Ratings for boys and girls by The San Diego Union-Tribune, Max Preps, and Cal-Hi Sports.  Records may be inaccurate as teams play daily.  Cal-Hi Sports ranks only a top 25.  Ratings for San Diego Section girls’ teams is coordinated by Terry Monahan.

The San Diego Union-Tribune boys’ 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 (16)	15-6	160	1
2.	Torrey Pines	15-4	140	3
3.	San Marcos	14-4	128	2
4.	San Ysidro	14-5	107	6
5.	Mission Hills	14-6	100	4
6.	La Costa Canyon	13-5	68	7
7.	Mission Bay	15-6	51	8
8.	Cathedral	15-7	41	5
9	Francis Parker	10-4	30	NR
10.	Del Norte	16-5	25	NR

OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES
Carlsbad (12-8, 20), Madison (15-6, 3), La Jolla Country Day (12-5), Mater Dei (10-6), Orange Glen (14-5), San Diego (13-6), 2 each.

VOTING PANEL

• John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune.
• Aaron Burgin Fulltime Hoops.com.
• Nick Pollino, Fox 5 San Diego.
• John Kentera, Braden Suprenant, 97.3-FM The Fan.
• Adam Paul, ECPreps.com.
• Bodie DeSilva, scorebooklive.com.
• Rick Smith, Partletonsports.com.
• Terry Monahan, Eric Williams, Steve Brand, Freelance correspondents.
• Brad Enright, LA Court Report.
• Ramon Scott, Eastcountysports.com.
• Steve (Biff) Dolan, Mountain Country, 107.9-FM.
• Christian Pedersen, San Diego Sports Association.
• Max Preps.    

INCLUDING STATE RANKINGS

BOYS

TEAM	WON-LOST	SAN DIEGO SECTION	MAX PREPS	CAL-HI SPORTS
St. Augustine	15-6	1	37	17
Torrey Pines	14-4	2	59	NR
San Marcos	14-4	3	34	NR
San Ysidro	14-5	4	66	Bubble
Mission Hills	14-6	5	64	NR
La Costa Canyon	13-5	6	70	NR
Mission Bay	15-6	7	97	NR
Cathedral	15-7	8	108	NR
Francis Parker	10-4	9	148	NR
Del Norte	16-5	10	152	NR

GIRLS

TEAM	WON-LOST	SAN DIEGO SECTION	MAX PREPS	CAL-HI SPORTS
La Jolla Country Day	16-2	1	2	2
Cathedral	13-3	2	9	10
The Bishop’s	12-2	3	49	NR
Mission Hills	12-6	4	19	19
Mount Miguel	12-6	5	55	NR
El Camino	11-3	6	37	NR
Carlsbad	12-6	7	94	NR
Scripps Ranch	15-5	8	176	NR
Del Norte	14-8	9	129	NR
Otay Ranch	12-1	10	232	NR

 

RATINGS GAME

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 (12)	13-6	152	1
2.	San Marcos (4)	12-3	147	2
3.	Torrey Pines	12-4	115	3
4.	Mission Hills	13-5	107	5
5.	Cathedral	15-5	100	4
6.	San Ysidro	12-5	74	7
7.	La Costa Canyon	12-3	72	8
8.	Mission Bay	14-5	60	6
9	Carlsbad	11-7	40	NR
10.	Mater Dei	9-5	9	9

OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES
Francis Parker (8-4, 6 points), Scripps Ranch (13-6, 2), La Jolla Country Day (10-4), Del Norte (14-5), La Jolla Country Day (10-4), San Diego (10-5) Santa Fe Christian (11-7), 1 point each.

VOTING PANEL

• John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune.
• Aaron Burgin Fulltime Hoops.com.
• Nick Pollino, Fox 5 San Diego.
• John Kentera, Braden Suprenant, 97.3-FM The Fan.
• Adam Paul, ECPreps.com.
• Bodie DeSilva, scorebooklive.com.
• Rick Smith, Partletonsports.com.
• Terry Monahan, Eric Williams, Steve Brand, Freelance correspondents.
• Brad Enright, LA Court Report.
• Ramon Scott, Eastcountysports.com.
• Steve (Biff) Dolan, Mountain Country, 107.9-FM. Christian 
• Christian Pedersen, San Diego Sports Association.
• Max Preps.   

San Diego could have locked up another Southern California championship, but the Hillers, who had won team titles in 1929, ’38, ’41, ’42, and ’48, were outscored by a tall timber topper from Glendale Hoover.

Hurdler, jumper, and anchorman Jack Davis scored 19 of the Tornadoes’ 24 points, leaving the defending champion Hillers in second place with 16 points.  Third was Grossmont, with 13.

The 6-foot, 3-inch Davis, who earned Olympic silver medals in the 110 meters in 1952 and ’56, was a four-time national collegiate hurdles champion at USC and held the world record of :13.4 in 1956.

Davis became a real estate developer who also helped found the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista in 2007 and lived on Point Loma for many years before passing in 2012.

Meanwhile, coach Bill Patten’s San Diego squad and Jack Mashin’s Grossmont thinclads dominated the Coast League, and Sandy MacLaren’s La Jolla Vikings were a Metropolitan League power.

Grossmont’s Duane Pusey’s 13-foot, 3/8-inch pole vault was third highest in the country and Hal Norris’ 57-1 shot put was fifth.

2/24/49

Hal Norris of Grossmont put the shot 53 feet, 8 inches, and Hal Espy of San Diego ran the 100-yard dash in :10.1 in the first annual San Diego High Relays at Balboa Stadium.

