- 2022 Week 9: Cathedral and St. Augustine Renew “Holy” Rivalry
The so-called “Holy Bowl” tees up for the 61st time this week when St. Augustine visits Cathedral. They have met every year since 1966 except 2007, including playoff games.
Cathedral leads, 38-22, in a series that began six years after Cathedral, then known as University of San Diego High, played its first season of varsity football.
University’s ...
- 2022 Week 8: City League on Center Stage This Week
Point Loma, 6-1 for the first time since 2014, visits University City Saturday evening in a City League game with championship implications.
The Centurions are 2-0 in league play and the Pointers 1-0. Mission Bay, Morse, and Canyon Hills all have at least one defeat.
U. City is feeling good about itself, 5-2, and back in friendlier ...
- 1967 Track: Valencia’s National Lead Comes on Short Track
Sweetwater High was the site for several outstanding performances over the years in the National City Junior Chamber of Commerce Relays and other events of distance, usually in early March.
Few of those individual or team marks were repeated or equaled, one of which drew the most attention and eventually called for surveyors and tape measures.
El ...
- 2022 Week 7: Lincoln Pressing Warhawks for No. 1.
Lincoln, now No. 2, crept up on No. 1 Madison in the Top 10 poll this week by virtue of the Hornets’ 31-17 win over Cathedral and trail the Warhawks by four first-place votes and six overall.
The Hornets and Warhawks won’t meet until the season’s final regular-season game, but Madison’s status will be challenged this ...
- 2022 Week 6: Burner, Starr On Cusp of Joining 100 Club
El Capitan coach Ron Burner and Mount Miguel’s Troy Starr can become the 45th and 46th coaches in San Diego County history to win at least 100 games when the Vaqueros take on neighborhood rival Santana and the Matadors meet Monte Vista this week.
Burner, who became the Vaqueros’ coach in 2005, is 99-94 as a ...
- 2022 Week 5: Idle Madison Retains No. 1 ranking.
The San Diego Union-Tribune weekly poll:
Points on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis.
*First-place votes.
Last entries in columns indicate previous rank.
NR—Not ranked. Cal-Hi Sports’ and Max Preps’ represent state rankings.
RANK
TEAM/RECORD
POINTS
MAX PREPS.COM
CAL-PREPS.COM
CAL-HI SPORTS
1
Madison (4-0)
16*/275/1
37/25
36.4/38.1
26/26
2
Lincoln (4-1)
5*/254/2
25/27
41.7/41.2
23/23
3
Carlsbad (3-1)
3*/230/4
38/31
36
21/21
4
Cathedral (2-3)
6*/223/3
24/18
41.8/41.2
19/16
5
Helix (4-1)
183/5
43/33
34.4/34.5
28/28
6
Poway (5-0)
146/6
45/58
34/31.7
On the Bubble
7
Granite Hills (4-1)
71/9
75/95
26/22.3
NR/NR
8
La Costa Canyon (3-2)
60-10
88/93
22.8/18.1
NR/NR
9
Mater Dei (0-4)
59/7
73/85
23.5/18.2
On the Bubble
10
Mira Mesa (3-1)
59/8
83/91
23.9
NR/NR
OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES
Rancho Buena Vista (5-0, 24 points), Mission Hills ...
- 1947 Baseball: A Vote for Point Loma As No. 1
Coach Les Cassie’s Hoover Cardinals were within nine outs of a berth in the Southern California finals. San Diego High was San Diego High, reliably formidable. But Don Clarkson’s Point Loma Pointers may have been the best of all.
The Pointers won the prestigious Pomona 20-30 Rotary Club tournament, split two games with Hoover, and defeated ...
- 1947 Track: Barnard, Smith Win Southern California titles
Happy trails, Victory League.
A bi-product of World War II, gasoline rationing, security scares, and travel restriction, the league served its purpose for four calendar years (search 1943: V is Key) as school bosses and students strived for normality.
San Diego and Hoover, which joined teams in the Metropolitan League in1942 and again when the Victory was ...
- 2022 Week 4: Defense, Naturally, Helps Army-Navy Knock Down 1940 Record
Army-Navy broke a school record last week that had been on the books since 1940, when the Warriors were based at the previous Red Apple Inn in Carlsbad.
Four shutouts at the start of the season.
Eighty-two years ago, the cadets of coach T.S. Walker opened with three shutouts by blanking St. Augustine, 6-0, the Hoover sophomores, ...
