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 they not win the Southern California title, especially after coach Glenn Broderick’s athletes had beaten the Santa Ana Saints, 68-44, in their Coast League dual meet showdown?

Travel, weather and a pulled muscle.

4/1/30

Jimmy Willson’s recovery from a leg injury sustained early in the season, was such that coach Glenn Broderick announced Willson would not compete in the Coast League Trials in four days.

Willson, out almost a month, appeared to reinjure himself last week, but Broderick was hopeful Willson would be able to go in the Southern Section trials April 26 at Los Angeles High.

4/5/30

Twenty-eight athletes, plus coach Glenn Broderick, left at 8:45 a.m. for the 90-mile trip to Santa Ana and the Coast League trials.

Long Beach Poly, which earlier forfeited a Coast loop dual meet to San Diego, qualified 33 entries to 24 for the Cavemen.  They were followed by Pasadena, 18; Santa Ana, 13; Glendale, 7, and Alhambra, 3.

Fernando Ortiz led the Cavemen with victories of :10.1 in the 100 and :22.8 in the 220.  Cotton Warburton was second in a :10.2 100 heat and second in a :51.6 440 trial, his first defeat of the year.  Charlie Pierson took a 440 heat in 51.8.

Defending state champion Evan Dowers of the Cavers set a league record of 4:38 in the mile.

League bosses met beforehand and agreed that team point totals in the finals would decide the winner of the erstwhile Poly-San Diego dual.

San Diego unofficially led its Long Beach rival, 72 ½-60, at the end of the day.

4/10/30

Army-Navy outscored freshman teams from host Whittier College and La Verne College with 62 points to 43 and 8, respectively.

Holderman of the Warriors won the 100 in :10.5 and 220 in :23.5 and on the winning 880-yard relay team,

4/13/30

San Diego scored 48 ½ points to claim the team championship in the Coast League championships at Santa Ana.

The 880-yard relay team of Fernando Ortiz, Irvine (Cotton) Warburton, Charlie Pierson, and Ray Fletcher finished the day’s competition with a school and meet record of 1:30, bettering the 1927 mark by Glendale, which ran 1:30.2, and fastest this season in Southern California.

Long Beach Poly scored 36 ½ points, Santa Ana 32, Pasadena 14 ½, Glendale 8 ½, and Alhambra 3.  San Diego, based on points in the league trials and finals, was declared winner of the canceled dual meet with the Jackrabbits, 87 ½-79 ½.

Other San Diego winners were Fernando Ortiz in the 100 (:10.1), Ray Russell in the discus (122-10 3/4), Warburton in the 440 (:51), Ray Fletcher in the 120-yard high hurdles (:16), and Evan Dowers in the mile (4:42.3).

The Hilltoppers had not lost in any competition since 1928 and they received strong performances from others:

Runners-up were Leonard Murray in the 880, Ray Fletcher in the 220 low hurdles, and Roy Holt, who tied for second, with a career high 11-foot, 6-inch pole vault.

Ray Russell, who earlier set a school shot put record of 49-6 ½, was third to the 49-10 ½ first place by Santa Ana’s Adam Paul, who also won the broad jump (22-7 ½) and 220 low hurdles in :25.

Paul broke the record of 48-6 1/2, set by San Diego’s Eddie Moeller in 1926.

4/15/30

Broderick had to find something to keep his team occupied for the next two weeks, in which they were not scheduled for competition.

Daily workouts and time trials were part of the routine.

4/22/30

The crack 880-yard relay team of Fernando Ortiz, Charlie Pierson, Ray Fletcher and Irvine (Cotton) Warburton ran 1:32 on the slow City Stadium track in practice.

What made the effort remotely newsworthy was that the foursome started with a Broderick-imposed 50-yard handicap and beat a pacing foursome of Richard Arguello, Barry Robertson, Ray Pollard, and Evan Dowers “by a safe margin,” according to The San Diego Union.

Only Arguello and Dowers had earned Broderick-determined points during the season, through the Coast League finals.

Fernando Ortiz led with 59 ½ points, followed by Ray Russell (49), Ray Fletcher (39), Irvine Warburton (31), Charlie Pierson (24 ½), Bill Larson (24), Leonard Murray (22), Evan Dowers (20), Roy Holt (15 ½),
Eddie Reed (15 ½), Jimmy Willson (15), and Richard Arguello (15).

Seven other scores ranged from 10-14.  At least five of the track men also played for coach Mike Morrow’s baseball team:  Warburton, Reed, Holt, Larson, and Bill Howell.

4/25/30

Coach Glenn Broderick and 14 San Diego High qualifiers left by private automobiles for Los Angeles and would spend the night before the CIF Southern Section trials the next day at L.A. High.

4/26/30

A staggering number of thinclads, reported in The San Diego Union to be as many as 985, converged on L.A. High’s Housh Field for a marathon of Southern Section quarterfinal and semifinals trials in Classes A, B, and C.

San Diego High’s 14-man contingent was reduced to seven.

Jimmy Willson, defending state champion in the 100 and 220, out for almost a month with a pulled leg muscle, was a nonqualifying fourth in the 100, but made it through two rounds of the 220 to qualify for the following week’s finals.

Willson was third to the :22.2 220 by L.A. Fairfax’ John McCarthy in his semifinal heat after earlier running second to the :22.6 of L.A. Jordan’s Ashley Burch.

Fernando Ortiz won his first heat in the 100 in 10.2 and a second later in the day in :10.  Ortiz was second in the fifth heat of the 220, won by McCarthy in :22.6 but won his semifinal test in :22.8.

