Thirteen players on opening week NFL rosters made their bones on fields of the San Diego Section:

NAME	HIGH SCHOOL	COLLEGE	TEAM	POSITION
Jamal Agnew	Point Loma	San Diego	Lions	Cornerback
Jake Bailey	Santa Fe Christian	Stanford	Patriots	Punter
Joe Cardona	Granite Hills	Navy	Patriots	Long Snapper
Royce Freeman	Imperial	Oregon	Broncos	Running Back
Tony Jefferson	Eastlake	Oklahoma	Ravens	Safety
Jordan Miller	Oceanside	Washington	Redskins	Cornerback
Tim Patrick	University City	Utah	Broncos	Wide Receiver
David Quessenberry	La Costa Canyon	San Jose State	Titans	Tackle
Scott Quessenberry	La Costa Canyon	UCLA	Chargers	Center
Kenny Stills	La Costa Canyon	Oklahoma	Texans	Wide Receiver
Levine Toiolo	Helix	Stanford	49ers	Tight End
Fred Warner	Mission Hills	Brigham Young	49ers	Linebacker
Damian Williams	Mira Mesa	Oklahoma	Chiefs	Running Back

SCOTS STEP UP

Helix’ 45-27 victory last week over Cathedral, not predicted but not surprising, vaulted the Highlanders to No. 1 in the San Diego Section, according to the panel coordinated by John Maffei of the Union-Tribune.

“We didn’t play good and they’re great,”  Cathedral coach Sean Doyle told Jim Lindgren of the Union-Tribune, adding, “They had two weeks to prepare for us and did a great job.”

Helix will be immediately tested Friday night at Mesa College when the Scots  visit St. Augustine.

The Saints have rolled to 4-0 by an average score of 47-3, but they’ll be facing one of the premier running backs in Helix’ Elelyon Noa. who scored three touchdowns and rushed for 116 yards and caught five passes for 79 yards against Cathedral.

Noa, powerful and quick, recently broke Reggie Bush’s school career rushing record.

The San Diego Union-Tribune Week 4 poll:

Points on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis.

First-place votes in parenthesis. NR–Not ranked.

RANK	TEAM	RECORD	POINTS	PREVIOUS
1.	Helix (14)	2-1	292	3
2.	St. Augustine (16)	4-0	290	2
3.	Cathedral	3-1	255	1
4.	Carlsbad	3-1	211	5
5.	Steele Canyon	3-0	176	6
6.	Torrey Pines	3-1	113	8
7.	Lincoln	3-1	108	4
8.	Grossmont	3-0	81	9
9.	Mission Hills	2-2	65	7
10.	La Costa Canyon	3-1	50	NR

Others receiving votes: Oceanside (2-1, 42 points), San Diego (3-0, 6), Vista (3-1, 5), Madison (2-2, 3), Granite Hills (3-1, 2), Hilltop (4-0, 2), Scripps Ranch (4-0, 1), Poway (3-1, 1).

Voting panel of 31 sportswriters, sportscasters, various County football honchos:

• John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune
• Jim Lindgren, Rick Hoff, Terry Monahan, Don Norcross, Thomas Gutierrez, freelance contributors.
• Paul Rudy, Brandon Stone,Ted Mendenhall, KUSI Chl. 51
• Adam Paul, ECpreps.com
• Ramon Scott, EastCountySports.com
• Bodie DeSilva, sandiegopreps.com
• Taylor Quellman, The Mighty 1090
• Steve Brand, San Diego Hall of Champions
• Troy Hirsch, Kaylyn McMakin, Tabitha Lipkin, Fox 5, San Diego
• Rick Smith, PartletonSports.com
• Jerry Schniepp, John Labeta, Ron Marquez, CIF San Diego Section
• Joe Heinz, Coordinator, Athletics, Sweetwater School District
• Raymond Brown, sdfootball.net
• Bob Petinak, free lance.
• John Kentera, Brandon Suprenant, 97.3 FM The Fan
• Steve (Biff) Dolan, Mountain Country 107.9 FM
• Mike Dolan, John Carroll, San Diego Section Tournament Directors.
• Christian Pederson, SoCal Prep Insider.
• Joe Heinz, Athletics Director, Sweetwater School District.
• Eric Williams, WBK Sports/San Diego Friday Night Lights Magazine.

AS OTHERS SEE SAN DIEGO’S TOP 10

TEAM	RECORD	CAL PREPS.COM	MAX PREPS	CAL-HI SPORTS
Helix	2-1	46.1	26	20
St. Augustine	40	53.3	13	17
Cathedral	3-1	70.6	4	22
Carlsbad	3-1	37.5	37	46
Steele Canyon	3-0	31.2	56	On bubble
Torrey Pines	3-1	31.0	57	On bubble
Lincoln	3-1	26.9	76	On bubble
Grossmont	3-0	26.6	80	NR
Mission Hills	2-2	30.5	59	NR
La Costa Canyon	3-1	32.1	53	NR

Cal Preps.com and Max Preps ratings are based on computer algorithms.  Cal-Hi Sports ratings are product of publisher Mark Tennis’ eye test and information from Tennis’ correspondents throughout the state..

