2019-20 Weeks 5-6: Teams Throughout U.S. Flock to Torrey Pines
Basketball is in beast mode as the New Year beckons, with games every night and tournaments galore, including the big one, the Torrey Pines Tipoff this week directed by Falcons coach John Olive. There was an interesting matchup in a preliminary tipoff to Torrey Pines Monday night after John Maffei of The San Diego Union […]
Read More2019-20 Week 3-4: San Ysidro Ninth Grader Sets Single-Game Record
San Ysidro freshman Mikey Williams has gone off again. The 6-foot, 3-inch guard set a San Diego Section record last night with 77 points in a 116-42 victory over Kearny at the Imperial High tournament, according to Max Preps. A night earlier Williams scored 51 in a 108-61 win against Brawley. He had 50 in […]
Read More1994-95: Christian Girls Emerge With Buzzer Beating Shot
Eighty-three teams, 47 boys squads and 36 girls teams, all had their “hoop dreams” (a so-named, popular movie of the day) as they embarked on what would become a postseason of 114 games, ending with a state championship by the Division V Christian girls. BOYS PLAYOFFS FIRST ROUND D-I Poway 80, Morse 61 (11-17). San […]
Read More1994-95: McCoy, Others made for Dynamic Season
DECEMBER, 1994 –Six-foot, 11-inch Jelani McCoy started the season with 41 points and set a San Diego Section record with 16 blocked shots in an 85-82 win in the Hilltop/Pizza Hut tournament. El Camino’s Dee Boyer blocked 15 shots in a 1989 game. –Dimitri Hodgkinson scored 37 points and El Cajon Valley reached triple digits […]
Read More2019-20 Weeks 1-2: San Ysidro Frosh Challenges Dad
Mikey Williams, a 6-foot, 3-inch guard heralded as one of the outstanding ninth grade players in the country, scored 50 points in one game recently as the San Diego Section basketball season got under way. But the San Ysidro freshman can’t claim family bragging rights. That’s because Mikey’s father, Mahlon Williams, a three-year star at […]
Read More1984-85: Zarecky’s Red Devils Runnin’…and Travelin’
Sweetwater, the San Diego Section’s International team. After trips to Hawaii and Canada in recent years, Coach Gary Zarecky’s Red Devils visited the Continent this season. They played four games in Yugoslavia after Christmas, meeting some of that basketball-savvy nation’s top junior teams. The roadrunners from National City also found time to set a San […]
Read More