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It’s wrap-up  week in the San Diego Section, as the regular season ends Friday, Southern California postseason pairings are posted Saturday, and the second season starts with regional playoffs next week. Carlsbad, Montgomery, St. Augustine, and Torrey Pines remained 1 through 4 in the weekly Union-Tribune poll, and there was no change from last week’s 5 ...

Elijah Jefferson went where no San Diego County athlete had gone in 45 years. Willie Banks won an event that was known by another name when it was last contested 34 years before. Jefferson became the first from the area since 1929 to win the 100-yard dash in the state track meet when he followed a wind-assisted ...

Carlsbad cemented its hold on No. 1 in the Union-Tribune poll with victories of 62-54 over No. 4 Torrey Pines, 70-66 over Valencia West Ranch, and 78-57 over No. 7 La Costa Canyon. Montgomery stayed at No. 2, with no-sweat 60-27 and 88-31 dominations of Otay Ranch and San Ysidro. No. 3 St. Augustine took care of ...

No. 1 Mission Hills and No. 2 La Jolla Country Day maintained their front-runner pace, and Poway moved up to No. 3 with wins over San Marcos , 58-43, and a come-from-behind, 42-40 squeaker over former No. 3 Del Norte. As proof of the Lady Grizzlies’ dominance, their average wins are by 19 points (62-43), although ...

No. 1 Mission Hills trampled San Marcos, 72-18, but was rocked by state top 10 Santa Ana Mater Dei, 56-37, and was 2-2 in the week. No. 2 La Jolla Country Day had three local wins and a loss to Sacramento McClatchy, 63-60. The top eight spots remained intact in the Union-Tribune poll, although only Del Norte, ...

John Maffei’s weekly Union-Tribune poll. # TEAM RECORD POINTS PREVIOUS MAX-PREPS CAL-HI SPORTS 1 Carlsbad 19-2 (11) 164 1 9/7 15/13 2 Montgomery 19-2 (6) 156 2 18/15 21/21 3 St. Augustine 19-3 139 3 16/14 22/22 4 Torrey Pines 16-5 119 4 41/44 29/30 5 Santa Fe Christian 15-6 92 5 77/75 NR/NR 6 La Jolla Country Day 16-5 81 6 57/64 NR/NR 7 Cathedral 15-6 52 7 104/115 NR/NR 8 La Costa Canyon 13-5 51 8 72/77 NR/NR 9 Mission Hills 16-6 36 10 128/136 NR/NR 10 Mission Bay 14-8 20 9 93/95 NR/NR Others receiving votes Olympian (20-0, 19 points), San Marcos (16-5, 4), Rancho Buena Vista (16-6, 2), San Diego Southwest (20-2, 1). First-place votes in parenthesis. Points on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis. Bold entries in columns are up-to-date rankings followed by previous. Cal-Hi Sports’ ...

Baseball in the San Diego Section was an urban game. Point Loma became the sixth different and overall 11th city squad in the Section’s 13 seasons to win the Class AA championship when it defeated Hoover, 12-2, in the playoff finals. The Pointers, who fell to University in the 1972 championship, were coached by Dick Huddleston, who ...

The top nine positions lingered, with only Mission Hills, on a 10-game win streak, displacing San Marcos at No. 10.  Olympian, the only undefeated team at 20-0, and Mission Bay with three more wins, stayed where they were. John Maffei’s The San Diego Union-Tribune poll. # TEAM RECORD POINTS PREVIOUS MAX-PREPS CAL-HI SPORTS 1 Carlsbad 17-2 (11) 164 1 7/8 13/13 2 Montgomery 18-2 (6) 154 2 15/16 21/21 3 St. Augustine 17-3 139 3 14/17 22/22 4 Torrey Pines 14-5 119 4 44/43 30/31 5 Santa Fe Christian 14-6 104 5 75/75 NR/NR 6 La Jolla Country Day 14-5 82 6 64/63 NR/NR 7 Cathedral 14-6 42 7 115/101 NR/NR 8 La ...

The Lady Grizzlies of Mission Hills overpowered  Westview, 71-37,  and Rancho Bernardo, 70-27, and stayed on top of the San Diego Section poll.  The Max Preps state No. 21 and Cal-Hi Sports No. 16 club lost to  State No. 10 Folsom, 58-49, and defeated Portola Valley Priory, 66-50, in the Stockton St. Mary’s Martin Luther ...