Grossmont scored 56 points in Class A, 56 ½ in B, and 54 in C to sweep the field.  San Diego was runner-up in all three classifications with 41, 55 1/2, and 34, respectively.

3/4/49

Jerry Mock doubled in :10.2 and :23.5 in the 100 and 220 and Metropolitan League favorite La Jolla defeated Point Loma, 65 ½-38 ½.

3/15/49

Duane Pusey set a school record with a pole vault of 13 feet, 3/8 inches, and Hal Norris put the shot 53-1 ½ in Grossmont’s 81 2/3-22 1/3 win over Hoover.

The Foothillers won 11 of 12 events, with Alan Archard and Jim Weed doubling for wins in the hurdles and dashes, respectively.

Jerry Mock won the 100 in :10.5, 220 in :23.1, and the shotput at 46 feet in La Jolla’s 79 2/3-24 1/3 win over Sweetwater.

Ken Farnsworth ran :15.3 in the 120-yard high hurdles and :22 in the 180 lows, and Kearny outscored Escondido, 61-42.

3/18/49

Point Loma almost won out and wiped out Oceanside, 101-3, with a cumulative advantage of 248-19 in A, B (86-4), and C (63-12) in a Metropolitan League meet.

3/19/49

San Diego (34 ½) and Grossmont (21 ½) were 1-2 in large schools’ team scoring and La Jolla (35) won the small-schools competition in the 28^th Southern Counties’ Invitational at Huntington Beach.

Charlie Davis won the 100-yard dash in :10.3 and contributed to the Hillers’ other first place, a 1:33.6 effort in the 880 relay.

Hal Norris was first in the shot put at 54-4 ¾ and Duane Pusey cleared 12-6 in the pole vault for Grossmont’s firsts.

La Jolla’s Jerry Mock won a 100 heat in :10.4.  Teammates Jesse Estrada, 880 heat in 2:02.3, and Riley, mile in 4:44.2, also were victorious.

3/27/49

San Diego beat visiting Compton 75 2/3-28 1/3, as Charlie Davis won three events with season bests, 10 seconds in the 100, :22.8 in the 220, and 22-6 ¾ in the broad jump.  Davis finished his day anchoring San Diego to a season best 1:32.9 relay.

John Davis of the Hillers reached 52 feet, 3 inches in the shot put and Albert Rodin cleared 12-8 in the pole vault.

3/29/49

Hank Cagle squeezed in between two Grossmont runners for second place in the 880 and that was the difference in San Diego’s 52 2/3-51 1/3 showdown dual meet victory over Grossmont.

The Cavers still had to win, as expected, in the 880 relay.  Charlie Davis, Herb McClister, Darnes Johnson, and Hal Espy clocked a season best 1:31.7.

Dick Swanson also came through for San Diego with a 4:38.9 mile. Hal Norris’ season best 55-1 ½ led the Foothillers. 

4/2/49

Jim Weed and Alan Archard combined to separate Grossmont from Compton in a 62-42 victory at the Northern school. The duo scored 23 points.

Archard doubled with wins of :20.5 in the low hurdles and 20 feet, 6 inches, in the broad jump, and was second in the high hurdles.

Weed won the 440 in :51.8 and 100 in :10.2.

–Fentriss Neal set a school record of :52.3 in the 440 but Chula Vista bowed to Point Loma, 58 ½-45 ½.  Homer Broome doubled in :10.3 and :22.6 in the 100 and 220 for the Pointers.

4/8/49

La Jolla swept Classes A, B, and C and improved to 6-0 in all three divisions in a Metropolitan League dual at Escondido.

The Vikings of coach Sandy MacLaren defeated the Cougars, 89-14, in A, 70 ½-24 ½ in B, and 45-32 in C on the Grape city team’s layout.  Escondido had been unbeaten in Class C.

Jerry Wood, Jesse Estrada, and Jerry Mock wheeled for six individual victories.

Wood won the 120-yard high hurdles (:15.6) and 180 lows (:21.6), Estrada the 880 (2:06.3) and broad jump (20-6 ½), and Mock the 100 (:10.1) and 220 (:23.1).

–Hoover dropped a Coast League dual at Compton, 69 ½-32 ½, but the Cardinals’ Malcolm Herbert turned in the best time of the season, clocking :15.2 in the 120-yard highs.

4/20/49

Alan Archard tied for first in the 120-yard low hurdles in :13.3.  Hal Norris hurled the shot 53-11 ½, and Duane Pusey pole vaulted 12-9 as the traveling Foothillers outscored Pasadena, 70 ½-32 ½, and Pasadena Muir, 92 ½-10 ½, in a Coast League triangular.

–San Diego dominated Hoover, 79 2/3-24 1/3, in a Coast League dual under the lights in Balboa Stadium.

Malcolm Herbert of Hoover ran the year’s fastest high hurdles race, :15.  Dick Swanson of San Diego ran the mile in 4:39.4.

4/21/49

Fentriss Neal won the 100 in :10.3 and set a school record of :22.7 in the 220 in Chula Vista’s 64-40 win over Kearny.  Ken Farnsworth doubled in the hurdles (:15.4 and :20.3) for the Komets.

4/22/49

With Grossmont out of the Metropolitan League and now a member of the Coast, the coast was clear for La Jolla and the Vikings made a clean sweep of dual meets.

La Jolla beat Oceanside, 93-11, in class A, 89-5 in B, and 57-20 in C to finish with a 7-0 record in all classes.

4/23/49

San Diego did not win an individual event but rolled with its winning relay team (1:31.7) and piled up seconds, thirds, and fourths, and took the championship with 43 ½ points at the Compton Gold Cup invitational.

