Author Archives: Mark Tennis
Boys BB Records Ready for 2024-25
All of the Cal-Hi Sports state records in boys basketball are updated and ready to go before teams begin playing games later this month to start the 2024-25 season. Here’s a recap of the new additions and a look at the career state scoring record currently held by Sacramento Sheldon’s DeMarcus Nelson. We hope you […]
Medium/Small Schools State FB Ranks
There will be one more set of these rankings next week after the regular season concludes everywhere in the state. Then after that, this feature switches to our CIF regional bowl game championship projections. Final, overall medium/small school rankings then will be done at the end of the season. For medium this week, Cathedral of...
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
We begin with a look at CIF section football records, how to figure them out from every section in the state and we have a difference with one particular section. We then look at the leaders for the regular season in passing, rushing, scoring and receiving and which ones might change with the regular season...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
This week’s order for the first 14 gets mixed up after Santa Margarita’s eye-opening 44-8 win over Servite of Anaheim. That forced the Eagles to come back up into the higher reaches of the first 25. Others getting boosts include Clovis East (up two), Murrieta Valley (up three) and St. Mary’s of Stockton (up three)....
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
For this group, the two teams that had to come way up from on the bubble to now be ranked in front of teams they just beat were Simi Valley and Oak Ridge of El Dorado Hills. Manteca also is a newcomer this week. Others getting bumps include San Juan Hills of SJ Capistrano, Grant...
What We Saw: Clovis East-Clovis North
Based on its 38-21 victory on Friday at Lamonica Stadium over defending CIF Central Section D1 champion Clovis North, thoughts of Clovis East doing the same for 2024 — including going 13-0 through the section playoffs — were impossible not to arise. The Timberwolves displayed a very effective short passing spread offense that could not […]
Medium/Small Schools State FB Ranks
Marin Catholic of Kentfield is the only new team ranked this week for either medium or small and jumps up high in preparation for its showdown game on Saturday against Cardinal Newman of Santa Rosa. Los Gatos, Soquel and Tustin are other medium schools ranked teams that have big games this week. Bishop’s of La...
World Series MVPs from California
Freddie Freeman is the first one from our state since Steven Strasberg of the Washington Nationals in 2019. He’s also the first one ever from an Orange County high school. Note: The World Series MVP award was established in 1955, but the event obviously goes back much further than that.
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
Mission Viejo does indeed move to No. 2 in place of St. John Bosco after its big loss to No. 1 Mater Dei, although that isn’t going to match computer rankings that will be used for the CIF Southern Section D1 playoffs. De La Salle also joins top five for the first time this season,...