POINTS

There has been a 37-34 final score five times in the almost 50,000 games played by San Diego County schools since the first in 1891.

All of those 37-34’s have occurred since 2006.

But with the same team involved, on successive weeks?

It happened this season with the Imperial Tigers, who lost to Coronado and Valley Center by scores of 37-34.

La Costa Canyon in 2006 against Lakewood came out a winner.  So did Valley Center against San Pasqual in 2008 and Cathedral versus Stockton St. Mary’s in a state championship game in 2008.

 

 

 

Corona Centennial did not make an appearance at Cathedral last week until less than 3 minutes before kickoff.

The Huskies did not engage in the usual, pregame warmup.

“Gamesmanship,” observed Don Carey, retired, longtime NFL official who now scouts high school officiating crews.

If that was the late-arriving Riverside County powerhouse’s message to the Dons it seemed to work, for awhile.

Huskies wide receiver Gary Bryant took a handoff on a reverse and raced 67 yards to a touchdown on the game’s second play from scrimmage.

Centennial barged up and down the field for 583 total yards (to Cathedral’s 378) but 3-0 Cathedral punched back each time in a marvelous game that was tied on three occasions and had five lead changes before a crowd of about 6,000 at Cathedral’s Manchester Stadium.

Trailing, 42-37, Dons quarterback D.J. Ralph scored from the one-yard line with 46 seconds remaining to pull out a 44-42 victory.

Ralph rushed for three touchdowns and passed for two and running back Zavien Watson (28 carries, 140 yards) kept the Dons coming when the speedy Huskies threatened to create some distance.

FLAGS

Officials worked hard to keep the teams’ emotions in check in a physical and chippy contest.

Centennial coach Matt Logan tried not to complain, but did.

“There were a ton of calls and it’s unfortunate that that was a factor in the game,” Logan told  writer Tim Meehan of the Riverside Press-Enterprise.  “It’s not an excuse, but it’s a fact.  It’s very unfortunate.”

Corona was penalized 16 times for 173 yards.  The more disciplined Dons were fined five for 40 yards,

THE DON

Despite the disparity, Cathedral coach Sean Doyle also did not appear ready to enjoy a repast with the zebra-striped police.

Doyle prowled the sideline, exhorting his staff and players, and aggressively worked the officials, particularly referee Brian Bortness, usually after hearing from Doyle’s assistant coaches, who spotted possible infractions from high above the field in the press box.

Doyle engaged in the almost comical repetition of removing his headset to bark a complaint to the game referee or instructions to his quarterback, and then placing the device back on his head.

RATINGS

Cathedral traded places with Centennial in Cal-Hi Sports’ weekly ratings and now is fifth, behind Santa Ana Mater Dei, Bellflower St. John Bosco, Concord De La Salle, and Folsom.

St. Augustine rose from 19^th to 17^th.  Helix is 42^nd and Lincoln 44^th.  A loss to San Clemente dropped Carlsbad to the bubble, on which it sits with Torrey Pines.

Max Preps ranks Cathedral third in California and a somewhat eye-brow-raising ninth in the country.  St. Augustine is 17^th in the state, Helix 41^st, and Lincoln 51^st.

Cal Preps.com awards Cathedral a 77.1 computer score, the highest ever for a San Diego team since the service began in 2001. The 15-0 Dons of 2016 scored 72.6.  Next highest were Helix, 65.8 and 64.4 in 2017 and 2011, respectively.

HELIX

The Highlanders did not play last week after losing at home to West Herriman, the No. 6 team in Utah, with a loss only to No. 1 Draper, Utah.

Helix will be home to Cathedral this week.  The Dons look superior but Helix, a traditional power, at this point is an unknown quantity.

ST. AUGUSTINE

Barring a stunning upset, the Saints and Cathedral will meet in Week 7 at Mesa College, with the Western League championship at stake and offering an early barometer of which team will be the Division I favorite in the playoffs.

A 47-0 Saints win over Eastlake in Week 1 was the most decisive loss in Titans coach John McFadden’s 16 seasons at the South Bay school.

The Saints impressed again last week in a 42-5 victory over Los Angeles Loyola and will be favored  this week against Otay Ranch.

TRUE GRID

Two of Catheral coach Sean Doyle’s assistants, offensive line coach Matt White and receivers coach Jerry Ralph, have been head coaches in the San Diego Section and between them own 177 victories…White and Ralph are graduates of University OF sAN dIEGO High, which was the school name before it became Cathedral in 2004…the San Diego Section merry-go-round continued with at least 18 new coaches, same as in 2018…one of the changes was Classical’s Jon Goodman’s moving a few blocks to Escondido Charter…Salton City West Shores still has not announced a coach and has a scheduled opener this week versus Ocean View Christian…the Wildcats’ schedule, however, has been removed from Max Preps‘ listings, meaning perhaps no football this season…the spread offense brought to Patrick Henry by former NFL quarterback J.T. O’Sullivan resulted in 111 points in the first three games, the most in school history, dating to 1969…the Mike Martinez-coached team scored 108 in 2015…O’Sullivan is assisted by Nate Nelson, who was the head coach’s wide receiver battery mate at the University of California at Davis…when a scheduling conflict arose, El Centro Central made a week-of-the-game decision and agreed to play El Paso Del Valle…the Spartans loaded up some buses, hiked 614 miles each way, and came home with a 34-21 victory….win this week and Hilltop will be 4-0 for the first time since 2013…

San Diego Union-Tribune Week 3 poll:

Points on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis.

