Ray DeBolt of Granite Hills, a new school at the east end of Madison Avenue in El Cajon, won the San Diego Section mile championship on May 27, 1961.

The victory gave DeBolt, who passed away in the recent months in Reno, Nevada, at age 75, the distinction of being the first section champion in his event.

DeBolt, who outran the field in 4:28.2 on a gusty afternoon at Kearny High, was one of 12–only event winners advanced–who went on to the state championships at East Los Angeles College the following week.

DeBolt did not place among the top five in the state meet but his 4:26.8 time was a personal best and was the fifth fastest ever by a San Diego-area runner.

Thanks to Buzz Thom for letting us know.

Mystery surrounds Hoover’s basketball season.

Someone, call the Shadow.

The mythical sleuth, introduced to American radio audiences early in the decade, had gained so much popularity that a movie “The Shadow Strikes”  was released in 1937.

The Shadow‘s alter ego Lamont Cranston, or more important, an enterprising newspaper reporter, would have determined why, after Hoover celebrated  the Coast League championship with a 7-1 record, essentially disappeared.

CARR: MORE GAMES

Cardinals coach Lawrence Carr told Mitch Angus of The San Diego Union after the final, regular-season game that the Cardinals looked forward to the upcoming CIF Southern Section playoffs and likely would play additional nonleague contests and in possible tournaments at San Diego State and Redondo Beach.

Angus’ story appeared Jan. 20.  The playoffs were to begin Feb. 25. Plenty of time to get in some extra work and win a few more games.

Strangely, nothing was heard of the Cardinals for almost seven weeks, save for announcements of varsity letters awarded; the all-Coast League teams, and an intrasquad game against underclassmen who would represent the 1938-39 club.

Nothing about the playoffs and postseason.

One clue that Hoover’s campaign may have been complete and contrary to Carr’s statement was in an oblique sentence in the middle of Angus’ game account of the Cardinals’ regular-season-ending, 20-19 loss to San Diego:

“It was the last start for the Hooverites and deprived them of a clean sweep (of the season series),” wrote Angus.

If that were the case….read on.

It gets more mysterious.

SAINTS ENTER PICTURE

A list of results of the 20-team playoff bracket for the ’37-38 season  provided years later by Southern Section historian John Dahlem, revealed a St. Augustine victory by forfeit over Hoover in the second round.

The Cardinals really were finished. Abruptly and quietly.

A Saints-Hoover playoff, had it been played, would have been geographically and financially desirable to the Southern Section and would have made for a tremendous local matchup, considering Hoover’s run through the Coast and a sensational record by Coach Cletis (Biff) Gardner’s North Park team.

A Saints squad photo in the Union on Jan. 27, 1938, declared that the private school had won 22 games in a row, including six at the conclusion of the 1936-37 season.

But, like Hoover, the Saints also appeared to go underground.  Possibly because playoffs were beginning long after Coast League squads had completed their seasons, while others still were playing league games.

Late-season nonleague contests probably were not easy to schedule, especially for the independent Saints.

There was not even an account in the newspapers of St. Augustine’s forfeit victory over the Cardinals in a second-round game apparently scheduled for March 4.  Both teams had first-round byes.

FINALLY, ACTION

A local story on March 9 began:  “Having gained the third round without as much as doffing their sweat clothes, St. Augustine’s varsity basketballers are slated to get some opposition in the annual Southern California CIF Class A playoffs this week.”

The Saints were scheduled to visit undefeated El Centro Central, which had beaten Brawley for the Imperial Valley League title and had eliminated Ramona, 53-18, in the first round.

The Spartans also played on a court short of regulation length.  Their crackerbox home court figured to give the Saints problems, according to a pregame story.

St. Augustine won easily, 32-15, for a reported 23^rd straight win, but the great season, sparked by the play of four-year veterans Bob Menke, Ed Vitalich, and John (Red) Keogh, ended in the semifinals.

The Saints bowed to legendary power Whittier, 49-28, before “2,000 fans and several hundred others turned away.”  The Cardinals topped Chino, 43-27, for the championship the following night.

