Category Archives: CIF State Championships
FINAL Girls VB State Top 20 Ranks
After losing in the CIF Open Division state final last year, Mater Dei of Santa Ana completes its quest to get the job done this time with easy 3-0 sweep of Fresno Central in last Saturday’s championship. The Monarchs also are the 2018 State Team of the Year, but it may be surprising to see […]
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
After another full week of games is wiped out in the CIF North Coast Section and a first week gets postponed in the Sac-Joaquin (all due to unhealthy levels of smoke in the air), playoff action throughout the state should return to normal this week with wet weather forecast to finally hit the region. In...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
The highest riser among this group of teams is Helix of La Mesa, which is living up to preseason acclaim in the playoffs after laying an egg in its last regular season game. The Highlanders jumped up this week to No. 38 from No. 50 after big win over Eastlake. Both Sierra Canyon and Grace...
State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard
With NorCal games getting postponed once again with very unhealthy air, there were games from the CIF Central Section south all the way to San Diego on Friday night. On Saturday, however, the CIF Central Coast Section playoffs (including state No. 10 St. Francis of Mountain View) were able to be played at locations out […]
NEW Girls VB State Top 20 Rankings
The 2018 CIF state championships are set for this weekend at Rancho Santiago College: Mater Dei vs. Central of Fresno for Open Division, Temecula Valley vs. Bishop O’Dowd for Division I and Village Christian vs. Los Altos for D2. There are additional state finals, but none of those squads are on the bubble for these […]
State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard
This post has been updated after Saturday games and includes additional postponements. It was hard not to be distracted by the difficult events throughout the state heading into the weekend, but most CIF section playoff games were played with some having to be postponed due to smoke in the Bay Area from the Camp Fire […]
NEW Girls VB State Top 20 Rankings
For this week’s rankings, we have waited to finish them after Wednesday’s first-round of the CIF NorCal and CIF SoCal Open Division regional playoffs. The CIF made two moves with this year’s Open Division regional brackets that we believe have been a long time coming: putting the CIF Central Section teams in the north and […]
CIF Bowl Boards 2 (North & South)
New teams being placed for various reasons this week are Central Catholic of Modesto, Palma of Salinas, Rio Linda, Paradise, Colfax, Denair, Christian of El Cajon and Eagle Rock. We also have several teams in higher divisions than before, including Tulare and Highland of Palmdale. Keep in mind that any team playing in a CIF...
NEW Girls VB State Top 20 Rankings
No. 1 Mater Dei and No. 3 Marymount are all set for the CIF Southern Section Division I championship, but as of Wednesday afternoon when these rankings were released No. 2 Torrey Pines and No. 5 Cathedral Catholic still had to win one more match to reach the CIF San Diego Section Open Division final. […]