Cotton Warburton ran :52 for first in his 440-yard heat and Charlie Pierson was third in a :50.6 trial won by Jimmy LuValle of L.A. Poly.  Evan Dowers won his mile test in 4:39. Ray Russell advanced in the shot put, won by John Lyman of Santa Monica at 52-3 1/2. The Hilltoppers’ 880-yard relay team won its trial in 1:31.6.

5/2/30

SOUTHERN SECTION DIVISIONAL, @SANTA ANA HIGH

Jimmy Willson, Fernando Ortiz, Irvine Warburton, Charlie Pierson, Evan Dowers, Ray Russell, and Ray Fletcher comprised the San Diego High delegation that was to defend its Southern California championship the following day at Los Angeles High.

Coach Glenn Broderick’s team was expected to battle Los Angeles’ Manual Arts, Fremont, Fairfax, and L.A. High; Inglewood, and Santa Ana, with 20 points predicted to be required for the championship.

The Hilltoppers were to leave today and overnight in Los Angeles.

5/3/30

Light rain did not prevent competition in the javelin and several lightweight class events, but significant rainfall following the opening 880-yard run caused postponement of the afternoon finals at the CIF Southern Section meet at L.A. High.  Competition was scheduled to resume Tuesday, May 6.

Rathbun, deaf runner from Long Beach Poly, won the 880 in 2:02.6. Bill Howell of San Diego was fourth in the nonscoring javelin and qualified for the state meet.

5/4/30

CIF boss Seth Van Patten said finals would be held Wednesday, May 7, if rain persisted on May 6, but if rain continued on May 7, the finals would not take place.

In a May 7 rain scenario Van Patten, L.A. High principal Ernest Oliver, and local track-and-field official Jim Reinhardt would select competitors for the state meet in Berkeley.

Van Patten did not look forward to what would be a thorny proposition.

“The best method would be to pick names out of a hat,” wrote Irving Eckhoff of the Los Angeles Times.

5/6/30

SOUTHERN SECTION FINALS, @L.A. HIGH

The weatherman cooperated.

Santa Ana, coached by former San Diego High junior varsity football coach Gerald (Tex) Oliver, won the Southern Section team championship with 17 points to runner-up San Diego’s 15.

Two, long bus rides (131 miles each way) in four days from San Diego to Los Angeles High, including on the morning of the finals, worked against the Hilltoppers, suggested various pundits, although the winning Saints’ trip from Santa Ana (40 miles each way) was no neighborhood stroll.

San Diego won two events.

Evan Dowers’ stretch drive overtook L.A. Manual Arts’ favored Jim Lawrence and Dowers repeated as mile champion in 4:32.6.

San Diego’s team of Ortiz, Willson, Charlie Pierson, and Warburton won the 880-yard relay in 1:31.4.

But Fernando Ortiz was second in the 100 to the :10 of Huntington Beach’s Alvin Koenig, who was forced to  forced to run 101 yards after being flagged for a false start, and Ortiz and Jimmy Willson were unplaced in the 220, won by Koenig in :22.6

Irvine (Cotton) Warburton was third in the 440 behind the :50.2 of Carl Satterfield of Manual Arts.

Santa Ana was led by Alvin Paul, who won the 220 hurdles in :24.8 and broad jump, at 22-8 ½.

5/10/30

16TH STATE MEET AT CALIFORNIA-BERKELEY

San Diego won the day’s last event and earned a tie with Santa Ana and Sacramento for the team championship with 11 points in the 16^th state meet at the University of California campus in Berkeley.

A Hilltoppers quartet of Fernando Ortiz, Charlie Pierson, Jimmy Willson, and Ray Fletcher tied a school record of 1:30 in the 880-yard relay.

San Diego had six points going into the relay, from Ortiz’s second in the 100 and Irvine (Cotton) Warburton’s second in the 440.  Santa Ana had seven points and Sacramento nine.

Santa Ana was second in the relay and Sacramento third.  Scoring was on a 5-3-2-1 basis. The clutch relay victory elevated the Hilltoppers into the co-championship.  They had been outright champions in 1929.

Ortiz won his morning 100 heat in :10 but Alvin Koenig of Huntington Beach took the final in :10.1.

Warburton was timed in :50.3, same as winner Carl Satterfield of L.A. Manual Arts.  John Hoobyar of Turlock was third in :50.5.

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 1997 and University’s Vince Williams  :20.99 in 1996. Crawford’s Elijah Jefferson, before automatic timing, raced a wind-aided :20.9 in 1973.)

Arrington, Jr., a Mount Miguel  sophomore who ran wind-aided :10.58 and :21.29 times as a freshman at Helix in 2023,  is No. 1 in California and No. 4 in the country heading into the season’s final weeks and the 104th state meet at Clovis Buchanan High May 24-25.

Three dashmen, from Mississippi, Florida, and Texas, have run :20.43, :20.51, and :20.56, respectively, this year.  Michael Norman of Vista Murietta ran :20.3 at the state meet in 2015.

Lincoln’s Vernus Ragsdale clocked :20.3 in 1962 and San Diego Bobby Staten in 1957 and Crawford’s Arnold Tripp in 1959 ran :20.5, but both sprints were wind-aided and on straightaway courses.

Season leaders updated in bold.

