Author Archives: Harold Abend
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
This is the week we vent our distaste for the current situation in some section playoffs that shouldn’t be doing Open Divisions, but after this week the routs will be behind us for the most part as the teams that are supposed to be in the top divisions of CIF Southern and Northern Regional playoffs...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
As the funnel narrows for teams still playing, our choices for winners in this feature becomes a little more difficult and also at this point of the season we don’t want to pick a player who may have lost in a season-ending game from the night before. That said, we do have four honorees this […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
The rest of the state will be joining the CIF Southern Section as playoffs begin this week for the other nine sections. Speaking of the Southern Section, first round play in the Open Division didn’t produce any upsets but the two Pool A games were closer than expected. This week’s two newcomers are Oak Ridge...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
As the basketball season is about to hit the section playoffs throughout the state, for our Southern California honorees we visit Escondido in the North County portion of the CIF San Diego Section and Newport Beach in Southern Orange County. In the north, there’s a player from a team that was undefeated in Visalia until […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
The playoffs begin in the CIF Southern Section and with a couple of exceptions the seedings of the Open Division look more like these rankings than they ever did in any of the previous polls the CIFSS releases each week. With league play wrapping up and limited non-league action last week throughout the state, there...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
In the last rankings, the top team nearly got toppled but it didn’t quite happen, and there was no movement in the first 12 spots. This week it’s much different. Etiwanda, La Jolla Country Day and Sierra Canyon are still 1-2-3, but upsets up north (and Monday night in Orange County) have caused big moves....
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
For this week we visit San Diego and Huntington Beach to find our Southern California honorees and in Northern California we land in Shingle Springs of El Dorado County and Concord in the East Bay for the NorCal award winners. We hope you enjoy this free story on Cal-Hi Sports.com. For our state rankings packages […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
The No. 1 team from Etiwanda nearly went down but escaped to stay put in the catbird seat. Plus, Windward of Los Angeles debuts a new head coach once again and after no changes in the first 12 spots the Wildcats are also the first team to move up. After that, we had movement all...
