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RATINGS GAME The San Diego Union-Tribune final 2021-22 poll. First-place points in parenthesis.  Points on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis. Records do not include Southern California playoffs. (The final Cal-Hi Sports rankings, which were published after the state playoffs:  St. Augustine No. 20, San Ysidro, 35, Torrey Pines, 39, and La Costa Canyon, 40). RANK TEAM RECORD POINTS PREVIOUS 1. St. Augustine (16) 23-7 160 1 2. San Ysidro 23-8 141 4 3. Torrey Pines 23-6 122 2 4. La Costa Canyon 20-7 112 6 5. San ...

The Imperial Girls, who have become road favorites of Triple-A, having amassed about 670 miles of travel in their last three playoff games, and the long-range shooters from Scripps Ranch will be in Sacramento on Saturday, each with a chance to come home with a state championship. Max Preps, the computer outlet which coordinated the CIF ...

GIRLS DIVISION TEAM OPPONENT SCORE IV 6 Imperial (28-6) @1 Yucca Valley (21-8) Travel-weary Tigers pull off another surprise, 52-46. V 2 Victory Christian (20-12) 4 L.A. Shalhavet (23-6) Knights fall in championship game second year in row, 62-52. BOYS IV 2 Scripps Ranch (25-11) 16 Valley Village Valley Torah (30-4) Falcons put away scrappy visitors, 68-54

Win Tuesday evening and play a state championship game in Sacramento on Friday. That is the goal this week for the three remaining girls and boys basketball teams from the San Diego Section. Victory Christian, formerly Lutheran, located in Chula Vista, was coached until mid-season this year by Sa’de Wiley-Greenwood, a legendary high school player at Lynwood, ...

The Scripps Ranch boys and Victory Christian girls won respective division semifinal games in the Southern California regionals playoffs. BOYS DIVISION TEAM OPPONENT SCORE III 10 Mt. Carmel (25-10) @3 Calabasas Viewpoint SunDevils head home after 90-57 loss. IV 2 Scripps Ranch (24-11) 3 Bakersfield Golden Valley (23-9) Falcons’ 3-point snipers (Caden Flint, six treys, 20 points) shoot down visitor, 70-57. GIRLS DIVISION TEAM OPPONENT SCORE OPEN 2 La Jolla Country Day (25-3) 3 Chatsworth Sierra ...

The road gets longer and theoretically with more bumps for Mt. Carmel and coach Greg Lanthier’s three-point-shooting snipers. Lanthier, who won a San Diego Section championship as coach at Vista in 1992-93, takes his Divison III 10th-seeded SunDevils (25-9)  up the Coast Highway 160 miles to play 4 seed Calabasas Viewpoint (20-6). Mt. Carmel is ranked 18th ...

The Bishop’s, the only remaining Division II team in the state with a seed as high as No. 13,  moves into the Southern California playoffs semifinals Saturday night. The Knights (17-7), under first-year coach Paris Johnson, who played at San Diego High and San Diego State and replaced mentor Marlon Wells, now face their stiffest test ...

The ladies delivered.  Five of seven San Diego teams won their quarterfinals matches. Joining the others in the semifinals is The Bishop’s, a 13th seed and the only state Division II club still in play.  The Knights ushered out Los Angeles Brenwood, 74-69. DIVISION TEAM OPPONENT Open 2 La Jolla Country Day (25-2) 3 Chatsworth Sierra Canyon (27-2) Will meet in semifinals II 9 Bonita ...

DIVISION TEAM OPPONENT SCORE II 8 Carlsbad (22-12) @1 Santa Ana Foothill (29-3) Lancers, up 20 points in third quarter, beaten in epic, triple overtime, 97-96. III 10 Mt. Carmel (25-9) 15 Harbor City Narbonne (17-11) SunDevils scorching 16×26 from 3-point arc in 80-59 victory over L.A. City Section’s Gauchos. IV 2 Scripps Ranch (23-11) 10 L.A. Center for Enriched Studies (19-14) Falcons  in control, 66-54.

San Diego Section girls won eight of 16 first-round games, including 14th-seeded The  Bishop’s knocking off host No. 3 Rancho Santa Margarita, 67-53. La Jolla Country Day, Rancho Bernardo, Scripps Ranch, Victory Christian, Imperial, and Carlsbad were favored and won. My hunch “Should Win” clubs, Scripps Ranch, Carlsbad, Rancho Buena Vista, Victory Christian, all moved on. I was ...