First-place votes in parenthesis. NR–Not ranked.

RANK	TEAM	RECORD	POINTS	PREVIOUS
1.	Cathedral (29)	2-0	308	1
2.	St. Augustine (2)	2-0	280	2
3.	Helix	1-1	207	3
4.	Carlsbad	2-0	198	6
5.	Lincoln	2-0	178	5
6.	Steele Canyon	2-0	150	7
7.	Torrey Pines	1-1	128	4
8.	Mission Hills	1-1	120	8
9.	Grossmont	2-0	31	NR
10.	La Costa Canyon	1-1	30	NR

Others receiving votes: Granite Hills (2-0, 26 points), Oceanside (1-1, 14), Madison (1-1, 12), San Marcos (1-1, 2), San Diego (2-0, 1), El Camino (1-1, 1), San Pasqual (2-0, 1).

Voting panel of 31 sportswriters, sportscasters, various County football honchos:

• John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune
• Jim Lindgren, Rick Hoff, Terry Monahan, Don Norcross, Bob Petinak, Thomas Gutierrez, freelance contributors.
• Paul Rudy, Brandon Stone,Ted Mendenhall, KUSI Chl. 51
• Adam Paul, ECpreps.com
• Ramon Scott, EastCountySports.com
• Bodie DeSilva, sandiegopreps.com
• Taylor Quellman, The Mighty 1090
• Steve Brand, San Diego Hall of Champions
• Troy Hirsch, Kaylyn McMakin, Tabitha Lipkin, Fox 5, San Diego
• Rick Smith, PartletonSports.com
• Jerry Schniepp, John Labeta, Ron Marquez, CIF San Diego Section
• Joe Heinz, Coordinator, Athletics, Sweetwater School District
• Raymond Brown, sdfootball.net
• John Kentera, Brandon Suprenant, 97.3 FM The Fan
• Steve (Biff) Dolan, Mountain Country 107.9 FM
• Mike Dolan, John Carroll, San Diego Section Tournament Directors.
• Christian Pederson, SoCal Prep Insid
• Eric Williams, WBK Sports/San Dego Friday Night Lights Magazine

Cathedral Catholic takes on visiting Corona Centennial Friday night in a battle of elite privates and publics.

Coach Sean Doyle’s private-school Dons defeated Arizona’s big one, Scottsdale Saguaro, 18-10, last week at home in the final of the Honor Bowl tripleheader.

Public school Centennial, after a 42-12, opening-game loss to national No. 1 Santa Ana Mater Dei, won its second straight blowout, 56-14 over usually rugged Orange Lutheran.

Matchups like these have become common for Doyle’s team, which does not flinch when assembling a  schedule.

Part of the work is done for Cathedral because it embraces the opportunity each year to participate in the Honor Bowl, a season-opening series played to assist wounded war veterans and brings together some of the top teams in the country.

The Dons are guaranteed a tough opponent in those games, but Cathedral takes it a step further.

Cathedral is acknowledged as having one of California’s top programs and it has gotten there by venturing out of San Diego County.

Winning the league championship and moving through the playoff rounds are the preeminent goals every year, but ratings rate, too.

Three major observers, Cal-Hi Sports, Cal-Preps.com, and Max Preps consider this week’s Dons-Huskies one of the season’s top matchups.

Cathedral is weekly Cal-Hi Sports’ No. 6 team and Centennial  No. 5.

Max Preps rates Cathedral No. 5 in California and No. 19 nationally.  Centennial  is No. 3 and No. 6, respectively.

Cal Preps.com gives Centennial a computer score of 80.1, Cathedral 68.4.

Doyle, who played at University and became the Dons’ coach in 1997 and was part of the move to Carmel Valley when the school was renamed Cathedral Catholic in 2004, has won 198 games in his career and is 16-10 against teams from out of San Diego County.

Cathedral and Helix are two teams from this area who approach the season in much the same manner as the Duane Maley teams of San Diego High in the late ‘forties and 1950s. Maley’s pre-league schedule always was loaded.

