1957-58: 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 […]
Read More1940-41: Douglas, Wilson Make Coaching Debuts
Two young coaches destined to become legendary in San Diego basketball lore arrived as varsity mentors at the city’s two prep powerhouses. Rickey Wilson, a former San Diego High player, succeeded Lawrence Carr at Hoover and Merrill Douglas, a transplanted Montanan, took over for Bill Schutte at San Diego High. The schools continued to be […]
Read More1948-49: No Games, Snow!
The dateline said San Diego, not somewhere in the High Sierra or North Dakota. Snow had forced postponement of two games. In the dead of winter a couple high school basketball contests in San Diego County were called off because of the flaky white stuff. Southern Prep League games sending Brown Military to Mountain Empire […]
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