Author Archives: Harold Abend
Preseason Girls BB Ranks (16-40)
Here’s the rest of the preseason Top 40 of the best girls basketball teams from all across California. This group is led by the legendary sharpshooters from Pinewood of Los Altos Hills at No. 16 and goes on to No. 40 Lynwood, which has a legendary head coach. We also have added a list of […]
State Football Players of the Week
With many schools already contesting playoff games, it will become more difficult the last couple of weeks of this feature to find worthy candidates. However, for this week’s State Football Players of the Week, we found players worthy of more than local recognition, which is one of the goals of this feature, but we also […]
OLu Wins CIFSS D1 Flag FB Crown
We also have some info on the other CIF Southern Section girls flag football championships played on Saturday at Fred Kelly Stadium in Orange plus comments from speakers at the first-ever CIFSS press luncheon held the previous Wednesday that was sponsored by the Los Angeles Chargers. We hope you enjoy this free story on Cal-Hi […]
State Football Players of the Week
This week’s honorees include two remarkable kickers, one who kicked his second 50-yard field goal of the season and the other who’s a girl who had game-winning field goal that earned her team a league title. We also have a QB with eight TD passes in a game his team won, 90-46. The six we […]
State Football Players of the Week
Besides uncovering hidden talent as one of the goals of this feature, we track entries for the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book, and this week we have a bit of an anomaly or a twist as we like to call it. We have plenty of hidden talent in our six State Football Players of the […]
Flag Special: OLu Wins In Playoffs
We don’t have the resources to cover girls flag football like we do the five main sports we cover for this web site, but we will do some feature stories and welcome any suggestions for how it can be done. On Saturday, our main girls basketball editor was in Orange County and offered to go […]
“The Bonfather” enjoying retirement
Redwood Empire journalist sits down for dinner with legendary boys basketball coach Tom Bonfigli (who retired last March after his last game at St. Vincent de Paul of Petaluma) and they covered a variety of subjects. We hope you enjoy this free story on Cal-Hi Sports.com. All of our state record lists and all regular […]
State Football Players of the Week
Besides uncovering hidden talent as one of the goals of this feature, we track entries for the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book, and this week we have a record book entry and also have chosen a player who will very likely crack the record book in the future for career passing yards. Our visits this […]
State Football Players of the Week
It’s a bit of a twist to get this week started with the players of the week going first followed by new updated State TOP 50 Football Rankings that are broken down with each team. We’re still getting back to normal from travels to Europe. No matter, we still have some state record related honorees […]
CA’s Active Wins Leader Retiring
Bill Foltmer is a pillar of the Middletown community and will retire from coaching football as California’s active wins leader. We hope you enjoy this free story on Cal-Hi Sports.com. For our state rankings packages in football plus State Stat Stars of the Week, state record updates and special features, please check out our Gold […]
