Lincoln and Cathedral, traditional big shots in the Western League and San Diego Section, appear to be trying to outdo each other.

The Hornets of coach David Dunn, 24-2 over the last two seasons, are signed to play road games at Long Beach Poly, Sacramento Grant, and Coronado High of Henderson, Nevada, plus home games against San Juan Capistrano JSerra, Los Alamitos, and Las Vegas Arbor View.

It is a powerful nonleague gauntlet Lincoln will try to get through before the Hornets take on Western League rivals Cathedral, Madison, St. Augustine, and Point Loma, which is moving over from the Eastern League.

Cathedral, 12-2 and a state 1-AA Division champion in 2021, is coming off 6-6 and 4-8 seasons in 2022 and ’23.  The Dons, 227-102-0 (.690) since 1996 under head coach Sean Doyle, have scheduled nonleague encounters with San Diego Section thoroughbreds Granite Hills, Helix, and Mater Dei.

Cathedral also booked intersectional challenges with L.A. Mission Hills Chaminade, San Francisco St. Ignatius (alma mater of San Diego Chargers Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Fouts), and Phoenix Mountain Pointe, and then jumps into the Western League.

Lincoln and Cathedral, plus about 95 percent of the 96 other football-playing schools’ schedules,  can be found here.  Additions, corrections, or deletions will be noted as the teams prepare for Week 1 Aug. 23.

Webmaster Henrik Jonson also is accumulating Flag Football schedules.

San Diego High won its third consecutive CIF championship under fifth-year coach Mike Morrow and posted a 19-3 record, according to Don King’s Caver Conquest.

The Great Depression was raging, unemployment was high, young men had time on their hands, and many played baseball.

Possibly without budget for travel beyond obligatory Coast League games, Morrow’s clubs played contests that did not count and several that apparently were official against local amateur clubs, including a team from University Heights playground and another called “Harding’s North Park.”

Morrow’s team wielded heavy lumber, with a combined batting average of .390 for five league games and four playoffs, led by Athos Sada’s .611, 22 hits in 36 at bats.

Table includes usual starters.

NAME	AT BATS	HITS	AVERAGE
Athos Sada	36	22	.611
Allan Storton	31	16	.516
Walter Bostrom	38	17	.447
Tony Galassio	40	16	.400
Irvine (Cotton) Warburton	38	15	.395
Ray Holt	34	11	.324
Bill Howell	51	16	.314
Cecil McElvain	14	4	.286
Roy Holt	39	11	.282
Bill Larson	18	5	.278

3/31/30

Following identical 8-6 victories over Calexico 3/28 and 3/29, St. Augustine won at Sweetwater, 8-6.

—Rod Luscomb slugged two triples and the University Heights playground squad defeated San Diego, 14-5, leaving coach Mike Morrow’s team with a 4-2 record and evening their series at one victory each.

—Sweetwater defeated San Diego High’s visiting second string squad, 5-4.

4/1/30

Fourteen St. Augustine players and coach Herb Corriere embarked on barnstorming tour of four games in five days, at Fallbrook, at Ventura, at Los Angeles Roosevelt, where former San Diego High star Coney Galindo was coach; and at USC Freshmen.

4/3/30

Johnny Funk hit a three-run home run and pitched a three hitter and George Albin had three hits as St. Augustine beat Ventura, 10-2.

—Tony Galasso set down the Marine Corps Recruit Depot on two hits and San Diego High amassed 15 hits in a 7-0 victory at Navy Field.

4/4/30

—Pacific Beach’s Army-Navy opened the season with a 9-6 win over visiting Sweetwater.

Coach Viggo Hansen announced an upcoming northern trip to Anaheim, Brea, Claremont Webb, L.A. Pacific Military, and Venice.

—Johnny Fink hit a three-run home run and allowed three hits as St. Augustine won at Ventura, 10-3. George Albin supported Fink with three hits and Fred Traynor, Tony Moreno, and Jimmy Aguirre added two each.

4/8/30

Athos Sada, who would become deputy chief of the San Diego Police Department and raised Eddie and Don Sada to be stars at Point Loma, had three hits as San Diego defeated the University Heights playground squad, 17-5.

4/9/30

St. Augustine scored a run in the eighth inning for a 7-6 win over Escondido at Golden Hill Playground.

