- 1949 Baseball: Hillers Clobbered Almost All Opponents
Only a team more than 400 hundred miles away and in another state could stop coach Dewey (Mike) Morrow’s powerful San Diego Hillers.
The also named Cavemen dropped three of four games in a home-and-home series with Arizona’s Tucson Badgers but bludgeoned 29 teams from Southern California and won Morrow’s 10th Southern Section championship.
According to Don ...
- 2021-22 Week 7: St. Augustine, San Marcos Neck and Neck
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 (11)
10-6
145
1
2.
San Marcos (4)
8-3
139
2
3.
Torrey Pines (1)
10-4
115
3
4.
Cathedral (2) Catholic
13-5
97
4
5.
Mission Hills (1)
11-5
96
6
6.
Mission Bay
12-4
88
5
7.
San Ysidro
11-5
76
7
8.
La Costa Canyon
10-4
66
8
9
Mater Dei
8-3
19
9
10.
San Diego
9-2
18
10
OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES
Carlsbad (9-7, 6 points), La Jolla Country Day (9-3, 4), Del Norte (13-4, 3), Montgomery (12-2, 2), Scripps Ranch (12-5, 2), ...
- 1927: Foothillers Bring Championship to Grossmont
Grossmont’s Southern California Minor Division football championship for schools with less than 1,000 students was achieved following a series of competitive and administrative tug of wars.
Coach Ladimir (Jack) Mashin’s Foothillers defeated Calexico High, 9-0, on the Grossmont gridiron to complete an 8-0-3 season that included a championship in the San Diego County League.
With a 4-0-2 ...
- 2021 Football: About Sutton, Gardinera, O’Sullivan
Lucky Sutton became one the 10 highest single-season scorers in San Diego County history this season.
Sutton’s 40 touchdowns for 240 points tied the Cathedral senior and San Diego State-bound running back for ninth with Imperial’s Royce Freeman, who also scored 240 in 2011.
Sutton played in 13 games and was deprived of a 14th when Cathedral ...
- 1957 Track: Cook and Cerveny Lead Way; Cavers Win a Championship
The thinclads were so good that several made national lists.
Roscoe Cook of San Diego High held the national record in the 100-yard dash, if only for a few days. Mission Bay’s Jim Cerveny came close to the national record in the 880-yard run.
Bobby Staten, Jim Wade, Luther Hayes, Ed Buchanan, and Dick Verdon also made ...
- 2021 Week 17 Wrapup: 3 Champs; Doyle, Gilster, Others Move Up; How Section Teams Rate
Scripps Ranch Coach Marlon Gardinera would have been in the spotlight on every college, NFL pregame or postgame show.
But Gardinera’s gutsy (crazy?) move did not go “national”, instead raising eyebrows and begging comment on a level just as significant to all involved.
Gardinera decided to “relax” his defense and allow Santa Clara Wilcox to score a ...
- 1957: Hoover 9 Surprises With Run to CIF Finals
The top four teams in won-loss percentage in the County were San Diego (25-3, .880), Helix (16-5, .762), Mission Bay (17-6, .737), and Hoover (19-9, .679).
It was the latter that battled through four rounds of the CIF Southern Section playoffs to get to the finals.
Hoover was an uninspiring 10-8 heading into the stretch run of ...
- 2021-22: Weeks 5-6: Hoops Down? Maybe It’s Covid
What does it mean when an unprecedented five different teams receive first-place votes in John Maffei’s latest The San Diego Union poll?
It could mean that area hoops are mediocre, at best, this year. No team stands out and the usual powers have done little to get excited about.
Or could it be Covid, which won’t go ...
- 2021-22 Weeks 0-2: St. Augustine and Torrey Pines Off to Fast Starts
The first The San Diego Union-Tribune basketball poll has a couple old reliables, St. Augustine (6-1) and Torrey Pines (7-0 after a 70-57 win over Santa Fe Christian last night, after the poll was completed) at the top.
St. Augustine’s only loss was to Chatsworth Sierra Canyon, 51-46, in a game the Saints led, 33-27, after ...
- 2021 Week 16: Three Teams Will Become Part of State Playoff History
Cathedral, Mater Dei and Scripps Ranch will seek state championships this week in games that are ranked tossups. All games Friday and Saturday will be at Mission Viejo Saddleback College.