Grossmont was fourth behind the Hillers, Compton, and Long Beach Poly, with 23 points. Hal Norris set a meet record of 56-4 in the shot put and Duane Pusey was first in the pole vault at 12-9.

4/27/49

Grossmont qualified 24 entries in Class A.  San Diego had 17, Compton 13 and Hoover 11 in the Coast League trials at San Diego State.

Malcolm Herbert of Hoover set a meet record of :20.1 in the 180 low hurdles and Hal Norris of Grossmont bettered the shot put record with a toss of 55-2 1/2.

4/28/49

La Jolla and Point Loma, 1-2 in the dual meet season, each qualified 13 entries in the Metropolitan League trials at San Diego State.

Chula Vista’s Fentriss Neal, one of the league’s best sprinters, was forced to withdraw because of illness, depriving a matchup with La Jolla’s Jerry Mock, who took the lead in the 100 with a time of :10.

4/30/49

COAST LEAGUE FINALS, @COMPTON

Coach Jack Mashin, aptly known as the Fox of the Foothills, saw his Grossmont High squad surprise in the Coast League finals with a team-leading 69 1/2 points.

San Diego, the regular-season champion and a one-point dual meet winner over Mashin’s group, was second with 52. Compton had 38 and Hoover 11 ½.

Grossmont’s Alan Archard set a school record of :15.2 in the high hurdles and won the lows in :20.1, each time defeating favored Armstrong of Compton and Malcolm Herbert of Hoover.

The Foothillers’ Hal Norris set a meet record with a shot put of 56-6 ½.  Teammate Jim Weed took the 440 in :51.2.  Class B shot putter, sophomore Clyde Wetter, posted a record 51-3 with the 10-pound weight.

SOUTHERN PREP FINALS, @VISTA

San Dieguito scored 122 1/3 points, with second-place Vista far behind with 70 points.

Jack Albrecht of Army-Navy put the shot 45-7 ½ and Williams of Ramona ran the mile in 4:58.2 for meet records.

METROPOLITAN LEAGUE, @SAN DIEGO STATE

5/2/49

Eddie Davis of Chula Vista ran the mile in 4:35.7, breaking the school record of 4:39.2, set in 1946, but La Jolla continued its dual-meet dominance with 62 points and won the team championship.

Jerry Mock of La Jolla was a double winner at :10.2 in the 100 and :22.5 in the 220.  Ken Farnsworth of Kearny also doubled, winning the high hurdles in :15.5 and lows in :20.9.

5/7/49

San Diego led all qualifiers with 10 in the Southern Section Divisional trials at San Diego State.

The Hillers’ 880 relay team of Charlie Davis, Herb McClister, Darnes Johnson, and Hal Espy clocked 1:31.6, their best time of the year.

Charlie Davis edged La Jolla’s Jerry Mock in a :10.1 100 and Mock topped Davis with a :22.2 220.  The Hillers’ Rudy Graham won the broad jump at 21 feet, 6 inches.

Competition involved qualifiers from the Coast, Imperial Valley, Metropolitan, Southern Prep, and Sunset leagues.

5/14/49

Jerry Mock of La Jolla was a double winner in the Divisional semifinal meet at San Diego State, winning the 100 in :10.2 and 220 in :22.2.

San Diego High was the unofficial team winner with 25½ points, Grossmont second with 19, La Jolla third with 18, and Compton fourth with 15.

5/21/49

San Diego’s defending Southern Section team champion finished second to Glendale Hoover, which had 24 points to the Hillers’ 16.  Grossmont was third with 13.

The meet at Long Beach Wilson saw the Tornadoes’ Jack Davis win the high hurdles (:14.5), lows (:19.2), finish second in the broad jump (23-7 ¼), and anchor the winning relay team (1:29.8) as Davis, trailing San Diego’s Hal Espy by two yards at the baton exchange, got to the tape two inches ahead of Espy, according to the report by the Los Angeles Times’ John De La Vega.

–San Diego had the same relay time as the winner.

–Jerry Mock of La Jolla was third and Charlie Davis of San Diego fifth in the 100, won in :09.9 by Russ Miller of Long Beach Poly.

–Eddie Davis of Chula Vista was third in the mile, won in 4:30.6 by Bob Simon of Pomona.

–Jim Weed of Grossmont was fifth in the 440, won in :50.6 by Jerry Borlin of Glendale Hoover.  Duane Pusey of Grossmont won the pole vault at 12-6 and teammate Dave Smith tied for third at 12 feet. Alan Archard was fifth in the 180 lows.

–Hal Norris of Grossmont was second in the shot put at 56-10 ½, won at 57-9 ¼ by future world record holder Parry O’Brien of Santa Monica.

–John Davis of San Diego was third in the shot put at 52-10. Hal Espy was second, four yards behind Miller of Long Beach Poly, who won the 220 in :21.5.

5/28/49

The 31^st state meet at the L.A. Coliseum was in the evening following afternoon trials.

–Hal Norris reached a career high of 57-1 in the shot put, ahead of Southern Section champ Parry O’Brien’s 55-2 3/4 and second to the 57-3 1/3 of Merced’s Elmer Wilhoite.

–John Davis of San Diego was sixth in the shot at 53-3 ¼.

–Norris was fourth at 45-9 1/2 and Davis fifth at 45-4 5/8 in the exhibition 16-pound shot, won by O’Brien at 47-11 ¼.

–Hal Espy of San Diego was fifth in the 220 in :22.1.  The 880 relay squads of San Diego and L.A. Jefferson were disqualified for lane violations in the trials.

