Author Archives: Harold Abend
Preseason Redwood Empire FB Team
Because of competitive equity factors and the addition of schools from Napa County, it was more complicated choosing players from this region of the state, which is part of the CIF North Coast Section. Still, Marin Catholic (Kentfield) once again leads the way with seven first team selections. The Wildcats are followed by Rancho Cotate...
Preseason CCS Football Team
Not surprisingly, a large number of players on both the first and second teams are from the three teams that all won CIF state bowl game titles last season plus additional standouts from the West Catholic Athletic League. Still, there were some fresh new faces last season and a couple of them are not from...
State Softball Coach of the Year (2018)
You may not believe everything that Amador Valley of Pleasanton’s Teresa Mayes-Borchard has gone through over the last few months and years, but in the end her program won its third CIF North Coast Section Division I title in the last five years and her team ended as the No. 1 ranked team for Northern […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
For the final weekly player of the week honors of 2017-18, all four obviously had to have led their teams to CIF section titles last weekend. They all did it in different ways for CIF North Coast Section Division I, CIF Southern Section Division II, NCS D4 and Southern D4.
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Three of our honorees this week are done after sparking their teams to section titles, including two of them who will be in the Pac-12 Conference next year. We couldn’t pick someone from SoCal baseball who is done for the year, but did go with a top pitcher from the CIF L.A. City Section who […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
The challenge this week was not to honor someone who was playing in a Tuesday sectional playoff game so we looked extra-hard to for those who are done or those who weren’t scheduled to play until later this week. Mission accomplished with Red Bluff’s Tanner Tweedt, San Diego Rancho Bernardo’s Nick Seamans, Mountain View St. […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
How does five homers and 20 RBI for one week sound? That’s what Montebello’s Jose Macias did last week to earn our SoCal Player of the Week selection. The big first baseman has done more in the last three seasons, though, to gain recognition than just pounding the ball against weak competition. We also have […]
Girls BB: All-State Best of Best 2018
The four finalists for Ms. Basketball are joined by 26 others on the 39th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State teams regardless of CIF division or class. This year’s first team only has three seniors but it’s loaded with six juniors and in a rare occurrence one freshman. We’re lucky to have covered some of the greatest […]
Girls BB: All-State 2nd, 3rd
Here’s where to go to check out all of the writeups for those who are second team overall and third team overall on the 39th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Girls Basketball Teams. While we don’t agree that a team that didn’t win the CIF Open Division state title should be No. 1 in the nation, […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Our two NorCal honorees were picked before they played their first game this week and both Madison Papenhausen from San Marin of Novato and James Pizzuti from El Dorado of Placerville remained on fire as Papenhausen had a no-hitter and Pizzuti drove in five runs. This week’s two SoCal honorees, meanwhile, are from Verdugo Hills […]