Whittier was home team for each game, although the CIF was said to have a rule preventing such an advantage.

St. Augustine defeated Fillmore in the consolation, third-place game, 28-17.

TIGHT MONEY

Don King wrote in Caver Conquest that because of the Great Depression San Diego High played only eight games, all Coast League contests, finishing with a 5-3 record and second place behind Hoover.

Hilltoppers coach Ed Ruffa apparently did not have budget to expand the schedule, but Ruffa managed to get in one more  game.

Kenny Hale, a star on the 1936-37 San Diego High team, haunted his alma mater as Hale led the downtown San Diego Club with 10 points in a 37-26 win.

PLAYERS VOTE

The Coast’s all-league players were the players’ choices as they were charged with picking all-opponent clubs in a poll conducted by the Long Beach Press-Telegram.

Hoover’s Dick Mitchell and Felix Aquirre were on the first team. Teammates Hal Prusa and Ed Tazelaar were on the second team, as were Al Martinez and Bud Mundell of San Diego.

Mitchell led Hoover with 56 points in 8 league games.

Hoover defeated Muir, 47-28, behind Mitchell’s 17 points and then routed Santa Ana, 48-19, and Ontario Chaffey, 45-32, to win the December Huntington Beach tournament.

TWO-HAND SET SHOTS

Point Loma (Class A) and Grossmont (Class B) repeated as champions in the Metropolitan League, Point Loma winning for the third consecutive year…as usual, the Pointers chose not to  participate in the playoffs…after 15 years the December San Diego Interscholastic Tournament was finished…San Diego High sponsored  area-wide Class C and D tournaments in February…Coronado won the Cee competition, 17-15, over San Diego and San Diego was Dee champ, 17-12 over National City Junior High…strange finish to St. Augustine-Army-Navy B game at San Diego State…the contest was tied at 17 after two overtimes when the teams decided to call it a day…perhaps Saints coach Biff Gardner and Coronado mentor Hal Niedermeyer had dinner plans…Mel Skelley’s basket with 4 seconds left gave San Diego a 37-35 win over Long Beach Wilson and clinched second place in the Coast for the Hilltoppers…Duncan Wexler made his dad, Escondido coach Harry, relax after an overtime basket beat Sweetwater, 26-25…Duncan scored 20 in a season-finale, 41-38 triumph over La Jolla…Ramona’s dominance of the Southern Prep League was never more apparent than in a quadruple rout of Fallbrook, 50-15 in A, 31-27 in B, 50-13 in C, and 33-10 in D…the Ramona Town Team then sent everyone home happy with a 56-32 victory over the Aztec Brewers…Point Loma was “all at sea”, wrote a writer of the Pointers’ 34-12 loss to Ontario Chaffey in the Huntington Beach Invitational…the Tigers soaked coach Joe Beerkle’s  peninsula club with a zone defense…Hoover no longer was the dominant Class B team, but the Cardinals dealt unbeaten Long Beach Poly a 25-14 defeat in the second round of league play…San Diego led Alhambra with four minutes remaining and didn’t score again as the visiting Moors pulled out a 32-30 victory…Hal Prusa’s 17 points propelled Hoover to the league-title-clinching, 41-34  win over Long Beach Wilson…future Sweetwater football coach Barney Newlee of Alhambra made the all-Coast team….

Class B teams were not junior varsities and not necessarily inferior to Class A (varsity) clubs.

The B designation was based on exponents, which combined height, weight, and age.  It was not unusual for seniors to play on B squads.

Under Coach Bruce Maxwell, Hoover ruled the B world, many times playing the feature, late game of a doubleheader with the Class A Cardinals team on the undercard.

The Hoover Bees had won CIF Southern Section titles in 1931-32, 1933-34, and 1934-35.

The Cardinals were at least even money to also win in 1935-36, but no championship game was contested because their South Pasadena opponent refused to play (search 1935-36, “Hilltoppers Win, Cardinals’ Feathers Ruffled”).