Cathedral’s intersectional record since 1997:

SEASON	OPPONENT	WIN-LOSS	SCORE
1998	@Las Vegas Cimarron	W	28-6
2001	Norristown, @Villanova, Pennsyvania	L	35-6
2003	@Carmichael Jesuit	L	41-6
2004	Carmichael Jesuit	L	16-13
2006	Mansfield, Massachusetts	L	35-0
2008	Stockton St. Mary’s	W	37-34*
2013	Sandy Jordan, Utah	W	38-6
	Murrieta Vista Murrieta	W	35-28
2014	Folsom	L	55-10
	Westlake Village Oaks Christian @Oceanside	W	28-21
	@Newbury Park	W	42-28
2015	Rancho Santa Margarita	L	40-14
	Westlake Village Oaks Christian	L	35-33
	Bakersfield Liberty	W	24-10
	Reno Damonte, Nevada	W	48-19
2016	Reno Damonte, Nevada	W	49-12
	Modesto Central Catholic	W	28-25
	Bakersfield Liberty	W	49-7
	Harbor City Narbonne	W	35-28*
	Stockton St. Mary’s	W	38-35*
2017	Loomis Del Oro	L	22-12
	Orange Lutheran	L	37-0
2018	Gardena Serra	W	42-21
	Harbor City Narbonne	W	24-21*
	Folsom	L	21-14*
2019	Scottsdale Saguaro, Arizona	W	18-10
	Corona Centennial
		16-10

Meanwhile, the Dons continued to rank No. 1 in the San Diego Section ahead of arch rival and Western League opponent St. Augustine.

The Saints whacked former power Eastlake, 47-0, last week and take on old rival Los Angeles Loyola at Mesa College this week.

The teams first met in 1926, were members of the Southland Catholic League from 1945-50, and then went their separate ways.

The Saints and Cubs renewed aquaintances and have played every year since 2014, with Loyola holding a 3-2 edge, although St. Augustine won last year’s game, 28-10, in Los Angeles.

Loyola holds an overall, 8-3-1 lead in the series.

QUICK KICKS

“There’s no doubt that it hurts, because we invested a lot of time, effort, and energy in trying to win that game,” Saguaro coach Jason Mohn said to Richard Obert of the Arizona Republic in recapping the loss to Cathedral….

San Diego Union-Tribune Week 2 poll:

Points on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis.

First-place votes in parenthesis. NR–Not ranked.

RANK	TEAM	RECORD	POINTS	PREVIOUS
1.	Cathedral (29)	2-0	308	1
2.	St. Augustine (2)	2-0	280	2
3.	Helix	1-1	207	3
4.	Carlsbad	2-0	198	6
5.	Lincoln	2-0	178	5
6.	Steele Canyon	2-0	150	7
7.	Torrey Pines	1-1	128	4
8.	Mission Hills	1-1	120	8
9.	Grossmont	2-0	31	NR
10.	La Costa Canyon	1-1	30	NR

Others receiving votes: Granite Hills (2-0, 26 points), Oceanside (1-1, 14), Madison (1-1, 12), San Marcos (1-1, 2), San Diego (2-0, 1), El Camino (1-1, 1), San Pasqual (2-0, 1).

Voting panel of 31 sportswriters, sportscasters, various County football honchos:

• John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune
• Jim Lindgren, Rick Hoff, Terry Monahan, Don Norcross, Bob Petinak, Thomas Gutierrez, freelance contributors.
• Paul Rudy, Brandon Stone,Ted Mendenhall, KUSI Chl. 51
• Adam Paul, ECpreps.com
• Ramon Scott, EastCountySports.com
• Bodie DeSilva, sandiegopreps.com
• Taylor Quellman, The Mighty 1090
• Steve Brand, San Diego Hall of Champions
• Troy Hirsch, Kaylyn McMakin, Tabitha Lipkin, Fox 5, San Diego
• Rick Smith, PartletonSports.com
• Jerry Schniepp, John Labeta, Ron Marquez, CIF San Diego Section
• Joe Heinz, Coordinator, Athletics, Sweetwater School District
• Raymond Brown, sdfootball.net
• John Kentera, Brandon Suprenant, 97.3 FM The Fan
• Steve (Biff) Dolan, Mountain Country 107.9 FM
• Mike Dolan, John Carroll, San Diego Section Tournament Directors.
• Christian Pederson, SoCal Prep Insider
• Eric Williams, WBK Sports/San Dego Friday Night Lights Magazine

 

 

The girls were playing for a state playoff berth for the first time…

…before the start of their regular seasons.

That’s because the regular season still was in the spring in the San Diego Section, while the rest of California (and most other places where there is a court and a ball) plays basketball in the winter.

Patrick Henry represented San Diego in 3-A.

The Patriots got there by splitting a doubleheader.

They benched their starters and lost to Torrey Pines in a morning game at Coronado’s preseason tournament.

Playing their starters, Henry then topped Fallbrook, 54-46, in the evening at Serra High.

Point Loma received the 2-A invitation by defeating Ramona, 53-23, and Francis Parker got the nod in 1-A.

SOUTHERN  CALIFORNIA REGIONAL

FIRST ROUND

3-A

Patrick Henry 45, Reedley 42 (24-1). 

“I can’t believe it!” exclaimed Patriots coach John Ferguson after his team knocked off the unbeaten Central Section power at Long Beach State.

2-A

Point Loma 59, Artesia 44.