It was not pretty.  San Diego Section teams posted a 3-15 record in the opening round of the Southern California regional playoffs. My “should win” hunches, San Ysidro, Torrey Pines, San Diego, Monte Vista, and St. Joseph, were 0-5.  Most upper level seeds were ousted in a disappointing finish to an arguably mediocre season. Division I No. ...

Seven of the No. 1 seeds in the San Diego Section boys’ and girls’ playoff divisions of five each made it through the four rounds to championships. Most of the surprises were in boys Division V, a distant bracket appealing mostly to friends and relatives of the competing teams. The computer, from which most pairings are ...

Playoffs begin Wednesday, February 16, for boys, Tuesday, February 15, for girls. BOYS LEAGUE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE TEAM LEAGUE OVERALL AVERAGE Avocado San Dieguito 7-1 16-7 66.1-56 Central *Kearny 5-3 14-6 66-52.9 Citrus Victory Christian 6-0 18-10 63.3-51.5 City Patrick Henry 6-2 16-11 55.9-51.8 Coastal Santa Fe Christian 11-1 19-9 64.8-56.4 Desert Imperial 7-2 14-8 54.6-50.9 Eastern Morse 8-0 20-6 54.9-44.3 Grossmont Hills *Grossmont 8-2 16-12 54.9-52 Grossmont Valley *Monte Vista 7-1 20-5 63.4-48.4 Imperial Valley *Calexico 7-1 18-6 62.8-47.8 Manzanita Warner Springs Warner 4-0 7-9 34.8-42.2 Mesa San Ysidro 12-0 21-7 79.1-62.3 Ocean San Diego Jewish 10-0 14-4 63.5-43.8 Pacific Escondido Charter 9-1 18-9 55-48 Palomar Mission Hills 9-1 21-6 64.7-53.3 Patriot Southern California Yeshiva 8-0 15-4 63.9-39.3 Pioneer Mountain Empire 7-1 16-5 41.2-35 Sierra Gompers Prep 6-2 8-4 47.3-40.8 South Bay San Diego Southwest 9-1 17-11 56.1-49.6 Summit Mabel O’Farrell 5-1 7-11 50.7-53.2 Valley Mt. Carmel 10-0 19.9 76.8-63.1 Western St. Augustine 8-0 20-7 74-55.9 North County Coastal       Torrey Pines                ...

Divorced from the Southern Section after 47 years, the new San Diego Section was one of the smallest in the state, 28 schools, and found itself with one automatic qualifier for each event in the state meet. The legislation by the state CIF ended the possibility, however unlikely, of as many as three in each event, ...

Regular-season play wraps up this week and pairings for the San Diego Section playoffs will take place Saturday morning. BOYS John Maffei’s The San Diego Union-Tribune  poll.  First-place points in parenthesis.  Points on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis. RANK TEAM RECORD POINTS LAST WEEK 1. St. Augustine (15) 18-7 159 1 2. San Marcos (1) 20-4 140 3 3. Torrey Pines 19-5 120 2 4. Mission Hills 19-6 111 5 5. La Costa Canyon 18-5 102 6 6. San Ysidro 17-7 73 4 7. Cathedral 18-8 59 9 8. Mission Bay 18-7 54 7 9 Carlsbad 16-10 27 10 10. Francis Parker 14-6 14 8 OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES Del Norte (18-7, 4 points), Montgomery (19-6, 4), ...

Hoover was 1-7 in football but then the seasons changed.   The Cardinals won the first San Diego Section championship with a 24-3 record in winter basketball and repeated the 24-3 with another title in spring baseball. There were seven no-hitters pitched in the San Diego Section this year but none by Hoover’s Dave Morehead, who posted ...