CIF honcho Seth Van Patten and his executive board did not call a forfeit on South Pas but declared that there would be no 1935-36 champion, and eliminated Class B playoffs going forward.

BRUCE ALMIGHTY STEPS DOWN

Maxwell now was teaching math at Hoover and was succeeded by Lawrence Carr.

Undefeated since ’33-34, the Bees had won 48 games in a row before stumbling on their home court at San Diego High, 25-21, to the Santa Ana Saints, who came into the game with a 0-3 league record.

Imagine a sway-backed plow horse outrunning Secretariat.

Hoover tied for first with Long Beach Poly in the Coast League  and was declared champion because it had beaten the Jackrabbits, but the Cardinals’ days of Class B domination were coming to an end.

MIDSEASON GRADS ROIL COAST

Class A league play in the 6-team Coast League lasted all of 14 days, Jan 12-Jan. 26.  Bosses wanted the schedule completed before mid-term graduation, theoretically giving teams time to regroup before the playoffs.

San Diego would lose Freeman Dill, the league’s leading scorer; Roy Falconer, and Homer Peabody, plus two reserves.

Alhambra lost three starters, Long Beach Poly, one.  The three teams finished in a tie for first, each with a 4-1 record.

Alhambra beat San Diego, 32-15, but lost to Poly, which San Diego defeated, 25-18.

What followed was an interminable postseason.

PLAYOFF BEFORE PLAYOFFS

A playoff to determine the Coast League entry in the Southern Section playoffs was to begin almost two weeks later.  The winner between San Diego and Alhambra would face Long Beach Poly.

The Hilltoppers, under first year coach Ed Ruffa, pulled off a rare double, beating Alhambra, 39-21, on Feb. 6 as erstwhile substitute Al Martinez scored 17 points, and in overtime at Poly, 22-21, Feb 13.

Most other Southern Section Leagues still were involved in their regular seasons.

Two weeks later, on Feb. 24, a scheduled Hilltoppers playoff with Metropolitan League champion Point Loma failed to materialize as the Pointers forfeited.

Point Loma coach Joe Beerkle said that he had lost two starting players, Gil Gonsalves and Gerald Lutes, to midterm graduation and, anyway, the rest of the team was concentrating on the beginning track-and-field season.

WAIT CONTINUES

On Feb. 27, Ruffa was getting desperate  for a game, any game.

The San Diego coach lined up one with the Eta Omega Delta fraternity from San Diego State.

No score was reported but the Cavers apparently won handily, behind newcomer Claude Roberts, who scored 16 points.

At about the same time Brawley was defeating Calexico for the desert title and then routed Southern League champion Ramona, 53-18.

ON TO THE SEMIFINALS

A 34-20 win over Brawley on March 5 moved the Hilltoppers into the round of 4 on March 13 at Whittier College against Tustin, which had a 24-4 record.

San Diego battled back from a 19-12 halftime deficit to a tie at 23, but the Tillers behind the Francis brothers, “Pivoting” Paul and “Slinging” Sam, pulled away to a 34-30 victory.

Tustin the next evening defeated Whittier, 34-24, for the championship.

San Diego closed with a 15-5 record that included a 46-day stretch from the end of league play to the semifinal round of the postseason.

SAINTS SOAR

The 14^th annual San Diego Interscholastic tournament, with 32 teams competing in 66 games in four days in Class A, B, C, and D divisions, played out as expected, with one exception.

San Diego High won A, C, and D and Hoover B, but St. Augustine got the headlines.

“Nearly one-thousand fans were startled when Biff Gardner’s smooth-passing, straight-shooting Saints created one of the biggest upsets of recent years by defeating Hoover, 22-16,” declared a writer for The San Diego Union.

The quintet of Ed Vitalich, Charlie Strada, Bob Menke, John (Red) Keough, and Evers would go on to post a 13-2 record, best in the area, and lost only to San Diego, 27-20, in the tournament finale and 40-15 later in the season.

The poor, all-boys school in North Park seldom got respect from the media and always was questioned by rivals of operating with much easier rules of athletic eligibility

The Saints rejoiced with this infrequent taste of glory.

