2017-18 Week 15: 3 Finalists Come up Short
It officially was a down year in San Diego Section basketball. Every team in the final Union-Tribune Top 10 poll was eliminated by the quarterfinals round of the Southern California regional tournament. Three of the six from the original 32 in five divisions made it past the semifinals into a championship game, but all were […]
Read More2017-18 Week 14: Six Remain Out of 32 in Regionals
Six San Diego Section teams, from the original 32, reach the semifinals of the Southern California state regional playoffs tonight. An all-San Diego Section final is possible in Boys Division V, but both teams, 5 San Diego and 11 San Diego Southwest, face higher seeds on the road, 1 Canyon Country Santa Clarita Christian and […]
Read More2017-18 Week 13: Mission Bay Finishes No. 1.
Mission Bay, by virtue of late-season wins over Torrey Pines and Foothills Christian, emerged as the No. 1 team in the final Union-Tribune poll. The Buccaneers defeated favored Torrey Pines on the Falcons’Â floor, 64-62, in the semifinals of the San Diego Section Open Division playoffs and then beat Foothills Christian, 52-45, in the finals […]
Read More2017-18 Week 13: Bonita No. 1 in Girls’ Seedings
San Diego Section teams are favorites in 5 of the 17 boys games and in 6 of the 15 girls contests in the Southern California regional playoffs that begin Wednesday in Divisions I-V. Open Division teams tip Friday. Eleven of the San Diego entries have earned home games. The other 21 are on the road. […]
Read More1962-63 Basketball: Blum, Miller Scored, Crawford Won
There were two races in the Eastern League, one with four teams see-sawing through the season seeking two playoffs berths, and another, weekly shootout between Crawford’s Larry Blum and San Diego’s Elburt Miller. St. Augustine (19-5), led by Bob Spence, Mike (Zeke) Shea, Jimmy Antl, John Emerson, and Gary Hoffman, held off Crawford (24-6-1), Hoover […]
Read More2017-18 Week 12: The Eyes Have It Over the Machine
Who won, the ratings or the seedings? Since the seedings are based on the ratings and the ratings are based on the Ocomputer, the question should be who won, the computer or the human eye? So far, the computer is trailing the organ of sight, at least in this impromptu survey. Writer John Maffei of […]
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