–Duane Pusey was second in the pole vault at 12-9, won by Bob Widman of Harbor City Narbonne at 13-4 ½.  Grossmont’s Dave Smith tied for fifth at 12-3.

 

Only a team more than 400 hundred miles away and in another state could stop coach Dewey (Mike) Morrow’s powerful San Diego Hillers.

The also named Cavemen dropped three of four games in a home-and-home series with Arizona’s Tucson Badgers but bludgeoned 29 teams from Southern California and won Morrow’s 10th Southern Section championship.

According to Don King’s “Caver Conquest”, Morrow had seven hitters in his lineup who batted at least .400 in a 10-0 Coast League season.

The Hillers averaged 15 runs a game and scored at least 10 runs in 24.

Morrow had coached 10 of San Diego’s Southern California championships since the Montana native came to the Hilltop from the University of California at Berkeley in 1926.

3/1/49

Hoover scored nine runs in the fourth inning and defeated the team from the destroyer tender USS Piedmont, 10-7, at Navy Field.

–Kearny won at La Jolla, 12-11, in a nonleague game between Metropolitan League rivals.  Tom Eggert hit a three-run home run for the Komets.

3/4/49

Bill Atkisson gave up two hits and Don Bonatus and Jack MacKay each had two and Hoover defeated Point Loma, 3-1, on the Pointers’ diamond.

–John Doughty and Dick Geraci, limited host Brown Military to two hits in a 10-4 Sweetwater victory.

3/8/49

Bill Guevarra struck out 17 and pitched Oceanside to a 6-3 win at Escondido.  Erwin Heald drove in three runs with a double and two singles.

–Don Lenardi and Jack Wilburn each hit grand slam home runs in Grossmont’s 10-8 win over visiting La Jolla.

3/10/49

After opening with wins of 12-2 and 20-5 over La Jolla, San Diego High hooked up with interstate power Tucson, Arizona, for a two-game series in Balboa Stadium.

The Hillers won the opener, 9-6, as Frank Sanfillipo and Tommy Martinez each delivered two-run doubles.

–Terry Shaw had three hits and Luis Bruun clouted a three-run home run in Chula Vista’s 6-3 win at Hoover.

3/11/49

Tucson got a split in the two-game series at San Diego, 2-1.

–Sophomore John Doughty struck out 17 batters and Sweetwater defeated El Centro Central, 10-4, in the desert.

3/16/49

Vern Couts was touched for only two hits and San Diego scored a 7-1 win at Chula Vista.

–Jerry Meyers’ two-run home run in the second inning was the difference in St. Augustine’s 3-1 win at La Jolla.

3/17/49

San Diego High opened the Coast League campaign with an 11-1 victory at Hoover, advancing the Hillers to a 5-1 record.

Jack Smith had four hits and limited the Cardinals to six, with a ninth-inning single by Joe Duke scoring Ed Thile when the ball got past outfielder Chuck Powell (to become better known as Charlie).

3/20/57

The first annual Prep Baseball Carnival at Lane Field was announced to the media, which received a mimeographed, 13-page document.

“The publication, evidently designed to serve the dual role of military field order and publicity booklet, seems to cover everything from the color of pom poms to the size of the leftfielder’s belt buckle,” wrote Jerry Brucker of The Tribune-Sun.

The evernt would start at 6:55 p.m. with bands and pageantry from the seven participating Metropolitan League schools and former member Grossmont from the Coast League.

Pregame activity would conclude with the Star Spangled Banner by the massed bands at 7:50. First pitch was at 8 p.m. Teams would play three innings or to a 25-minute time limit.

3/24/49

Carnival-participating Grossmont and Coach John Hancock faced a busy weekend.

The Foothillers defeated visiting Compton, 9-0, the day before the tournament and also had a 10 a.m. appointment the day of to play Pasadena Muir.

–San Diego blanked Pasadena, 15-0, and Hoover topped Muir, 12-6, in other games with Coast League visitors.

3/25/49

Carnival chairman/Chula Vista principal Joe Rindone and vice-chairman Dick Barber of Kearny weren’t concerned with geography.

La Jolla, Oceanside, Point Loma, and Sweetwater, the “South”, defeated the “North”, Escondido, Kearny, Grossmont and Chula Vista, 8-0.

Kearny’s Jim McMinn singled off La Jolla’s Bud Hemmerly for the North’s only base hit.

The 12-inning program was reduced to a more manageable eight innings but was declared a success with announced attendance of 5,000 persons.

3/28/49

San Diego ran its record to 9-1 with a fourth straight Coast League victory, 12-3, over Grossmont.

Frank Sanfillipo hit a grandslam home run in a five-run sixth inning.  Eddie Simpson had four hits and a home run and Jack Smith gave up two hits.

–Jerry Newton was 2 for 3 and Hoover made a run in the fifth inning stand up in a 6-5 win at Chula Vista.

3/31/49

–Kearny was out hit, 8-3, but beat St. Augustine, 9-3, with Dick Bartz earning the victory.

–Metropolitan League play opened with Sweetwater’s John Doughty stopping Oceanside on five hits, 8-3.

–Escondido’s Bob Linares gave up 11 hits, including a double and triple to Bob Schertzer, but defeated Chula Vista, 4-1.

4/1/49

San Diego walked Hoover into submission, 21-3.  Three Cardinals pitchers allowed 18 bases on balls, an average of two an inning.

The Hillers, who amassed 11 hits, scored eight runs in the bottom of the first inning.

4/6/49

Neale Henderson tripled and Frank Sanfilippo homered and San Diego beat St. Augustine, 13-4.

