V, where San Pasqual, Classical, a pair of No. 8 seeds, continued on their unexpected runs in ...
- 2022-23 Week 12: Perfect Seeds From Open to D-III in Semifinals
San Diego Section Open Division playoffs are down to four teams, with enticing contests tonight that match No. 4 seed San Ysidro (18-11) at 25-4 and No. 1 St. Augustine and No. 3 Montgomery (24-5) at No. 2 Carlsbad (24-5).
San Ysidro, in and out all season after the high expectations of Mikey Williams’ return from ...
- 2022-23 Week 11D, Quarterfinals: Happy Trails, Two Top Seeds
Calexico Vincent Memorial and the Rock Academy, top seeds in Division IV and V, respectively, were among three ousted favorites in San Diego Section quarterfinals playoffs Friday night.
San Pasqual (16-13) defeated Vincent (22-7) , 56-52, and Classical (15-9) outlasted Rock (21-7), 49-45, in overtime in a pair of upset victories by No. 8-ranked teams. On ...
- 2022-23 Week 11C: No. 2 seed Clairemont Clocked by No. 15 Brawley
Six favorites went down in Boys’ divisions I-V in the 38-game first round of the San Diego Section playoffs.
Seedings are based on power ratings that essentially are a comparison of “who you played and how who you played did.”
There were some stunners, three in D-IV and V.
Brawley (8-18), a 15th-ranked struggler in D-V, traveled 132 ...
- 2022-23 Week 11B: The Saints Are Ranked No. 1 and Playoff-seeded No. 1
Union-Tribune prep czar John Maffei announced that this week’s poll will be for the regular season, which has ended, and that a final poll will be released following the last time out, basket, or free throw, and final tick of the scoreboard clock in the playoffs.
St. Augustine so far has run the table, amassing all ...
- 2022-23 Week 11: Hat’s Off! 42 Boys’ and Girls’ Champions
The leagues and teams sometimes are different and some teams play football in one league and basketball in another. Some teams don’t play football and some of these leagues don’t offer football.
MaxPreps ranks any team in California that provides information and Max’s information is not always complete. Cal-Hi Sports rates from 1 to 25 and ...
- 2022-23 Week 10: Santa Fe Christian, Mater Dei Rattle the Top 10
One week to go in the regular season and the ranks have been shaken.
St. Augustine, Carlsbad, and Montgomery remained 1-2-3 in the latest Union-Tribune vote, but seven others changed positions. Most notable were Santa Fe Christian’s leapfrogging from No. 8 to No. 4 and Mater Dei’s rising from No. 9 to No. 6.
Santa Fe, its ...
- 2022-23 Week 9: Saints Still Unanimous No. 1 After Loss
Despite an 84-72 loss to Sherman Oaks Notre Dame in the Nike Extravaganza in Santa Ana last week, St. Augustine remained a unanimous No. 1 in the San Diego Section poll this week and could take a 24-4 record into the playoffs.
The Saints open the semifinal week of the regular season with two Western League ...
- 1959 Track: Tripp’s Great Day in Southern Section Finals
Arnold Tripp took charge early in the Southern Section championships at Long Beach Veterans’ Stadium when he upset hometown favorite Dee Andrews of Long Beach Poly in the broad jump, then followed with a second in the 100 to San Bernardino’s John Howard, and ran down Howard in the stretch of the 220-yard sprint, bettering ...
- 1958 Baseball: Cavemen Exit Playoffs in Quarterfinals
Another great San Diego High team? Or a very good San Diego team that had punished mostly mediocre opponents?
The Cavemen, 23-1 and one of the favorites for a Southern Section championship, were eliminated in the quarterfinals of the playoffs at Long Beach Poly, a team with a 20-3 record but had not participated in the ...
- 1959 Baseball: Cassie’s Great Run Ends in Disappointment
Another outstanding San Diego High team was eliminated in the Southern California playoffs and followed a trend of other Cavers teams generally also coming up short in football and basketball.
Coach Les Cassie, who guided the 1952 team to an astounding 35-2 record and its lone Southern California title in the decade, retired after this season ...
- 2022-23 Week 7: St. Augustine Wins National Game in Massachusetts
Trailing, 30-23, St. Augustine took charge in the second half and defeated East Catholic of Manchester, Connecticut, 67-57, last week in the Hoophall Classic in Springfield, Mass. San Ysidro was beaten in the same event by Florida’s Miami Columbus, 74-67.
Locally, most impressive was Montgomery, which zipped past Mater Dei, 77-58, and replaced the Crusaders as ...
