Author Archives: Harold Abend
State Coach of Year: Jonas Honick
With a 700th win this season, with a team from a true small school (320 students) playing up in Division I and reaching the CIF NorCal championship, the time is ripe for the overall State Coach of the Year honor to go to Jonas Honick from Branson of Ross. He’s been chosen before for Division […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Raging hot batting averages for the early part of the 2019 season have helped this week’s two NorCal players of the week to gain the spotlight. For the SoCal honorees, meanwhile, it’s been more about stingy pitching. The foursome we’re honoring is from Pleasanton, East Nicolaus, Carlsbad and Westlake Village. We hope you enjoy this […]
FINAL Girls BB State Top 40
There were no real huge surprises in the final rankings, and a lot of that has to do with our nearly 40 years of rankings always using our form of competitive equity, only over the years we’ve referred to it as “a body of work.” So coming into the final rankings, the top teams were...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
One of our four honorees for this week is the younger sister of 2018 State Baseball Junior Player of the Year Dawson Netz of Pasadena Maranatha. And little sis is putting up some monster pitching-hitting totals for the early going of this season. Our three other writeups recognize the skills of baseball players from San […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
For this second week in which baseball and softball players have taken over this feature from basketball, we have a player from San Luis Obispo County being chosen for the first time for Northern California. That’s because San Luis Obispo is now part of the CIF Central Section and all Central Section schools are NorCal […]
Girls BB: Saturday State Finals
The battle to be California’s Open Division state champion was decisive at the Golden 1 Center as state No. 1 Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth earns its first title in the top division with a win against Pinewood of Los Altos Hills. Ashley Chevalier, the daughter of Sierra Canyon boys head coach Andre Chevalier, led the […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
This is the first week in which we’re honoring baseball and softball players for 2018-19 school year. The two from SoCal are emerging sophomores from Huntington Beach and Corona. The two from NorCal already have put up impressive numbers earlier in their careers and represent San Anselmo and Sacramento. We hope you enjoy this free […]
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Rankings
As the funnel narrows to its slimmest of margins, the head to head results of the CIF regional playoffs don’t exactly coincide with the seedings or the rankings. The result is we are sticking with the formula we’ve used successfully for nearly 40-years of ranking girls basketball and the result is the top spots are...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
This is the last week in which we’re honoring basketball players for 2018-19 school year. They all had games on the evening in which these selections were done & come from schools in Anaheim, West Hills, Fresno & Oakland. We hope you enjoy this free story on Cal-Hi Sports.com. For our final State Top 20 […]