The Pointers were seasoned by a winter league schedule of 14 games.

1-A

McFarland (25-1) 59, Francis Parker 31 (4-1). 

“We managed to hang in there until we ran out of gas,” said Lancers coach John Cook.

More than 200 students and fans stocked up on petrol and made a field trip out of the 270-mile jaunt to the small community north of Bakersfield and home of the Central Section representative.

SEMIFINALS

3-A

Ventura Buena 80, Patrick Henry 34 (7-2).

Buena coach Joe Vaughn reportedly said to his starters, after a 23-8 first quarter, “Show no mercy.”

The Henry girls now got ready for their regular season.

CHAMPIONSHIP

2-A

Thousand Oaks La Reina (27-4) 51, Point Loma 42 (6-1).

Point Loma coach Lee Trepanier decided to have his team to play an earlier game in the Morse Tournament and then embark on the two-hour drive for the game at Long Beach State.

The Pointers led, 20-14, in the second quarter but trailed, 41-30, after three quarters.

 

 

 

 

Torrey Pines’ 6-foot, 11-inch Chris Dudley was among the San Diego Section’s leading scorers with 438 points and a 16.8 average.

A fine season  and a productive four years at Torrey  but not a blueprint for the future.

The future stretched…and stretched.

Dudley went on to play four years at Yale University and then embarked on a National Basketball Association career that stretched 19 seasons, from 1983-84 to 2002-03, with five different teams.

Dudley ranks in an NBA Top 25 for longevity.

Through 2022-23 only 23 players had played more seasons.

Dudley epitomized the professional journeyman, valuable and available in any situation.

A future candidate for Oregon’s highest office, Chris played in 886 NBA games, averaged 3.9 points, 6.2 rebounds, and 1.2 blocked shots, and not long after retirement lost a close race in the gubernatorial election.

Dudley was a fourth-round choice and 75^th player in the 1983 NBA draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers. He also played for the New Jersey Nets, New York Knicks, Phoenix Suns, and finished his career in a second stint with the Portland Trail Blazers.

The game still was played from December until early March, but San Diego Section basketballers seemingly were playing more and scoring more.

Ninety points, once considered elite, had become almost routine. 100 points no longer was surprising.

There were more highs than lows but some stunning legislative moves captured the headlines, as usual caused by a “dreaded administrative glitch”: 1982-83: Morse is Out of Playoffs And Then Back In

12/3/82

–Santa Fe Christian stepped up in class and the experience was not uplifting.  Carlsbad defeated the Navigators, 112-18.   The Lancers outscored their outmanned opponents, 29-1, in the fourth quarter.

Santa Fe Christian eventually changed its mascot to Eagles.

12/4/82

–Randy Pass had 6 of his game 14 points as Grossmont outscored San Dieguito, 10-5, in the fourth overtime of a 59-54 victory.

–The teams were deadlocked at 41 at the end of regulation play.

12/9/82

Russ Swier scored 30 of Ramona’s total in a 64-46 loss to Madison.

12/10/82

–Vista’s Jimmy Douglas scored 45 points, retrieved 20 missed shots, and third-ranked Vista topped visiting and fourth-ranked Sweetwater, 77-72.

–El Capitan dropped a 58-46 decision to Monte Vista and the Vaqueros could point the finger at the free throw line, where they missed 16 of 18 attempts.

12/13/82

Steve Brand of The San Diego Union noted the wide gulf between attendance in the championship games at the Hilltop and Mt. Helix tournaments.

“Helix attracted an almost full house (for Morse and Helix).  The Hilltop final, featuring two unbeaten teams (Mira Mesa and Point Loma), drew only a handful of fans.”

Brand pointed out that Mt. Helix had the host school, plus Morse and Lincoln and that the Hilltop championship was played during and after an epic Chargers-49ers football game; during a Virginia-Georgetown contest featuring all-Americas Ralph Sampson and Patrick Ewing, and just before tip of a San Diego-State Oregon game.

The 10-team tournament also started Nov. 30 but finished with a scheduled Dec. 11 ending, a full week after semifinal play and almost two weeks after the opening tip.

12/17/82

Morse ganged up on Sweetwater, 60-32, in the second half and cruised to a 92-51 victory.  Lawrence West, nicknamed “Camel” by his teammates because “he’s a hard worker”, scored 22 points.

CENTURY CLUB

TEAM	OPPONENT	SCORE
Carlsbad	Santa Fe Christian	112-18
Sweetwater	Coquitlam Centennial, B.C., Canada	109-91
Morse	St. Augustine	107-61
Lincoln	Granite Hills	107-40
Sweetwater	Richmond, B.C., Canada	105-74
El Camino	Coronado	105-36
El Camino	Escondido	102-57
Point Loma	Mission Bay	101-71
Borrego Springs	The Bishop’s	100-36

TOURNAMENTS

HILLTOP INVITATIONAL

Point Loma 76, Mira Mesa 73. 

Kevin Celestine of the Pointers and Tag Glithero of the Marauders offset each other with 25 points apiece.