EVENT	MARK	NAME, SCHOOL	STATE	OTHERS	NAME	SCHOOL
100	:10.43	Arrington, Jr., Mount Miguel	5T	:10.37	Bragg	Los Alamitos
200	:20.59	Arrington, Jr.	1st	:21.04	Bragg
400	:47.91	Slaughter, Mt. Carmel	7th	:47.11	Ochoa	Covina Northview
	:48.25	Jones, Mount Miguel	15T
800	1:52.79	Evans, Carlsbad	4th	1:49.91	Morales	San Juan Capistrano JSerra
	1:53.26	Cordero, Olympian	6th
	1:53.37	Bowman, Sage Creek	7th
1600	4:15.10	Bowman	—	4:05.51	Noonan	Dana Point Dana Hills
3200	9:02.96	Hicks, University City	24th	8:40.47	Perez	L.A. Cathedral
110 High Hurdles	:13.72w	Martin, Helix	2nd	:13.70	Green III	Inderkum
	:13.95	Tseko-Biffle, El Capitan	5th
	:14.28	Atilano, Cathedral	16th
	:14.52	Bryant Ramona	23rd
300 Hurdles	:37.42	Atilano	2nd	:37.06	Roberson	Eastvale Roosevelt
	:37.57	Tseko-Biffle	4th
	:37.58	Martin	5th
4×100 Relay	:41.90	Helix	22nd
	:41.92	San Marcos	24th
	:41.93	Cathedral	25T	:40.29		L.A. Granada Hills
4×400 Relay	3:19.3	Mt. Carmel	8th	3:15.01		Fresno Central
	3:20.51	Mount Miguel	11th
	3:21.90	Carlsbad	22nd
	3:22.06	Del Norte	25th
4×800 Relay	7:54.74	Westview	15th	7:41.02		Long Beach Wilson
	7:55.68	El Capitan	17th
	7:56.51	Carlsbad	19th
High Jump	6-10	Cheeks II, Mission Bay	3rd	6-11	Banks	L.A. Birmingham
	6-6	Carmona, Fallbrook	12T
		Martin
		Stokes, Bonita Vista
		Gross, Torrey Pines
Long Jump	23-11 ¼	Cheeks	5th	24-4	Rogers	Lafayette Acalanes
	23-4	McCotter, Cathedral	14T
	23-0	Shaw, Scripps Ranch	21
	22-10 1/2	Martin	24T
Triple Jump	47-8 3/4	Reichenberg, Mission Bay	2nd	47-10 1/2	Agbakoba	Fresno Central
	45-9	Cheeks	24T
Shot Put	57-9	Gash, Helix	16th	64-6	Claiborne	Fresno Hoover
	57-1/2	Telemaque, Sage Creek	19th
Discus	181-11	Gash	5th	197-5	Madsen	Clovis North
	176-9	Telmaque	8th
Pole Vault	16-8	Anderson, University City	3rd	17-0	McKee	Riverside King
	16-0 1/2	Yarbrough, San Dieguito	6th
	15-7	Weisman, Torrey Pines	13T
	15-6	Sbuttoni IV, St. Augustine	15T
		Farenc, Westview
		Rynearson, Mission Bay
	15-2	Saunders, Rancho Bernardo	23T
	15-0	Bernier, Fallbrook	25T

 

 

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 state 800 meters last year and she showed  late-season form in the Palomar League finals last week, winning in 2:08.77, her best time of the season by almost two seconds and fourth in California.

Buswell’s career best of 2:08.30 is third in San Diego Section history, behind the 2:06.69 by Hannah Riggins of Del Norte in 2023 and 2:08 by Lesley Noll of Mt. Carmel in 1985.

There are six 800-meter runners from the San Diego Section in the state’s top 25, according to the latest from Athletic.net.  Closest to Buswell are Kaitland Arciaga of Westview (2:09.26) and Payton Williams of Eastlake (2:09.87).

The 800 is just one possibility for Buswell and the others, who may opt to double the 800 with the 1600 or 3200, plus being available in the 4×400 relay or 4×800 relay.

Updates in bold.

EVENT	MARK	NAME, SCHOOL	STATE	OTHER	NAME	SCHOOL
100	:11.59w	Shaheed, Madison	5th	:11.38w	Wright,	Temecula Chaparral
	:11.64w	Gilhooly, Coronado	10th
	:11.83	Smith, La Jolla	18T
200	:23.67	Smith	1st	:23.75	Wright	Temecula Chaparral
	:23.73	Shaheed	2nd
	:24.46	Gilhooly	21st
400	:53.56	Smith	1st	:53.69	Trepagnier	Culver City
	:55.86	Burkhardt, Steele Canyon	18th
	:55.94	Arciaga, Westview	19th
	:56.01	Ma Herbst, Carlsbad	20th
800	2:08.77	Buswell, Poway	4th	2:03.48	Engelhardt	Ventura
	2:09.26	Arciaga	5th
	2:09.87	Williams, Eastlake	8th
	2:11.43	Ma. Herbst, Carlsbad	13th
	2:11.89	Dailey, La Jolla	15th
	2:12.53	Scuba, Sage Creek	19th
1600	4:43.20	Williams	2nd	4:29.86	Engelhardt
	4:45.82	Dailey	3rd
	4:50.61	Lopizzo, La Costa Canyon	14th
	4:51.11	Scuba	17th
3200	10:00.30	Williams	1st	10:02.52	Barker	Trabuco Hills
	10:05.65	Lopizzo	3rd
	10:09.78	Dailey	5th
100 Hurdles	:13.76	Bowen-Fontenot, San Diego	1st	:13.96	Kirchner	Rocklin
	:14.37	Cook, Steele Canyon	7th
	:14.88	Mack, Otay Ranch	22nd
300 Hurdles	:41.45	Mo. Herbst	1st	:42.62	Lewis	L.A. Girls Academic Leadership
	:43.45	Bowen-Fontenot	7th
	:44.28	Cook	13th
	:44.85	Mack	21st
4×100 Relay	:47.18	Steele Canyon	12th	:45.94		Calabasas
	:47.80	Helix	25th
4×400 Relay	3:51.20	Carlsbad	8th	3:42.23		Long Beach Wilson
4×800 Relay	9:15.56	Del Norte	5th	9:04.87		Corona Santiago
	9:16.39	Cathedral	6th
	9:21.31	Scripps Ranch	9th
High Jump	5-6	Lopez Valenzuela, Poway	14T	Five at 5-8
Long Jump	18-10	Frith, La Costa Canyon	10T	20-9 1/2	Webster	Long Beach Wilson
	18-4	Jones, Oceanside	19T
	18-2 ½	Bateman, La Jolla Country Day	23T
Triple Jump	38-11 1/2	Jones, Oceanside	9th	40-2 1/4	Alumbres	Vista Murietta
	37-9	Bateman	22nd
Shot Put	42-2	Colon Gipson, Otay Ranch	9th	47-10	Schnayer	Moraga Campolindo
	39-4	Liufau, Helix	20th
	39-2 1/2	Ford, Helix	21st
	39-1	H. Lauifi, Helix	22nd
	38-11 ½	Driscoll, Canyon Crest	24th
Discus	157-11	Driscoll	1st	152-10	Johnson	Sherman Oaks Notre Dame
	138-6	Frankel, Sage Creek	15th
Pole Vault	13-0	Echsner, Del Norte	3T	13-2	Fears	Vista Murrieta
	12-10	Downing, La Costa Canyon	5th
	12-8	De Jong. Maranatha	8th
	12-1	Potenciano, Rancho Bernardo	18T
		Humer, Rancho Bernardo
	12-0	Galkina, Torrey Pines	20T
		Tseng, Torrey Pines