4/15/30

After San Diego High defeated the University Heights Playground team, 9-7, in the City Stadium, coach Mike Morrow was faced with a scheduling question.  Some of Morrow’s players also were on the track team.

The baseball squad was scheduled for a Coast League opener against visiting Alhambra on April 26, the same day Cotton Warburton, Eddie Reed and others were scheduled to be part of the Hilltoppers’ aggregation in the Southern California track and field trials at Los Angeles High.

Morrow was willing to move the game with Alhambra to April 25, but if the Moors did not want to travel on that date, Morrow said he would take his team to Alhambra on April 25.

—St. Augustine won at Sweetwater, 8-2, as shortstop Frankie

Morehouse collected three hits.

—Army-Navy socked Anaheim for seven runs in the fifth inning and five more in the seventh en route to a 17-3 victory on the Pacific Beach diamond.

—Rod Luscomb hit two triples but San Diego defeated University Heights, 9-7, in the Hilltoppers’ final game before league play, improving their record to 10-2.

4/16/30

Frankie Morehouse singled, doubled, and hit a home run and St. Augustine topped Anaheim, 7-3, at Navy Field.

4/17/30

The Marine Corps Recruit Depot Devildogs shut out Escondido, 6-0, at Navy Field as Carl Parker had four hits in five times at bat, including a single, double, and two home runs.

4/22/30

Point Loma defeated Army-Navy, 5-2, on the cadets’ Pacific Beach diamond despite a home run, triple, and single by the Warriors’ second baseman Ritchie.

4/23/30

Brothers Pete and Steve Coscarart starred in the field as Escondido’s defense played a prevailing role in a 6-4 win over traveling St. Augustine.

4/25/30

San Diego opened defense of its Coast League championship by raining 17 hits on City Stadium and crushing Alhambra, 13-3, a day earlier than originally scheduled.

Home runs by Cotton Warburton and pitcher Tony Galasso highlighted the Hillers’ attack.

—Sweetwater (2-1, Point Loma) and Grossmont (11-6, Mountain Empire) of the Bay Division and Escondido (14-3, Oceanside), and Fallbrook (7-3, Ramona) of the Mountain Division won opening games in Southern Prep League play.

4/30/30

San Diego High coach Mike Morrow reached agreement to play Glendale on May 1 instead of May 2, so shortstop Irvine (Cotton) Warburton could compete in the Southern California track finals 440-yard run at Los Angeles High.

—Roy Holt had five hits and the San Diego varsity defeated the University Heights playground team, 5-4, for their fifth win against one loss versus skipper Rod Luscomb’s team.

—Host Mountain Empire evened its Southern Prep League Mountain Division record at 1-1 with a 4-3 win over La Jolla.

5/1/30

Sweetwater mustered two hits in a 9-0 loss to the San Diego State Freshmen.  Future Hoover football coach Pete Walker tripled twice for the Frosh and starting pitcher George Sunderman was 4 for 4 at the plate.

—Tony Galasso struck out 19 Glendale Dynamiters and gave up four singles as San Diego won the rescheduled Coast League game, 4-1.

The Hillers broke a 1-1 tie with runs in the seventh, eighth, and ninth innings. Galasso was the offensive catalyst with four hits, including a home run.

Thirteen players plus coach Mike Morrow and manager Louis DePablo left at 7 a.m. for the 3-hour, 130-mile jaunt.

5/4/30

St. Augustine (19-5) concluded its season in Calexico, where the Saints divided two nine-inning games, losing, 8-7, on 5/3 and winning, 6-5, today.

The Saints, with a team batting average of .318, out hit the Bulldogs, 24-20, and their George Albin hit the game’s only home run.

Fred Traynor led he Saints with a .453 season batting average, 24 hits in 53 times at bat. Jimmie Loftus hit .439 and Frankie Morehouse .385.

–Ran played havoc with Southern Prep League teams, washing out four games.

5/8/30

Bill Howell singled in Roy Holt with the winning run from second base and Tony Galasso set down Long Beach Poly in the bottom of the ninth inning, and San Diego won a tense Coast League battle, 4-3.

Home runs by Irvine (Cotton) Warburton and Walter Bostrom had given the Hilltoppers a 3-0 lead after three innings.

