1991-92: Legendary Pointers Coach Lee Trepanier Passes
The basketball community lost a legend in August when Lee Trepanier, the retired, 56-year-old Point Loma coach, died in his sleep August 2, 1991. Trepanier, 56, had been battling stomach and esophagus cancer for two years. Trepanier learned of his cancer in August, 1989, but coached and taught math through the school year and retired […]
Read More1991-92: “Indiana” Playoff System in Place This Season
After restricting playoff Divisions I and II to 16-team brackets the last two seasons, the San Diego Section board of managers went back to the ”Indiana” model of the 1987-88 and 1988-89 seasons in which all San Diego Section teams playing basketball were eligible for the postseason play. “I think I was one of the […]
Read More2019-20 Week 18: La Jolla Country Day, Cathedral, Madison Girls Still Standing
La Jolla Country Day and Cathedral are where they’re supposed to be, according to the seeds. Madison is a welcome surprise. That’s the state of San Diego Section basketball today as the section’s final three go into tonight’s Southern California regional finals. The girls saved the day after the boys went out early, with a […]
Read More2019-20 Week 17A: San Diego Contingents Stumble in Regional
Super Tuesday was essentially a Super Wipeout for San Diego Section boys teams in the first round of the State Tournament’s Southern California regional. The girls did better. The guys posted a record of 3 wins and 14 losses, the young ladies 7-8, and the overall 10-22 was in grim comparison to the 16-14 record […]
Read More2019-20 Week 17: Road to State Championships Starts Here
No teams in the boys’ Open Division looks like a break for San Diego Section teams, which were assigned some favorable seeds in other divisions of first-round play that gets under way in the Southern California regional tournament Tuesday night. Two girls teams are seeded No. 1 and have byes to the quarterfinals. Open Division […]
Read More1990-91: And the Scoreboard Blinked…and Blinked.
The three-point basket, which became a part of the game in 1986, continued to be refined and exploited and teams’ scoring points in the 80’s and 90’s was common. One-hundred-point totals were at a record pace. Valhalla’s Mark Dillon set a state record with 145 three-pointers and tied the state record with 12 treys in […]
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