 

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 presence, trailing Arrington, Jr., in :10.74 and :21.86.

Chiara Daley of La Jolla advanced to No. 3 in the girls state 1600, running 4:45.83, and Josiah Bowman of Sage Creek made the 800 a Big Three, clocking 1:53.37, seventh in the state, and alerting Carlsbad’s Cain Evans, whose 1:52.9 is fourth,  and Eastlake’s Angel Cordero, whose 1:53.24 is sixth.

Best marks of the season and state rankings and leaders:

GIRLS

EVENT	MARK	NAME, SCHOOL	STATE	OTHER	NAME	SCHOOL
100	:11.59w	Shaheed, Madison	5th	:11.38w	Wright	Temecula Chaparral
	:11.64w	Gilhooly, Coronado	9th
	:11.83	Smith, La Jolla	15T
200	:23.67	Smith	1st	:23.75	Wright	Temecula Chaparral
	:23.73	Shaheed	2nd
	:24.46	Gilhooly	18T
400	:53.56	Smith	1st	:53.69	Trepagnier	Culver City
	:55.86	Burkhardt, Steele Canyon	18th
	:55.94	Arciaga, Westview	19th
	:56.11	Ma Herbst, Carlsbad	20th
800	2:09.26	Arciaga	4th	2:03.48	Engelhardt	Ventura
	2:09.87	Williams, Eastlake	7th
	2:10.26	Buswell, Poway	9th
	2:11.43	Ma. Herbst, Carlsbad	13th
	2:12.53	Scuba, Sage Creek	16th
	2:13.53	Aguirre, Patrick Henry	25th
1600	4:43.20	Williams	2nd	4:29.86	Engelhardt
	4:45.82	Dailey	3rd
	4:50.82	Lopizzo, La Costa Canyon	13th
	4:54.24	Aguirre	25th
3200	10:00.30	Williams	1st	10:02.52	Barker	Trabuco Hills
	10:05.65	Lopizzo	3rd
	10:09.78	Dailey	5th
100 Hurdles	:13.76	Bowen-Fontenot, San Diego	1st	:13.96	Kirchner	Rocklin
	:14.84	Cook, Steele Canyon	16th
	:14.88	Mack, Otay Ranch	17th
300 Hurdles	:41.45	Mo. Herbst	1st	:42.62	Lewis	L.A. Girls Academic Leadership
	:43.74	Bowen-Fontenot	6T
	:44.68	Cook	18th
4×100 Relay	:47.73	Steele Canyon	21st	:45.94		Calabasas
	:47.80	Helix	23rd
4×400 Relay	3:51.20	Carlsbad	8th	3:42.23		Long Beach Wilson
	3:58.03	Westview	21st
4×800 Relay	9:15.56	Del Norte	5th	9:04.87		Corona Santiago
	9:16.39	Cathedral	6th
	9:21.31	Scripps Ranch	9th
High Jump	5-6	Lopez Valenzuela, Poway	13T	Five at 5-8
Long Jump	18-10	Frith, La Costa Canyon	11th	20-9 1/2	Webster	Long Beach Wilson
	18-4	Jones, Oceanside	20th
	18-2 ½	Bateman, La Jolla Country Day	23T
Triple Jump	38-9	Jones, Oceanside	8th	40-2 1/4	Alumbres	Vista Murietta
	37-9	Bateman	20th
Shot Put	42-2	Colon Gipson, Otay Ranch	9th	47-10	Schnayer	Moraga Campolindo
	39-4	Liufau, Helix	19th
	39-1	H. Lauifi, Helix	20th
	38-11 ½	Driscoll, Canyon Crest	22nd
	38-10	Ford, Helix	25th
Discus	155-5	Driscoll	1st	152-10	Johnson	Sherman Oaks Notre Dame
	138-6	Frankel, Sage Creek	15th
Pole Vault	12-10	Echsner, Del Norte	3T	13-2	Fears	Vista Murrieta
		Downing, La Costa Canyon
	12-1	Potenciano, Rancho Bernardo	17T
		Humer, Rancho Bernardo
	12-0	Galkina, Torrey Pines	19T

