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Tim Danielson, Terry Rogers, and Doyle Steel were state champions and would have been favored in their events if there were a prep national championship meet. Chula Vista’s Danielson, the second to better four minutes in the mile, was undefeated  on the prep level the last two years  and he competed nationally and internationally well into ...

Thirty-three boys, counting one for relays, posted 43 marks that made the state Top 25 in the standard 16 events, as noted by Athletic.net.  Numbers in parenthesis represent placement. EVENT NAME MARK STATE 100 Tucker, Lincoln :10.51w, (17T), :10.54 (21T) :10.14, Pleasant, Gardena Serra Priest, Maranatha :10.56 (23T) 200 Brock, Cathedral :21.40 (20) :20.40, Pleasant Tucker, Lincoln :21.47w (22), :21.74 400 Parker, Helix :46.82 (3) :46.75, Goode, Santa Clarita West Ranch Brotschi, Otay Ranch :48.12 (12T) 800 Harder, San ...

Forty-five girls, counting one for relays, posted 54 marks that made the state Top 25 in the standard 16 events, as noted by Athletic.net.  Numbers in parenthesis represent placement. EVENT NAME/SCHOOL MARK STATE 100 Shaheed, Madison :11.66 (4) :11.45, Redmond, Carson McCormick, Scripps Ranch :11.71w (3), :11.76 (11) Hatton, Sage Creek :11.91w (21T), :12.18 200 Bean, Poway :24.25 (8) :23.82, :23.65w, Currie, Santa Clarita Golden Valley Shaheed :24.45 (15) 400 Bean :55.09 (8) :53.19, Cenci, Clovis North Cramer, ...

Adren Parker drove Helix to a fifth place finish in the 4×400 relay as the Highlanders ran 3:15.79,  11th all-time in San Diego.  An added plus was Helix’s breaking the school record of 3:16.23, set in 2003. Parker, a junior, also put 2023 rivals on notice with a fourth-place, :47.68 performance in the 400 meters that ...

Charlize James and Kapiolani Coleman held up under the grind of carrying the mantel of favorites and winning gold medals in the state meet in Clovis. Cathedral’s Coleman, the state leader for most of the season, won the 300 hurdles in :42.23. James, chasing Scripps Ranch Aaliyah McCormick all season, took the 100 hurdles in :13.95 ...

San Diego High’s Charlize James defines competitor, at her best, and better, since the season moved into May.  James ran the second fastest  100 hurdles in San Diego Section history Friday,  :13.67 in the state track trials. James, whose time also is No. 2 in California this year and 12th in the United States, will not ...

Adren Parker of Helix yesterday became the third San Diego Section runner to shade 47 seconds in the 400 meters, setting an all-time record of :46.82 Friday in trials of the 102nd state track meet. Parker’s time was bettered only by the :46.81 of Jeremiah Walker of Fresno Central.  Two other runners who have run under ...

The top three finishers in last week’s San Diego Section championships move on to the state meet in Clovis this week. In addition, any contestant who met the state qualifying standard in the section meet also is eligible. For example, two 800-meter runners in the list below qualified, but a third, who ran 1:54.54, missed because the ...

Four San Diego athletes lead the state as they head for state this week. “State” is an often-used euphemism for an event such as  the California championships, renewed for the 102nd time this year after being canceled because of the pandemic in 2020 and ’21. Aaliyah McCormick continues to lead all 100 hurdlers with a best time ...

Leon Gillis of Steele Canyon has a 6-foot, 9-inch high jump that ties Gillis for first in California with a jumper from San Bernardino Cajon. Gillis and other qualifiers from the three divisional meets in the San Diego Section last week will attempt to better their season bests in Saturday’s 61st San Diego Section championships at ...

San Diego Section girls have the best performances in California in three events, leading in the 100 and 300 hurdles, and shot put. Aaliyah McCormick of Scripps Ranch is first in the short hurdles at :13.46 and Kapiolani Coleman of Cathedral is first in the longer barriers in :42.19.  Kennedy Clarke of Cathedral leads with a ...

Bill Sandback, a transplanted Minnesota hockey player who came West in 1960 and spent a year teaching at Memorial Junior High before becoming coach at Crawford in 1961, was building a dynasty. The Colts won their third San Diego Section championship in the last four seasons and eventually were named state team of the year by ...

The 15th annual Lions baseball tournament began with all eyes on the sky. Rain had played havoc with the schedule this spring and had a wet and dreary history with the event, actually resulting in cancellation in 1964. San Diego High, winner of the tournament six times since 1951, was top seed among the 16 Unlimited Division ...

A promising Class B 660 yards runner in 1964 who bypassed cross-country for football in the fall, Chula Vista junior Tim Danielson ran down defending state champion Mike Ryan and scored a stunning, 20-yard victory in the mile in the 47th state meet, defying the evening heat of Bakersfield. Danielson’s time of 4:08 was a meet ...

A  North County dustup was decided in Oceanside’s favor when the Pirates won the Avocado League championship-deciding dual meet at Vista, 61-52. The event, scheduled at Vista, originally was rained out several weeks before. The schools, approximately 11 ½ miles and about 20 minutes apart along the State 78 corridor, could not agree on an agreeable makeup ...

San Diego High and Grossmont were kings of the majors and La Jolla ruled the smaller schools. Hal Norris, Charlie Powell, Jerry Wood and Darnes Johnson were names of note. It was a solid if unspectacular season in the San Diego area, but Norris, the first of a generation of outstanding shot putters at Grossmont under ...

Dewey (Mike) Morrow ended a remarkable, 20-season run at San Diego High that included 15 Coast League championships and 10 Southern California titles from 1927, excluding the World War II, 1942-45 seasons. Morrow’s final Hillers team was 17-10 and its .630 winning percentage, excellent by almost any measure, his lowest. Morrow’s overall record against high school ...

Bill Sandback had just coached Crawford to its second San Diego Section baseball championship in three seasons and he was hesitant when Harlon Bartlett of the Evening Tribune asked for a comparison of the team and the winning 1962 club. “This year’s team had a better attitude,” Sandback finally allowed after the taut, eight-inning victory over ...

Bob Hose gave a glimpse as a sophomore at Clairemont in the San Diego Section finals in 1962, when Hose finished fifth in the 880 in 1:58. It was a promising if overlooked run by Hose, as attention was focused on Hoover’s John Garrison, who would finish second in the state meet and tie the County ...

Scripps Ranch joined Gardena Serra, Bellflower St. John Bosco, and West Hills Chaminade as teams that have won state championships in football and basketball in the same school year since the state CIF reinstated the football championship in 2006. The Falcons, behind gridiron stars Jax Leatherwood, Dean Paley, and Lamont Wilkerson, who scored 19 points, defeated ...