Author Archives: Harold Abend
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Yes, they are from small school competition, but the ridiculous stats of Woodland Christian’s Jordyn Hutchins, including .821 batting average, 12 homers and 0.00 ERA, isn’t why she’s big time. It’s her major college D1 commitment and a Hot 100 national ranking for the Class of 2020 by FloSoftball. This week’s other honorees are from […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Both of our NorCal honorees for this week threw no-hitters, one in softball with 19 strikeouts and one in baseball against a team that was in our State Top 20 two weeks ago. For Southern California, a slugger got the nod in softball with a three-homer game while it was pitching and hitting combined for […]
More Girls BB State Players of Year
While Aquira DeCosta from Stockton St. Mary’s completed a four-year career that is comparable to some previous Ms. Basketball honorees, she didn’t get quite that high after her senior year. Still, she would be this year’s choice as the State Senior of the Year. We also have our other usual selections for top state honors […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
It’s easy to see that both of our honorees for baseball this week will be first team all-state pitchers at the end of the season. They’ve both been simply mowing down opposing hitters. One of our two even had a no-hitter that was his second no-hitter of the year. For softball, we are introducing a […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Collecting an MVP award from the Open Division in one of the state’s top baseball tournaments each year also gets SoCal Player of the Week recognition for San Marcos standout Zack Prajzner. He’s known for slick glove at shortstop and for hitting, but it was what he did on the mound in a rare start […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Since she’s been getting better and better, we knew at some point during her high school career that we’d be writing up Maya Brady from Oaks Christian of Westlake Village as a SoCal Player of the Week. That week became this one as she’s led the Lions to a 12-0 start. This week’s other honorees […]
CIF Finals: Windward Open Champs
Saturday’s CIF state girls basketball finals at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento wraps up with Windward of Los Angeles completing an impressive postseason by winning Open Division title over Pinewood of Los Altos Hills. We also have writeups and photos of the two other CIF state girls finals played on Saturday won by Redondo […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Sometimes we just have to include a Monday game for this feature and we have this week with Palm Desert’s Sydney Sprinkle, who did more than sprinkle a few runs batted in during a game with Shadow Hills. We also have chosen two others with huge power numbers — one softball player from Oakland and […]
NEW Girls BB State Top 20
The lone newcomer this week wasn’t even at .500 until this week but we kept them on the bubble and now Sacred Heart Cathedral of San Francisco is playing for all the marbles in Division I. With two nationally-ranked teams going down in the NorCal Open division, including the nation’s top team, meant a fairly...
