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Grossmont became the eighth different team since 1980 to win the San Diego Section 2-A championship.  Forgotten by many, the title also was the Foothillers’ first since they claimed a larger bauble.  They won the Southern Section major division crown, 5-0, over Compton in 1951. The Foothillers also won a Southern Section minor division title in ...

The week’s schedule is loaded with potential benchmark league openers as 11 of the 18 San Diego Section loops begin play. Key games: AVOCADO Carlsbad (5-0), @Mission Hills (4-1). Mission Hills leads, 4-3, since 2011 in games matching two of the section’s most successful coaches, the Grizzlies’ Chris Hauser and Carlsbad’s Thadd MacNeal…Hauser is in his 23rd season, ...

The Army and Navy Academy, which has graduated future officers and gentlemen since 1910, won its fourth straight game last week, 55-0, over Francis Parker in the Coastal League opener and has not allowed a point this season, rampaging to consecutive blowouts of at least 40 points. But it will be a huge underdog this week ...

Carlsbad cut into Lincoln’s first place lead in the Union-Tribune poll for a second straight week and had 13 No. 1 votes to the Hornets’ 17. Lincoln had 19 first-place votes two weeks ago but lost ground again despite a 54-19 win over declining state Division II-AA champion Mater Dei, while Carlsbad crowned Queen Creek Castille, ...

A month ago, before the games, Lincoln and Carlsbad were the likely candidates for a destination game in the Open Division playoffs, well into November. The Hornets and Lancers have not disappointed, 6-0 combined with impressive wins against intersectional rivals. It’s too early to rule out other contenders, but Cathedral, after an early rout of Mater Dei, ...

After a 45-21 win at Mountain View St. Francis of the Central Coast Section the question this week is Helix back? The question last week was whether Cathedral was back.  Not quite, after a 40-30 loss at L.A. Mission Hills Chaminade. The Honor Bowl, a Sean Doyle favorite, will provide another opportunity for Doyle’s Dons this ...

Is Cathedral back? The Dons, uncharacteristically uneven in 2022 despite their even 6-6 record, blasted Mater Dei, Cal-Hi Preps’ preseason state No. 34 and San Diego Section’s No. 3, 55-14, in the season opener and look for more success this week at Los Angeles West Hills Chaminade, a team coach Sean Doyle’s state Division I championship ...

The San Diego Section, 63 years young, is back for its 64th season. Lincoln and Carlsbad, which played for the Division I championship in 2022, begin play this week ranked 1 and 2 in John Maffei’s preseason Union-Tribune poll and they are close in the other major polls, Max Preps and CalPreps and Cal-Hi Sports. Lincoln will ...

San Diego High, which would have had four entries plus its relay team, opted not to participate in the 26th state meet at Visalia High, a 300-mile jaunt from the Border city. The Hilltoppers were nosed out of the Southern Section championship (below) but would have been one of the  teams vying for the championship and ...

San Diego High gave Southern Section commissioner Seth Van Patten the figurative middle-finger salute when the Hillers were denied permission to play Delano High of the Central Section for a mythical state championship. After being told San Diego would meet Long Beach Wilson in a one-game Southern Section playoff, San Diego players voted not to participate, ...

San Diego Section entries totaled only a combined 10 points in the state meet, but they set one individual state meet record and provided some excellence not seen on the scoreboard. Clairemont’s Dale Fleet set a state meet record of 8:53.8 in the two-mile run and broke Tim Danielson’s County record of 8:55.7.  Helix’ Ed Mendoza ...

A stunning Eastern League wipeout saw Crawford, Patrick Henry, and St. Augustine knocked out of the playoffs by the quarterfinals round. No team from the that circuit had failed to advance to the semifinals in the San Diego Section’s first 10 seasons, 1961-70, and had won 8 of 10 championships. Kearny, from the Western League, emerged this ...

San Diego High’s defending state championship team had the splendid miler, Al Heredia, but it was a quiet season overall in the militarily vital Coastal zone. The young men of the area undoubtedly were aware of the war clouds in Europe that would lead to World War II. 3/16/39 Oceanside won the 880-yard relay in 1:36.2 ...

San Diego’s 11th CIF Southern section championship and Coach Dewey (Mike) Morrow’s sixth came at the end of a turbulent decade and on the eve of World War II. The Great Depression that started in 1929 raged through the ‘thirties and playoffs would be affected as the CIF moved forward.  San Diego did not participate in ...

Jerry Culp starred on a vanishing stage. The Oceanside High senior  became the eighth prep high jumper to clear seven feet, scaling the height three times and winning the state championship with a leap of 7 feet, ¼ inch. But since an Oregon State high jumper had perfected a new, drastically event-changing style and won an Olympic ...

Bill Sandback, who coached Crawford to four San Diego Section championships in nine seasons, was moving on, succeeding retiring Ed Sanclemente at Mesa College. Sandback, an erstwhile hockey player from Minnesota, coached teams that posted an overall record of 164-60, a .732 winning percentage.  His 1964 squad (22-4) was declared the top team in the state ...

San Diego Section boys and girls accounted for 19 Top 5 performances in California, according to Athletic.net; 34 Top 10, and 87  top 25 in the season which ended last weekend at the 103rd State Championships before a two-day total of 14,134 persons at Clovis Buchanan High. The season belonged to the females.  They were responsible ...

@CLOVIS BUCHANAN HIGH San Diego Section athletes scored two first places in the waning hours of the two-day, 103rd state track meet at Clovis Buchanan High over the weekend. The Section had no gold medals in 2022 and the meet was canceled in 2020 and ’21. The results, although not as impressive as the record seven gold ...

More than 60 athletes from the San Diego Section will leave a cloudy, drizzly May gray  for very warm Clovis and the 103rd state track meet Friday and Saturday. First three finishers plus others who finished from fourth and beyond in their events and who met the state meet standard in last week’s Section finals earned ...

Current as of May 20, 2023 EVENT NAME, SCHOOL MARK/STATE RANK STATE 100 Shaheed, Madison :11.58, 4th Redmond, L.A. Carson, :11.45 Shaheed 24:06w, 9th :23.36w, Neal, Gardena Serra 200 Smith, La Jolla :24.08w, 10th 400 Smith :54.12, 4th :52.71, Luckey, L.B. Wilson Burkhardt, Steele Canyon :55.13, 12th 800 Riggins, Del Norte 2:06.69, 2nd 2:03.7, Browne, Riverside North Buswell, Poway 2:08.30, 4th D. Janik, Torrey Pines 2:10.74, 14th Arciaga, Westview 2:10.89, 16th Makenna Herbst 2:11.37 17th Biesinger, La Costa Canyon 2:12.27, 21st Echsner, Del Norte 2:12.36, 22nd 1600 Dailey, La Jolla 4:42.62, 3rd 4:34.50, Engelhardt, ...