John Maffei’s The San Diego Union-Tribune poll. # TEAM RECORD POINTS PREVIOUS MAX-PREPS CAL-HI SPORTS 1 Carlsbad 14-2 (11) 164 1 8/8 13/19 2 Montgomery 16-2 (6) 158 2 16/12 21/24 3 St. Augustine 15-3 137 3 17/17 22/NR 4 Torrey Pines 13-4 119 4 43/42 31 5 Santa Fe Christian 12-5 96 6 75-98 NR/NR 6 La Jolla Country Day 13-5 65 5 63/82 NR/NR 7 Cathedral 13-5 52 8 101/118 NR/NR 8 La Costa Canyon 11-3 44 9 77/82 NR/NR 9 Mission Bay 10-7 29 7 157/149 NR/NR 10 San Marcos 13-4 18 10 211/219 NR/NR Others receiving votes Mission Hills (12-6, 15 points), Olympian (17-0, 12). San Diego Southwest (16-2, 5),  Hoover (12-6, 1). First-place votes in parenthesis. Points on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis. Bold entries in columns are up-to-date rankings followed by previous. Cal-Hi Sports’ ...

The status quo prevailed as Mission Hills added two, and La Jolla Country Day, one win in the new year. Bonita Vista jumped into No. 6 with a win over Francis Parker. Scripps Ranch (9-8) dropped off with a loss to Cathedral Catholic (8-6). This week tests the Lady Grizzlies vs. No. 3 Westview and No. ...

A mid-November-through-December grind in  which many teams completed at least half of their season schedules turns to January league play,  accompanied by the popular, so-named “classics” that bring together top teams for weekend doubleheaders until the playoffs. Five teams at the top of the Union-Tribune poll appeared to have separated themselves from the pack, with Carlsbad ...

The poll leaders switched places, as Mission Hills topped La Jolla Country Day prior to a recent Holiday Classic tournament game in Portland, Oregon, where the Lady Grizzlies beat the Oregon Number 11 team Portland Jefferson, but  lost to the No. 3 team, South Medford, in the tournament finals. Three of Mission Hills’ 6 losses ...

San Diego Section track and field athletes kept getting better, but so was everyone else. Excellent marks were posted, some that would have shattered records a few years before, but didn’t earn a mention in this  narrative because of ever-increasing volume, i.e., more and more good performances. With two qualifiers  in each event, the section advanced 44 ...

Strong teams abounded but it was University of San Diego High, third in the Western League and only 12-10 overall, that emerged in the Class AA playoffs. Dick Serrano coached the Dons to their first CIF championship and followed with titles in 1978, ’80, and ’81, figurative mileposts for the 1961 Uni graduate who coached and ...

The last of John Maffei’s The San Diego Union weekly poll voting was at conclusion of the San Diego Section playoffs. Cal-Hi Sports and Cal Preps.com rankings included all games in the  CIF state postseason.  Max Preps’ entries were inclusive of San Diego Section playoffs. Points awarded on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis. *First-place votes. NR–Not ranked. Last entries in ...

SirDarius Autry, a 160-pound junior running back, wide receiver, and cornerback, became the 37th player in County history to score at least 200 points in a season. “Sir” Autry also became the third running back to finish first in the County in the Hoover Cardinals’ 94-season history, according to available statistics from newspapers and Max Preps ...

The Coach 100 Club welcomed a new member in 2023 and the 200 club could add another in 2024. Mater Dei coach John Joyner, who announced he was stepping down at conclusion of the season, became the 49th to win at least 100 games, finishing the season with an all-time record of 104-69, .601 and state Division ...

It almost was all quiet on the San Diego County track and field front. Pole vaulter Bob Henderson of San Diego high tied for second in the state meet at 12 feet, 9 inches, and was the only local entry to score. Henderson had a career best of 13 feet and teammate Ben Sohn was one of ...

After five defeats in the Southern California regionals, including a couple jaw-droppers, Del Norte, 30-28 to Lake Balboa Birmingham, and St. Augustine, 21-20 to Ventura St. Bonaventure, the San Diego Section is down to one team. Would you believe 8-6 Sweetwater? The same Red Devils, 0-4 at the start of the season and 8-43 from 2015-20, who ...