4/7/49

Sweetwater’s John Doughty, aided by catcher Dave Brennan, who had four hits in six times at bat—single, two doubles, and triple—kept Escondido in check, 10-4.

–Three ninth-inning errors paved the way for Oceanside to come from behind and win at Point Loma, 4-3.

4/8/49

Nineteen base hits echoed in Balboa Stadium. San Diego scored 13 runs in the fourth inning and went on to a 15-5 win over Compton.

Curt Everett was 4 for 4 at the plate for the Hillers.  Neale Henderson had three hits and Bobby Jordan started the fourth-inning avalanche with a three-run triple.

–Bob Fuller was three-for-four but Grossmont sustained a 9-3 loss at Pasadena.

–Kearny, a 1-0 loser to La Jolla in the teams’ two-inning joust in the Metropolitan loop carnival, reversed the score, 14-5.

Jim McMinn, Joe Spano, and pitcher Dick Bartz all had two hits. The Komets scored four runs in each of the second and third innings.

–Hoover defeated visitor St. Augustine, 5-4, with two runs in the bottom of the ninth.

4/9/49

San Diego sluggers’ 14 hits punched out Pasadena Muir, 11-4. Curt Everett had three hits in four at-bats, giving Everett a 7 for 8 week in Coast League play.

–Don Bonatus hit a three-run home run in the seventh inning and singled to start a five-run ninth as Hoover won at Compton, 9-4.

–Chula Vista won a morning-afternoon double header in the desert that started with Larry Blocker’s no-hitter and 7-0 whitewash of Calexico.

The Spartans came back after lunch and Don Jack yielded six hits and hung on for a 7-6 win over El Centro Central.

4/10/49

Seven San Diego teams traveling North at an early hour were scheduled to open play in the 14^th annual Pomona 20-30 Club tournament.

Area squads, including San Diego, Point Loma, Coronado, Hoover, Grossmont, La Jolla, and Escondido, were scheduled for first pitches at 11 a.m. Other first-round games started at 9.

4/11/49

San Diego and Point Loma rolled into the quarterfinals.

Point Loma opened with an 18-3 victory over Corona and followed by defeating Santa Barbara, 9-5.  San Diego topped Covina, 7-4, and Santa Ana, 16-1.

–La Jolla, beaten by Compton, 5-4, remained alive in the consolation bracket with a 4-2 win over Colton.

4/12/49

San Diego rampaged through the quarterfinals, 21-2 over Huntington Beach.  Point Loma made a sixth-inning run hold up and nudged Compton, 5-4.  Corona ousted La Jolla, 4-2, in the consolation quarterfinals.

Things became more difficult as the two survivors moved into the semifinals in the afternoon.

Coach Mike Morrow’s Hillers pushed over a run in the ninth to edge Inglewood, 3-2.  Frank SanFilippo’s single scored the winning run and Ray McCoy’s four-hit pitching kept the Sentinels at bay.

Coach Hilbert Crosthwaite’s Pointers got past Compton in the quarterfinals and then fell behind after one inning, 5-0, to Pomona

Ed Serrano relieved starter Jim Poole in the first inning and kept the Red Devils from crossing the plate again.

The Pointers swung  away at Pomona’s Marty Keogh, tying the game in the third inning and going ahead with a three-run sixth, highlighted by Izzy Lang’s two run homerun.

The 8-5 victory meant Point Loma and San Diego would meet in a City Prep League-versus-Metropolitan loop final.

4/13/49

Curt Everett hit a grand slam home run in a nine-run first inning and added a three-run shot in the second inning as San Diego continued a scorched earth policy in a 19-3 rout of Point Loma for the title.

The Hillers had 20 hits and took advantage of 11 Pointers errors, four in the first inning.

San Diego had scored at least 10 runs in 11 of 16 games and were heading into the second half of the season with a 15-1 record.

4/20/49

Dick Murphy hit two home runs and drove in five in St. Augustine’s 9-5 win over Hoover, whose Ralph Buckingham gave up only three hits but was the victim of seven errors.

4/21/49

Dick Day had three hits and five runs batted in and Larry Blocker hit a three-run home run, and Chula Vista was a 12-5 winner at Oceanside.

4/22/49

Don Bonatus and Ralph Buckingham had three hits and each hit two-run homers as host Hoover defeated Pasadena, 7-3, behind Bert Grigsby’s six-hit pitching and 11 strikeouts.

–Muir’s Mustangs, the Pasadena Bullpups’ neighbors, topped Grossmont, 2-1, and La Jolla knocked Sweetwater from the Metropolitan League’s unbeaten ranks, 8-2.

4/26/49

Jay Harris’ three-run homer in the eighth inning sent Grossmont to a 12-8 victory over Hoover.  Ralph Fuller also homered with two on for the Foothillers.

4/29/49

Dick Day’s single scored Frank Castro with the winning run in an 11-inning, 4-3 win over La Jolla.
–Point Loma won in 10 innings at Escondido, 3-2, Frank Leinmeister scoring when the Cougars made two errors.

5/6/49

Eight Sweetwater errors and a four-hit day by Tony Roe were more than enough for Kearny to win, 14-3.

–Ed Serrano struck out 15 and Point Loma edged Chula Vista, 4-2.

5/8/49

Jack Lutz gave up four hits while his San Diego teammates manufactured 19 and mowed down Pasadena, 12-1, for the Hillers’ ninth straight CPL victory.

5/10/49

Curt Everett hit two home runs and a double and San Diego topped Point Loma, 12-3.

5/13/49

Point Loma stunned the Metro loop’s undefeated Kearny and ace pitcher Dick Bartz, 13-4. The Pointers erupted for eight runs in the eighth inning.

