2015 Week 15: Down Goes Mission Hills
You could hear the gasps of shock from the North County denizens who worship at the shrine of the Mission Hills Grizzlies. St. Augustine ran away from coach Tim Hauser’s team, 48-14, as Elijah Preston rushed for 236 yards and three touchdowns before a crowd of about 6,000 at Mesa College in the San Diego […]
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Idleness breeds contempt or a drop in the ratings. Mission Hills has fallen from ninth to 11th in Cal-Hi Sports’ state top 25, partly because the Grizzlies drew a bye in the first round of the San Diego Section playoffs last week. Also byed last week, Helix remained 12th. Cathedral and St. Augustine are on the […]
Read More1947: The Crowds, They Kept Coming
Hoover principal Floyd Johnson was going to hold the line. His school was the technical host for the annual game with San Diego High in Balboa Stadium and after the throngs of recent years Johnson vowed to close sales “when the 27,000th ticket is sold.” Johnson said that he did not want to revisit the […]
Read More1947: Hilltoppers Come Oh, So Close!
Although about two-touchdown underdogs, coach Bill Bailey’s San Diego Hilltoppers took a 12-0 lead into the fourth quarter of the Southern California championship game. It would not be enough. The Hillers sustained a third consecutive loss in the finals, following defeats of the 1925 and 1933 clubs. Favored Santa Monica rallied for a 13-12 victory […]
Read More2015: Week 12, Grizzlies are No. 1 and No. 3
Undefeated Mission Hills was an almost wire-to-wire, regular-season winner in the Union-Tribune writers’ poll, but the Grizzlies are seeded only third behind Helix and St. Augustine in the Open Division of the San Diego Section playoffs, which begin this week. Power ratings, introduced three years ago, base a team’s strength on a number of factors, […]
Read More2015: Champions of 19 Leagues, Take a Bow!
The regular season is finished, playoffs are about to begin, and who claimed league championships? AVOCADO EAST […]
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