Author Archives: Mark Tennis
NEW CIF Sac-Joaquin Sec Top 20
Once again, since the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section is the one for our home base in Stockton, we’ll put together a weekly Top 20 for that section this season. Watch the FOX40 Final Quarter on Fridays at 11 p.m. for all the highlights and to see our latest SJS Top 5 List.
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
Chaminade and Calabasas are now both in the top 10 and both have big tests Thursday this week with the Eagles facing Serra of Gardena and the Coyotes meeting Valencia. Others getting bumps this week include Mission Hills, San Ramon Valley and Central of Fresno. Newcomers to the first 25 are Upland and San Diego...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
There are a lot more changes to this part of the package this week since Murrieta Valley forces its way back into the rankings after its impressive win against previous No. 25 Oaks Christian. No team got close to the kind of bump that the Nighthawks got, but among those who may be on the...
What We Learned: Freedom-O’Dowd
All-State running back Ronnie Rivers may be gone, but Freedom of Oakley hasn’t lost much on offense compared to last year’s team that won 11 in a row and was top 10 in state until back-to-back losses to De La Salle and St. Mary’s of Stockton. At least that was the main takeaway after watching […]
State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard
For Freedom-O’Dowd breakdown/What We Learned, CLICK HERE. No. 1 Mater Dei, No. 2 St. John Bosco and No. 5 De La Salle all win on Saturday but it was only easy for the Monarchs, who played at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara. Bosco came from behind to beat St. John’s in Washington DC while DLS […]
FB: Upset Special of Week
Each week on Thursdays (or Friday morning), we might pick one game involving a team in the Top 50 of our state rankings that we think has the best chance to suffer an upset loss. We’ll see if we can nail a few of them during the season. Picking 70 percent of wins is easy […]
Sac-Joaquin Section Top 5: WRs/TEs
We are happy to announce that for the fifth straight year the CalHiSports.com web site and Cal-Hi Sports will be part of the weekly Final Quarter high school football show on Friday nights on the FOX 40 station in Sacramento.
Stat Stars, Record Updates & More
Recently choosing players of the week who both have brothers at Washington State got us inspired to take a look at the best set of quarterback brothers in state history. For high school stats, you can’t beat the Clausens (Jimmy, Casey & Rick). But for overall football accomplishments, it may be hard to beat the...
NEW Girls VB State Top 20
After all of the myriad of big matches were played by more than half of the State Top 20 at the Durango Fall Classic last weekend in Las Vegas, the order this week for the top three amazingly remained unchanged between Mater Dei, Santa Margarita and Redondo. Defending CIF Open Division state champ Archbishop Mitty […]