Manny Vargas had four hits and a three-run home run off Bartz in the big inning.  Calvin Burns and Izzy Lang also homered.

–The Southern Prep League opener at Julian was called in the fifth inning because of fog.  The Eagles and Army-Navy were deadlocked 8-8.

5/19/49

Hal Conrad and Joe Haas were the hitting stars in Brown Military’s 14-9 win at San Dieguito.  Conrad had a home run and Haas three hits.

5/20/49

Jerry Rees and Dick Bartz took their places in Kearny High history, leading the Komets to a 2-1 victory at Chula Vista for the Metropolitan League championship.

The win marked Kearny’s first varsity title in any sport since the school began playing upper level competition with its first senior class in 1944 after opening as a junior high in 1941.

Jerry Rees singled in what proved the winning run in the fifth inning and Bartz set down the Spartans on two hits.

Kearny completed the one-round pennant race with a 5-1 record.  Point Loma was 4-2.  Oceanside, La Jolla, and Chula Vista were 3-3, Sweetwater 1-4, and Escondido 1-5.

–Eddie Serrano struck out 15 in Point Loma’s 7-2 win over Sweetwater and Oceanside beat La Jolla, 4-3, in 15 innings on Jack Troupe’s single that scored Erwin Heald.

5/21/49

Paul Lockridge, with brother Frank catching, and two other Fallbrook pitchers allowed two hits as the Warriors made it three out of four in the Southern Prep with an 11-2 win at Ramona.

5/22/49

Charlie Powell’s three-run home run in the 12th inning ended a San Diego warmup for its Southern California playoff against Orange, 10-8 at Naval Training Center.

5/24/49

Don Hartridge struck out 20 batters and pitched Vista to a 7-4 victory at Brown Military.

–Future NFL game referee Fred Swearingen homered in Fallbrook’s 8-3 win over San Dieguito.

5/25/49

Idle from prep play for almost two weeks, guest San Diego continued to batter the opposition, routing Orange, 15-1, in a Southern Section quarterfinals round playoff.

Tommy Martinez, Curt Everett, and Neale Henderson sprayed nine of the Hillers’ 20 hits around the Panthers’ ball park.

Martinez had four singles in five times at bat, Henderson two singles, and Everett doubled and added two singles.

5/27/49

A crowd of 3,000 in Pomona came to watch the high-powered team from the border town and they witnessed another explosive San Diego attack.

Coach Mike Morrow’s Hillers struck for 15 hits in a 13-5 win over the Red Devils, sending San Diego into the Southern California finals against Santa Barbara, 11-2 winner over Long Beach Wilson.

Frank SanFilippo, Tommy Martinez, and Curt Everett had three hits each and Clyde Thomas tripled twice.

6/3/49

Vista added the Southern Prep League championship to titles won in football, basketball, and tennis by defeating Fallbrook, 8-4, behind Don Hartridge’s five-hit pitching.

6/4/49

With a championship on the line, some teams appeared intimidated or struck with a case of jitters facing San Diego.

As Point Loma felt in the Pomona Tournament, Santa Barbara, beaten only by the Pointers in Pomona, was similarly affected.

The Golden Tornado, 14-1, coming into the Southern Section final, committed 10 errors and San Diego won its 15^th championship, 8-2.

The San Diego Padres gifted the teams with the use of Lane Field and 1,000 persons were on hand.

Jack Smith limited the visitors to seven hits, including a home run by future major league slugger Eddie Mathews, who drove a ball over the 358-foot sign in right field onto Pacific Highway.

Mathews also almost got into a dustup with the Hillers’ Neale Henderson after Henderson’s hard tag at second base.  Cooler heads prevailed.

Tommy Martinez led the Hillers with two hits, two runs batted in and two runs scored.

RATINGS GAME

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 (11)	10-6	145	1
2.	San Marcos (4)	8-3	139	2
3.	Torrey Pines (1)	10-4	115	3
4.	Cathedral (2) Catholic	13-5	97	4
5.	Mission Hills (1)	11-5	96	6
6.	Mission Bay	12-4	88	5
7.	San Ysidro	11-5	76	7
8.	La Costa Canyon	10-4	66	8
9	Mater Dei	8-3	19	9
10.	San Diego	9-2	18	10

OTHERS RECEIVING VOTES
Carlsbad (9-7, 6 points), La Jolla Country Day (9-3, 4), Del Norte (13-4, 3), Montgomery (12-2, 2), Scripps Ranch (12-5, 2), Otay Ranch (11-4. 1), Granite Hills (12-3, 1).

VOTING PANEL

• John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune.
• Aaron Burgin Fulltime Hoops.com.
• Nick Pollino, Fox 5 San Diego.
• John Kentera, Braden Suprenant, 97.3-FM The Fan.
• Adam Paul, ECPreps.com.
• Bodie DeSilva, scorebooklive.com.
• Rick Smith, Partletonsports.com.
• Terry Monahan, Eric Williams, Steve Brand, Freelance correspondents.
• Brad Enright, LA Court Report.
• Ramon Scott, Eastcountysports.com.
• Steve (Biff) Dolan, Mountain Country, 107.9-FM. Christian 
• Christian Pedersen, San Diego Sports Association.
• Max Preps.   

Grossmont’s Southern California Minor Division football championship for schools with less than 1,000 students was achieved following a series of competitive and administrative tug of wars.

Coach Ladimir (Jack) Mashin’s Foothillers defeated Calexico High, 9-0, on the Grossmont gridiron to complete an 8-0-3 season that included a championship in the San Diego County League.

