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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, ...

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, ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...