TOURING CLASS

Coronado was 4-1 on a six-day visit after Christmas to the University of Redlands Frosh (20-17), San Jacinto (28-9), Long Beach Jordan (20-19), and San Juan Capistrano (27-20), sandwiched around a 25-20 loss at Redlands High.

San Diego coach Ed Ruffa prepared to whistle stop several venues in the Southwest, but received no replies after soliciting El Centro Central, Brawley, Holtville, and Mesa, Arizona.  The Hilltoppers still posted wins at Yuma, 32-11, and Phoenix Union, 31-22.

FUTURE BOSSES

San Diego’s Kenny Hale, played on San Diego State’s 1941 National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball championship squad and was a nine-season head coach at Hoover from 1947-48 through 1951-52, posting a 76-43 record, and at the start-up Mission Bay program, where Hale was 53-44 from 1954-55 through 1957-58.

Alhambra guard Shannon Deniston was better known as Shan when he coached football at La Jolla, Lincoln, and San Diego from 1955-81, posting a 94-81-4 record.

SIGN OF THE TIME

No longer will San Diego State athletes be mistaken for lettermen from Sweetwater, Santa Ana, J.C., or Stanford, wrote Charles Byrne in The San Diego Union.

“An interlocking SD debuted when lettermen from football got their sweaters at a college dance,” said Byrne.

The schools Byrne mentioned also matched Aztec colors of red and black.

“The Aztecs could still be mistaken for the University of South Dakota, but the Coyotes colors are yellow and blue,” said Byrne.

After World War II, San Diego High lettermen apparel featured a singular “S”, but gave way to the interlocking SD in the mid-‘fifties.

TWO-HAND SET SHOTS

When not coaching football, Hoover’s John Perry took his  additional football and basketball game officiating assignments  a step further…Perry often was third man in the ring on downtown Coliseum boxing cards…rain forced the Grossmont-Sweetwater game indoors to San Diego State…Hoover was forced to move a practice to San Diego High because of muddy courts…Cardinals would take floor after the Hilltoppers finished their practice, for Hoover often at 5 p.m….the 32-15 loss to Alhambra,  was San Diego’s most decisive in 38 games, since a 37-17 loss to Long Beach Poly in 1934-35…at least three separate scuffles reportedly broke out in the stands or between players during the teams’ Class B game won by Alhambra, 25-21… Point Loma presented a “basket ball” following its game at San Diego with Coronado…the Pointers also invited the Islanders team to what later would be known as a “sock hop”…games in the San Diego Interscholastic event were played at San Diego High, San Diego State, the downtown YMCA and the Army-Navy Y…Ramona gained the right to play Brawley in the playoffs by defeating Mountain Empire, 31-29, in overtime at San Diego State…Point Loma’s 31-22 win against Sweetwater gave the Pointers an undefeated Metropolitan record, 8-0…coach Harry Wexler’s Escondido Cougars had the reported highest scoring total for the season in  a 56-21 win over Coronado…Wexler’s sons, Warren (20 points) and Duncan (7) led the way…San Diego’s Roy Falconer joined Pasadena Muir’s Jackie Robinson and others on the all-Southern California first team…The Hillers’ Freeman Dill was on the second team….

The best teams could be very disappointing, which is why a group of pickup-playing hoopsters almost stole the show.

Eight Grossmont High students, with blistered feet, sore arms and legs, and with a burning desire to  get home and sleep, claimed a record for the longest game, ever.

Basketball historians would argue the point, but not in San Diego County, where there is no recorded proof of anything matching the 15-hour effort of a pair of four-man teams.

The group started playing at 6 a.m. and staggered to a 9 p.m. conclusion with only a two-minute break each hour and 15 minutes for lunch.

A team led by Larry Schweer, the only player with varsity experience, defeated the squad led by game organizer Rich Marian, 1,962 to 1,652.

Schweer, joined by Rich Smith, Larry Strong, and John Sherman, led all scorers with 615 points.  Marian’s team included Steve Lee, Jeff Shaw, and Bob Fleming.

