Webbs Still Hopes for State Track Meet

Kendall Webb, the San Diego Section commissioner, said Monday he still hopes San Diego County can be host to the California State Track Championships at Balboa Stadium.

State officials will consider in May a proposal to keep state championships in track, volleyball, wrestling and basketball in the same locations each year. Track would be in Losd Angeles if the motion passed.

“My guess is that it will pass through, “ Webb said. “Of course, with some of these things, it’s like it will be permanent until somebody wants to change it.

“We just don’t want to give up on trying to get track down here. If they get a new track in at Balboa Stadium and seating for 15,000 people, which is proposed, we’ll take a crack at it.”

Webb said state officials are proposing to keep the state basketball tournament in Oakland, where it has always been successful.

The wrestling tournament, this year scheduled for Selland Arena in Fresno, may be moved permanently to Sacramento. Volleyball would be played in Orange County.

Soccer, for starters: There’s so much interest in soccer at Mount Carmel High School that Jim Dutton put together a freshman girls’ team last year. The only problem was, who to play? Dutton scheduled the team to play five varsity teams this season, 10 junior-varsity teams and two games each against the two other freshman teams in the county, Vista and San Pasqual.

Remarkably, Mount Carmel’s freshman team was 14-2-3. And it was 6-0-0 against some of the county’s varsity teams.

Prime cuts: The fate of five sports now played by City Conference schools could be decided today when the San Diego Unified School District Board meets. Water polo, girls’ and boys’ swimming and golf are part of $200,000 in recommended cuts for athletics.

The board will review the proposal today and could take some action. The preliminary proposal would then be open to public debate at the board’s next meeting March 3. A decision could be reached at the board’s March 10 meeting.

The five-sport cut would affect the teams of the 15 public schools playing in the Western, Central and Eastern leagues, which make up the City Conference.