1982-83: Morse is Out of Playoffs And Then Back In
There would be state basketball playoffs this season and Morse liked its chances to represent the San Diego Section. Ray Epton, whose 25.0 average at Madison in 1981-82 was highest in the San Diego Section, had transferred to the school on Skyline Drive, where Epton joined 6-foot, 7-inch preseason all-America Lawrence West, 6-6 Shawn Bell, […]
Read More2019 Week 1: Decks Cleared in North County for Orange Glen and Escondido
Westbound traffic will pick up on Escondido’s Valley Parkway Friday night. A neighborhood bragging rights game is scheduled when revitalized Orange Glen motors West from the eastern edge of town on the old thoroughfare to visit big brother Escondido High. They’re only 4.5 miles apart, but the visiting Patriots and host Cougars haven’t met since […]
Read More2019 Week 0: Cathedral Wins Preseason Vote
Football, which used to open with 90-degree practices under blazing Labor Day suns, is back with a now usual berginning in August’s semifinal week. The dates have changed, but not the weather. Cathedral is the San Diego Union-Tribune voting panel’s No. 1-ranked team in the first weekly poll. Dons coach Sean Doyle, who should become […]
Read More1981-82: Zarecky Thought He’d Seen it All
“I’m confused,” said Sweetwater coach Gary Zarecky. “I’m baffled,” added the Red Devils mentor. Sweetwater had just beaten Castle Park, 94-11, in a Metropolitan Mesa League game, which followed an earlier, 106-37 Sweetwater rout of the Trojans. What made Zarecky (Zar-skee) figuratively scratch his head was that the host Trojans attempted only five shots from […]
Read More1981-82: No Outside Competition for San Diego Squads
Local teams were just that, local. That’s because San Diego Section bosses, most of whom did not know if the ball was made of leather or composed of rubber, continued to defy the state CIF. –For the first time in the history of the game in San Diego County, going back at least 60 years, […]
Read More1980-81: Red Devils Break Scoring Record
Records are made to be broken, but it took 11 years, until Jan. 23, 1981, for Bill Walton and Helix to surrender the San Diego Section’s signature team scoring achievement. Helix slammed Mount Miguel, 127-31, in the 1969-70 season and the Highlanders’ record seldom was in trouble, other than a couple 122-point assaults by free-wheeling […]
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