Barry Carr of the Grossmont faculty and several Grossmont coeds kept score.

CAVERS PREVAIL

San Diego High emerged as the AA division champion and the fourth Eastern League team in the San Diego Section’s five years, and favored Crawford vanished in the first round.

The Cavemen, as they still were often called, claimed their first section title since the 1935-36 team marched through the Southern California playoffs.

San Diego’s 24 victories were sullied by eight defeats, some not close.

There was a 60-43 loss to Burbank Burroughs, which featured future UCLA and L.A. Lakers star Lynn Schackelford during the Cavers’ and Hoover’s annual December jousts with schools from the Los Angeles-area Foothill League.

Hoover ousted the Cavers, 55-41, in the San Diego Kiwanis Tournament.

San Diego won a couple games in the San Bernardino Kiwanis event but they were sandwiched between emphatic knockouts of 77-55 to Compton Centennial and 65-48 to Victorville Victor Valley.

They lost twice to Eastern League champion Crawford, 66-54, and 64-62.

And there was a late-season, 47-44 stinker to Morse, which would finish 1-9 in the East and 4-16 overall.

THEY CATCH FIRE

San Diego tied Hoover (14-9) with a 7-3, second-place record and was forced into a league playoff which they survived, beating the Cardinals, 47-40.

The Cavers hit their stride in the postseason behind 6-foot, 6-inch super sophomore Oscar Foster, 6-7 Richard Mills, 6-2 Jerry Eucce, 6-2 Brent Strom, and 5-11 Clarence Calvin.

San Diego dumped Monte Vista (20-8), 59-44, Castle Park (23-7), 56-37, and Chula Vista (21-5), 62-40.

Spartans coach Larry Armbrust was taken aback by the Cavers’ length and size.

“I didn’t realize how big they were until our boys got out there beside them,” said Armbrust, who became the first to play and coach in a section championship game, having starred for the ‘51-‘52 Chula Vista team that won a Southern Section small schools title.

“Every time I looked up to shoot there was a hand in my face,” said Charlie Porter, probably that of Foster or Mills, who led San Diego with 24 points and 10 rebounds.

Mills scored 65 points in the three playoffs, three points less than the record set by Grossmont’s Dick Baker in 1962.

San Diego coach Bill Standly surprised the Spartans when the Cavers came out in a zone defense.  “We just went over it this morning and again before the game,” said Standly.  “We’d never used it.”

IT’S BASKETBALL NOW

Strom, who would form with Foster the nucleus of the 1965-66 squad, was  a future San Diego Section baseball player of the year, all-America at USC, and longtime major league pitcher and pitching coach.

But the stylish lefthander declared, “I won’t be able to think about baseball.  I can’t keep my mind of basketball.  This was the biggest thrill of my life.”

COLTS: WHA’ HAPPENED?

Crawford rolled to a 9-1 Eastern League championship (only loss, 54-52, to Hoover) by two games and took a 22-3 record into the playoffs as the preferred team.

The Colts were sent packing in the first round, 70-56, by 14-9 La Jolla, apparently so shocked by its victory that the Vikings forgot where they were, blown out, 74-59, in the semifinals by Chula Vista and 65-49 by Castle Park in the third place game.

The Colts’ only other local setback (they also lost to North Torrance, 59-54, in quarterfinals of the Covina Tournament) was an early-season, 63-56 decision to El Capitan that wasn’t was stunning as first appeared.  Long dormant El Cap finished 19-9, made the playoffs, and featured junior Gary Schneider, who averaged 20.2 points a game.

Crawford’s record for the last three seasons was 71-15.  Coach Jim Sams and his school had taken the mantel from Hoover as the city’s most successful team but it had been eliminated in the playoffs the last two years.

Von Jacobsen, a 6-4 junior and 6-3 senior Bob Boone kept Crawford in front most of the time and they waged a battle for the league scoring championship.

