2023-24 Boys Week 4: Carlsbad, Montgomery 1-2 in Votes
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 […]
Read More1973 Baseball: Huddleston’s Pointers Continue City Dominance
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 […]
Read More2023-24 Boys Week 3: Status Quo Prevails 1 Through 9
The top nine positions lingered, with only Mission Hills, on a 10-game win streak, displacing San Marcos at No. 10. Olympian, the only undefeated team at 20-0, and Mission Bay with three more wins, stayed where they were. John Maffei’s The San Diego Union-Tribune poll. # TEAM RECORD POINTS PREVIOUS MAX-PREPS CAL-HI SPORTS 1 Carlsbad […]
Read More2023-24 Boys Week 2: Four Teams at Top Separating From Field
John Maffei’s The San Diego Union-Tribune poll. # TEAM RECORD POINTS PREVIOUS MAX-PREPS CAL-HI SPORTS 1 Carlsbad 14-2 (11) 164 1 8/8 13/19 2 Montgomery 16-2 (6) 158 2 16/12 21/24 3 St. Augustine 15-3 137 3 17/17 22/NR 4 Torrey Pines 13-4 119 4 43/42 31 5 Santa Fe Christian 12-5 96 6 75-98 […]
Read More2023-24 Boys Week 1: Carlsbad No. 1, Montgomery No. 2 in Poll
A mid-November-through-December grind in which many teams completed at least half of their season schedules turns to January league play, accompanied by the popular, so-named “classics” that bring together top teams for weekend doubleheaders until the playoffs. Five teams at the top of the Union-Tribune poll appeared to have separated themselves from the pack, with […]
Read More1972 Track: Outstanding Marks, but Few Medals at State
San Diego Section track and field athletes kept getting better, but so was everyone else. Excellent marks were posted, some that would have shattered records a few years before, but didn’t earn a mention in this narrative because of ever-increasing volume, i.e., more and more good performances. With two qualifiers in each event, the section […]
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