1961 Baseball: Morehead (15-0) Leads Hoover (24-3) to Title
Hoover was 1-7 in football but then the seasons changed.  The Cardinals won the first San Diego Section championship with a 24-3 record in winter basketball and repeated the 24-3 with another title in spring baseball. There were seven no-hitters pitched in the San Diego Section this year but none by Hoover’s Dave Morehead, who […]
Read More1949 Baseball: Hillers Clobbered Almost All Opponents
Only a team more than 400 hundred miles away and in another state could stop coach Dewey (Mike) Morrow’s powerful San Diego Hillers. The also named Cavemen dropped three of four games in a home-and-home series with Arizona’s Tucson Badgers but bludgeoned 29 teams from Southern California and won Morrow’s 10th Southern Section championship. According […]
Read More1957: Hoover 9 Surprises With Run to CIF Finals
The top four teams in won-loss percentage in the County were San Diego (25-3, .880), Helix (16-5, .762), Mission Bay (17-6, .737), and Hoover (19-9, .679). It was the latter that battled through four rounds of the CIF Southern Section playoffs to get to the finals. Hoover was an uninspiring 10-8 heading into the stretch […]
Read More1956 Baseball: Cavers Lose 4 in Row, Longest Streak in 28 Years
The Cavers were out of sorts. San Diego High finished with an 18-8 record, its poorest since the 17-10 of 1950, and the Cavers lost four games in a row down the stretch to fall out of City Prep League and playoff contention. According to Don King’s Caver Conquest, the athletic history of the school, […]
Read More1955 Baseball: Grossmont Wins Big One That Eludes San Diego
Another outstanding San Diego High team (27-4) was unexpectedly bounced from the playoffs but Grossmont won a Southern Section championship, joining the similarly successful 1951 squad. Only one team from each league was invited to the playoffs, so Hoover was a non-participant despite a record that was a reported 24-4. San Diego junior Deron Johnson […]
Read More1954 Baseball: 24-0 Cavers Shocked in First Game of Playoffs
San Diego High, for decades the No. 1 team in Southern California baseball, was undefeated and favored to win an 11th CIF championship. Until…. The Hillers, as they were most often called (besides Cavemen, Cavers, and Hilltoppers) during the era, lost a quarterfinals playoff to a team it had beaten, handily, twice before. This San […]
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