2024: Nick Barkett, Original San Diego Section basketball player of year
Nick Barkett was determined to improve his lot in the Hoover basketball program after serving as the fifth of five guards on the 26-2 team of the 1959-60 Cardinals. “He lived at Muni Gym all Summer with (John) Bocko,” remembered Cardinals coach Charlie Hampton. Barkett and Bocko spent many days, and evenings, in the vintage […]
Read More2023-24 Basketball Week 11: Happy Trails, San Diego Section Ballers
The girls from Grossmont and Montgomery closed the San Diego Section basketball season on losing notes in championship games in Sacramento. Montgomery (25-12) dropped a 56-50 decision to Oakland High (23-10) in the Division V final and Grossmont (27-8) was beaten in D-IV, 42-29, by Eureka St. Bernard (30-5). But a losing performance probably was […]
Read More2023-2024 Boys Week 10A: Carlsbad Loses Epic Struggle Against Top Seed
San Diego Section boys teams exited early from the Southern California regional tournament, but No. 4 seed Carlsbad stuck around and almost knocked out No. 1. Coach Clark Allard’s Lancers lost a semifinal battle, 73-72, at Studio City Harvard-Westlake, the same team that had routed Carlsbad, 83-44, in the season’s first game. The Lancers led […]
Read More2023-2024 Girls Week 10: 8 of 18 Teams Make Regional Semifinals
Only games with a San Diego section team are listed. Complete brackets are here. All games played at higher (low number) seed.
Read More2023-24 Boys Week 10: It’s Unanimous, Carlsbad No. 1 in Final Poll
John Maffei’s weekly, final regular-season Union-Tribune poll and the final Max-Preps and Cal-Hi Sports ratings, inclusive of the state playoffs. # TEAM RECORD POINTS PREVIOUS MAX-PREPS CAL-HI SPORTS 1 Carlsbad 29-2 (17) 161 1 8/9 10/16 2 Montgomery 28-3 159 2 17/20 27/20 3 St. Augustine 25-5 139 3 21/21 31/24 4 La Jolla Country […]
Read More2023-2024 Boys Week 9A: The Hall Truth: Carlsbad Tops Montgomery for Open Title
Jake Hall’s two, late three-point baskets got No. 1 seed Carlsbad past Montgomery, 56-47, Saturday, February 24, for the San Diego Section Open Division championship. The victory, before more than 3,000 persons at U.C. San Diego’s LionTree Arena avenged a 63-55 loss to the No. 3 Aztecs (28-3) in December, was the Lancers’ 19th straight […]
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