Author Archives: Harold Abend
NEW Girls BB State Top 20
At this point of the season in the who beat who syndrome, getting a win doesn’t always automatically elevate one team over another team it just beat. Competitive equity has to be factored with teams that seem to be headed to the CIF NorCal or SoCal Open Division. We also have to place just as...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Leading the way for this foursome is senior Haley Van Dyke of Moraga Campolindo, who set new CIF North Coast Section single-game scoring record with 56 points. We only went a little further east to Carmichael for our NorCal boys winner while for SoCal the honorees are from a Los Angeles school near the airport […]
NEW Girls BB State Top 20
Some teams began league play last week while others had non-league games but eight teams in the rankings, including No. 1 and No. 2, were in action in the nine-game Elite Is Earned Showcase put on by noted girls basketball analyst Chris Hansen last Saturday at Orinda Miramonte. Also, with the beginning of 2018, and...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
After taking a break for the holidays, this feature returns with honors for two players who have led their teams to unbeaten seasons (as of Jan. 3). Plus, we head down to San Diego County for details on reported state scoring leader Cam Barry and we go up north to Chico for a West Coast […]
NEW Girls BB State Top 20
After all of the major holiday tournaments, there are of course a lot of changes in the rankings and many factors at play in determining this week’s new order. This includes who-beat-who, stinker losses, who played national level competition for two straight weeks and who did not plus transfers becoming eligible this week and upcoming...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
This feature will take a break next week for the holidays, but before that happens we have to tell you about four more amazing players. One of them had back-to-back 50-point games last week. Another is an all-state freshman from last season, another is the daughter of a former NBA player while another had a […]
NEW Girls BB State Top 20
The major tournaments in girls’ basketball for California teams begin this week with most of the top teams heading to the Nike TOC in Phoenix. From there some will come to the East Bay/Concord area for the 160-team West Coast Jamboree. For these updated rankings, six-time state champ Long Beach Poly is missing for the […]
More CIF Sac State Saturday Finals
Narbonne of Harbor City and St. Francis of Mountain View capture D1-A and D2-A crowns. It was a wild-and-wacky finish as the Gauchos defeated Pittsburg 27-21 while St. Francis won a battle of Lancers 22-13. It is the second state title in three years for Narbonne, but it’s the first for St. Francis. Congratulations to […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
It’s that time of the year when we switch sports for these honors and have our first foursome (two boys, two girls) for the 2017-18 basketball season. Both girls already have had a 50-point game. One of the boys led his team to a 7-0 start while the other one’s team has suffered its only […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
One of our honorees this week has already had a huge outing in a CIF section championship game. The other five hope to do the same this week after shining in various semifinals. It’s a group that hails from Redding, San Jose, Stockton, Lancaster, Moreno Valley and Harbor City.
