Category Archives: CIF State Championships
State Coach of the Year: Russell White
Back for the 1986 football season, Encino Crespi’s Russell White was the Cal-Hi Sports Mr. Football State Player of the Year. Almost 30 years later, a different Russell White of Crespi is the State Coach of the Year in boys basketball. He’s also the school’s athletic director and is the first-ever State Coach of the […]
Girls BB: More State Coaches of Year
Congratulations to all of the Cal-Hi Sports State Coaches of the year for girls basketball. Two of the five for divisions played each other in the NorCal Open Division semifinals. Another also has been an assistant for a U.S. national team while another did a great job after his girls lost in a section semifinal.
All-State Boys BB Nominees (Part 1)
Postseason honors season is also beginning for boys hoops with the first step in our selection process for the annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state teams, which believe it not will be done for the 38th year in a row. A second updated list – which will be for Gold Club members – will be posted after […]
FINAL Boys BB Division State Ranks
Putting all of the CIF state champions in the No. 1 position is the easy part (but even that is arguable in one instance). For our final divisional state rankings, we also expand by at least five teams in all divisions. Among those moving up are Alemany of Mission Hills (D1), Archbishop Mitty (D2), Weston...
Saturday CIF Boys Finals
It’s a coronation for Chino Hills as the Lonzo Ball-led squad beats De La Salle to win the CIF Open Division state title and finish 35-0. The Huskies got pushed from the Spartans in the first half, but erase memories of last year’s D1 title game loss to San Ramon Valley. The other two winners […]
Saturday CIF Girls Finals
Open Division showdown won by state No. 2 Chaminade of West Hills over previously unbeaten No. 1 Miramonte of Orinda behind Leaonna Odom’s 33 points. The other two winners on the final day of high school games ever to be played at Sleep Train Arena in Sacramento are Cajon of San Bernardino (D2) and Cardinal […]
CIF Open Division Peerless Predictions
Here’s what to look for in Saturday night’s historic CIF Open Division boys and girls basketball championship games to be played at Sacramento’s Sleep Train Arena. It will be the final two high school games played in the building previously known as ARCO Arena. Perhaps the most people to ever see a game there was...
Thursday CIF Boys Finals
Crespi of Encino follows up last year’s Division IV state title by beating Berkeley in this year’s Division I championship. The other two winners on the day at Sleep Train Arena in Sacramento are Manteca (D3) and St. Joseph Notre Dame (D5). Pilots’ head coach Don Lippi also makes history by recording 800th career win. […]
Thursday CIF Girls Finals
Make it 10 CIF state titles for legendary program Brea Olinda after Ladycats claim Division I state title with win against St. Francis of Sacramento. The other two winners on the day at Sleep Train Arena in Sacramento are Sacred Heart Cathedral (D3) and Eastside College Prep (D5). Additional writeup (D3) by Cal-Hi Sports editor […]