–Point Loma ran away from Mar Vista, 89-70 after a 28-5 first quarter to set up for Mira Mesa, 63-60 winner over Torrey Pines

MT. HELIX INVITATIONAL

Morse, 63, Helix 56.

The Tigers, leading, 46-33, after three quarters, rode out a mild Helix charge.

–Six players scored in double figures as Morse beat Kearny, 85-51.  Madison transfer Ray Epton was one of the five with 14.  Lawrence West had 17 and Shawn Bell 15, plus 15 rebounds.

–Lincoln’s Anthony Todd scored 35 points in an 81-58 win over Mission Bay.

–Morse stopped Lincoln, 67-60, as Lawrence West, after a first half collar, scored 12 points and had 10 rebounds in last 16 minutes.

Eight teams participated.

PARKER

Francis Parker 38, Army-Navy 30.

–The host Lancers won their eight-team event.

RAMONA

San Marcos 60, Canyon Country Canyon, 55, OT.

The Knights emerged in the eight-team event by converting 24×42 free throws, the losers 7×21.

–Russ Swier scored 26 points, almost all in the first half, as Ramona took a 49-17 lead in an 83-43 win over Army-Navy.

LT. JIM MITCHELL MEMORIAL

Las Vegas Western 94, Glendale Hoover 92, 2 OT.

–The Kiwanis Tournament no longer invited out-of-area teams but the San Dieguito-based event, honoring a former Mustangs athlete who was killed in Viet Nam, tabbed the two finalists, Glendale Hoover as No. 1 seed and Las Vegas Western No. 2, among the 16 teams.

–Chris Dudley’s 25 points set the pace as Torrey Pines whipped San Pasqual, 69-65, for third place.

–Western eliminated San Pasqual, 98-63, and Hoover topped Torrey Pines, 75-64, in the semifinals.

–Western also out ran Mira Mesa, 103-96, as three players scored at least 24 points.  Tag Glithero led the Marauders with 30.

–Torrey Pines, pushed by Chris Dudley’s 22 points, upset 10^th-ranked El Camino, 72-65, dealing the Oceanside club its first loss, but the Wildcats, in their fourth season under coach Ray Johnson, rebounded to go to 5-1 with a 102-57 win over Escondido.

KIWANIS

The 36^th annual’s entry list of 27 teams, including fifteen Unlimited and 12 Limited division squads, was the lowest since the 1953-54 season, when there were 24 squads.

–A move to 32 teams in 1955-56 was followed by the creation of the Classified Division for a peak of 44 squads in 1967-68.

Helix 57, Lincoln 50, Unlimited Division.

Lincoln’s Anthony Todd collected his fourth foul with 1:05 remaining in the third quarter and didn’t score again, finishing with 12 points.  Helix clinched with a 22-12 last quarter.

–Yoyo Mitchell’s basket with 4 seconds to go finally got San Diego past Chula Vista, 77-75, in four overtimes.

La Jolla 63, Crawford 54, Limited Division.

La Jolla pulled away with a 19-8 third quarter. Crawford was assessed 28 fouls and 5 players fouled out.

–Sophomores Demetre Lafitte and Dave Burgess combined for 48 points and 17 rebounds as University upset Sweetwater, 75-60.

POINT LOMA

–Starting center Mark Fisher was stranded by weather in Denver and leading scorer Kevin Celestine had a hip pointer.

–The Pointers managed with John Giles, picking up for Fisher and scoring 24 points, and Celestine rallying with 16 in a first-round, 79-56 win over San Marcos.

–The champion Pointers moved to 7-1 the same day in the round-robin event by playing another game, and defeating Mar Vista, 63-49. Celestine added 14 points.

BARON-OPTIMIST

Vista 48, Orange Glen 41.

El Camino 73, Marian 62 (small schools)

The Patriots’ slow-down game pestered Vista until Jimmy Douglas broke through in the third quarter and finished with 22 points and 14 rebounds.

–A 30-10 third quarter, after it trailed, 29-20, at halftime propelled El Camino past Crawford, 74-50.  The Wildcats’ Freddy Spears scored 30 points.

–The ensuing win over Marian gave the Wildcats a 4-0 record in the tournament and they ended December with a San Diego Section-leading average of 85.1 points.

SANTANA

University 55, Patrick Henry 49.

Jim Binford and player-of-tournament David Reyes each scored 15 points for the Dons.

RICHMOND CHALLENGE @VANCOUVER, CANADA

Sweetwater won the round-robin tournament with a 2-1 record on the basis of the most points scored (295).

–Sweetwater 105, British Columbia Richmond 74.

–British Columbia Abbotsford, 81, Sweetwater 73.

–Sweetwater 109, British Columbia, Coquitlam Centennial 91.

CHINO

LaVerne Damien, 69, Escondido 47.

The Cougars were eliminated in consolation play.

1/4/83

Monte Vista overcame a 15-point Helix lead to defeat the Helix, 51-50, on Brad Morgan’s 15-foot basket at the buzzer.

