Author Archives: Ronnie Flores
Boys BB: Final ’20 Player Rankings
We continue our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club members with a final look at the state’s top college prospects in the senior (2020) class. Our final 2020 Cal-Hi Sports Hot 100 shows nine new players and plenty of upward movement for those who had excellent senior seasons. Our final 2019-20 rankings for the 2021,...
2019-20 Grid-Hoop All-State Teams
To kick off our end-of-school year content of honoring the best multi-sport and overall athletes of the year, we begin with a look at the state’s 15 best football-basketball combo athletes on our 34th annual Cal-Hi Sports Grid-Hoop All-State team. Leading the group is Bakersfield Christian’s Ben Yurosek. We have even more listed as Grid-Hoop...
All-State BB: Best of the Best
Mr. Basketball State Player of the Year B.J. Boston of state No. 1 Sierra Canyon and Evan Mobley of Rancho Christian, a national player of the year candidate for two years, headline the 41st annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state boys basketball teams. Go inside to see why these 10 have finished their careers as First Team […]
All-State BB: 2nd & 3rd Team
Here’s the place to see all of the writeups for those who are second team overall and third team overall on the 41st annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Boys Basketball Teams. The second team features two players from Etiwanda, some overlooked talents in terms of scholarship offers while there is at least one player from each...
Mr. Basketball 2020: California Dreamin’
In a season that didn’t have a definitive ending for many, the ending couldn’t have turned out better for Sierra Canyon’s Brandon Boston Jr. After moving to Southern California from Georgia, he is named California Mr. Basketball by Cal-Hi Sports for the state’s top-ranked team. He’s actually the first Mr. Basketball State Player of the […]
State Coach of Year: Dave Rebibo
In a season that wasn’t complete due to the COVID-19 pandemic, more coaches than ever were able to win their last game but more coaches than ever were also unsatisfied with how the season ended for their seniors. One boys basketball coach who didn’t win his last game of the season, but came away more […]
Mr. Basketball State POY Finalists
As is our custom, we like to release at least four and often more finalists among those who are being considered the most strongly for the annual Mr. Basketball State Player of the Year selection. And no, players from prep schools are not eligible for high school competition honors. Never have been, never will be. […]
Boys BB State Team of Year 2020
It’s a third consecutive State Team of the Year finish for Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth, but because of the worldwide Coronavirus pandemic, the Trailblazers are the first boys basketball State Team of the Year to not officially win a CIF state title since L.A. Westchester in 2004. Sierra Canyon understands the ramifications of the situation […]
Coronavirus Impact: Rankings/Honors
Before we get another week started (and yes there will be updated rankings this week in baseball and softball as we also dig deep to compile all of the final rankings in boys & girls basketball), we thought it would be important to spell out some of the many impacts on our final 2019-20 basketball […]
