Braiden Bachich-Dixon of Marin Catholic (left) and Gabe Casanovas from St. Vincent de Paul of Petaluma (right) are both key returnees from teams that won CIF state titles last season. Photos: X.com & Sumner Fowler / Petaluma Argus-Courier.
We stay inside the CIF North Coast Section for our next stop in our series of preseason all-section or all-area football teams from around California, going from the East Bay portion of the section to the Redwood Empire. We do the Redwood Empire separately since it is the home of associate editor Harold Abend as well as NorCal correspondent Daniel Poulter. The new super league that has Marin Catholic, Cardinal Newman, Windsor, San Marin, Vintage of Napa and Rancho Cotate dominates these selections.
Note: These preseason all-section or all-area teams are done in the same 30-player format as the annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams. They are based on a combination of what the players did last fall and college recruiting. Not every all-section team will have writeups of every player. Some will have an intro, then lists.
STATEWIDE LINEUP OF THESE PRESEASON TEAMS
(ALL TO BE DONE BY NEXT WEEK):
CIFSS Long Beach/South Bay | CIF Sac-Joaquin Section | CIF Central Section | CIFSS SGV Valley | CIFSS San Fernando Valley & Ventura | CIF San Diego Section | CIFSS Orange County | CIF Central Coast Section | CIFSS Inland Empire | CIF NCS East Bay | CIF Northern Section | CIF L.A. City Section
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