Don Norcross

When the 2024 boys high school golf season began, Torrey Pines’ team goal was the same as always: Win the state championship. After some early-season struggles, including losing a dual match …

Oddities unfolded Thursday night, when La Jolla Country Day’s No. 2-ranked girls basketball team made the short six-mile trek to face rival The Bishop’s School. On one third-quarter possession, the Torreys launched a 3 from the corner and the ball lodged between the rim and the backboard. With the possession error in its favor, La Jolla Country Day took the ball, star point guard Naomi Panganiban drove to the hoop, tossed up a contested a shot … and the ball got stuck between the rim and the gla…

Bill McColl, a standout athlete at Hoover High School who went on to star in football at Stanford and for the Chicago Bears before becoming an orthopedic surgeon, died Dec. 28 at his La Jolla home. He was 93. McColl earned All-CIF honors at Hoover in football, baseball and basketball. His son, John, said his father once played in a baseball game at Hoover, walked over to the track, won a 100-yard dash wearing baseball cleats, then headed back to the diamond to finish the baseball game. “He was a…

Felix Radilla Benavidez sheepishly walked into the Lincoln High School football coaches’ office and immediately received props from the Hornets’ coaches. “What’s up, big time?” teased an assistant. Piped in assistant head coach/offensive coordinator Jason Carter: “Just like that, a star is born.” Saturday at 7 p.m., Lincoln, 11-0 and winners of 23 straight, tees off against Granite Hills, 11-0 and winners of 20 straight, for the CIF San Diego Section Open Division championship. Were it not for t…

The CIF San Diego Section released seedings for the upcoming football playoffs Sunday, and the results left no doubt about what league was the deepest this season. It’s the Avocado League, hands down. While Lincoln of the City Conference’s Western League is the No. 1 seed in the four-team Open Division, Carlsbad of the Avocado League held down the second seed. And the Avocado League demonstrated its dominance in the Division I bracket. The top four seeds — No. 1 Torrey Pines, No. 2 Mission Hills…

As No. 1-ranked and reigning Division 1-AA state champion Lincoln High School rattled off seven lopsided wins to open the 2023 season, a question hung in the air like a booming punt. Just how good is the latest edition of the Hornets? Five wins came against teams outside San Diego. “The teams they’re playing, I don’t know how good they are,” said Sean Doyle, coach of No. 7 Cathedral Catholic. After seeing Lincoln on Friday night, absorbing a 39-14 Western League defeat at Mira Mesa High School,…

Mahliya Wilson, Alyssa Alvarado and Kaylyn Buchanon-Lamb use speed, shooting to bolster Barons; combined, they average nearly 50 points per game

Alyssa Alvarado scores 21 points and Mahliya Wilson adds 19 as top-seeded Bonitia Vista tops Lawndale Leuzinger 80-67 and moves on to Saturday’s Division II state title game

Former Helix High star Miles Norris scores a season-high 25 points in Big West victory by the Gauchos

Brawley wins team competition with 120 points, Mira Mesasecond with 66, followed by Steele Canyon (54), San Marcos (50) and Vista (48)