With a 4-0-2 league record and two nonleague wins behind them, the Foothillers opened the playoffs at home with a 14-7, semifinal victory over the Oxnard Yellowjackets, Holly Partin scoring the winning touchdown on a 10-yard run, reportedly as the gun sounded to end the game.

The championship was to be decided at El Centro’s Central High, Grossmont taking on the Calexico Bulldogs. But after four hard-fought quarters the teams were tied, 0-0.

Grossmont had a chance to win in the closing seconds, but Partin’s field goal attempt from the 15-yard line, on a sharp angle, “failed to clear the crossbar by less than an inch,” according to Charles Savage, The San Diego Union reporter who had made the three-hour trek across the Laguna Mountains to the Imperial Valley locale.

PRECIPITATION AND THEN NIGHTFALL

“A heavy rain fell during the entire contest,” Savage wrote. “Officials were forced to abandon the required playoff rule at the end of sixty minutes of play because of darkness. This arrangement calls for five plays by each team, with two points going to the eleven making the most yardage.”

Grossmont’s 12-8 advantage in first downs was not a factor.

Savage pointed out that conditions had become such in the Imperial Valley that players and spectators could not follow the action in the game’s closing moments.

Instead of being declared co-champions,   CIF Southern Section rules decreed that the teams  should play again.  Mashin and Calexico coach Ed Covington both announced that the CIF Southern Section  would be requested to fix a playoff date.

“It is probable that the battle will be replayed in the San Diego stadium next Saturday,” Savage wrote.

“Not so fast,” actually words much stronger, were uttered by Calexico’s Covington. Five days after the game a site for the rematch had not been selected.

WHO PLAYS AT HOME?

Long Beach Wilson principal Harry J. Moore was the official who coordinated the CIF Minor Division playoffs.

On Monday, two days following the 0-0 deadlock, Moore notified Mashin that the contest could be played at Grossmont “or any field the Foothillers selected,” according to The San Diego Union.

But Covington protested that the previous game, having been played at El Centro Central (approximately five miles from the Calexico campus) was on a neutral field and that Calexico should be the home team in title game II.

Covington’s argument was specious, but Moore waffled.

Long-distance telephone calls flooded the lines from La Mesa and the Imperial Valley into Moore’s office.  Finally Moore declared that the rematch could be played on the “neutral” Navy Field in San Diego or at San Diego’s City Stadium.

Both venues would be favorable to Grossmont.

The Foothillers argued that they already had made arrangements for a home game, prepared their playing field, and had sold tickets.

PARTIN PAVES THE WAY

Grossmont finally prevailed on choosing of the site, then defeated the Bulldogs before a large crowd on the Foothillers’ field.

Holly Partin was the scoring star for Grossmont.  He kicked a 25-yard field goal in the first quarter and fielded a Calexico  punt and raced 60 yards  to a touchdown in the fourth quarter.

Grossmont had a 10-1 edge in first downs and was 2 for 4 on passing attempts, while Calexico did not complete a pass in seven attempts.

Grossmont’s season had begun with the Foothillers scrambling for a game when Mountain Empire dropped out of the County League four days before the eight-game, round-robin league schedule was to begin.

Rumors swirled that the Redskins, who participated in the league in 1925-26, were going to bail.

The Union reported days before that “coaching gossip” indicated the Campo school did not have enough players or suitable talent to compete.

Grossmont filled the open date at the start of the season and scored a 13-0 victory over the San Diego High B team.

COACH FOR ALL SEASONS

Mashin coached two other undefeated teams during his 25 seasons as head coach at the school which overlooks the El Cajon valley from its perch near the Grossmont summit, hard by Interstate 8.

Mashin had posted a 125-66-23 record for a winning percentage of .633 when he retired from the position after the 1947 season. When he passed away in San Diego at age 92 in 1987 Mashin’s career as a football coach and game official was almost forgotten.

Known as the “Fox of the Foothills,” the kindly Mashin also was track and field coach at Grossmont and developed teams that battled mighty San Diego High and other Coast League and City Prep League powers for league and Southern California supremacy.

In the 1950s Grossmont distance runners and field event competitors were among the best in the country.

Mashin and his wife, Virginia, for many years a math teacher at Kearny, had met when both were on  staff at Grossmont. They traveled internationally, attending several Summer Olympics. At behest of the U.S. State Department, Mashin coached Pakistan’s 1956 and first Summer Olympics team.

The Fox still was coaching and developing top-flight shot putters in his seventies.

Mashin’s widow died in 2005. She and her husband left much of their estate, almost $2 million, to the Grossmont Union School District, San Diego Education Fund, the San Diego Hall of Champions, and their alma maters, Purdue University for her and Montana State for he.

SAN DIEGO HIGH ON THE OUTS?

Relations between San Diego High and its Coast League counterparts were viewed with suspicion.

Evening Tribune columnist Ted Steinmann wondered whether the league’s Northern entries were trying to “freeze out” the Hillers, not notifying them of recent league meetings, and creating an embarrassing situation surrounding the appointment of game officials for the Hilltoppers’ home contest against Glendale.

Steinmann wrote that three days before kickoff league president Harry Moore of Long Beach Wilson asked San Diego principal John Aseltine to appoint officials from those available in San Diego.   At game time four Los Angeles-area officials showed up.

The San Diego officials “gracefully bowed out after learning to their surprise that the Los Angeles group had been appointed two weeks in advance,” Steinmann wrote.

Steinmann’s report was at odds with that which was reported by The San Diego Sun, which noted two days before kickoff that game officials were coming from a Los Angeles-area association.

