Author Archives: Harold Abend
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
This week’s twist is that both of our Southern California honorees are from schools that have Lions as their mascot. This week’s winners also are all still in action in the playoffs (but only one on Tuesday night) and are from Santa Rosa and Fresno in Northern California plus Los Angeles and Westlake Village in […]
NEW State Top 25 Girls BB Rankings
The CIF Southern Section Open Division playoffs have already completed one of the three games in pool play heading into this week and two of the games were decided by two and three points, and the other two games were not blowouts, either. Now, the rest of the state, except the Central Coast Section where...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Every so often we remind readers that this feature helps us not only award outstanding performances, but uncover diamonds in the rough and entries for the Cal-Hi Sports Record Book. This week, we have one of those with Isabel Avalos from Buena Park. She joins a group that also represents Carlsbad in Southern California, and […]
NEW State Top 25 Girls BB Rankings
We were coasting along through the first 16 spots this week and then based on the CIF Southern Section playoff pecking order we had a change that impacted the next five teams. Once again we looked for a way to get in some newcomers, but once again no one dropped out. With the CIF Southern...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
We have four solid performances from last week but added on to what they’ve done earlier in the season gets these four over the top. This includes the scoring leaders for girls from the CIF Central Section and the CIF San Diego Section. This week’s winners also are from the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section and CIF […]
NEW State Top 25 Girls BB Rankings
There is some movement in the top six of this week’s rankings thanks to Windward’s victory over previous No. 3 Long Beach Poly, but the top two stay the same as we head into the home stretch for league play and the beginning of league and section playoffs. From seven through 12, we also had...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
There were no state record book entries this week but we found some diamonds in the rough and some budding young stars in our four winners, and that’s part of what this feature is all about. We start out in the island city of Coronado just across the bay from San Diego, and then head […]
NEW State Top 25 Girls BB Rankings
One big difference between rankings, seedings and competitive equity is the last two don’t take into consideration the nuances that can take place during a season like injuries, family emergencies and coaching changes in mid-season. Other situations also can arise that usually impact but are not created by the girls. We hear all about these...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
It’s a valley-style edition of this weekly feature as we hit four separate valleys to find our four honorees, beginning with the San Fernando Valley, then the Sacramento Valley, followed by the San Gabriel Valley and finishing up in the Santa Clara Valley. We also have three guards and one post player getting the nods. […]
NEW State Top 25 Girls BB Rankings
We had a hunch there could be some movement with all the MLK weekend events and that’s exactly what has happened with the biggest change coming at the top of the heap and with four of the five top teams playing musical chairs. This past week also saw two coaches in the top five reach...
