Category Archives: girls basketball
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
The mess created with almost a dozen ranked teams in action on MLK Day that caused a delay in the rankings being released has been cleaned up but the who-beat-who syndrome continues with inconsistencies and a high number of knee injuries also impacting the pecking order as well. The first 12 spots didn’t change from...
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. The biggest news was senior guard Dejah Saldivar of Ontario Christian setting a new girls hoops state record by making 17 three-pointers in one game plus head coach Dave Kleckner in boys hoops becoming the 22nd in state history to...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
It turns out that both of the girls featured for this week had performances that were seen in person by Cal-Hi Sports, although we cheated a bit for one of them since there was a Tuesday game from this week involved. In the end, the four honorees represent El Dorado County, Sonoma County in the […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
Scrambling to get state rankings done after the MLK weekend has always been a challenge, and in fact there were a slew of games on MLK Day on Monday that were impactful. The CIF Southern Section did pick up a couple of teams by snagging this week’s two of this week’s newcomers, both from Los...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
League play is either starting this week or in full swing around the state but the top teams still have some showcase games left. Some have questioned why there are not more teams from the CIF Southern Section in the rankings and so many from Northern California. The answer is competitive equity. The CIFSS teams...
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. For girls hoops this week, Ontario Christian’s Chloe Briggs leads the pack by becoming the 16th player in state history to reach 3,000 points in her career. Two of the girls written up, Sierra Maxwell from Heritage of Menifee and...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Our stops this week are in Hanford and Brentwood in Northern California, and Temecula and Ventura in Southern California. The two boys’ honorees also have rhyming last names, but by pointing that out we hope they don’t care. For the girls, we have a UCLA-bound senior and a freshman who obviously hopes to get similar […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
This second set of regular season rankings takes us through the holidays and the major tournaments before league action begins. There was no change in the first eight spots but after that we had some pretty significant movement with only one team out of the next 15 holding onto the same spot they held in...