–Reggie Wallace scored 40 points as Sweetwater beat Southwest, 80-51.

1/5/83

Mike Haupt scored 26 points as Mira Mesa set a school record in a 99-73 win over Christian.

1/12/83

Anthony Todd scored 27 points and Arthur Hamilton 17 as Lincoln outlasted Morse, 76-73, in two overtimes.

1/18/83

Out of the past came Poway and Orange Glen, which played to an old-fashioned 20-19 score, edge to Poway.

1/28/83

Reggie Owens scored 22 points and Oceanside gained a first-place Avocado League tie with El Camino, 58-53 in overtime, extending the Pirates’ home-court winning streak to 33 games, dating to the 1980-81 campaign.

–The Pirates trailed by eight points with six minutes remaining and by five with 1:02 left in regulation.

ALMOST TALLEST

Six-foot, 4-inch Russ Swier believed he was the third tallest person in Ramona, population 12,500.

Swier stood behind his 6-5 coach Larry Bringham, who played at U.S. International University “and a dentist here in town named Jim Hill,” according to Bud Maloney of the Evening Tribune.

The 6-8 Hill played at Fordham University in New York.

Swier led the San Diego Section with a 27.0 average this season.

ALL-TIME SINGLE-SEASON LEADERS IN SCORING AVERAGE

NAME	TEAM	SEASON	POINTS/AVERAGE
Mitchell Lilly	Madison	1976-77	893/31.9
Bill Walton	Helix	1969-70	960/29.1
Paul Halupa	Bonita Vista	1968-69	718/28.7
Tom Shaules	St. Augustine	1957-58	736/28.3
Michael Pitts	Sweetwater	1978-79	872/28.1
Halupa		1969-70	689/27.5
Ralph Drollinger	Grossmont	1971-72	868//27.1
Russ Swier	Ramona	1982-83	595/27.0
Hans Wichary	University	1979-80	447/26.3

2/4/83

Lincoln dropped a double-overtime, 76-68 decision to Hoover, despite Anthony Todd’s 35 points.

–Todd had to pick up the slack after the Hornets forfeited 12 victories because of ineligibilities.

–Hoover’s Ricky Pernell scored 36 points, following games of 38, 31, and 29.

2/8/83

Anthony Todd joined an elite group when he scored 50 points, with 24 field goals and two free throws in a 96-78 win over St. Augustine.  The 6-foot, 8-inch Todd was aided by Alton Beavers’ 16 points and 13 rebounds.

–Todd became the 11^th player in County history reach 50.

–Search 1979-80: “Three Division Alignment…” for a listing of the 10 others.

2/10/83

Anthony Todd, just two days later, socked Crawford with 46 points in an 89-48 win.  The Colts led, 15-12, after one quarter.

 2/16/83

—Sweetwater sweated before clinching a fifth straight league title, the first four in the Metropolitan before realigning in the new South Bay loop, 66-62, over Hilltop.

The Lancers converted 12 of 14 free throw attempts in the fourth quarter and slowly chopped a 54-46 Red Devils lead to 4 points, but their last score came with one second left.

2/20/83

—La Jolla won a playoff against University, 58-37, to clear the final hurdle to the 2-A playoffs.  The Vikings and Uni had tied as Western League champions, each with 10-2 records.

—Point Loma closed with a 91-59 win over San Diego and also finished 10-2. A postgame vote by league officials accorded the Pointers the No. 1 playoff position.  They also would be the top seed in 2-A.

PLAYOFFS

3-A

First Round

Morse 76, Madison 64 (17-7).

Granted a reprieve from a City Schools boss, No. 1 seed Morse took a nine-point lead in the first quarter and never looked back. The Tigers originally were scheduled to play Hilltop, the only team in the playoffs with a losing record.

3-A Quarterfinals

Sweetwater 56, Monte Vista 52 (19-5).

Sweetwater won its 16^th in a row, improving to 20-5, which marked their sixth straight 20-win season, but not before experiencing sauna-like perspiration, especially with the memory of their No. 1 seedand first-round, 86-83 loss to Fallbrook the previous season.

“I must have lost ten pounds,” declared Red Devils coach Gary Zarecky.

Vista 77, Mira Mesa 73 (16-8).

The favored Panthers got more than they expected from the rising Marauders, sparked by junior Mike Haupt, who scored 32 points, a total matched by Vista’s Jimmy Douglas.

Vista did not know which team it would play until Mira Mesa suddenly was given playoff entree when Morse was ruled out because of forfeitures.

Morse 75, Hilltop 38 (11-14).

All 12 Tigers got into the scoring column.

Helix 72, Torrey Pines 56 (20-6).

2-A

La Jolla 67, Hoover 54 (15-9).

Central League champion Hoover ran afoul of Rick Eveleth’s tough and resourceful Vikings.

La Jolla held Hoover’s high-scoring Ricky Pernell to 19 points while three Norsemen made double figures.

Point Loma 56, Southwest 47 (15-8).

El Camino 91, Chula Vista 63 (14-10).

Lincoln 60, Oceanside 52 (14-8).

