2013: Playoffs Picture Coming Into Focus
Polls are great, but what do they mean come playoff time? First things first: Cathedral hung on to first place in the UT-San Diego basketball poll, but for the first time since the 2013 calendar the Dons were not  unanimous choices. Cathedral received 8 first-place votes after an uneven week in which it was surprised […]
Read More1957-58: Shaules and Saints Lit Up the Scoreboard
January, 1958,  was  special  for Tom Shaules, for St. Augustine High, and for basketball in San Diego. That wintry month annually signals the anniversary of Shaules’ epic run through the City Prep League. The 5-foot, 8-inch senior scored a record 60 points against Crawford, led the Saints in three games in which they scored more […]
Read More2013: Army-Navy Tops No. 1 Cathedral
The UT-San Diego boys’ basketball ratings deadline came a few hours early yesterday. Â Disaster struck a little later for the No. 1, Â and No. 5 teams. Cathedral Catholic was stunned by No. 6 Army-Navy, 67-61, as 7-foot, 1-inch Cheikh (Chay) Ndiaye (En-die) dominated the shorter but quick Dons with a 25-rebound-22-point-10-blocked-shots performance in the Martin […]
Read More2013: Bob Speidel, Championship Helix coach
The play on words certainly was not original. Roger Conlee and I referred to Bob Speidel as “The Watchman”, in reference to his last name and to the company that made millions of timepiece wrist bands. But Speidel was in the forefront of basketball coaches in the early years of the San Diego Section. Â He […]
Read More2013: Cathedral No. 1 as Calendar Hits January
After five weeks of nonleague games and tournaments in far-flung locations, San Diego Section basketball teams begin the run to the playoffs in earnest this week. Cathedral emerged as the frontrunner in the third UT-San Diego poll with all 13 possible first-place votes. Â The Dons got a head start on most other clubs when they […]
Read More2012-13: St. Augustine Shuts Riverside North
St. Augustine scored an impressive victory but San Diego teams lost three of four games  in the Long Beach Jordan-hosted Public-vs.-Private showcase Saturday  at Long Beach City College. The Saints defeated high-scoring Riverside JW North, 63-54.  Cathedral was beaten by Etiwanda, 60-54.  Santa Monica topped La Jolla Country Day 60-39, and Corona Santiago edged Army-Navy, […]
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