Author Archives: Harold Abend
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
For our second week of Northern and Southern California Players of the Week for basketball, we cheated a little by including a Monday performance that already happened this week. It was just deemed the best way to get out details of a record-breaking performance from senior Mercy Miller from Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks. We […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25
For these first in-season rankings, we have a whole lot of changes once we get past the top 10 and that’s to be expected in this day and age of transfers and the fact freshmen are having a bigger impact in recent years. The first four spots stayed the same and they likely will through...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
We kick off the first week of Southern and Northern California Players of the Week for basketball with four very deserving honorees, and right out of the box we fulfill two of the goals of this feature, to track entries for the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book, and to uncover hidden talent that may otherwise […]
LJCD Sweet 16 Roundup
State No. 1 Etiwanda girls crank up the defense to win Platinum Division title at 21st annual La Jolla Country Day Sweet 16 early season tournament. Host school reaches the title game and its longtime head coach, Terri Bamford, won the 700th game of her career to join an illustrious all-time state list. We hope […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
With so few games being contested in the final week of football playoffs, as has been the tradition with this feature since even before we went to a full slate of CIF regional/state championships, this will be the final week for football players of the week as we switch to basketball. As one would expect, […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
One of the goals of this feature besides tracking potential entries for the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book is to uncover hidden talent that might otherwise only get local recognition. However, with the field of teams pretty much halved last week with just a couple of exceptions, the narrowing funnel in the final weeks of […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
The funnel this week is even narrower than last week as the 2023 football season winds down and we get close to switching our Players of the Week from football to basketball. Despite the number of teams in action being nearly halved this past week, we still found six worthy honorees. We have one who […]
Preseason Girls BB Ranks (1-15)
Welcome to the start of our coverage of the 2023-24 girls basketball season in California. We begin with the same format for the boys — top 40 overall preseason state state rankings — and have matched the coverage of the two genders for more than 40 years. Despite transfers and graduations aplenty, the top four […]