BOYS LEAGUE TEAM LEAGUE OVERALL AVERAGE Avocado San Dieguito 5-0 13-6 66.2-56.1 Central Kearny 4-1 13-4 66-52.9 Citrus Victory Christian 4-0 15-9 65.8-52.4 City Point Loma 4-2 7-11 55.2-54.6 Coastal Torrey Pines 5-0 16-5 65.2-52.7 Desert Imperial 6-1 11-6 54-49.4 Eastern Morse 3-0 14-6 51.1-44.3 Grossmont Hills Grossmont 5-0 13-10 54.5-52 Grossmont Valley Monte Vista 4-0 17-4 62.6-47.5 Imperial Valley El Centro Central 4-0 11-7 57.9-51.6 Manzanita Warner Springs Warner 1-1 4-9 33.2-42.2 Mesa San Ysidro 6-0 15-6 80-62.7 Ocean San Diego Jewish 8-0 12-4 59.8-42.8 Pacific Escondido Charter 7-0 16-8 54.7-47.7 Palomar San Marcos 5-1 18-4 61.1-46.5 Patriot The Cambridge 2-0 7-5 32-33.9 Pioneer Mountain Empire 6-0 13-4 39.5-33.2 Sierra Gompers Prep 4-0 6-2 49.9-40.5 South Bay San Diego Southwest 5-0 13-10 55.5-50.3 Summit Chula Vista High Tech 2-0 5-14 41.9-51 Valley Mt. Carmel 6-0 13-7 75.8-60.9 Western St. Augustine 5-0 16-7 73.8-55.7 GIRLS LEAGUE TEAM LEAGUE OVERALL AVERAGE Avocado Oceanside 3-0 15-5 48.4-39 Central Patrick Henry 7-0 8-9 34-38.2 Citrus St. Joseph 2-0 11-12 47.5-44.5 City San Diego 4-1 16-8 37.8-34.6 Coastal El Camino 6-0 16-3 60.9-37.4 Eastern Lincoln 5-0 16-4 55.5-36.5 Grossmont Hills Mount Miguel 5-0 15-7 60.8-42.7 Grossmont Valley Steele Canyon 5-0 12-11 37.3-43.2 Imperial Valley Imperial 6-0 16-5 50-28 Manzanita Borrego Springs 2-1 4-6 NA Manzanita Warner Springs Warner 2-1 3-6 NA Metropolitan Bonita Vista 4-0 11-8 54.5-51.9 Ocean Escondido Charter 9-0 13-7 39.6-28.4 Pacific Maranatha 7-1 10-10 52.2-52.7 Palomar Mission Hills 6-0 16-6 60-49 Patriot Bayfront 2-0 12-4 33.7-25.7 Pioneer Horizon Prep 5-0 12-0 36.3-9.8 South Bay San Ysidro 3-0 16-3 63.4-34.8 Summit Liberty 4-0 12-9 35.1-35.7 Valley Fallbrook 5-0 14-6 54.3-40.7 Western Cathedral 5-0 16-4 65.8-46 Note:  El Camino is listed ahead of ...

Ratings for boys and girls by The San Diego Union-Tribune, Max Preps, and Cal-Hi Sports.  Records may be inaccurate as teams play daily.  Cal-Hi Sports ranks only a top 25.  Ratings for San Diego Section girls’ teams is coordinated by Terry Monahan. The San Diego Union-Tribune boys’ poll.  First-place points in parenthesis.  Points on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis. RANK TEAM RECORD POINTS ...

RATINGS GAME The San Diego Union-Tribune poll.  First-place points in parenthesis.  Points on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis. RANK TEAM RECORD POINTS LAST WEEK 1. St. Augustine (12) 13-6 152 1 2. San Marcos (4) 12-3 147 2 3. Torrey Pines 12-4 115 3 4. Mission Hills 13-5 107 5 5. Cathedral 15-5 100 4 6. San Ysidro 12-5 74 7 7. La Costa Canyon 12-3 72 8 8. Mission Bay 14-5 60 6 9 Carlsbad 11-7 40 NR 10. Mater Dei 9-5 9 9 OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES Francis Parker (8-4, 6 points), Scripps Ranch (13-6, 2), La Jolla Country Day (10-4), Del Norte (14-5), La Jolla Country Day (10-4), San Diego (10-5) Santa ...

San Diego could have locked up another Southern California championship, but the Hillers, who had won team titles in 1929, ’38, ’41, ’42, and ’48, were outscored by a tall timber topper from Glendale Hoover. Hurdler, jumper, and anchorman Jack Davis scored 19 of the Tornadoes’ 24 points, leaving the defending champion Hillers in second place ...