Author Archives: Harold Abend
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Two of our goals in all of our Player of the Week features in all sports, girls and boys, are twofold. First, we use it to track potential entries in the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book, and the other is to find hidden talent that might not get any props other than outside their local […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
The funnel gets narrower and narrower as we drive towards the CIF Southern and Northern Regional playoffs and then eventually to the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento for the state finals. With the ever changing playoff formats that seem to change in every CIF section in every year, the biggest change this year came in...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
The CIF Southern Section playoffs are under way and there were no surprises in Open Division pool play matchups, nor was there any surprises in the two games that CIFSS Division 1 top seed Rosary played last week. As for the other CIF sections, the playoffs are beginning this week and the CIF North Coast...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
The CIF Southern Section playoff brackets have been announced with games on weekdays that are beginning this week except the Open Division where action does not start until Saturday. The Open Division seedings matched last week’s rankings for all but the No. 8 seed and now we’ve brought that team in as a newcomer. Rosary...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
We still have a couple of weeks left before these selections get a lot more complicated because we don’t want to honor a player with a Tuesday playoff game in which their season may be ending. There were no state record book totals this week but we found some real gems in both Southern and […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
We had our first big shakeup among the top seven teams when the upset bug bit in the CIF Central Section, but it might not be as big of a shakeup as some might think. In the CIF Southern Section, the eight teams in the Open Pool play bracket are starting to take shape in...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
For the second straight week, Cal-Hi Sports saw the Northern California girls honoree in person, and we almost saw both the NorCal and Southern California award winners this week since both were playing at the same Sabrina Ionescu SI20 Showcase event in Concord. It’s just that part of their games were being played at the […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
The mess created with almost a dozen ranked teams in action on MLK Day that caused a delay in the rankings being released has been cleaned up but the who-beat-who syndrome continues with inconsistencies and a high number of knee injuries also impacting the pecking order as well. The first 12 spots didn’t change from...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
It turns out that both of the girls featured for this week had performances that were seen in person by Cal-Hi Sports, although we cheated a bit for one of them since there was a Tuesday game from this week involved. In the end, the four honorees represent El Dorado County, Sonoma County in the […]