Cathedral (11-2) will get an opportunity to reverse a 21-14 loss in 2018 to Folsom (11-3). Folsom is eighth in the weekly Cal-Hi Sports poll, Cathedral ...
- 2020-21: D-VIAA Blythe and Quartz Hill Are Miles Apart
The teams in the Southern California Division 6-AA playoffs tonight play the long game.
The Quartz Hill Royals (9-4), located 70 miles north of Los Angeles and on the upper edge of the Southern Section boundary, will travel almost 250 miles, a distance not unfamiliar to their opponent, Blythe Palo Verde Valley.
The Yellow jackets have represented ...
- 2021 Week 15: Patriots versus Patriots in D3-A
Resurgent Patrick Henry, 19-9 in three seasons under coach J.T. O’Sullivan and 10-2 in 2021, takes on visiting Lake Balboa Birmingham Saturday night in the Southern California Division III-A playoffs.
San Diego Section schools don’t often play those from the Los Angeles City Section, usually only in postseason matchups such as this.
Birmingham (8-5), which has the ...
- 2021 Week 15: Scripps Ranch Travels to DII-A Playoff
Scripps Ranch and the rubber will hit the road Saturday for a 6 p.m. game in the Southern California Division II-A playoffs at Santa Clarita Valencia, 160 miles away.
Coach Marlin Gardinera’s team, 11-1 and averaging 44 points after a 42-0 win over La Jolla in the San Diego Section finals last week, are on a ...
- 2021 Week 15: Local Turf War in DII-AA Pits Helix Against Mater Dei
The CIF came up with an unusual pairing this week: teams representing the same section and which should have intimate knowledge.
Intimate knowledge was denied, because COVID canceled a Highlanders-Crusaders match in Week 3.
There is shared common knowledge, however. Mater Dei defeated Otay Ranch, 41-7, and St. Augustine, 35-0. Helix beat the former, 29-14, and the ...
- 2021 Week 15: DI-AA Matchup, Final Top 10 Poll
Cathedral has won its last two Southern California Division I-AA playoff games, 35-28 in 2016 and 24-21 in 2018, each time at home against Harbor City Narbonne.
In attempting to win a third the Dons will head 70 miles North Friday to play Orange Lutheran, a four-loss team that was fifth in its league, at Orange ...
- 2021 Week 14: How We See the Finals
We’re on holiday, in the process of enriching the Las Vegas economy, so this will be short, in more ways than one.
This week’s fearless, if not peerless, Division I-V predictions:
D-I, Lincoln 31, Helix 20. Can’t go against my alma mater.
D-II, Scripps Ranch 38, La Jolla 35. I live in the community of three million eucalyptus ...
- 2021 Week 13: Great Open Division Championship Matchup
I went out on a very unstable limb last week and crashed.
Picking Torrey Pines to beat Carlsbad and Mission Hills to knock off Cathedral not only was ill-advised but was punctuated with an in-your-face (mine) combined, 82-17 score by the winning teams.
Now we have a championship that brings together two clubs representing, on paper, the ...
- 1956 Baseball: Cavers Lose 4 in Row, Longest Streak in 28 Years
The Cavers were out of sorts.
San Diego High finished with an 18-8 record, its poorest since the 17-10 of 1950, and the Cavers lost four games in a row down the stretch to fall out of City Prep League and playoff contention.
According to Don King’s Caver Conquest, the athletic history of the school, the streak ...
- 2021 Week 12: Playoffs Shift Into High Gear With Open Division Play
Round two of the San Diego Section playoffs offer quarterfinals in Divisions I-V and semifinals in the Open Division.
The four clubs in the highest bracket, beginning play after a week off:
4 TORREY PINES (6-3) @1 CARLSBAD (10-0)
The Falcons get another shot at the unbeaten Lancers, a team Torrey Pines had on the ropes, 33-27, only ...
- 1956 Track: 5 Stars Deliver in Five-Star State Track Meet
Track and field made a leap with multiple outstanding performances in several events. All five area qualifiers scored points in the greatest state meet in history, witnessed by about 4,500 persons on a 100-degree day in Chico.
—Coach Raleigh Holt’s Hoover Cardinals won another City Prep League championship with depth in every race, jump, and throw, ...
