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Jake Hall’s two, late three-point baskets got No. 1 seed Carlsbad past Montgomery, 56-47, Saturday, February 24, for the San Diego Section Open Division championship. The victory, before more than 3,000  persons at U.C. San Diego’s LionTree Arena avenged a 63-55 loss to the No. 3 Aztecs (28-3) in December, was the Lancers’ 19th straight victory ...

Mission Hills earned its fourth Open Division title, after three straight failed attempts, with a hard fought win over La Jolla Country Day, 63-56. The Grizzlies held off a late comeback by the Torreys, and coach Chris Kroesch credited a 14 point blitz, and 18 total,  by Lindsay Jones as the difference maker, saying “She ...

Willie Banks of Oceanside and Elijah Jefferson of Crawford offered a historic footnote to the 56th state meet in Bakersfield. Banks and Jefferson we’re the first from the San Diego Section to win successive state championships since Chula Vista’s Tim Danielson in 1965-66 and only the second and third from the area to repeat since the ...

 Scores through Friday, February 23, are included below.  A playoffs wrap-up will appear later along with pairings for the Southern California regionals. Almost all divisions met seeding expectations, without even a “last second thriller”, but there were some surprises. Division IV No. 4 Escondido Charter upset No. 1 La Jolla. Power ratings notwithstanding, the White Tigers were ...

 Scores through Friday, February 23, are included below.  A playoffs wrap-up will appear later along with pairings for the Southern California regionals. No. 1 Carlsbad will try to reverse a 63-55 loss in December to  No. 3 Montgomery when the Lancers and Aztecs meet in the San Diego Section Open Division championship Saturday at U.C. San ...

For the first time in the San Diego Section’s 14 years, a team not from the city or the eastern suburbs had reached the playoff finals. Twenty-six squads, including Hoover, Helix, El Capitan, Crawford, Point Loma, San Diego, Santana, Kearny, Clairemont, and University had won or gotten to the championship game from 1961-73, and they were ...

Two rounds of San Diego Section playoffs produced at least four shockers, sending power ratings analysts diving for cover. No. 8 seed Scripps Ranch defeated No. 1 Santa Fe Christian in a second-round game, 60-51, in Division I  in the week’s most significant reversal. There were others:  A 6 seed over an 11, a 12 over ...

See table below for scores and pairings. All games except final, are at higher (lower number) seed.

John Maffei’s weekly, final regular-season Union-Tribune poll. # TEAM RECORD POINTS PREVIOUS MAX-PREPS CAL-HI SPORTS 1 Carlsbad 26-2 (8) 161 1 8/9 15/15 2 Montgomery 26-2 (9) 159 2 17/20 20/21 3 St. Augustine 24-4 139 3 21/21 21/20 4 Torrey Pines 21-7 108 4 40/37 On the Bubble 5 La Jolla Country Day 22-5 103 5 59/58 NR/NR 6 La Costa Canyon 19-7 79 6 58/65 NR/NR 8 Mission Hills 21-7 50 7 76/80 NR/NR 7 Santa Fe Christian 20-8 64 8 98/88 NR/NR 9 Cathedral 19-8 38 9 106/102 NR/NR 10 San Marcos 22-6 9 NR 133/126 NR/NR Others receiving votes Vista (19-9, 5 points), Mission Bay (17-11, 5), San Diego Southwest (25-2, 3), Rancho Buena Vista ( 21-7, 2), Olympian (24-3, 1), Victory Christian (18-9, 1), First-place votes in parenthesis. Points on ...

John Maffei’s Girls Week 7 Union-Tribune Poll td:nth-child(2) { text-align: left; padding-left: 10px;} Rank/Prev Team (Record) Points* MaxPreps Rank/Rating Cal-Hi Sports 35 1/1 Mission Hills (20-8) 60 (6) 16/31.68 15/15 2/2 La Jolla Country Day (22-6) 54 20/30.11 22/22 3/4 Westview (18-10) 41 76/23.19 NR 4/3 Poway (19-8) 39 81/22.51 NR 5/8 Francis Parker (16-9) 35 101/21.15 NR 6T/5T Bonita Vista (14-12) 34 148/18.08 NR 6T/7 Del Norte (18-9) 39 119/19.81 NR 8/5T Rancho Bernardo (19-9) 34 126/17.91 NR 10T/9 Bishop’s (20-7) 6 208/15.13 NR 10T/NR Grossmont (20-8) 6 211/15.93 NR Others receiving votes: Cathedral (6). *First-place votes in parentheses. Points awarded on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis. Max Preps and Cal-Hi Sports are state rankings. NR/Not ranked. The San ...

Twenty-nine champs and co-champs of 22 leagues prepare for the post-season that begins Tuesday. Now when ratings based on strength of schedule determine playoff seeds, are league banners just gym rafter eye candy for fans and newbies? Maybe, but players and coaches agree they’re a reminder of the camaraderie and journey to the top that lasts ...

What’s in a league championship? Especially in this era of power ratings and strengths of schedules and what they mean in playoff pairings and postseason division assignments, which were to be announced today. A league title represents essentially just bragging rights, but ask the players and coaches who achieved it and what they think when banners are ...

No. 1 Mission Hills rolled past Rancho Bernardo, 69-17, and Poway, 86-32, and La Jolla Country Day outscored Francis Parker, 61-54, and Grossmont , 60-42, to stay No. 2 in the poll. It was not a good week for Poway, which also lost to Westview, 72-54.  The Wolverines also beat San Marcos, 58-45, and their 2-0 ...

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 ...