Author Archives: Harold Abend
State Baseball/Softball Players of Week
It’s bayou time this week for our Northern California Baseball and Softball State Player of the Week award winners, which may seem a bit strange but both of our honorees are committed to LSU for college in Baton Rouge, La. One of the pair is going to grace the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book, and […]
FINAL Girls BB State TOP 40 Rankings
We can’t argue with the fact that our rankings are not totally in line with some state and national rankings. However, the one thing we have in our favor is in traversing up and down the state in the past five months, and covering dozens of teams and games, we have personally seen the first...
State Softball/Baseball Players of Week
For our second week of honoring baseball and softball players this season, we don’t have any records to track for the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book, which is one of the purposes of this feature. However, there was no shortage of some hidden gems, a couple of diamonds in the rough, and even a former […]
CIF Saturday Girls BB State Finals
Etiwanda completes its third straight run to the CIF Open Division state title with a win on Saturday over Archbishop Mitty. It’s not the first three-peat or four-peat in state history, but it’s the first since the CIF went to an Open Division in 2013. Caruthers also repeats as a CIF state champ (this time […]
Girls BB CIF State Previews & Picks
Etiwanda looking to pick up third straight CIF Open Division state title and it could be two straight for Caruthers (but this time for D2 and not D3). It also may be surprising that Sabrina Ionescu’s high school coach hasn’t yet won a CIF state title, but that may change on Friday night. We’re looking […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 30 Rankings
As is often the case with respect to the top teams in the Open Division for California girls basketball the key word is “rematches.” This year is another perfect example. The CIF Southern Regional championship on Tuesday will be a third meeting of the two teams this season while the Northern Regional title game is...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 30 Rankings
Seeds, seedings and saplings. The CIF Regional playoffs are set, the seedings are out, and the action begins on Tuesday for lower divisions and on Wednesday for the Open Division. However, reflecting back on the section playoffs, and the CIF Southern Section in particular, the traditional perennial girls basketball powers are still not totally changed,...
Ontario Christian Girls Prevail
Two free throws with 17.6 seconds left proved to be the big difference for the state No. 1 Knights in their 65-63 victory on Saturday night at Toyota Arena over state No. 2 Etiwanda. The Eagles certainly are not done, however, in their attempt to win a third straight CIF Open Division state title. FOR […]
Friday CIFSS Girls BB Highlights
Winners for Friday’s CIF Southern Section girls basketball championship games played at Toyota Arena in Ontario were Rancho Christian for D1, Oak Park for D2AA, Rolling Hills Prep of San Pedro for D2A and Mark Keppel of Alhambra for D3AA. We hope you enjoy this free post on CalHiSports.com. Please help us out today by […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 30 Rankings
Seedings versus Cal-Hi Sports girls rankings is this week’s theme. The biggest difference is by and large seedings are computer driven while these rankings come from personal observation and years of observing and evaluating the state’s top girls basketball talent. As of these current rankings we will have traversed the state and personally seen 24...
