Author Archives: Harold Abend
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
There were a couple of honorees this week who were slam dunks and then a couple of others that took a lot of digging, but we came up with four very deserving recipients, including a freshman whose name you might want to remember. This week’s winners are from Thousand Oaks, Rocklin, Los Angeles and Oakhurst. […]
NEW State Top 25 Girls BB Rankings
We had our first somewhat big upset of the season with Rosary of Fullerton topping Mater Dei of Santa Ana, but after all was said and done what looked like might be total chaos as a result of that, nothing changed in the first nine spots. One upset just can’t erase more than one significant...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
We took a hiatus for our Players of the Week feature for the holidays but we’re back with some outstanding performances that include the past two weeks. We have honorees from Richmond and Los Gatos in the north plus Saugus and Villa Park in the south. We hope you enjoy this free story on Cal-Hi […]
NEW State Top 25 Girls BB Rankings
There weren’t a lot of changes in this week’s rankings but with more showcases the next two weekends that involve ranked teams in Northern and Southern California that is likely to change. The top tier teams, however, have shown there’s quite a big drop-off to the teams in even the second tier so barring a...
NEW State Top 25 Girls BB Rankings
After the Nike Tournament of Champions Joe Smith Division, the West Coast Jamboree Platinum Division and the SoCal Holiday Classic have concluded, the top five teams in the state do not change, but what does change is the order of where they’re ranked. The new No. 1 team is a Long Beach Poly Jackrabbits’ team...
All-Decade Girls BB 2010s: Teams
With 2019 coming to a close, we are proud to present the Cal-Hi Sports 2010s All-Decade All-State Teams for girls basketball. Thirty players made the cut, with the first team of 10 players comprised of nine of the 10 Ms. Basketball State Players of the Year. Strange how it worked out that way, but digging...
All-Decade Girls BB 2010s: Honors
We’ll have a separate post coming on Tuesday after all of the big tournament finals on Monday that will reveal the actual all-decade all-state girls basketball teams for the 2010s, but for this first announcement we’re taking care of the major awards: State Player of the Decade, State Coach of the Decade, State School of […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Like last week and the first week of basketball players being honored when we had two players sink eight three-pointers, we have a player who made eight treys, but we also have one that canned 10 from outside the arc. This week’s selections are from Northridge, Sonora, Ontario and Sacramento. We hope you enjoy this […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Football isn’t quite over but traditionally this is the week we shift gears from the gridiron to the hard-court of the gymnasium and begin our weekly boys and girls basketball honors. For our first week, we also always remind basketball fans that for the Players of the Week features in all sports the CIF Central […]