3-A Semifinals

Helix 66, Vista 54 (20-5).

Six-foot, 4-inch Tyrone Muldrow didn’t let Jimmy Douglas’ at least 4-inch height edge get in the way as Muldrow scored 20 points and pulled down 17 rebounds.

With an assist from Scott Webb, Muldrow’s basket stopped a Vista rally, which had narrowed the score to 55-51 and sparked a Highlanders run of 13 points in a row.

Douglas had 27 points and 14 rebounds for the Panthers.

Morse 64, Sweetwater 56 (21-5).

Parade Magazine third-team all-America Lawrence West led the Tigers with 22 points. All of his 10 baskets came from point-blank range.  “What we tried to do was get the ball inside and get them in foul trouble early,” said West.

Sweetwater star Reggie Wallace picked up his third foul halfway through the first quarter and sat for the remainder of the half, at which Morse led, 35-26.

2-A Semifinals

La Jolla 76, Lincoln 54 (8-16).

El Camino 76, Point Loma 72, OT (20-5).

The Pointers scored the last six points to etch a tie at 68 and send the game into overtime.

“When we walked off the court at the end of regulation time we were really hanging our heads, but we gathered our composure and came back,” said Wildcats coach Ray Johnson.

A basket by 22-point contributor Freddy Spears with 12 seconds remaining in the extra session clinched the El Camino victory.

1-A Semifinals

Army-Navy 57, Julian 49.

Francis Parker 83, Victory Christian 43.

SCORING LEADERS

Anthony Todd	Lincoln	24	646	26.9 (2)
Russ Swier	Ramona	22	595	27.0 (1)
Jimmy Douglas	Vista	25	539	21.6 (4)
Kevin Celestine	Point Loma	25	525	21.0 (6)
Reggie Wallace	Sweetwater	26	521	20.0 (7)
Ricky Pernell	Hoover	23	484	21.04 (5)
Albert Gonzalez	Army-Navy	19	463	24.4 (3)
Freddy Spears	El Camino	26	445	17.3
Tyrone Muldrow	Helix	27	445	16.5
David Reyes	University	23	442	19.2 (8)
Chris Dudley	Torrey Pines	26	438	16.8
Fred Farnsworth	Marian	22	430	19.5 (9)
Ed Raymond	Santana	25	417	16.7
Kevin Willard	Chula Vista	22	402	18.3 (10)
Tag Glithero	Mira Mesa	24	397	16.5
Jim Binford	University	23	386	16.8
Mike Haupt	Mira Mesa	23	386	16.8
John Peisner	El Capitan	23	384	16.7
Lawrence Tolbert	Crawford	23	381	16.6
Dwane Hurd	Carlsbad	19	360	18.9

3-A Championship.

Morse 51 (4-20), Helix 50 (24-3).

Helix led, 49-47, before 4,677 persons at the Sports Arena, until the Tigers’ Carl Fisher scored two baskets in the final 1:09 to pull out the victory,

2-A

La Jolla 79 (21-4), El Camino 67 (23-3).

“Our basic game plan was to work for the best shot and bang the offensive boards and it worked almost perfectly in the first half,” said Vikings coach Rick Eveleth.

La Jolla led, 39-24, at intermission.

“They took it to us underneath,” said El Camino coach Ray Johnson.

1-A

Francis Parker 40 (19-3), Army-Navy 39 (17-5).

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL PLAYOFFS

First Round

Division I

Los Angeles Crenshaw 86, Morse 45 (4-21), @Long Beach Arena.

Many in the crowd of 1,751 stood and gave the Tigers a standing ovation when the Tigers’ Ray Epton scored a field goal with 3:34 left in the half.

The Tigers had launched 14 unsuccessful attempts from the field before Epton’s basket.

Morse also did not score in the first quarter, drawing an 0-17 collar as the Cougars, behind 6-foot, 7-inch John Williams, who scored 22 points.

The Cougars took a breath in a 19-17 Morse second quarter before racing to a 52-26 advantage in the second half.

“I told our players before the game the key would be for us to cut down on our turnovers,” said Morse coach Ron Davis.  “When we had 12 turnovers in the first quarter that was the end of the game.”

Technically, Morse finished with a 4-21 record, with a total of 20 forfeitures.  They were 21-4 on the court.

Crenshaw topped Oakland Bishop O’Dowd, 62-55, in overtime for the state championship.

Division II

Oxnard Santa Clara 57, La Jolla 56 (21-5).

A 17-3 La Jolla lead evaporated into a 54-49 deficit and then the Vikings battled back but couldn’t finish, turning the ball over three times in the final 1:36.

Atherton Menlo defeated Santa Clara, 53-51, for the state title.

Division III

Santa Monica Crossroads 81, Francis Parker 64 (19-4).

Parker, considered the longest of longshots, outplayed the Roadrunners for almost three quarters. Mark Seiber scored 22 for Parker and Jay Filderman added 20 points, 14 on free throws.

Crossroads reached the state finals before losing to Cloverdale, 71-64.