1939 Track: Hilltoppers’ Heredia Barely Missed State Championship
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 […]
Read More1939 Baseball: Another Title for Mike Morrow and Hilltoppers
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 […]
Read More1970: Culp Cleared 7 feet Three Times, Won State Title
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 […]
Read More1970 Baseball: Colts’ Sandback Leaves Outstanding Legacy
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 […]
Read More2023 Track (5A): Girls Top Boys in Final State Top 25 Rankings
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 […]
Read More2023 (5): Results of the 103rd State Track and Field Championships
@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 […]
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