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Authentic.com the go-to, on-line entity for all things track and field, posted several outstanding marks from the Mt. Carmel invitational two weeks ago and then deleted them last week. Dennis McClanahan, the retired coach of the Sun Devils and the meet director for the invitational and honcho at the San Diego section trials and finals, is ...

A raft of marks, including a United States-leading 4:48.34 in the 1,600-meter run by Kristin Fahy of La Costa Canyon, punctuated the 40th annual Mt. Carmel Invitational. Fahy’s four-lap sizzler topped three Southern Section runners, whose chase of Fahy resulted in the nation’s No. 2, 3, and 4 best performances.  No. 5 is a 4:52.4 effort ...

Kenon Christon of Madison, Altan Mitchell of Point Loma, Alysha Hickey of Coronado, and Camryn Thomson of Poway are state track-and-field leaders from the San Diego Section, which got down to some serious competition last week after a few February and early-March meets. Christon ran a personal best :10.52 in the 100 meters at the Elmer ...

The San Diego Section’s Big 4 of Open Division teams became a Big 5, when La Jolla Country eclipsed all with a dominating run through the state Division III playoffs. The Torreys (23-13) were the only area squad to make it to the state level, where they defeated San Francisco University, 67-39, after Foothills Christian (24-7) ...

La Jolla Country Day’s state championship, the first by a San Diego Section team since 2015, served as the denouement for a basketball season that ended in disappointment for the big four of Torrey Pines, Foothills Christian, St. Augustine, and Mission Bay. The manner in which ‘Day finished its season, routing San Francisco University, 67-39, for ...

La Jolla Country Day’s Boys Division III team will try to become the ninth San Diego Section squad to win a state championship Friday afternoon against San Francisco University High in Sacramento. The Torreys, who were 5-5 in the Coast League but have won eight in a row on the section and regional level, are 22-13.  ...

Five-year-old Patrick Henry High, located in the sprawling Del Cerro-San Carlos area, had become a glamour school in the San Diego Section and one of the largest in the state with 3,800 students and growing. The Patriots already had been to a section championship game in football, became powers in baseball and track and field, and ...

Three San Diego Section teams remain in play in the Southern California regional basketball playoffs, with La Jolla Country Day having representatives in Boys’ Division III and Girls’ D-I. San Diego Southwest also reached the finals in Boys’ D-V. The three local squads all face daunting tasks, as they will be on the road Tuesday night in ...

Two boys’ and four girls’ squads passed quarterfinals tests in the CIF state regional playoffs last night. Most significant was the 66-58 Division 1 win by the 5 seed La Jolla Country Day girls on the road at No. 4 Granada Hills. Cathedral, the top seed in Girls D-I, sustained a stunning loss, 49-44, to No. 8 ...

Sixteen of the 30 San Diego Section boys’ and girls’ teams remain in the Southern California regional playoffs, with quarterfinals putting everyone back on the court tonight. Girls squads won nine of 14 opening round contests, the boys seven of 16, with most of the successes coming in Division II through V. Three of the four male ...

Torrey Pines emerged from a season-long, four-team battle to claim the No. 1 position in the final The San Diego Union top 10.  The first four finishers each occupied the top rung during the regular season. Union-Tribune Week 10 final poll, Monday, Feb 25: Rank Team Record Points Last Week 1 Torrey Pines (14) 25-6 140 2 2. Foothills Christian 23-7 125 1 3 Mission Bay 18-12 109 5 4 St. Augustine 22-7 87 4 5 Cathedral 23-9 80 7 6 Vista 21-9 53 8 7 Poway 22-7 43 6 8 Carlsbad 26-6 37 NR 9 Santa Fe Christian 20-8 35 4 10 Francis Parker 20-10 24 NR NR–Not ranked. Others receiving votes: La ...

Seedings for the Southern California Regional playoffs that begin Tuesday reflected the San Diego Section’s  strength in the lower divisions. But the big boys got no respect, as usual. San Diego teams are favored seeds in only two of nine Open, D-I or D-II contests. They are the choice in five of seven games in D-III through ...

Four No. 1 seeds in six divisions, will be on the floor as finals take place beginning tonight in the San Diego Section. That Foothills Christian, Cathedral, Rancho Buena Vista, and San Diego Southwest made their way through the rounds is testimony to the ratings system created by Max Preps, the entity favored by section coaches ...

Thirty-one of the 36 first-round, San Diego Section playoff games in divisions I-V last night were won by team’s with the lower number (better) seeds and the upsets were won by teams on the road. The stunner was 15 seed Bonita Vista (11-17) kayoing 2 seed host Westview (21-8), 66-52. Other home team jolts were experienced by ...

Ten consecutive wins since Jan. 11 propelled Foothills Christian into the No. 1 position in the final regular-season The San Diego Union-Tribune poll and earned coach Brad Leaf’s Knights the Open Division top seed in this week’s beginning of the San Diego Section playoffs. Play in divisions I through V convenes Wednesday evening.  Open Division teams ...

Twenty-one San Diego Section league champions were crowned this week, although such a feat means nothing when it comes to the playoffs, pairings of which were announced today. But league championships represent a lot more than a playoff seeding,or divisional placement. Just ask the Mira Mesa Marauders and San Diego Cavers, who clinched Eastern and City ...

No one could replace Bill Walton, so Ralph Drollinger just succeeded him. The 7-foot Drollinger, an inch taller than the legendary Walton, played at Grossmont, arch rival of Walton’s Helix. Drollinger posted San Diego County’s second highest, one-season scoring total, 878 points, to Walton’s 958. Drollinger won a San Diego Section championship, to Walton’s two. Drollinger attended UCLA and ...

Vincent W. (Vince) Breddell III, a star sprinter at Kearny in 1969 and ’70, passed recently. Coach Jim Cerveny’s teams, which battled Clairemont for Western League domination, were built around the swift Breddell. Breddell was fourth in the state 100-yard dash final at Berkeley in 1970 after winning the San Diego Section championship in :09.7.  He won ...

The San Diego Section regular season will end Feb. 8 and championships in at least three of the 19 basketball-playing leagues  will come down to the final week. Rancho Buena Vista (6-1) and Vista (5-2) will meet at Vista for the Avocado League  title.  RBV edged the rival Panthers, 62-61, in the teams’ first meeting. University City ...

The 880-yard relay, a frenetic and often perilous event, provided a wild conclusion to the CIF Southern Section finals at Compton. San Diego High won the team championship, surviving rush-hour traffic and a near pileup, not unlike a wild main event of a midget auto racing card in Balboa Stadium. The Hillers’ Charlie Davis, spiked by another ...