A writer in a special dispatch to The San Diego Union declared the game was “one of the hardest fought contests ever seen on a Long Beach diamond.”

5/13/30

Escondido won the Southern Prep League Mountain Division with an 8-3 victory at Fallbrook.  Sweetwater maintained its lead in the Bay Division with a 4-3 win over Mountain Empire.

—It was determined before the season that the league champion would not participate in the CIF playoffs.

5/14/30

Flat and thinking ahead, San Diego dropped a 5-1 decision in City Stadium to Harding’s North Park team.

Roy Holt homered for the Hilltoppers in the ninth inning.

The game result was published in The San Diego Union as an official game, but perhaps was a scrimmage.

–Memorial Junior High defeated the Southern League Bay Division contender Sweetwater varsity, 13-5, on the National City Diamond.

5/16/30

San Diego earned a tie for the Coast League championship with a 9-2 win over the visiting Pasadena Bullpups.

Tony Galasso’s triple in the second inning usually was a home run in City Stadium but special ground rules were in effect for this game.

Galasso turned his ankle on the play and had leave the field.  Pasadena consented to allow Hilltoppers coach Mike Morrow to insert Cecil McElvain as a pinch runner but let Galasso return at the end of the inning to continue pitching.

5/20/30

Point Loma remained in contention with Sweetwater in the Southern League Bay Division with a 10-0 victory over Grossmont.

The Pointers have one loss and Sweetwater is undefeated.

—Erstwhile St. Augustine stars Reid Jaggers and Fred Traynor aided Harding’s North Park team, but San Diego scored a 5-3 victory in City Stadium.

5/22/30

Harding’s North Park team, coached by Rod Luscomb, won its second of three contests from the host Escondido Cougars, 4-3, as second baseman Lee Ramage, a future heavyweight boxing championship contender, had three hits in five times at bat.

5/23/30

Warren Bridgens hurled a near-perfect game, allowing one base runner and no hits, and Point Loma routed La Jolla, 20-0, in the season-ending game one week after Bridgens had measured Mountain Empire on one hit.

—Sweetwater claimed the Bay Division title with a 3-2, eight-inning win over Grossmont and will meet Mountain Division champ Escondido for the Southern League title.

Sweetwater had defeated Point Loma, 2-1, in the league opener, after which Point Loma outscored league foes, 58-2.

5/24/30

Athos Sada homered, doubled, and singled and Bill Howell had three hits; Cotton Warburton had a home run and single; Tony Galasso gave up three hits and San Diego, starting slowly scored 15 runs in the final three innings and claimed its third straight Coast League title, 22-0, over last-place Santa Ana.

The Hilltoppers, who had 18 hits, also received two safeties each from Allan Storton, Walter Bostrom, Bill Larson, and Roy Holt.

1. Higashi of Santa Ana earned some dubious distinction.

He started the game in left field…

…and then shifted to third base…

…and then shifted to the pitcher’s mound…

…and pitched long enough to walk three consecutive batters…

…and then shifted to second base…

…and then finally relocated to right field, where he finished the game.

5/26/30

A CIF semifinals playoff home game against Calexico for San Diego High 5/30 or 5/31 was nixed.

The board, which governs the property in South Balboa Park, declared that the City Stadium grass field was to be resurfaced today.

Hilltoppers coach Mike Morrow tried to book Navy Field but learned that it was scheduled for games May 29-31.

Various other area locales were not considered worthy of such a game’s import and it looked as if the Hilltoppers, trying to win their third consecutive title, would have to go to the Imperial Valley.

5/27/30

Calexico agreed to a Thursday, May 29, contest at Navy Field. The Bulldogs would have been unavailable May 30-31, Morrow learned. Graduation and assorted weekend events and gigs were on the desert school’s weekend calendar.

6/2/30

After much burning of telephone wires and shouting voices between San Diego and the Imperial Valley, another agreement was reached and Calexico arrived San Diego today for a playoff tomorrow.

6/3/30

Calexico took advantage of Tony Galasso’s wildness to jump into a 4-0, first-inning lead, only to see San Diego score six runs in its first en route to a 13-4 CIF first-round victory at Navy Field.

Home runs by Athos Sada, who also tripled in two runs in the first, and Galasso were part of the Hilltoppers’ 14-hit attack.

