Category Archives: CIF State Championships
CIF Bowl teams collide: Folsom wins
Folsom and Clayton Valley of Concord, two teams which last played in the CIF state bowl games, went down to the wire in a Friday season opener. The host Bulldogs won 27-26 but it took a touchdown with 1:12 left and it was a far cry from last year’s monster routs.
SoCal: Every section champ predicted
Since every CIF section football champion in the state is going to get to play in a regional bowl game, we’re beginning our coverage of this year’s bowl games by choosing a winner of each section title in the state. Go inside for our predicted champions for the San Diego Section, Southern Section (all 13 […]
NorCal: Every section champ predicted
Since every CIF section football champion in the state is going to get to play in a regional bowl game, we’re beginning our coverage of this year’s bowl games by choosing a winner of each section title in the state. Go inside for our predicted champions in the CIF Central Coast Section, CIF North Coast […]
More State Schools of the Year
Football leads the way for another boys sports honor for De La Salle while it’s the same for volleyball and another girls selection for Archbishop Mitty. Other schools collecting overall sports excellence accolades include La Costa Canyon (D2), Campolindo of Moraga (D3), Sacred Heart Prep of Atherton (D4) and Capital Christian of Sacramento (D5). Ten […]
Oak Grove Football History Highlights
It was a horrible start for the first few seasons of Eagle football, but since the 1970s the San Jose school has been a consistent winner and has had some truly legendary teams, especially the one from 1978 that had a future NFL head coach at quarterback and a future NFL Super Bowl winning head […]
St. Bonaventure FB History Highlights
The first school to win back-to-back CIF state bowl game titles was not De La Salle, but this one. The Ventura County program also has had the second winningest decade (not counting forfeits) in state history for its phenomenal success from 2000 to 2009 and that doesn’t even include a 14-0 season in 1999. The […]
All-State Girls BB: Best of Best
In a week that began with the 37th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state elite boys basketball teams, it is ending with our salute to the 35th annual all-state elite girls squads. These are the teams selected regardless of CIF division or year in school. Every player is written up and profiled. It’s a group with 22 […]
All-State Boys BB: By Divisions
After the underclass picks, up next in our parade of 2014-15 all-state boys basketball honors is our breakdown of honorees for each CIF division, although the Open Division is not considered separately. CIF Open Division champ Bishop O’Dowd gets three onto the Division III team while runner-up Mater Dei gets three in Division I and […]
All-State Girls BB Nominees (Part 2)
It’s getting down to the nitty, gritty toward selection of the 35th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state teams in girls basketball. This is a second, updated and final list of nominees currently on the board. It’s never too late to send in a nomination, but it does require a Gold Club membership to check out this...