Odds and Ends

CIF 100th Anniversary

In honor of its 100th anniversary in 2013, the Southern Section will pick its 100 greatest high school athletes and plans to announce it at a red-carpet event that's still being planned.

That's going to be one tough job limiting it to 100 greatest athletes. The City Section recently inducted its first class into a new Hall of Fame, and that was a grueling process.

Dave Demarest, inducted into the Southern Section Hall of Fame.

Demarest coached baseball for 34 years at La Quinta, winning 753 games, 22 league titles and three Southern Section titles.

Baseball Proposal Defeated

A proposal to create a double-elimination post-season baseball tournament in the Southern Section beginning in 2013 was rejected on Thursday by a vote of 46-26 at the Southern Section Council meeting.

Coaches have wanted to replace the single-elimination playoffs with a double-elimination tournament for Divisions 1 through 4. The San Diego Section has had a double-elimination tournament.

Concerns about travel costs and adding up to seven additional games for teams in the playoffs won out.