1930 Track: San Diego Struggled but Earned Second State Championship
San Diego High retained a share of its 1929 state championship after losing its Southern California title to Santa Ana. The Hilltoppers returned 1929 state 100 and 220 champion Jimmy Willson, 440 champ Irvine (Cotton) Warburton, state mile champion Evan Dowers, and sprinter Fernando Ortiz, among others on a deep and talented roster. How could […]
Read More2024 Boys Track Week 4: Mount Miguel Sprinter Among U.S. Leaders
Brandon Arrington, Jr.’s :20.59 200 in the Grossmont League finals last week is the second fastest in San Diego County history to Kenon Christon’s :20.55 in 2019 and marked the fifth time this season that Arrington has covered the distance in under 21 seconds, rarified air for local sprinters. (Morse’s Ike Okenwa ran :20.97 in […]
Read More2024 Girls Track Week 4: Divisionals Dot Landscape
San Diego Section athletes will convene in divisional meets this week at Del Norte (I), University City (II), and Valley Center (III). The road to Clovis Buchanan High and the 104th state track meet May 24-25 is getting shorter and steeper. Tessa Buswell knows the way. The Poway senior was third in 2:08.53 in the […]
Read More2024 Track Week 3: Ninth and 10th Graders Hold Sway in Dick Wilkins Meet
Underclass youngsters took charge last week in the 38th Dick Wilkins Frosh-Sophomores meet at Del Norte as the season swung toward league championships this week. Mount Miguel’s Brandon Arrington, Jr., continued to run among the top echelon sprinters in the state with his :10.51 100 meters and :20.88 200. Rancho Bernardo’s Brice Abawi announced his […]
Read More2024 Track Week 2: Atilano Adds Distance, Earns No. 1 Ranking
Cathedral’s Vincent Atilano lost his California lead in the 300 hurdles, but gained a first, and national standing, in another at the 64th Mount San Antonio Relays over the weekend. Atilano eschewed his usual 300 race, in which his :37.42 ranked first until a runner from Eastvale Roosevelt ran :37.06. The Dons’ senior instead entered […]
Read More1975 Baseball: Hoover Coach Moves On After Third Section Championship
Jerry Bartow ended a 14-season run at Hoover with his third San Diego Section championship and with an overall record of 226-119 (.656) then headed off to Southwestern College, where the Apaches won more than 900 games in the next 39 years before Bartow retired in 2014. Until Ted Williams Field was built on the […]
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