2022 Week 7: Lincoln Pressing Warhawks for No. 1.
Lincoln, now No. 2, crept up on No. 1 Madison in the Top 10 poll this week by virtue of the Hornets’ 31-17 win over Cathedral and trail the Warhawks by four first-place votes and six overall. The Hornets and Warhawks won’t meet until the season’s final regular-season game, but Madison’s status will be challenged […]
Read More2022 Week 6: Burner, Starr On Cusp of Joining 100 Club
El Capitan coach Ron Burner and Mount Miguel’s Troy Starr can become the 45th and 46th coaches in San Diego County history to win at least 100 games when the Vaqueros take on neighborhood rival Santana and the Matadors meet Monte Vista this week. Burner, who became the Vaqueros’ coach in 2005, is 99-94 as […]
Read More2022 Week 5: Idle Madison Retains No. 1 ranking.
The San Diego Union-Tribune weekly poll: Points on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis. *First-place votes. Last entries in columns indicate previous rank. NR—Not ranked. Cal-Hi Sports’ and Max Preps’ represent state rankings. RANK TEAM/RECORD POINTS MAX PREPS.COM CAL-PREPS.COM CAL-HI SPORTS 1 Madison (4-0) 16*/275/1 37/25 36.4/38.1 26/26 2 Lincoln (4-1) 5*/254/2 25/27 41.7/41.2 23/23 3 Carlsbad (3-1) 3*/230/4 […]
Read More1947 Baseball: A Vote for Point Loma As No. 1
Coach Les Cassie’s Hoover Cardinals were within nine outs of a berth in the Southern California finals. San Diego High was San Diego High, reliably formidable. But Don Clarkson’s Point Loma Pointers may have been the best of all. The Pointers won the prestigious Pomona 20-30 Rotary Club tournament, split two games with Hoover, and […]
Read More1947 Track: Barnard, Smith Win Southern California titles
Happy trails, Victory League. A bi-product of World War II, gasoline rationing, security scares, and travel restriction, the league served its purpose for four calendar years (search 1943: V is Key) as school bosses and students strived for normality. San Diego and Hoover, which joined teams in the Metropolitan League in1942 and again when the […]
Read More2022 Week 4: Defense, Naturally, Helps Army-Navy Knock Down 1940 Record
Army-Navy broke a school record last week that had been on the books since 1940, when the Warriors were based at the previous Red Apple Inn in Carlsbad. Four shutouts at the start of the season. Eighty-two years ago, the cadets of coach T.S. Walker opened with three shutouts by blanking St. Augustine, 6-0, the […]
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