Jacobsen scored 198 points and Boone 197 in the 10-game league race.  Jacobsen was ninth in the County with 445 points and a 17.8 average in 25 games.  Boone scored 440 points in 26 games for a 16.9 average.

—Boone scored 33 points and Jacobsen 31 as Crawford outscored Mission Bay, 108-89, nullifying the 27 by the Bucs’ 6-foot, 10-inch Mike Kinkki and 24 by Larry Weddle.

—-Crawford and Mission Bay tied the record for most points by two teams. Monte Vista and Granite Hills combined for 197 points in the Monarchs’ 120-77 win over the Eagles in 1963-64.

KINKKI PULLS AWAY

Mission Bay’s Mike Kinkki averaged 24.3 points in his last 10 games and won the scoring title with 601 points and 21.5 average, narrowly edging Sweetwater’s Jim Finnerty, who averaged 21.3.

Kinkki began his run with a school-record 34 points in an 83-66 victory over Madison after averaging 19.9 points in the first 18 games.

A total of 34 players scored at least 300 points.  The  numbers in parenthesis in the table indicates the leaders in scoring average:

POINTS CONTINUE TO RISE

Sixty points in one game still was regarded as excellent offense as recently as 10 years before, but there were six teams this season that averaged that much.

Mission Bay was the leader at 64.8, followed by Crawford (63.9), Chula Vista (63.8), Ramona (63.2), Carlsbad (62.2), and St. Augustine (61.1).

Class AA champion San Diego was not in the top 10 in offense or defense, averaging 56.2 on offense and was 11^th in defense, averaging 48.7.

LEAGUE SCORING

The Eastern League scoring race between Crawford’s Von Jacobsen and Bob Boone was not unique.

Coronado’s Stan Stress outpointed Oceanside’s Bill Christopher, 171-170, in 10 Avocado League games.

The gag shot (below) of referee Mel Ellison “threatening” to put Grossmont coach Locke Olson in a seat belt was to illustrate a new rule.

The CIF legislated that coaches could receive a technical foul for leaving the bench to argue an official’s call.

Olson, one of the more voluble of his brethren, was a good candidate for The San Diego Union photo.

Olson had to sit back and watch as the Foothillers were trounced by Crawford, 64-37.

MILKE’S QUICK SUCCESS

George (Bud) Milke, who never had a starter taller than 6-4 in 10 mostly successful (148-118) seasons at Mar Vista, surprised Metropolitan League rivals by taking first-year Castle Park to the playoffs.

The Trojans tied Mar Vista (16-9) for second place, each with an 8-4 league record, and earned the postseason bid with a 39-37 victory over the Mariners.

Bud retired from the high school ranks but coached nine more years at Southwestern College in Chula Vista.

JUMP SHOTS

San Dieguito (19-9) claimed the Class A title, 61-53 over Carlsbad (17-4), which lost for the second season in a row…Helix’ 18-game winning streak extending back to 1963-64 was snapped by La Jolla, 65-52…Helix had ended La Jolla’s 30-game run in the 1963-64 finals…La Jolla had won 35 of 36 before bowing to San Diego, 43-42, on Jerry Eucce’s layup with :18 left…the Vikings suffered their first Western League loss in 13 games since February, 1963, when Mission Bay, behind Mike Kinkki’s 22 points and 23 rebounds won, 60-55…small schools game of the year?  Try Julian’s 66-60, overtime victory against San Miguel after a 56-56 deadlock in regulation…Carl Conte’s 33 points for the Knights (5-12) couldn’t overcome the 24 by Rich Linton and 22 by Kevin Teter for the Eagles (8-5)…The Southern League’s La Jolla Country Day (1-11) and San Diego Military (13-4) had a nonleague encounter…the Military Falcons won, 57-28, behind Rubin Valenzuela’s 29 points…19 area teams competed in six post-Christmas tournaments…Mission Bay emerged as the only champion, 58-51 over Playa del Rey St. Bernard in the San Dieguito Mustang Optimist event….

Some of the best performances by San Diego Section athletes at the 100^th state track championships last week at Clovis Buchanan were provided by those who should be back for another shot in 2019.