BOYS

EVENT	MARK	NAME, SCHOOL	STATE	OTHERS	NAME	SCHOOL
100	:10.43	Arrington, Jr., Mount Miguel	4T	:10.37	Bragg	Los Alamitos
200	:20.76	Arrington, Jr.	1st	:21.04	Bragg
400	:47.91	Slaughter, Mt. Carmel	7th	:47.11	Ochoa	Covina Northview
	:48.32	Jones, Mount Miguel	16th
800	1:52.79	Evans, Carlsbad	4th	1:49.91	Morales	San Juan Capistrano JSerra
	1:53.26	Cordero, Olympian	6th
	1:53.37	Bowman, Sage Creek	7th
1600	4:15.10	Bowman	—	4:05.51	Noonan	Dana Point Dana Hills
3200	9:02.96	Hicks, University City	24th	8:40.47	Perez	L.A. Cathedral
110 High Hurdles	:13.72w	Martin, Helix	2nd	:13.70	Green III	Inderkum
	:14.20	Tseko-Biffle, El Capitan	9th
	:14.28	Atilano, Cathedral	16th
300 Hurdles	:37.42	Atilano	2nd	:37.06	Roberson	Eastvale Roosevelt
	:37.58	Martin	4th
	:37.72	Tseko-Biffle	7th
4×100 Relay	:41.93	Cathedral	16T	:40.29		L.A. Granada Hills
4×400 Relay	3:19.3	Mt. Carmel	7th	3:15.42		Long Beach Wilson
	3:21.90	Carlsbad	16th
	3:22.52	Cathedral	21st
	3:22.70	Helix	22nd
4×800 Relay	7:54.74	Westview	15th	7:41.02		Long Beach Wilson
	7:55.68	El Capitan	17th
	7:56.51	Carlsbad	19th
High Jump	6-10	Cheeks II, Mission Bay	2nd	6-11	Banks	L.A. Birmingham
	6-6	Carmona, Fallbrook	10T
		Martin
		Stokes, Bonita Vista
		Gross, Torrey Pines
Long Jump	23-11 ¼	Cheeks	5th	24-4	Rogers	Lafayette Acalanes
	23-4	McCotter, Cathedral	13th
	22-10 1/2	Martin	22T
Triple Jump	47-6	Reichenberg, Mission Bay	3rd	47-8 ¼	Nwafor	Vista Murrieta
	45-9	Cheeks
	45-7	Harris, Vista	24th
	45-6	Dailey, El Camino	25th
Shot Put	57-9	Gash, Helix	15th	64-6	Claiborne	Fresno Hoover
	57-1/2	Telemaque, Sage Creek	18th
Discus	181-11	Gash	5th	197-5	Madsen	Clovis North
	176-9	Telmaque	8th
Pole Vault	16-4 ¾	Anderson, University City	3rd	17-0	McKee	Riverside King
	16-0 1/2	Yarbrough, San Dieguito	6th
	15-7	Weisman, Torrey Pines
	15-6	Sbuttoni IV, St. Augustine	14T
		Farenc, Westview
		Rynearson, Mission Bay
	15-2	Saunders, Rancho Bernardo	21T
	15-0	Bernier, Fallbrook	24T

Cathedral’s Vincent Atilano lost his California lead in the 300 hurdles, but gained a first, and national standing, in another at the 64^th 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 a 400 hurdles race and his time of :53.56 is No. 1 in the state and fifth in the U.S this season.

San Diego Section athletes turned in several outstanding performances at the meet in Walnut, with six season bests in girls competition and five in boys.

Mt. Sac was the last major invitational as athletes now move into a final week of dual meets or league  finals, leading to the 104^th state meet at Buchanan High in Clovis May 24-25.

Season bests in bold italics:

