2021-22 Week 13: Top Seeds Reign in 7 of 10 Boys’ and Girls’ Championships
Seven of the No. 1 seeds in the San Diego Section boys’ and girls’ playoff divisions of five each made it through the four rounds to championships. Most of the surprises were in boys Division V, a distant bracket appealing mostly to friends and relatives of the competing teams. The computer, from which most pairings […]
Read More2021-22 Week 12: Regular-Season League Champions and Rankings
Playoffs begin Wednesday, February 16, for boys, Tuesday, February 15, for girls. BOYS LEAGUE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE TEAM LEAGUE OVERALL AVERAGE Avocado San Dieguito 7-1 16-7 66.1-56 Central *Kearny 5-3 14-6 66-52.9 Citrus Victory Christian 6-0 18-10 63.3-51.5 City Patrick Henry 6-2 16-11 55.9-51.8 Coastal Santa Fe Christian 11-1 19-9 64.8-56.4 Desert Imperial 7-2 14-8 54.6-50.9 […]
Read More1961 Track: First-Year Section Finding Its Way
Divorced from the Southern Section after 47 years, the new San Diego Section was one of the smallest in the state, 28 schools, and found itself with one automatic qualifier for each event in the state meet. The legislation by the state CIF ended the possibility, however unlikely, of as many as three in each […]
Read More2021-22 Week 11: One More Round Then The Playoffs
Regular-season play wraps up this week and pairings for the San Diego Section playoffs will take place Saturday morning. BOYS John Maffei’s The San Diego Union-Tribune poll. First-place points in parenthesis. Points on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis. RANK TEAM RECORD POINTS LAST WEEK 1. St. Augustine (15) 18-7 159 1 2. San Marcos (1) 20-4 140 3 […]
Read More1961 Baseball: Morehead (15-0) Leads Hoover (24-3) to Title
Hoover was 1-7 in football but then the seasons changed.  The Cardinals won the first San Diego Section championship with a 24-3 record in winter basketball and repeated the 24-3 with another title in spring baseball. There were seven no-hitters pitched in the San Diego Section this year but none by Hoover’s Dave Morehead, who […]
Read More2021-22 Week 10: League Leaders and Poll Leaders
BOYS LEAGUE TEAM LEAGUE OVERALL AVERAGE Avocado San Dieguito 5-0 13-6 66.2-56.1 Central Kearny 4-1 13-4 66-52.9 Citrus Victory Christian 4-0 15-9 65.8-52.4 City Point Loma 4-2 7-11 55.2-54.6 Coastal Torrey Pines 5-0 16-5 65.2-52.7 Desert Imperial 6-1 11-6 54-49.4 Eastern Morse 3-0 14-6 51.1-44.3 Grossmont Hills Grossmont 5-0 13-10 54.5-52 Grossmont Valley Monte Vista […]
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