Here’s a quick look at the top 10 teams that will be highlighted in this week’s new Cal-Hi Sports State Top 20 rankings for baseball and softball.
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Cal-Hi Sports Insider Blog
Quick-hitting, behind-the-scenes news and notes from the CalHiSports.com staff, including previews of upcoming content and events.
Top 10 Baseball, Softball Ranks
Softball: Rain wipes out two top events
It didn’t matter if it was in Anaheim Hills or Livermore, there was too much wet weather last weekend throughout the state. As a result, both the Michelle Carew Classic and Livermore Stampede, two of the state’s top in-season softball tournaments, were severely curtailed.
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Welcome to Re-Designed CalHiSports.com
With two months to go before the end of the current school year and as 2016 basketball season honors are about to be decided, it’s a good time to introduce our users to an improved and we hope more fun version of the CalHiSports.com web site.
It’s not that different of a design, but there are many improvements:
Mark Tennis
•A ticker that will feature current top five rankings has been added below the menus. It’s also a feature that can secured by a sponsor.
•Two new modules have been added and the module lineup has been altered. One of the new modules highlights an on-going partnership that began in the fall with the Stockton Record and its StocktonPreps.com web site. The other one has been set up to aid some of our long-time fans who may want to purchase previously published state record books or previously published Student Sports national magazines that we have in storage.
•Some menus have been cleaned up and we added a page to highlight our school-by-school football scores archive and our roster of schools that put in orders for us to compile their own all-time football scores archive.
•All modules and headers have been re-designed with a more bolder look and feel. Plus, we added black-and-white historical images from our photo archives in the right and left margins of the site. Possible advertisers should note that we’d be happy to swap out those images for messages and images to promote any products or services.
•Our site is not yet “mobile friendly” but this new version should be easier for users to check out features more easily on their mobile devices.
Special thanks to our web designer, James Kerti, for his work on this re-design. He’s been our web developer since the site began in 2013 on a more comprehensive Word Press-based platform. If you don’t know, from 2008 to 2012, CalHiSports.com was part of ESPN. Then from 2004 to 2008 it was part of the Rivals.com high school network. And from 1989 to 2008, Cal-Hi Sports was part of Student Sports.
There is another reason why we wanted to re-design the site this spring. It’s really the beginning of an attempt to collect some sponsors both for the short term and for the upcoming football season. We currently only have a handful of partners and will need to add some funding to continue doing everything we’re now doing with this site.
Rest assured to all Gold Club subscribers that we’re entertaining no thoughts whatsoever of discontinuing any Gold Club features. It’s the concept of a mixed free and premium content web site that will need to be evaluated in the coming months.
If anyone has any questions about the site or would like to help us secure a sponsor or two, please call me personally or send me a text. The phone number is 209-608-1317.
Thanks and have a great spring,
Mark Tennis
Publisher/Cal-Hi Sports
Football: NCS Open Division On Board
The section’s league reps vote 44-3 to add four-team Open Division in football starting this fall. Of course, thoughts turn immediately to NCS super power De La Salle, which has won every NCS D1 title since 1991 and has won six CIF state titles in the highest classification in the last seven years.
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2016 Ballislife A-A Game April 30
A plethora of the nation’s best boys high school basketball stars scheduled to participate in annual event. Lonzo Ball of mythical national champion Chino Hills headlines participants.
The 6th Annual Ballislife All-American Game presented by Eastbay will feature many of the nation’s top high school boys basketball players. The national high school all-star game is set to take place April 30 at Long Beach City College’s Hall of Champions Gymnasium in Southern California, a region which can be known for its intense basketball betting.
The 2016 BIL A-A Game begins at 6:00 p.m. PT and is preceded by the The BIL Slam Dunk Contest presented by Eastbay beginning at 4:30 p.m. PT.
Scheduled to participate at the event is 6-foot-6 UCLA-bound point guard Lonzo Ball, the Cal-Hi Sports Mr. Basketball front-runner who will play in front of his family and numerous fans one last time before matriculating to Westwood. California’s all-time assist record-holder led Chino Hills to a 35-0 record, a CIF open division state title and the No. 1 national ranking in the FAB 50 presented by Ballislife.com.
The game will feature a plethora of other national standouts, including Arizona-bound Rawle Alkins (Word of God Academy, Raleigh, N.C.), Auburn-bound Mustapha Heron (Sacred Heart Academy, Waterbury, Conn.) and St. John’s-bound Shamorie Ponds (Thomas Jefferson, Brooklyn, N.Y.). The BIL A-A game also marks the SoCal return of UConn-bound Vance Jackson (Prolific Prep, Napa), who previously prepped at St. John Bosco of Bellflower. UCLA-bound Ike Anigbogu of Centennial of Corona is another local product scheduled to participate.
Analysts and experts no doubt will be making basketball predictions about these players for years to come.
Steve Baik of Chino Hills and Josh Giles of Centennial of Corona will serve as coaches for the BILAAG. The game’s first 18 participants were recently announced on Ballislife.com and the complete game roster will be announced shortly.
Past BIL A-A Game participants include 2014 Cal-Hi Sports Mr. Basketball Stanley Johnson (Arizona) and other current professional players such as Nick Johnson (Arizona), Jordan Adams (UCLA), Jabari Brown (Missouri), Zach LaVine (UCLA), early entry NBA Draft candidates Dejounte Murray (Washington) and Marquese Chriss (Washington), as well as 2016 NBA Draft hopeful Thon Maker.
General admission tickets for the BIL All-American Game and Slam Dunk Contest are $12 each (plus an administrative fee). Tickets can be purchased at ballislifeallamerican.com
To view the first 18 participants selected for this year’s Ballislife All-American Game, CLICK HERE.
Top 10 Baseball, Softball Ranks
Here’s a quick look at the top 10 teams that will be highlighted in this week’s new Cal-Hi Sports State Top 20 rankings for baseball and softball.
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Hey CIF, Open Div. Not Same As Others
If the CIF wants to shake up its state basketball championships and perhaps get more fans in the seats, focusing more on those teams in the Open Division may be part of the answer.
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Boys BB CIF State Predictions
Here are the predicted scores by Cal-Hi Sports for each of the five CIF divisional boys basketball state finals plus the Open Division to be played this week at Sleep Train Arena in Sacramento.
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Girls BB CIF State Predictions
Here are the predicted scores by Cal-Hi Sports for each of the five CIF divisional girls basketball state finals plus the Open Division to be played this week at Sleep Train Arena in Sacramento.
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State Hoop Rankings Update
Here’s a quick look at the top 10 teams that will be highlighted in this week’s new Cal-Hi Sports State Top 20 rankings for boys and girls basketball. These are the next-to-last rankings for the season.
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