Author Archives: Harold Abend
Los Al Captures Carew Classic
Griffins get clutch pitching from Berkley Vance and big home run by Taryn Clements as they win the toughest softball tournament of the season in Southern California with a 4-2 win on Saturday in the final over state No. 1 St. Francis of Mountain View. Top pitching outings also were turned in from Orange Lutheran […]
State Coach of the Year: Stan Delus
The highest coaching honor in California, the one that now goes back 52 years, heads to the Inland Empire this time as Etiwanda’s Stan Delus is named for the 2022-23 season. It’s not a surprise since he hadn’t been named before and his team this year broke through to win the school’s first-ever CIF Open […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
This is one of those weeks where we accomplish two of the goals of this feature with a mixture of a potential entry for the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book with opportunities to shine a spotlight on accomplishments of players on a statewide level who may only have gotten local recognition. In Northern California, we […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Because of needing to get out final girls basketball rankings and current baseball and softball rankings out on Monday and Tuesday, our Players of the Week feature is running on Wednesday instead of Tuesday, and while we like to get these honors out before games are played, we’re not sure under the circumstances of the […]
FINAL Girls BB State TOP 40 Rankings
After a huge portion of the season where there was almost no movement in the first five spots of the state rankings, the results from the last two rounds of the CIF Open Division state playoffs created a scenario where we finished with the same cast of characters, but none of the five finished in...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Now that basketball season has concluded, we can turn our full attention to softball and baseball, and this week we have some real solid talent consisting of two college-bound seniors and two underclass stars, one of each in baseball and softball. This week’s winners are from La Puente and Spring Valley in Southern California and […]
Girls BB: CIF Saturday Finals
In perhaps the best CIF Open Division state finals played since the format began in 2013, Etiwanda edges Archbishop Mitty of San Jose on a put-back at the buzzer to win its first-ever state crown. The Monarchs just came up one play short in what would have been regarded as an upset. Central of Fresno […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Despite the fact it’s the most important week in high school basketball in California, we have traditionally switched from the hardwood to the baseball and softball fields this week since the available players to choose becomes so few. We also more importantly want to start looking for some players in baseball and softball who we […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
The seedings are in and there weren’t any surprises when it came to the CIF Southern and Northern Regional Open Division other then the fact there really aren’t enough open-level teams to properly seed an eight-team bracket, so the CIF contracted it to just about the bare minimum by seeding only 10 teams total, five...
