Author Archives: Harold Abend
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Rankings
With so many top teams in action against each other last week or over the MLK weekend playing top-notch competition, it was thought there could be a shakeup for this week’s rankings, and there is, with the biggest change being for the third straight week there is a new leader at the top of the...
Girls BB: St. Mary’s MLK Day 2 Statement Wins For Cards, Lions
Four State Top 20 teams were in action on MLK Day in the second day of action in Stockton at the St. Mary’s MLK Showcase and two won and two lost, one to a nationally-ranked team, and one team on the bubble squad making its case to join the next rankings. Also, four San Diego […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
To the Victor go the spoils and this week that means our NorCal Boys Player of the Week is Dailen Victor from Chavez of Stockton, who has 43 and 47 points in back-to-back games. We also honor a 2,000-point career scorer from San Diego and two girls, one from Brentwood the other from Simi Valley, […]
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Rankings
We had another change at the top of the state rankings with Windward of Los Angeles regaining the No. 1 spot after losing it to Pinewood of Los Altos Hills two weeks ago. The Wildcats, however, will wait less than 24 hours before playing new No. 2 Sierra Canyon. Also in the top 10 group,...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
It’s a great week to write up Jarod Lucas of Hacienda Heights Los Altos as the SoCal Boys Player of the Week since he’s just about to pass DeMar DeRozan of the San Antonio Spurs for the 15th spot on the Cal-Hi Sports all-time state career scoring list. This week’s other three honorees are from […]
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Rankings
Some of the top teams had league games on Tuesday that are not reflected in their records, but had there been any upsets we would have made adjustments. The biggest news is the switch at the top from Windward of Los Angeles to Pinewood of Los Altos Hills, but there was some other movement as...
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Ranks
Southern California still has two of the top three teams in the rankings, except there is a change in the third spot. Bishop Montgomery also moves up as a prized transfer becomes eligible. We also have three newcomers with the highest being Heritage of Brentwood, which cracks the Top 20 for the first time in...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Two of our honorees this week led their state-ranked teams to wins in out-of-state tournaments. One of the others did the same at a major tourney in Modesto while the other rained down points at the West Coast Jamboree. The four are from Stockton, Santa Rosa, Los Angeles and Chatsworth.
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Ranks
We had a lot of changes in the top 10 with a new No. 1 and with Redondo Union coming in big time that also dropped several other teams in the second 10 a spot as well. For the final week of December tournaments, eight of the top 13 teams are at the West Coast...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
The state No. 2 Pinewood of Los Altos Hills girls often get “the Jump” on opponents with their Stanford-bound sharpshooter. She’s joined as a NorCal Player of the Week by a promising sophomore from Carmel. For SoCal, high-scoring junior Clark Slajchert of Oak Park and athletic forward DeMariyah McGee from Rancho Verde of Moreno Valley […]