Alysha Hickey, second in the high jump at 5 feet, 8 inches, and the first area champion since 2015 with a 19-9 ¾ long jump, returns to Coronado for another season.

Madison’s Kenan Christon, sixth in the 100 and 200 and Orange Glen’s Moray Steward, fourth in the 100, could be prime contenders next season.

LIKE BROTHER LIKE SISTER

La Costa Canyon’s Kristin Fahy, who ran the all-time second fastest 3200  meters in County history, with a fourth-place 10:16.45, will attempt to gain some ground on her brother, Darren, who distance-doubled in 4:08.78 and 9:03.29 in 2013.

Perhaps most impressive in Clovis was the second-place finish in the 1600 by Jaden Rosenthal, who proved to be savvy and tough after competing through high school under most radars.

Rosenthal represented San Diego High Tech of the Liberty City address and had to motor (well, maybe he jogged up the hill) to neighboring Point Loma to find a track on which to get in his work.

GOES TO THE WHIP

Rosenthal moved out with the pack, forced the issue by taking the lead on the second lap, and then did not flinch when he seemed to fall out of it and in fifth place at the gun lap.

The UCLA-bound senior recovered with a strong stretch run and finished second to favored Liam Anderson of Larkspur Redwood, who won in 4:09.31 to Rosenthal’s 4:09.63.

Eastlake’s Jaylyn Jackson did not get a horizontal double but he was more than competitive, finishing second in the triple jump and third in the long jump.

Winners and San Diego finals entries with schools in parenthesis:

GIRLS

100—Nowling, Calabasas, :11.47. 8. Shaheed (Madison), :12.00.

200—Robinson-Jones, Oakland Bishop O’Dowd), 23.66.

400—Robinson-Jones, Oakland Bishop O’Dowd, :52.37.

800—McIntosh, Loomis Del Oro, 2:05.22.  8. Morales (Scripps Ranch), 2:12.92.

1600—Denner, El Dorado Hills Oak Ridge, 4:42.77. 11. Riedman (La Costa Canyon), 4:55.28.

3200—Denner (El Dorado Hills Oak Ridge), 10:10.32.  4. Fahy (La Costa Canyon), 10:16.45, Section No. 2 all-time. 20. Brown (La Costa Canyon), 10:51.68.  25. Miessner (Eastlake), 11:03.17.

100 HURDLES—Hicks, Upland, :13.35.

300 HURDLES—Joseph, Eastvale Roosevelt, :41.76.  7. Scott (Vista), :43.05.  8. Thomas (Torrey Pines), :43.56.

4×100 Relay—Gardena Serra, :45.69.  6. Olympian, :47.32.

4×400 Relay–Bonita, 3:42.62.

HJ—Tie, Burke, Riverside Poly; Glenn, L.B. Wilson, 5-10.  4. Hickey (Coronado), 5-8.

LJ—Hickey (Coronado), 19-9 ¾, Section No. 5 all-time.

SP—Budwig, Fowler, 46-1.

TJ—Fisher, S.J. Silver Creek, 41-07w.

DISCUS—Grotegeer, Wheatland, 174-9.

PV—Wong, Monterey Santa Catalina, 12-6.  4.  Cervantes (Poway), 12-0.  9. Thomson (Poway), 11-6.

BOYS

100—Allen, Tulare, :10.44. 4. Steward (Orange Glen), :10.66.  6, Christon (Madison), :10.67.  9. Ellis (Mt Carmel), :10.86.

200—Shakir-Ricks, Murrieta Mesa, 20.98.  4.  Ellis (Mt. Carmel), :21.31. 6. Christon (Madison), :21.51.  9. Smith (Westview), :21.91.

400—Glasser. Kentfield Marin Catholic, :46.97.

800—Gomez, Campbell Westmont, 1:50.21.

1600—Anderson, Larkspur Redwood, 4:09.31. 2. Rosenthal (S.D. High Tech), 4:09.63, Section No. 11 all-time.

