Author Archives: Ronnie Flores
2017-18 All-State Grid Hoopers
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 32nd annual Cal-Hi Sports Grid-Hoop All-State team. We have even more listed as Grid-Hoop athletes of distinction and some of these players […]
Boys BB: Final ’21 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 freshman (2021) class. Our final 2021 Cal-Hi Sports Top 25 for the 2017-18 school year shows plenty of movement and three new prospects. This concludes our player rankings package for this school year and our...
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 sophomore (2020) class. Our final 2020 Cal-Hi Sports Top 65 for the 2017-18 school year shows five newcomers since our winter edition, a fast-rising prospect, and a new No. 1. Our final 2017-18 rankings for the...
Boys BB: Final ’19 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 junior (2019) class. Our final 2019 Cal-Hi Sports Hot 100 for the 2017-18 school year shows seven newcomers since our winter edition. Our final 2017-18 rankings for the 2020 and 2021 classes will be...
Boys BB: Final ’18 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 (2018) class. Our final 2018 Cal-Hi Sports Hot 100 shows eight new players and plenty of movement for those who excelled late into the post-season. Our final 2017-18 rankings for the 2019,...
Boys BB: All-State Best of Best 2018
Mr. Basketball State Player of the Year Onyeka Okongwu of Chino Hills and NorCal Player of the Year James Akinjo of Salesian are headliners for the 40th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state boys basketball teams. This post includes writeups of all 10 on the first team. The Big O is the only junior to be this […]
Boys BB: All-State 2nd, 3rd
Here’s where to go to check out all of the writeups for those who are second team overall and third team overall on the 40th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Boys Basketball Teams. Many of those on second team almost were on first and it’s an elite group that any college coach would love to have. […]
Mr. Basketball 2018: It’s The Big O
State’s top honor goes to Onyeka Okongwu, a multi-dimensional center from Chino Hills whose skill level, defensive ability, team-first attitude and approach made him second-to-none in California this season. A D1 state crown helps the junior big man edge senior James Akinjo of Richmond Salesian.
CIF Open: Sierra Canyon Champs
Saturday’s CIF state boys basketball finals at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento ends with Sierra Canyon taking its first Open Division crown with a win over hometown Sheldon. We also have writeups and photos of the two other CIF state boys finals played on Saturday won by Pleasant Valley of Chico (D3) and Santa […]
