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  • 2023 Track and Field: Boys Best Marks (3)
    Current as of May 20, 2023 Current as of May 20, 2023 EVENT NAME, SCHOOL MARK/STATE RANK STATE 100 Wells, La Costa Canyon :10.49, 16th :10.09w, Pleasant, Gardena Serra Arrington, Helix :10.58w, 21st, tie 220 Parker, Helix :21.26, 13th :20.53, Pleasant Arrington :21.29w, 14th 400 Parker :46.48, 2nd :45.92, Stanley, Granada Hills Slaughter, Mt. Carmel :48.14, 14th McCoy, Hilltop :48.52, 24th 800 Correia, Point Loma 1:51.44, 7th 1:49.07, Sahlman, Newbury Park Thomas, Torrey Pines 1:52.04, 12th Cordero, Olympian 1:53.43, 19th, tie 1600 Thomas 4:07.90, 4th Sahlman, 3:58.96 Correia 4:09.83, 11th Sanchez, Liberty Charter 4:11.64,25th 3200 Sanchez, Liberty Charter 9:06.53, ...
  • 2023 Track and Field: Girls’ Best Marks (2)
    Current as of May 13, 2023 EVENT NAME, SCHOOL MARK/STATE RANK STATE 100 Shaheed, Madison :11.73, 6th Redmond, L.A. Carson, :11.45 Smith, La Jolla :11.93, 22nd 200 Smith :24.08w, 8th :23.56, Lowe, Seaside Chartwell Shaheed :24.10w, 9th 400 Smith :54.12, 4th :53.23, Luckey, L.B. Wilson Burkhardt, Steele Canyon :56.24, 24th 800 Riggins, Del Norte 2:06.69, 2nd 2:03.7, Browne, Riverside North Arciaga, Westview 2:10.89, 11th Buswell, Poway 2:11.01, 12th Makenna Herbst, Carlsbad 2:11.37, 14th Biesinger, La Costa Canyon 2:12.27, 19th Echsner, Del Norte 2:12.36, 20th 1600 Lopizzo, La Costa Canyon 4:45.94, 5th 4:34.50, Engelhardt, Ventura Riggins 4:46.36, ...
  • 2023 Track and Field: Boys’ Best Marks (2)
    Current as of May 12, 2023. EVENT NAME, SCHOOL MARK/STATE RANK STATE 100 Wells, La Costa Canyon :10.55w, 19th tie :10.09w, Pleasant, Gardena Serra Arrington, Helix :10.58w, 21st, tie 200 Adren Parker, Helix :21.26, 13th :20.53, Pleasant Arrington :21.29w, 14th 400 Parker :46.63,3rd :45.92, Stanley, Granada Hills McCoy, Hilltop :48.52, 22nd, tie 800 Correia, Point Loma 1:51.44, 7th 1:49.07, Sahlman, Newbury Park Thomas, Torrey Pines 1:52.04, 12th 1600 Thomas 4:07.90, 4th Sahlman, 3:58.96 Correia 4:09.83, 11th 3200 Sanchez, Liberty Charter 9:06.53, unranked Parra, Long Beach Millikan, 8:46.50 110 Hurdles Martin, Helix :14.24w, 9th :13.85, Davis-Lyric, Upland 300 Hurdles Atilano, ...
  • 2023 Track and Field: Girls Best Marks (1)
    League championship meets are complete and San Diego Section athletes charge into the final three weeks of the season. Trials in San Diego Section boys and girls competition will be held May 13 at Del Norte (large schools), University City (medium) and Canyon Hills (small).  Finals are May 20 at Mt. Carmel.  The state meet is ...
  • 2023 Track and Field: Boys’ Best Marks (1)
    Twenty-nine San Diego Section athletes, plus three relay teams, rank in the state top 25 in the 17 events that will be contested at the 103rd state championships May 26-27 at Clovis Buchanan High. Ten athletes are in the top 10, including Ranch Buena Vista’s Tyler Knowles, second in the discus and eighth in the shot ...
  • 1969 Track: Section Comes Up Short at State; Track Ovals, Too?
    Dick Tomlinson, assistant coach and in charge of weight events at Mount Miguel, was suspicious, so he got a long tape measure and began surveying. Tomlinson said he discovered that the 440-yard oval track at his school was six feet short (two yards) of regulation distance. The coach told Evening Tribune writer Bill Finley that he also ...
  • 1969 Baseball: Cardinals and Colts Battled for CIF Royalty
    A road map would have been easy to follow in the first nine years of the San Diego Section: Start at 44th Street and El Cajon Boulevard and travel about 1.5 miles East and Southeast to 55th and Trojan Avenue. The Hoover Cardinals and Crawford Colts, neighbors in the East San Diego enclave eventually known as ...
  • 2022-23 Week 14C: Cold Barons Lose in State D-II final
    The shots wouldn’t go down for Bonita Vista, which converted 14 per cent of its attempts from the field in the first half to trail, 29-18, and went on to lose to  Fresno Central, 52-41, in the CIF state Division II championship at the Sacramento Golden Center Saturday afternoon. In a game in which the 3 ...
  • 2022-23 Week 14B: Bonita Vista Still Standing, Headed to Sacramento
    And then there was one. The Bonita Vista Barons girls  won the Southern California Regional Division II championship, 80-67, over Lawndale Leuzinger, while Del Norte was defeated in the D-I final at Corona Centennial, 52-39. Bonita Vista will play the Fresno Central Grizzlies (22-12), who defeated Chico Pleasant Valley, 62-51, in the Northern final, at 2 p.m. ...