GIRLS

EVENT	MARK	NAME, SCHOOL	STATE	OTHERS	NAME	SCHOOL
100	:11.59w	Shaheed, Madison	5th	:11.38w	Wright	Temecula Chapparal
	:11.64w	Gilhooly, Coronado	9th
	:11.83w	Smith, La Jolla	15T
200	:23.67	Smith	1st	:23.91	Humphries	Castaic
	:23.73	Shaheed	2nd
	:24.46	Gilhooly	18th
400	:53.56	Smith	1st	:53.69	Trepagnier	Culver City
	:55.86	Burkhardt, Steele Canyon	17th
	:55.94	Arciaga, Westview	18th
	:56.11	Ma Herbst, Carlsbad	20th
800	2:09.26	Arciaga	4th	2:03.48	Engelhardt	Ventura
	2:09.87	Williams, Eastlake	7th
	2:10.26	Buswell, Poway	9th
	2:11.43	Ma. Herbst, Carlsbad	13th
	2:12.53	Scuba, Sage Creek	16th
	2:13.53	Aguirre, Patrick Henry	23rd
1600	4:43.20	Williams	2nd	4:29.86!	Engelhardt
	4:46.83!	Dailey	11th
	4:50.82	Lopizzo, La Costa Canyon	13th
	4:54.24!	Aguirre	25th
3200	10:00.30	Williams	1st	10:02.52	Barker	Trabuco Hills
	10:05.65	Lopizzo	3rd
	10:09.78	Dailey	5th
100 Hurdles	:13.76	Bowen-Fontenot, San Diego	1st	:13.96	Kirchner	Rocklin
	:14.84	Cook, Steele Canyon	16th
	:14.88	Mack, Otay Ranch	17th
300 Hurdles	:41.45	Mo. Herbst	1st	:42.62	Lewis	L.A. Girls Academic Leadership
	:43.74	Bowen-Fontenot	5T
	:44.68	Cook	17th
	:45.27	Mack	25th
4×100 Relay	:47.73	Steele Canyon	19th	:45.94		Calabasas
	:47.80	Helix	21st
4×400 Relay	3:51.20	Carlsbad	8th	3:42.23		Long Beach Wilson
	3:58.03	Westview	20th
4×800 Relay	9:15.56	Del Norte	5th	9:04.87		Corona Santiago
	9:16.39	Cathedral	6th
	9:21.31	Scripps Ranch	9th
High Jump	5-6	Lopez Valenzuela, Poway	13T	Four at 5-8
Long Jump	18-10	Frith, La Costa Canyon	10th	20-1	Webster	Long Beach Wilson
	18-4	Jones, Oceanside	18th
	18-2 ½	Bateman, La Jolla Country Day	21st
Triple Jump	38-9	Jones, Oceanside	8th	40-2 1/4	Alumbres	Vista Murietta
	37-9	Bateman
	37-2	O’Donnell	25th
Shot Put	42-2	Colon Gipson, Otay Ranch	9th	47-10	Schnayer	Moraga Campolindo
	39-4	Liufau, Helix	18th
	39-1	H. Lauifi, Helix	19th
	38-11 ½	Driscoll, Canyon Crest	21st
	38-10	Ford, Helix	25th
Discus	155-5	Driscoll	1st	152-10	Johnson	Sherman Oaks Notre Dame
	138-6	Frankel, Sage Creek	13th
Pole Vault	12-10	Echsner, Del Norte	3T	13-1	Fears	Vista Murrieta
		Downing, La Costa Canyon
	12-1	Potenciano, Rancho Bernardo	17T
		Humer, Rancho Bernardo
	12-0	Galkina, Torrey Pines	19T

! Mile race,  9.3 yards longer; time converted to meters.

BOYS

EVENT	MARK	NAME, SCHOOL	STATE	OTHERS	NAME	SCHOOL
100	:10.43	Arrington, Jr., Mount Miguel	3T	:10.38	Harris	Long Beach Poly
200	:20.76		1st	:21.07	Currie	Quartz Hill
400	:47.91	Slaughter, Mt. Carmel	5th		Hansen	Westlake Village Oaks Christian
	:48.32	Jones, Mount Miguel	13th
800	1:52.79	Evans, Carlsbad	4th	1:49.91	Morales	San Juan Capistrano JSerra
	1:53.26	Cordero, Olympian	6th
	1:53.54	Bowman, Sage Creek	9th
1600	4:15.10	Bowman	—	4:06.80	Noonan	Dana Point Dana Hills
3200	9:02.96	Hicks, University City	24th	8:40.47	Perez	L.A. Cathedral
110 High Hurdles	:13.72w	Martin, Helix	2nd	:13.70	Green  III	Sacramento Inderkum
	:14.20	Tseko-Biffle, El Capitan	7th
	:14.28	Atilano, Cathedral	14th
300 Hurdles	:37.42	Atilano	2nd	:37.06	Roberson	Eastvale Roosevelt
	:37.58	Martin	4th
	:37.72	Tseko-Biffle	7th
4×100 Relay	:41.93	Cathedral	15T	:40.29		L.A. Granada Hills
4×400 Relay	3:19.3	Mt. Carmel	6th	3:15.42		Long Beach Wilson
	3:21.90	Carlsbad	12th
	3:22.52	Cathedral	17th
	3:22.70	Helix	18th
4×800 Relay	7:54.74	Westview	15th	7:41.02		Long Beach Wilson
	7:55.68	El Capitan	17th	7:41.02
	7:56.51	Carlsbad	19th
High Jump	6-10	Cheeks II, Mission Bay	2nd	6-11	Banks	L.A. Birmingham
	6-6	Carmona, Fallbrook	10T
		Martin
Long Jump	23-11 ¼	Cheeks	4th	24-4	Rogers	Lafayette Acalanes
	23-4	McCotter, Cathedral	12th
	22-10 1/2	Martin	22nd
Shot Put	57-9	Gash, Helix	13th	63-6	Madsen	Clovis North
	55-3	Telemaque, Sage Creek	20th
Discus	181-11	Gash	5th	Madsen	197-5
	176-9	Telmaque	8th
Triple Jump	47-6	Reichenberg, Mission Bay	3rd	47-8 ½	Nwafor	Vista Murrieta
	45-9	Cheeks	18th
	45-7	Harris, Vista	21st
	45-6	Daley, El Camino	22nd
Pole Vault	16-4 ¾	Anderson, University City	3rd	17-0	McKee	Riverside King
	16-0 1/2	Yarbrough, San Dieguito	6th
	15-6	Sbuttoni IV, St. Augustine	14T
		Farenc, Sgt. Augustine
		Weisman, Torrey Pines
		Rynearson, Mission Bay
	15-2	Saunders, Rancho Bernardo	21T
	15-0	Bernier, Fallbrook	24T

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 Hoover campus in 1967, the Cardinals, like other city schools, played baseball in a football stadium, with peculiar boundaries and ground rules.

Bartow took advantage of the at least 500 feet to the leftfield fence, which bordered Monroe Avenue, by creating a more reasonable distance for home runs.

The Hoover coach installed hurdles borrowed from the track team as a leftfield “fence”, moving them forward or backward depending on the prowess and power of his opponent’s hitters.

According to Wikipedia, Bartow‘s stepfather was Carl Mays, 207-126 in a 15-year major league pitching career and who was on the mound when Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman was beaned by a pitch in 1920 and succumbed from a fractured skull the next day.