6/7/30

Tony Galasso gave up two singles and struck out 13 and won a CIF semifinals playoff at Huntington Beach, 4-0.

Roy Holt’s homerun in the second inning gave San Diego a two-run lead.  Holt’s twin brother, Ray, got on base later with a two-base hit.

6/10/30

San Diego reached the Southern California finals by defeating Colton in a second CIF semifinals playoff, 9-1, at Navy Field.

Colton, behind, 7-0, mounted a mild threat in the fifth inning but Hilltoppers catcher Cecil McElvain threw out a runner at second base and Cotton Warburton’s throw back to McElvain doubled up another Yellowjacket, thwarting an attempted double steal.

6/15/30

Los Angeles Cathedral, rested and ready, was coached by Mike Pecarovich, future University of San Diego football coach.

San Diego, in its fourth playoff, more than any other playoff team, defeated the Phantoms, 9-0, for their third consecutive championship.

Tony Galasso gave up two hits and struck out 13 and helped himself with two hits and two runs scored.

I’ve seen at least 40 state meets since my first in 1957 at Edwards Field in Berkeley and they evolve each year, becoming arguably one of the best high school events in the country.

Buchanan High in Clovis has been the venue since 2009 and the site of some of the San Diego Section’s finest moments, especially in 2024 as 10 individuals won gold medals, a record for the section and the most since there were seven in 2019.

PARTING OBSERVATIONS

Brandon Arrington, Jr. became the fifth San Diego Section runner to win the sprint double since the first state meet in 1915 and the second since 2019.

Arrington’s grace and power that resulted in two dynamic 100 (:10.33) and 200 (:20.55) victories were more impressive in that the tall Mount Miguel runner is in the 10^th grade and will be a favorite when he takes to the starting blocks in 2025.

Tables include previous state winners.

DOUBLE 100 & 200 

NAME	SCHOOL	TIME	TIME	YEAR	SITE
Jimmy Willson	San Diego	:09.8*	:21.4*	1929	L.A. Coliseum
Janice Wiser	La Jolla	:10.8*	:24.2*	1974	Bakersfield College
David Russell	Patrick Henry	:09.61*	:20.97*w	1977	UCLA Drake Stadium
Kenon Christon	Madison	:10.30w	:20.69w	2019	Clovis Buchanan High
Brandon Arrington, Jr.	Mount Miguel	:10.33	:20.55	2024

*—Race at 100 yards, others at 100 meters. w—Over allowable wind assistance of 2.0 kilometers.

TOUGHING IT OUT

—La Jolla’s tiring Payton Smith determinedly held off a  stretch run by Hannah Rutherford of Mountain View to join Monique Henderson and University City’s Katrina Wright as a 400 winner:

NAME	SCHOOL	TIME	YEAR	SITE
Monique Henderson	Morse	:53.41	1998	Norwalk Cerritos College
Henderson		:52.87	1999	Sacramento Hughes Stadium
Henderson		:50.74	2000	Cerritos
Henderson		:51.34	2001	Sacramento
Katrina Wright	University City	:53.93	2019	Clovis Buchanan High
Payton Smith	La Jolla	:53.39	2024

—Poway’s Tessa Buswell, a savvy state meet veteran, was the ninth of 12 qualifiers in the 800 at 2:12.39 in the Friday trials but bided her time before cueing a :60.85 last lap to overtake Carlsbad’s Makenna Herbst and Keaton Robar of Newport Beach Newport Harbor in a San Diego Section-record 2:06.51.

Buswell refused to be pushed over the cliff, beating back challenges down the stretch to become the first from the area to earn an 800 gold medal.

—San Diego’s Anisa Bowen Fontonot overcame slow starts in the trials and finals but grinded through the rounds to win the 100 hurdles in :13.59 and joining former Cavers champ Charlize James, who won at :13.95 in 2022:

NAME	SCHOOL	TIME	YEAR	SITE
Gail Devers	Sweetwater	:13.41*	1984	L.A. Coliseum
Charlize James	San Diego	:13.95	2023	Clovis Buchanan High
Anisa Bowen-Fontonot	San Diego	:13.59	2024

*Devers won when the height of the hurdles was 30 inches; they have been 33 inches since 1993.

