2017-18 Week 9: No Movement at Top
Static are the San Diego Section ratings. There was no change this week through the first six places. La Jolla Country Day moved from eighth to seventh after St. Augustine dropped a 74-56 decision to Chicago Whitney Young. The Saints now are eighth. Mount Miguel crashed the top 10 with a 22-4 record and an […]
Read More2018: Tom Ault, Crawford Basketball Standout
They gave Tom Ault a tremendous sendoff recently at the Rancho Santa Fe First Presbyterian Church. More than 400 persons, including many San Diego State and sports luminaries from the ‘sixties and ‘seventies, were in attendance. Ault, 72, who passed away recently, helped create a championship legacy at Crawford High. Ault played basketball and baseball […]
Read More1957-58: Shaules Had Records, but Cavers Had Championship
A palpable buzz was heard throughout San Diego gymnasiums this season, hummed to a pitch by a 5-foot, 8-inch sharpshooter with an unorthodox jump shot. St. Augustine’s Tom Shaules set scoring records and drew huge crowds, but Shaules and his husky teammate, Sammy Owens, were a virtual two-man team and the Saints, while making the […]
Read More2017-18 Week 8: Leaders Can Look Down Road
Fast forward about month, to the round of 4 in the San Diego Section Open Division championships. If the Max Preps’ power ratings hold and the first and second rounds play out as expected, Torrey Pines (20-2) would play Mission Bay (21-4) in one semifinal and Foothills Christian (19-5) would meet San Marcos (18-2) in […]
Read More1935-36: Hilltoppers Win, Cardinals’ Feathers Ruffled
Unlikely season, unlikely conclusion. –A rare playoff run by San Diego teams in the Southern California playoffs. –San Diego High marched through four rounds to win its only CIF Southern Section championship, along the way setting a school single-game scoring record…maybe. –Hoover blitzed Class B opponents in an attempted sequel to championships in 1931-32, 1933-34, […]
Read More1945-46: “We Got (Expletive)!”
“Elevator! Elevator! We Got The Shaft!” The cry is almost as old as the game. Visiting teams shouting that the referees or the timekeeper were unjust, a polite term for being “homered”. The Huntington Beach Oilers felt that way when the Oilers, 4-0 on the season and a reported 20-1 in 1944-45, were on the […]
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