- 2022 Week 3: Helix-Cathedral Could Answer Some Questions; Warhawks Take over First Place
How far has Cathedral fallen and how high has Helix risen?
The Dons are coming off two huge losses and Helix is undefeated.
They’ll meet this week at Helix and the Highlanders might smell blood in the water after Cathedral’s successive losses of 42-7 to Corona Centennial and 63-7 to Chandler, Arizona, in the 12th annual Honor ...
- 2022 Week 3: Another Hot Night for Preps…in 1963
The thermometer is expected to reach three digits in San Diego Friday, recalling a similar day and high school football 59 years ago.
On Thursday, Sept. 26, 1963, an all-time high of 111 degrees scorched the area. The next day the high was 104.
I was in the Hoover stadium when the Cardinals and Helix, two of ...
- 2022 Week 2: Carlsbad No. 1 in San Diego; Cathedral Still High in State
Despite a 42-7 loss to state No. 3 Corona Centennial, in which it manufactured only 138 yards offense, Cathedral still is held in high esteem by the computer services.
Max Preps ranks Cathedral fifth and gives the Dons a 60.7 strength-of-schedule rating, highest among any team in California. Anaheim Servite (60.4) and Norco (60.1) are closest.
Cathedral ...
- 2022 Week 1A: Calexico and Blythe Have Unusual Ending
Visiting Calexico was in a 7-7 tie in the fourth quarter in the season’s first game when the lights went out at the Blythe Palo Verde Valley stadium.
The final score was reported to Max Preps as a tie, a result increasingly uncommon as teams nowadays usually find a conclusion in overtime. A few hours later ...
- 2022 Week 1: Parker’s Williams Scores 4 Ways that equal 52
Francis Parker’s Chris Williams set a San Diego Section record when he scored all 52 points in the Lancers’ 52-27 win over Pasadena Poly, according to information provided to The San Diego Union.
Williams did it all: Six touchdown runs, 10, 23,25,27,27, and 45 yards. A 62-yard pass interception for a touchdown. Seven points after and ...
- 2022 Week 0: Preseason Top 10, Coaching Changes, League Moves
John Maffei of The San Diego Union-Tribune and three other ranking services have offered their opinions on 2022 football in the San Diego Section.
Maffei canvassed coaches, noted the results of summer 7-on-7 passing competitions, and compared roster compositions, among other factors. The U-T’s weekly poll will begin after this week’s opening round of games.
Cal-Hi Sports ...
- 1946 Baseball: Morrow is Back and so are Hilltoppers
Dewey J. (Mike) Morrow, a University of California at Berkeley graduate from Montana, returned from the war to San Diego High and coached the Hilltoppers to his eighth CIF Southern Section championship in Morrow’s 16 seasons and first since 1939.
Writer Norrie West of the Evening Tribune said of Morrow’s return:
“Not a soul will deny that ...
- 1946 Track: Balboa Stadium Site of Southern Section Championships
San Diego High, led by quartermiler Norman Stocks, sprinter-broad jumper Jimmy Barrera, hurdler Harry West, shot putter Joe Acevedo, and half-miler Harry Taylor, among others on a deep and talented squad, was in full force, posting an 8-0 record in dual meets, winner of 16 in a row, and 20-2 since Bill Patten became coach ...
- 1966 Baseball II: Strom’s Rubber Arm Leads Cavers to Title
San Diego’s surprising, late-season ride on the left arm of pitcher Brent Strom resulted in the Cavers’ first major championship since they won the Southern Section title in 1952.
And it was to be the Cavers’ last, ending a run that began with a state championship in 1918.
Changing demographics, new schools, new neighborhoods, revised enrollment borders, ...
- 1966 Baseball I: Cardinals to Honor Ted Williams With New Ball Yard
On March 21 the Hoover student body announced a fund-raising drive for a new baseball facility, Ted Williams Field, in honor of the January, 1937, graduate and major league baseball Hall of Fame inductee.
For years the Cardinals played home games in the school’s football stadium, with a rightfield fence, beyond the track, a Little League-dimensioned ...
- 1966 Track I: Arnie Robinson and a Glimpse of the Future
Arnie Robinson was coming to the end of four brilliant seasons at Morse.
Robinson high jumped 6-7, long jumped 24 feet, and won the 120-yard high hurdles in :14.8 in his last competition (see below) at the school on Skyline Drive in Encanto that Robinson watched open in September, 1962.
The nephew of 1940s San Diego High ...