—Cain Evans of Carlsbad lurked in the middle of the pack as the 800 runners approached the final 200 and then opened up on the curve and won in 1:50.21, fighting off fast-closing Wyland Obando of Long Beach Wilson, who ran 1:50.25.

NAME	SCHOOL	TIME	YEAR	SITE
Jim Cerveny	Mission Bay	1:52.7*	1957	Edwards Field, Berkeley
Bob Hose	Madison	1:51.7**	1964	L.A. Coliseum
Terry Rogers	Hilltop	1:51.5**	1966	Berkeley
Mark Senior	Mount Miguel	1:51.37	1988	Norwalk Cerritos College
Charles Jock	Mission Bay	1:51.83	2008
Alexander Monsivaiz	Army-Navy	1:51.34	2012	Clovis Buchanan High
Cain Evans	Carlsbad	1:50.21	2024

*Race at 880 yards and three turns, starting with 15 others from a chute.
**Race at 880 yards.

WHAT ABOUT MONIQUE?

The future Olympic gold medalist  as a member of the 2004 4×400 relay team, achieved probably the most impressive pair of victories in County history.

Monique won the 200 in :23.19 and the 400, a virtual sprint, in :50.74, in 2000 at Cerritos College in Norwalk.

There were three competitors, hurdlers Anisa  Bowen-Fontenot and Morgan Herbst, and distancer Jaelyn Williams, with No. 1 rankings, and 15 performances that ranked in the top five, as compiled by Athletic.net.

EVENT	MARK	NAME, SCHOOL	STATE	OTHER	NAME	SCHOOL
100	:11.50w	Shaheed, Madison	4th	:11.38w	Wright	Temecula Chaparral
	:11.64w	Gilhooly, Coronado	14th
	:11.83	Smith, La Jolla	22T
200	:23.52	Shaheed	2nd	:23.48w	Wright
	:23.67w	Smith	5th
	:24.36	Gilhooly
400	:53.39	Smith	2nd	:53.17	Mosby	Inglewood St. Mary’s
	:54.38	Burkhardt, Steele Canyon	7th
	:55.94	Arciaga, Westview	24th
800	2:06.51	Buswell, Poway	3rd	2:03.48	Engelhardt	Ventura
	2:07.23	Makenna Herbst, Carlsbad	5th
	2:07.32	Arciaga	6th
	2:09.87	Williams, Eastlake	10th
	2:11.89	Dailey, La Jolla	20th
	2:12.53	Scuba, Sage Creek	25T
		Aguirre, Patrick Henry	25T
1600	4:40.29	Williams	3rd	4:29.86	Engelhardt
	4:42.26	Dailey	3rd
	4:50.61	Lopizzo, La Costa Canyon	22nd
3200	9:57.11	Williams	1st	9:59.81	Thomsen	Santa Rosa Montgomery
	10:05.65	Lopizzo	4th
	10:09.78	Dailey	7th
100H	:13.59	Bowen-Fontenot, San Diego	1st	:13.81	Holden	South Pasadena
	:14.24w	Cook, Steele Canyon	10th
	:14.42	Gates, Point Loma	15T
300H	:41.26	Morgan Herbst, Carlsbad	1st	:42.0	Edwards	L.B. Wilson
	:42.27	Bowen-Fontenot	4th
	:43.27	Cook, Steele Canyon	13th
	:43.40	Mack, Otay Ranch	14th
4×100 Relay	:47.00	Steele Canyon	11th	:45.67		Westlake Village Oaks Christian
4×400 Relay	3:51.20	Carlsbad	12th	3:41.40		L.B. Wilson
	3:55.18	Del Norte	21st
	3:55.31	Steele Canyon	23rd
4×800 Relay	9:10.51	Cathedral	8th	8:57.21		Ventura
	9:13.90	Del Norte	12th
High Jump	5-6	Schroeder, Otay Ranch	10T	Five at 5-8
		Stein, Patrick Henry
	5-5	Lopez Valenzuela, Poway	21T
Long Jump	18-10	Frith, La Costa Canyon	12th	20-9 1/2	Webster	Long Beach Wilson
	18-8	Hoagland, Rancho Bernardo	14th
	18-4	Jones, Oceanside	24T
Triple Jump	38-11 1/2	Jones, Oceanside	10th	40-11	Alumbres	Vista Murietta
Shot Put	42-2	Colon Gipson, Otay Ranch	12th	48-5	Schnayer	Moraga Campolindo
	42-0	Ford, Helix	13T
	39-8	Lauifi, Helix	23rd
Discus	157-11	Driscoll	2nd	158-10	Johnson	Sherman Oaks Notre Dame
	139-8	Williams, Cathedral	17T
	138-6	Frankel, Sage Creek	19th
Pole Vault	13-5	Echsner, Del Norte	2nd	14-4	Muhammad	Pittsburg
	12-10	Downing, La Costa Canyon	5th
	12-9	Humer, Rancho Bernardo	6T
	12-8	de Jong, Maranatha	11th
	12-3	Khieu, Del Norte	17T

