1984-85: Zarecky’s Red Devils Runnin’…and Travelin’
Sweetwater, the San Diego Section’s International team. After trips to Hawaii and Canada in recent years, Coach Gary Zarecky’s Red Devils visited the Continent this season. They played four games in Yugoslavia after Christmas, meeting some of that basketball-savvy nation’s top junior teams. The roadrunners from National City also found time to set a San […]
Read More1984-85: It’s Poway’s Way Again
Sweetwater fired a season-opening shot to remember on Nov. 21, exploding for 136 points against Coronado in the first game (Seach 1984-85: Zarecky’s Red Devils Runnin’…andTravelin’), but the Red Devils came up short again in the playoffs as Poway, now a team of mostly juniors, ran away with the San Diego Section 3-A title. Other […]
Read More2019 Week 6: Scots Have Sock
Half the regular season is complete for all but a handful of teams and Helix has emerged as the front runner for the longest postseason. The Highlanders arrived at this juncture after having beaten No. 2 Cathedral and No. 3 St. Augustine, which followed a surprising, overtime loss to Utah’s Herriman West Herriman. The loss […]
Read More2019 Week 5: Overtime Finally Pays Off for Oceanside
Oceanside and La Costa Canyon set a record when they played four overtime periods last week. Somewhere Bennie Edens was smiling. The late coach at Point Loma was instrumental in the city schools’ adopting overtime sessions as a way to solve the inconvenience of tie games in 1975. The entire San Diego Section agreed in […]
Read More1983-84: Those Running Red Devils
Sweetwater coach Gary Zarecky took over a bottomed-out program in 1972-73 that was 2-22, 6-20, and 1-23 in the three previous seasons and proceeded to go 6-19, 1-23, and 11-15. In Zarecky’s year four the Red Devils saw light at the end of the tunnel and fast-breaked past it. Since 1975-76 Sweetwater is 196-54, a […]
Read More1983-84: A Titan Was Emerging in Poway
The future was almost now for Poway. Coach Neville Saner’s starters included three sophomores, Dominick Johnson, Judd Buechler, and Andy Byrne, and junior John Colborne. The young Titans posted a 21-5 record and won the San Diego Section 3-A championship but were sidelined, 79-60, by Riverside John North in the Southern California Regional. They would […]
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