5/13/75

Joe Vido walked, stole second base, and scored on Kyle Montague’s single to give Coronado a 4-3 win over Poway that ended the Coast League-leading Titans’ 13-game winning streak.

—Don Moyer restricted Helix to five hits and drove in seven runs with a single and grand-slam home run in El Cajon Valley’s 11-4 victory.

—Roger DePriest of San Diego pitched a complete-game, 17-inning contest at Madison, but came away with nothing to show.

The Western League squads played to a 2-2, no-decision.  Umpires called the game because of  darkness.

Mike Free pitched the first six innings for the Warhawks and Rich Leahy the last 11.

5/14/75

Poway was on a two-game losing streak, 10-2 victim of San Dieguito, whose John Lazerich cuffed the Titans on six hits

—Hoover moved closer to an Eastern League championship, winning, 12-4, at Crawford.

Daryl McGee’s leadoff home run in the sixth inning broke a 4-4 tie and opened a five-run outburst for the Cardinals, who also were supported by Johnny Davis and Dexter Redd home runs.

5/16/75

Clairemont wrapped the Western League championship, scoring four runs in the last three innings to win at Kearny, 5-4.  Hoover claimed the Eastern League championship, 7-1, at St. Augustine.

—Vic March’s seventh-inning home run was the difference in El Capitan’s 6-5 win over visiting Grossmont and left the Vaqueros with a 12-3 Grossmont League record, a half game better than the Foothillers. Winning pitcher Jay Hostetler hit a two-run home run.

“I wouldn’t go so far as calling it a grudge match,” said El Capitan coach Eddie Olsen in response to an observation from Bill Polk of the Evening Tribune, “but I’ve never seen this bunch so high spirited as they were after reading Gray’s remarks in the press.”

Grossmont coach Bill Gray had said that if Grossmont played El Capitan 10 times a season “we’d win probably win eight out of 10 times.”

Gray refused to talk to writers after the game (“I have nothing to say”) and responded with a terse “no comment”, to questions.

5/20/75

Dave Holston allowed one hit, hit a home run and pitched Poway to the Coast League championship, 6-0, at La Jolla.

—Rain played havoc in the Avocado League, postponing three games.  A four-way tie for the championship could necessitate play-in games to determine the three teams to represent the loop in the playoffs, which were to begin in five days.

—Ken Pryce hurled a no-hitter and Ken Rutar drove in the winning run with a two-out single in the bottom of the seventh inning as Mar Vista edged Hilltop, 1-0.

—Castle Park jumped Bonita Vista on the road and its 16-5 win tied the Barons for first in the Metropolitan League, each with a 9-4 record.
A two-run, first inning by the Barons evaporated when the Trojans erupted for 10 runs in the third.
Castle Park’s 15 hits included two doubles, two triples, and home runs, by Mark Snyder, Steve Thomas, and Tony Yaptangeo.

5/21/75

Patrick Henry defeated Morse, 2-0, on Steve Sherman’s five-hitter, forcing a playoff the next day for an Eastern League playoff berth.  The teams ended the regular season with 8-8 loop records.

—Dexter Redd was 5 for 5 and Kirk Tronerud allowed five hits in Hoover’s 13-0 victory over Lincoln, giving the Cardinals with a 13-3 league record.

5/22/75

SAN DIEGO SECTION 1-A CHAMPIONSHIP

Francis Parker sophomore Lee Carson struck out 10 and allowed four hits in pitching the Lancers to a 6-0 victory over Christian.

Dave Cook was 3 for 3 with three runs batted in for the Southern League Coastal Division champions.

—Pete Parsons’ two-run home run gave Santana an 8-7 win over El Cajon Valley.  Parsons’ hit overcame a Braves lead in the bottom of the 18^th inning, following continuation of an earlier contest that was suspended after 16 innings.

Santana then won the regularly scheduled nightcap at El Cajon, 3-1, to finish with an 8-8 Grossmont League record.

—Mike McEwen’s home run in the fourth inning was the significant blow in a 5-3 Granite Hills victory over Grossmont that coupled with El Capitan’s 3-1 win over Valhalla gave the Vaqueros the Grossmont League title.

5/26/75

SAN DIEGO SECTION PLAYOFFS

FIRST ROUND

Patrick Henry (13-12) 0, @Hilltop 1.

Writer Bill Polk described the Hilltop Lancers as being “engulfed by an air of spellbound euphoria” after their victory and as a “gutsy squad of suburban lads who could hardly believe the scoreboard after the final out.”

Willard McPherson’s first-inning triple scored Eric Linderman and was the difference in the game, played in one-hour and nine minutes.

The Lancers’ Jerry Caposs (6-4), backed by an outstanding defense, gave up five hits and kept the defending CIF champion Patriots at a distance, winning a duel with Steve Sherman (7-5), who allowed only two hits.

Point Loma (14-9) 0, @San Dieguito 1.

Webber’s home run in the sixth inning and Lazarich’s one-hit pitching provided another suburban team with victory over a city squad.