  • 2022-23 Week 13C: Two in San Diego Section Remain after Regional Semifinals
    From a starting lineup of 36 teams, there are two survivors as the San Diego Section season nears the finish line with the State Regional playoff championships Tuesday night, winners of which then moving on to state championships against Northern California opponents in Sacramento March 10-11. St. Augustine, the last Boys squad to reach the semifinals, ...
  • 2022-23 Week 13B: Six Teams Move into Regional Semifinals
    Winning San Diego teams highlighted. BOYS QUARTERFINALS DIVISION TEAM/VISITOR SEED OPPONENT/HOME SEED SCORE Open St. Augustine (27-4) 4 Valencia West Ranch 5 63-60  III Lincoln (30-3) 10 Culver City (19-12) 2 82-77, OT. San Luis Obispo Mission Prep (23-9) 11 Mission Bay (24-10) 3 67-57   Ventura Buena (29-5) 8 La Jolla Country Day (24-8) 1 48-44 IV Victory Christian (24-9) 6 Ventura St. Bonaventure (25-9) 3 59-48  V Cerritos Whitney (22-10) 11 Ramona (22-10) 3 77-59 GIRLS QUARTERFINALS DIVISION TEAM/VISITOR SEED TEAM/HOME SEED SCORE Open La Jolla Country Day (29-3) 2 Bye   I Del Norte (22-10) 5 Mission Hills (22-12) 4 61-57 Mount Miguel (25-7) 14 Granada Hills Charter (26-6) 11 53-45  II La Canada Flintridge (30-3) 8 Bonita Vista (22-9) 1 93-61  III Oak Park ...
  • 2022-23 Week 13: St. Augustine Boys, Mount Miguel Girls Come Through
    First round action in the Southern California regional playoffs saw San Diego’s 36-team Boys and Girls contingent dwindle to 13, which will begin semifinals play tonight. Wiped out with an 0-8 record in Boys’ Divisions I  & II, it was left to the Open Division’s St. Augustine. The 4 seed Saints rallied to a 63-60 victory ...
  • 2022-23 Week 12C: Champions and Open Division Teams Await Regional Pairings
    St. Augustine wrapped the San Diego Section season—the Southern California regionals are next–with an 85-53 win over Montgomery before about 3,000 persons at Cathedral Saturday night, finishing off the Aztecs with a 28-11 fourth quarter. The Saints were the No. 1-seed team in the Open Division and played like it, winning by a combined total of ...
  • 2022-23 Week 11: Nine Teams Change Positions in Final Top 10
    Records are current with the finals of the San Diego Section playoffs and does not include CIF State Regional playoff results. The San Diego Union-Tribune Week 11 final poll First-place votes in parenthesis. Points on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis. First-place votes in parenthesis. Last entries in columns indicate previous rank. Cal-Hi Sports’ and Max Preps’ represent state rankings. NR—Not ranked. Records as ...
  • 2022-23 Week 12B: 5 More Upsets; D-III and D-V Finals Tonight
    Montgomery knocked off favored Carlsbad in a battle of Open Division 3 and 2 seeds and 3 seed Ramona edged No. 2 High Tech San Diego in Division III, but the most surprises have been in IV and V, where San Pasqual, Classical, a pair of No. 8 seeds, continued on their unexpected runs in ...
  • 2022-23 Week 12: Perfect Seeds From Open to D-III in Semifinals
    San Diego Section Open Division playoffs are down to four teams, with enticing contests tonight that match No. 4 seed San Ysidro (18-11) at 25-4 and No. 1 St. Augustine and No. 3 Montgomery (24-5) at No. 2 Carlsbad (24-5). San Ysidro, in and out all season after the high expectations of Mikey Williams’ return from ...
  • 2022-23 Week 11D, Quarterfinals: Happy Trails, Two Top Seeds
    Calexico Vincent Memorial and the Rock Academy, top seeds in Division IV and V, respectively, were among three ousted favorites in San Diego Section quarterfinals playoffs Friday night. San Pasqual (16-13) defeated Vincent (22-7) , 56-52, and Classical (15-9) outlasted Rock (21-7), 49-45, in overtime in a pair of upset victories by No. 8-ranked teams.  On ...
  • 2022-23 Week 11C: No. 2 seed Clairemont Clocked by No. 15 Brawley
    Six favorites went down in Boys’ divisions I-V in the 38-game first round of the San Diego Section playoffs. Seedings are based on power ratings that essentially are a comparison of “who you played and how who you played did.” There were some stunners, three in D-IV and V. Brawley (8-18), a 15th-ranked struggler in D-V,  traveled 132 ...
  • 2022-23 Week 11B: The Saints Are Ranked No. 1 and Playoff-seeded No. 1
    Union-Tribune prep czar John Maffei announced that this week’s poll will be for the regular season, which has ended, and that a final poll will be released following the last time out, basket, or free throw, and final tick of the scoreboard clock in the playoffs. St. Augustine so far has run the table, amassing all ...
  • 2022-23 Week 11: Hat’s Off! 42 Boys’ and Girls’ Champions
    The leagues and teams sometimes are different and some teams play football in one league and basketball in another.  Some teams don’t play football and some of these leagues don’t offer football. MaxPreps ranks any team in California that provides information and Max’s information is not always complete.  Cal-Hi Sports rates from 1 to 25 and ...