4/13/2024 0 Comments Print your brackets week 11![]() ![]() Tom Browning struck out 12 batters in five innings and Mal Vargas hit a grand slam home run in the first inning as Point Loma beat Sweetwater, 13-0, and finished the first round of play with a 6-1 record, tied for first with Grossmont. Tom Boehlke’s single in the fifth inning was the only hit for Kearny, which dropped a 2-0 decision to the Foothillers’ Art Preston. San Diego collected 12 hits but needed Frank San Filippo’s triple that scored Neale Henderson in the 11th inning to claim a 2-1 win over the Submarine Force at Navy Field. Joe Brown scored San Diego’s first run in 9-1 victory over Pasadena in Coast League encounter in Balboa Stadium. Reserve outfielder Huddy McWilliams hit a two-run home run in the bottom of the eighth inning and Kearny nipped Oceanside, 8-7. The Pointers’ Eddie Serrano took the bite out of the Cougars by allowing only five hits and stroking a pair of doubles. The Foothillers trailed, 3-2, in the eighth inning and mounted two late rallies. Point Loma beat Escondido, 13-1, and Grossmont topped La Jolla, 7-3, to remain tied for first in the Metropolitan loop. San Diego’s Andy Stagnaro struck out 14 and walked none. Hoover’s Bill White “was even wilder” than the 50-mile-an-hour winds, walking 11 batters. San Diego (8-0) clinched the Coast League championship, hammering Pasadena, 9-1, in Balboa Stadium, while Hoover (5-3) was dropping an 11-7 decision at Compton as loop play concluded. Earl Holbrook singled in Dave Brennan with the winning run in the seventh inning. Sweetwater, which was behind, 8-1, in the fifth inning, scored its first league win, 15-14 over Escondido. Grossmont and Point Loma each improved to 4-1 in the Metropolitan League, the Foothillers 13-4 over Chula Vista and the Pointers 6-3 over Kearny in eight innings. McColl had two hits and four runs batted in and Bill White gave up three hits in the seven-inning nightcap.īrown Military made it three straight Southern League victories, 11-9 at Vista. McColl and Larry Henna had two hits each and Leroy Darnell drove in four runs in the opener. San Diego High’s Andy Stagnaro was CIF player of the year.īill McColl pitched Hoover to a 7-4 win over Pasadena and the Cardinals completed a doubleheader sweep, 13-1 over Pasadena Muir as part of Coast League scheduling that sent teams from the North on combined weekend trips. Augustine to an 8-3 win at Brown Military, which erred four times. Gene Green was 2 for 5 with a triple and single to lead errorless St. Dick Bartz had four hits in five times at bat, drove in four runs, and pitched a three-hitter in Kearny’s 7-5 win over Sweetwater. Al Hooper, Terry Shaw, and Frank Castro clubbed home runs as newcomer Chula Vista whipped Escondido, 16-9, at Sweetwater. Yoko Takeshita drove in three runs with a tie-breaking eighth-inning double and Eddie Serrano homered as Point Loma outlasted La Jolla, 10 –7, despite three hits each by the Vikings’ Charlie Way and Eddie Whitehead. Art Preston struck out 14 and gave up three hits and Dick Rand socked a three-run home run in Grossmont’s 11-3 win over visiting Oceanside. Simpson and Neale Henderson each had three hits for the Hilltoppers and Joe Brown and Don Jordan two apiece.īill McColl was the losing pitcher but he kept the Cardinals in the game with three hits, all “hard hit” doubles. “Under a stifling April sun,” wrote Gene Earl of The San Diego Union, San Diego’s Eddie Simpson singled home John Switi in the ninth inning for an 8-7 triumph over Hoover in Balboa Stadium. The playoffs held no great attraction to some teams and leagues. ![]() Van Patten often found it necessary to fill a bracket while regular-season games still were to be played. The playoffs would begin before the league season was completed. “Grossmont seems to be more fortified in the pitching department and could stand the strain of three games in a week, whereas on us the burden might weaken our chances for the Metro flag,” Pointers coach Hilbert Crosthwaite was quoted. Grossmont and Point Loma were tied for first with seven games remaining, but the Pointers declined. There still was half of the Metropolitan League season remaining when CIF boss Seth Van Patten announced that Grossmont would represent the league in the playoffs. This would be incredible by 21st century standards. They also lost two games to the powerful Tucson Bears, but were 4-2 against the Arizona club in home-and-home series. ![]() San Diego (26-3) lost to Compton, 3-2, in the finals of the Pomona 2030 Rotary Club tournament but slammed the Tarbabes, 24-0, in the Coast League season. 812 winning percentage, since Morrow returned from the war to coaching the Hilltoppers in 1946. ![]() (San Diego also won the team championship in track and field and reached the finals in football, losing, 13-12, to Santa Monica). It was another great season by coach Mike Morrow’s San Diego High Hilltoppers, who won their second Southern Section championship in the last three seasons. ![]()
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