ASELTINE DENIES RUMORS

San Diego High principal John Aseltine issued a statement saying that Coast League officials took no action to oust the Hilltoppers during a league meeting Dec. 6 at Whittier, but Aseltine hinted of a new direction for his school.

“We are strongly considering the proposition of becoming a free-lance school next year (it did not),” said Aseltine, who spoke in concert with his director of athletics and former head football coach, John Perry.

Travel time and travel expenses were cited.

Sitting south and alone in  the “Border Town”, San Diego and its league partners were dogged by distance from 1923-49, the years the Hillers were in the league (not counting 1941 and the travel-restricted World War II period, 1942-45).

The San Diego Sun pointed out that each school year the “Hillers travel more than 100 miles each way for at least three games in all four major sports, football, basketball, baseball, and track and field”.

In addition, all swimming, tennis, and wrestling meets were held at northern schools in the 1926-27 school year, The Sun reported.

“And when northern league members come to San Diego we must split the gate receipts on a fifty-fifty basis,” said Aseltine.

In another move, the CIF said the annual state football playoffs were being canceled.

THE PLACE TO LIVE

Realtor Oscar Cotton, whose promotional vision led to the creation of the San Diego Convention and Tourist Bureau, urged San Diegans to “Go North”, touting the advantages of buying and building on 60-foot residential lots priced from $150 to $350 in Chesterton, an area in the undeveloped Kearny Mesa.

Completion of the Sixth Street Extension had created an artery to what became Ulric Street and the Chesterton and Linda Vista areas. Chesterton also was accessible from “the inland paved highway, Camp Kearny Boulevard”, later known as Linda Vista Road.

The Sixth Street Extension exists today as that snippet of Sixth Avenue, north of University Avenue, that connects with State 163 (and former U.S. 395) into Mission Valley.

SIGNS OF THE TIME

William and Ida Church made history.  They were the first husband and wife in the history of the San Diego Courts system to sit on the same jury.

The Churches were on the panel  trying Hazel Blair, charged with selling beer.

Blair failed to appear as the trial began.  Her sister advised the court that Blair was suffering from “chills and fever”, and her trial was postponed.

BOOK CRACKDOWN

The Evening Tribune reported  that students at San Diego High who lost their books or failed to pay for them would be given a “dishonorable dismissal from school”.

HERE COMES HOOVER

The need for a new high school on the “East side” was evident when  enrollment at Woodrow Wilson Junior High, 37th Street and El Cajon Boulevard, jumped from 1,300 to 1,650.

Hoover High would come along in three years, with Wilson principal Floyd Johnson moving on as principal of the new school.

2 FOR 1 

San Diego offered “bargain day” at the Stadium, a football doubleheader on the final Saturday of the season.

Lathrop Junior High of Santa Ana played Memorial Junior High of San Diego in the opening game, followed by old rivals Santa Ana and San Diego in the nightcap.

HUDDLE UP!

San Diego coach John Hobbs announced that the Hilltoppers would use the “huddle system” before plays against  Santa Ana.

Ashley West usually barked signals for the Cavers from his quarterback position but Hobbs opted for more  security as far as which play the Cavers would employ.

Santa Ana coach Tex Oliver was a former coach at Memorial Junior High.

QUICK KICKS

Grossmont footballers John Cornelius and Walter Barnett went on to long careers in administration…Barnett was Grossmont’s principal from 1959-76…Cornelius was boss when El Cajon Valley High opened in 1955…Grossmont playoff opponent Oxnard was coached by former Coronado mentor John Nichols…John Perry, who had stepped down as coach at San Diego but remained on the physical education staff, welcomed some 600 students to the first annual interclass handball doubles tournament…Oceanside coach Joe Reynolds promised to field a “much better team” in 1927… Oceanside was 0-8 and scored 6 points; it was 1-6-1 in 1926…Coronado picked up Brawley as an opponent after Mountain Empire dropped out of the County League and defeated the Wildcats, 6-0, before 3,000 at Coronado…San Diego High’s Class B team defeated Alhambra’s lightweights,  71-0…San Diego’s game with South Pasadena was switched from Saturday to Friday, allowing  Hillers coaches  to scout Santa Ana, their next opponent… Point Loma completed 15 of 16 passes against Sweetwater…the Pointers-Red Devils game was one of 10 scoreless ties involving San Diego teams… La Jolla erected bleachers for 500 spectators for the Vikings’ game with Sweetwater…Kendall (Bobo) Arnett scored all of San Diego’s points in a 13-9 loss at Pasadena on a touchdown and 35-yard field goal… Monrovia, the opponent for St. Augustine in the last game of the season, was coached by former San Diego High standout and future Cavers coach Hobbs Adams… Whittier came into the game with the Cavers with a team average of 190 pounds, making the Poets the largest high school team in the country, according to The Union… Poly defeated Pasadena 6-3 for the Coast League championship before 10,000 fans at Long Beach’s Burcham Field…Fullerton defeated Santa Maria, 20-13, for the Southern California championship… San Diego High finished the season in Arizona, helping Phoenix Union dedicate its new campus stadium and dropping a 7-0 decision to the Coyotes…almost 1,000 students marched the night before, rallying for the “interstate game”…tackle Gordon Cox was named Captain at Sweetwater…Cox would become the Red Devils’ head coach in 1943…Research by The San Diego Sun writer Nelson Fisher revealed that 40 San Diego High graduates had earned college football letters since 1914…thirteen schools, from  USC to California and Notre Dame to Centre, were represented…leading 49-0 at halftime, St. Augustine and South Pasadena Oneonta Academy agreed to eight-minute quarters for the second half…the Saints didn’t slow down with the final score 73-0….