1950 Baseball: Mike Morrow Moves On, Leaving Great Legacy
Dewey (Mike) Morrow ended a remarkable, 20-season run at San Diego High that included 15 Coast League championships and 10 Southern California titles from 1927, excluding the World War II, 1942-45 seasons. Morrow’s final Hillers team was 17-10 and its .630 winning percentage, excellent by almost any measure, his lowest. Morrow’s overall record against high […]
Read More1964 Baseball: Crawford Wins Another Championship
Bill Sandback had just coached Crawford to its second San Diego Section baseball championship in three seasons and he was hesitant when Harlon Bartlett of the Evening Tribune asked for a comparison of the team and the winning 1962 club. “This year’s team had a better attitude,” Sandback finally allowed after the taut, eight-inning victory […]
Read More1961 Baseball: Morehead (15-0) Leads Hoover (24-3) to Title
Hoover was 1-7 in football but then the seasons changed. The Cardinals won the first San Diego Section championship with a 24-3 record in winter basketball and repeated the 24-3 with another title in spring baseball. There were seven no-hitters pitched in the San Diego Section this year but none by Hoover’s Dave Morehead, who […]
Read More1949 Baseball: Hillers Clobbered Almost All Opponents
Only a team more than 400 hundred miles away and in another state could stop coach Dewey (Mike) Morrow’s powerful San Diego Hillers. The also named Cavemen dropped three of four games in a home-and-home series with Arizona’s Tucson Badgers but bludgeoned 29 teams from Southern California and won Morrow’s 10th Southern Section championship. According […]
Read More1957: Hoover 9 Surprises With Run to CIF Finals
The top four teams in won-loss percentage in the County were San Diego (25-3, .880), Helix (16-5, .762), Mission Bay (17-6, .737), and Hoover (19-9, .679). It was the latter that battled through four rounds of the CIF Southern Section playoffs to get to the finals. Hoover was an uninspiring 10-8 heading into the stretch […]
Read More1956 Baseball: Cavers Lose 4 in Row, Longest Streak in 28 Years
The Cavers were out of sorts. San Diego High finished with an 18-8 record, its poorest since the 17-10 of 1950, and the Cavers lost four games in a row down the stretch to fall out of City Prep League and playoff contention. According to Don King’s Caver Conquest, the athletic history of the school, […]
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