3200—Strangio, Carmichael Jesuit, 8:56.18.  9. Martinez de Pinillos (Cathedral), 9:05.34.  20. Rasmuson (Mira Mesa), 9:15.36.  23.  Labra (Bonita Vista), 9:22.46.

110 HURDLES—Ellis, Moreno Valley Vista del Lago, :13.97.

300 HURDLES—Roberson, Upland, :36.61. 5. Farmer (Rancho Bernardo), 38.02. 9. Lieu (Valhalla), :38.96.

4×100 Relay—Temecula Great Oak, :40.99.

4×400 Relay–Murrieta Mesa, 3:10.86.

HJ—Lee, Trabuco Hills, 7-2.

LJ—Clemons, Berkeley St. Mary’s, 25-1w.   3. Jackson (Eastlake), 23-8 ½.

TJ—Stevenson, Temecula Great Oak, 49-11 ¾.  2. Jackson (Eastlake), 49-1 3/4. 10. Mbamo (Rancho Bernardo), 45-3 ¾.  11. Ruth (Oceanside), 45-1 ½.

SP—Viveros (Bakersfield Liberty), 62-5 ½.

DISCUS—LaValle (Mission Viejo), 182-7.

PV—Guttormsen (Davis), 17-10.

The San Diego Section has not had an individual champion in the state meet since 2015 or a double winner since 2012.

Eastlake’s Jalyn Jackson has a chance to reverse the trend this week in the 100^th championships at Clovis Buchanan High.

Jackson, fourth in the long jump and second in the triple jump in 2017, is seeded first in each event entering Friday’s trials, off his performance in the Section meet at Mt. Carmel.

Seedings are not based on individual seasonal bests but on performances in last week’s 10 section finals throughout the state.

Numbers in parenthesis in the table below reflect seeding positions.

Madison’s Kenan Christon (long jump), Jessica Riedman (800), And El Centro Southwest’s Tyler Saikhon (300 hurdles) have withdrawn to concentrate on other events.

Mt. Carmel’s Quoi Ellis had the fastest time in the state last week with a wind-aided: 21.19 200 and Christon was second at: 21.20.  Coronado’s Alysha Hickey was the leader with a 19-10 ½ wind-aided long jump.

Ellis was third in the 200 in 2017 at: 21.25w.  La Costa Canyon’s McKenna Brown was fifth in the girls’ 1600 in 4:51.74.

Several others who competed at Clovis last season, including San Dieguito’s Kevin Ward, ninth at 14-10 in the pole vault, and Vista’s Alia Scott, ninth at: 45.28 are back and among the higher seed this year.

SINGLES AND DOUBLES

The last two-time winner in girls competition was Morse’s legendary Monique Henderson in the 200 (:23.19) and 400 (:50.74) in 2000.  Darren Fahy of La Costa Canyon doubled in the 1600 (4:08.78) and 3200 (9:03.29) in 2012.

The last individual winners were Cathedral’s Hannah Labrie Smith in 2015 in the 300 hurdles (:41.67) and Oceanside’s Charles Lenford in the discus (195-4).

SPIKE MARKS

Josh Farmer, Rancho Bernardo’s Section-winning 300 hurdler, is a third generation standout, following grandfather Dixon Farmer and father Matt Farmer…Dixon Farmer was the state champion from Orinda Miramonte in the 440 in 1958 and ’59 with winning times of:48.6 each year…he also was a leading 180-yard low hurdler with a best of :19.1 and later was head coach at San Diego State…Matt Farmer was a decathlete and high jumped 6 feet, 10 inches at Monte Vista… Karson Lippert, who sustained a leg muscle injury in the San Diego Section trials, reportedly is taking part in some 7-on-7 football passing drills at La Costa Canyon…Lippert is expected to be one of the better running backs in the Fall if he can avoid hamstring issues or knee contusions…La Costa’s Jessica Riedman is said to be transferring and would compete next year for Irvine Woodbridge…a rattlesnake was spotted in the area of the discus competition at Mt. Carmel last week…officials with shovel and bucket removed the critter….

GIRLS