2022 Week 11 B: Overtime, How it Began; Lincoln Regular-Season Champion
Granite Hills’ epic, four-overtime, 46-44 win over Helix for the Grossmont Hills championship represented the longest game in San Diego County history, although the first overtime contest also was long, for another reason. From the 1976 season narrative: NEW TIE-BREAKER TESTED “History-making events are supposed to be heralded with sounding trumpets and helium-filled balloons,” wrote […]
Read More2022 Week 10: Many League Races Too Early to Call
Five league championships have been decided in the San Diego Section and 14 more will be settled this week or end with ties. No. 1 Madison is at No. 2 Lincoln for the Western League flag and No. 7 Granite Hills is at No. 5 Helix for Grossmont Hills honors in featured jousts. Carlsbad (Avocado), […]
Read More1967 Baseball: Go East, Young Man; Power Continues to Shift From Cavers
San Diego High, one year removed from a San Diego Section championship, posted a 10-12 record. The sub-.500 finish represented the Cavemen’s poorest record since the 1907 squad of coach Lawrence Carr, Sr., was 0-7. Yes, 1907, according to Don King’s Caver Conquest. Power had moved East after being seated for most of the last […]
Read More2022 Week 9: Cathedral and St. Augustine Renew “Holy” Rivalry
The so-called “Holy Bowl” tees up for the 61st time this week when St. Augustine visits Cathedral. They have met every year since 1966 except 2007, including playoff games. Cathedral leads, 38-22, in a series that began six years after Cathedral, then known as University of San Diego High, played its first season of varsity […]
Read More2022 Week 8: City League on Center Stage This Week
Point Loma, 6-1 for the first time since 2014, visits University City Saturday evening in a City League game with championship implications. The Centurions are 2-0 in league play and the Pointers 1-0. Mission Bay, Morse, and Canyon Hills all have at least one defeat. U. City is feeling good about itself, 5-2, and back […]
Read More1967 Track: Valencia’s National Lead Comes on Short Track
Sweetwater High was the site for several outstanding performances over the years in the National City Junior Chamber of Commerce Relays and other events of distance, usually in early March. Few of those individual or team marks were repeated or equaled, one of which drew the most attention and eventually called for surveyors and tape […]
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