5/27/75

REGULAR-SEASON STANDINGS

EASTERN

	LEAGUE				OVERALL
Team	Won	Lost	Pct.	GBL	Won	Lost	Pct.
Hoover	13	3	.829	—	18	5	.783
Crawford	9	7	.563	3 ½	15	8	.652
Morse	8	8	.500	5	14	9	.609
Patrick Henry	8	8	.500	5	12	11	.522
Lincoln	6	10	.375	7	8	15	.348
St. Augustine	3	13	.171	10	4	19	.174

WESTERN

	LEAGUE				OVERALL
Team	Won	Lost	Pct.	GBL	Won	Lost	Pct.
Clairemont	13	3	.829	—	18	4	.778
Kearny	11	5	.688	2	15	6	.714
Point Loma	10	6	.625	3	14	8	.636
Madison	8	7	.533	4 ½	12	12	.500
University	6	10	.375	7	10	13	.435
San Diego	1	14	.067	13 ½	2	15	.118

GROSSMONT

	LEAGUE				OVERALL
Team	Won	Lost	Pct.	GBL	Won	Lost	Pct.
El Capitan	13	3	.829	—	18	6	.750
Grossmont	12	4	.750	1	16	6	.727
Granite Hills	9	7	.563	4	10	10	.500
Santana	8	8	.500	5	16	9	.640
Monte Vista	7	9	.438	6	12	10	.522
Mount Miguel	7	9	.438	6	11	11	.500
El Cajon Valley	7	9	.563	6	11	12	.478
Helix	6	10	.375	7	9	14	.391
Valhalla	3	13	.171	10	6	14	.300

METROPOLITAN

	LEAGUE				OVERALL
Team	Won	Lost	Pct.	GBL	Won	Lost	Pct.
Bonita Vista	10	4	.714	—	16	7	.696
Castle Park	9	5	.643	1	14	8	.636
Hilltop	9	5	.643	1	12	10	.522
Montgomery	9	5	.643	1	11	8	.579
Mar Vista	8	6	.571	2	10	11	.476
Sweetwater	4	10	.286	6	5	17	.222
Chula Vista	4	10	.286	6 ½	7	14	.333
Marian	3	11	.214	7	4	17	.190

AVOCADO

	LEAGUE				OVERALL
Team	Won	Lost	Pct.	GBL	Won	Lost	Pct.
San Marcos	10	4	.714	—	15	7	.682
Vista	10	4	.714	—	15	7	.682
Fallbrook	10	4	.714	—	11	9	.550
Carlsbad	9	5	.643	1	15	9	.625
San Pasqual	6	8	.429	4	11	11	.500
Oceanside	6	8	.429	4	11	12	.478
Escondido	4	10	.286	6	5	17	.223
Orange Glen	1	13	.071	9	5	16	.238

COAST

	LEAGUE				OVERALL
Team	Won	Lost	Pct.	GBL	Won	Lost	Pct.
Poway	16	2	.889	—	19	4	.826
San Dieguito	12	6	.667	4	15	7	.682
Mission Bay	12	6	.667	4	14	9	.609
La Jolla	10	8	.556	6	10	12	.455
Coronado	8	10	.444	8	10	12	.455
Torrey Pines	4	14	.222	12	4	21	.160
Ramona	1	17	0.56	15	1	19	0.46

 Hilltop (13-10) 0, @Clairemont 8.

Steve Blackman’s no-hitter, plus his three-run homer in the sixth inning, elevated the Chieftains to their first postseason victory since 1971.

The Blackman (8-1) home run was his sixth and he drove in another run with a sacrifice fly.

Grossmont 2, @Vista (15-8) 0, 12 innings.

Losing pitcher Rick Somers went the distance and struck out 13, but was beaten by Charlie Prokop’s run-scoring single.

Castle Park 7, @Poway (19-5) 2.

Poway outhit Castle Park, 4-2, but committed eight errors.

Fallbrook (11-10) 3, @Hoover 4.

Granite Hills (10-11) 0, @Kearny 5.

Mission Bay (14-10) 3, @Bonita Vista 4, 8 innings.

Tony Camara’s home run sent the game into extra innings and Camara won it with a run-scoring single.

Crawford 4, @San Marcos (15-8) 3.

San Dieguito (16-8) 1, @El Capitan 2-1.

Jay Hostetler’s walk-off home run in the last of the seventh inning augmented the five-hit pitching of Mike Finch.

5/28/75

QUARTERFINALS

El Capitan (19-7), 2, Crawford 8, @Grossmont College.

Crawford’s Alvin Edge struck out 12 and was reached for only two hits.

Bonita Vista 7, Kearny (16-7) 3, @Mesa College.

Grossmont (17-7) 6, @Clairemont 8.

 Hoover 3, @Castle Park (15-9) 0.

5/30/75

SEMIFINALS

Crawford (17-9), 3, Bonita Vista 7, @University of San Diego,

Hoover 5, Clairemont (21-5) 1, @Mesa College.

Brad Griffith pitched a four-hitter and the Cardinals broke open the game with four runs in the sixth inning.

Tye Waller doubled in two runs in the big sixth and Hoover outfielders Dexter Redd, John Wells, and John Davis made several defensive plays.

“I think we’ve all got the playoff fever,” Hoover coach Jerry Bartow said of the Cardinals’ advance to the big game for the sixth time in nine seasons.

“The guys have played errorless ball, they’re hitting well, and we’re getting great pitching,” said Bartow.  “Griffith…mixed his pitches well.  He stayed cool even when they were hitting shots to the outfield.”

5/31/75

CHAMPIONSHIP

Hoover (22-5) 11, Bonita Vista (19-8) 4, @San Diego Stadium.

The Cardinals won their 11^th straight and first title since 1969 as Kirk Tronerud (12-2), who was severely spiked on his non-pitching hand the day before during the celebration after the semifinals win, scattered five hits.

The Barons mustered a leadoff triple by Don Slater in the first inning, but Tronerud was backed by five extra base hits, three doubles and two triples, against losing pitcher Wally Hirst (10-3).

“We’ve been telling people that we had a great ball club all season but a lot of folks didn’t believe us because we stumbled a bit against Western League teams,” said Bartow.