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FINAL Girls BB State TOP 40 (Part 1)

The Final Expanded rankings have a big change at the top of the heap but the next eight spots remain intact from the next-to-last rankings we did. From there, no one holds onto their same spot from the last rankings all the way to No. 20 with Salesian making the biggest move up after winning...

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FINAL Girls BB State TOP 40 (Part 2)

This post includes teams ending in the No. 21 thru No. 40 positions. The first five were all in the next-to-last State TOP 25. The next 15 in order as usual were very difficult to rank, but we felt strong about Cardinal Newman of Santa Rosa, Viewpoint of Calabasas, Camarillo and St. Joseph of Santa...

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SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week

Recent weather throughout the state is perfect to get out and watch some high school baseball and softball, and if you’re in the area of one of this week’s four honorees, there’s still time this week to get out and watch them live in action. For this week, our two stops in Southern California are […]

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NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week

Now that basketball action on the court is behind us and baseball and softball are now in full swing in all sections around the state, we have lots of players to choose from for a feature that we not only use to track potential entries in the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book, but also to […]

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Girls BB: CIF Saturday Finals

When the CIF last staged staged state championships in basketball in 2019, the Open Division girls champion was Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth. Much has changed in the world since then due to COVID, but the Trailblazers have returned to the top of California girls hoops with an impressive win over Archbishop Mitty of San Jose. […]

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SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week

With basketball season coming to an end this weekend, our tradition over the years is to make the switch this week from the hard court to the diamond and begin our Southern and Northern California Players of the Week honors for baseball & softball. We remind readers that the purpose of the feature is not […]

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NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings

The pecking order for this week’s next to last rankings was set with the Monday morning release of the Girls BB: State Rankings By Division so these rankings will mirror them. Now we explain it. There were some changes in the top 14 spots which belong to Open teams and there was some movement after...

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NorCal / SoCal Players of the Week

This will be the final week for Girls and Boys Basketball Players of the Week as next week we will switch to softball and baseball just as we’ve done every year when the funnel narrows limiting the number of teams in the CIF basketball state playoffs. This week we have four solid honorees from Anaheim […]

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NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings

This week’s rankings go down the line in the CIF Open Divisions with those 14 teams, seven each in the Southern and Northern Regional playoffs. From there comes the teams that are in the NorCal and SoCal Division I bracket, but not in the exact order of the seedings. The top three teams stay the...

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SoCal / NorCal Players of the Week

With a limited number of games now left, and with so many on Monday and Tuesday as some of the sections enter crunch time with as many as three games, we had to wait until the last minute to make our selections. Between some in-depth research and a couple of nominations we came up with […]

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