 

Twice No. 1-ranked Brandon Arrington, Jr., of Mount Miguel was a double winner in the 100 and 200  at the 104th State meet and seven other performances by San Diego Section thinclads made the California top 25 as compiled  by Athletic.net.  Those not in first 25 below are indicated by asterisk:

EVENT	MARK	NAME, SCHOOL	STATE	OTHERS	NAME, SCHOOL
100	:10.27w	Arrington, Jr., Mount Miguel	1st	:10.34w	Ford, Bakersfield
200	:20.40w	Arrington, Jr.	1st	:20.83w	Coleman, L.A. Granada Hills
400	:47.89	Slaughter, Mt. Carmel	12th	:46.79	Ricks, L.B. Poly
	:48.02	Jones, Mount Miguel	16th
800	1:50.21	Evans, Carlsbad	2nd	1:49.91	Morales, San Juan Capistrano JSerra
800	1:52.02	Cordero, Eastlake	10th
	1:52.67	Bowman, Sage Creek	15th
1600	4:15.10	Bowman	—*	4:04.02	Noonan, Dana Point Dana Hills
3200	9:02.96	Hicks, University City	—*	8:40.47	Perez, L.A. Cathedral
110HH	:13.72w	Martin, Helix	3rd	:13.59w	McFarland, Elk Grove Cosumnes Oaks
	:13.88w	Tseko-Biffle, El Capitan	6th
	:14.22w	Reese, San Marcos	19th
	:14.28	Atilano, Cathedral	22nd
300H	:37.42	Atilano	4th	:37.06	Roberson, Eastvale Roosevelt
	:37.45	Tseko-Biffle	5th
	:37.58	Martin	8th
	:38.34	Reese	22nd
4×100 Relay	:41.70	Rancho Bernardo	—*	:40.29	L.A. Granada Hills
4×400 Relay	3:18.60	Helix	11th	3:12.54	L.B. Wilson
	3:19.03	Mt. Carmel	14th
	3:19.31	Mount Miguel	16th
	3:20.59	Eastlake	24th
4×800 Relay	7:51.29	Carlsbad	20th	7:38.07	San Clemente
High Jump	6-10	Cheeks II, Mission Bay	3T	7-0 1/2	Banks, L.A. Lake Balboa Birmingham
	6-8	Carmona, Fallbrook	6T
		Gross, Torrey Pines
	6-7	Doctor, Valhalla	13T
	6-6	Martin, Helix	16T
	6-6	Stokes, Bonita Vista
Long Jump	23-11 ¼	Cheeks III	6th	24-7 3/4	Rogers, Lafayette Acalanes
	23-4	McCotter, Cathedral	17th
	23-2 ½	Martin	20T
Triple Jump	47-8 3/4	Reichenberg, Mission Bay	5th	48-6 ¾	Carter, Elk Grove Vista del Lago
	47-7 3/4	Daley, El Camino	7T
	46-1/2	Gouvalaris, Torrey Pines	23T
Shot Put	57-9	Gash, Helix	16th	65-0 1/4	Bitter, Clovis North
	57-1/2	Telemaque, Sage Creek	19th
Discus	181-11	Gash	10th	206-11	Smith, Clovis North
	176-9	Telemaque	14th
Pole Vault	16-8	Anderson, University City	3rd	17-0	McKee, Riverside King
	16-0 1/2	Yarbrough, San Dieguito	7th
	16-0	Weisman, Torrey Pines	8T
	15-6	Sbuttoni IV, St. Augustine	17T