Category Archives: State Record Book
NBA Finals Alums: Point Guard Special
The greatest point guard ever from a Northern California high school will be in the head coaching chair for one team in this year’s NBA Finals while the other team will be partially led by one of the greatest point guards ever from a Southern California high school. There’s only one other player on the […]
More Baseball State Teams of the Year
State Team of the Year honors for the 2024 baseball season already were handed out to Corona High on May 26 since the Panthers had opted out of the CIF SoCal regional playoffs after winning the CIF Southern Section D1 title. Here now would be other teams that can say they are mythical state champions […]
Pacifica: State Softball Team of Year
Twenty years almost to the day when Pacifica of Garden Grove repeated as State Team of the Year in California high school softball, the Mariners earn the selection for the 2024 season. This also is the school’s fourth all-time No. 1 finish, which is now tied for the state lead in that category as well. […]
More Softball State Teams of Year
In addition to overall final No. 1 and Division 1 No. 1 Pacifica of Garden Grove, others that can say they are mythical state champions for 2024 are Gahr of Cerritos (D2), Capital Christian of Sacramento (D3), Sutter (D4) and Big Valley Christian of Modesto (D5).
Corona: Baseball State Team of Year
We’re not going to wait around too long to go ahead and get out the inevitable after the CIF Southern Section Division I title was decided last Saturday and that’s to name Corona as the 2024 State Team of the Year. The Panthers are the first team from the Inland Empire to finish No. 1 […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
With the baseball and softball seasons in the home stretch, and with so few teams still in action, in years past we sometimes had to dig deep to find the kind of outstanding performances that could qualify for a statewide player of the week award, let alone find a potential entry for the Cal-Hi Sports […]
Pacifica Repeats As CIFSS Champion
Whether they play on in the CIF SoCal regionals is for another day, so for now we’ll recap a major milestone accomplishment for the Pacifica of Garden Grove softball team. The Mariners’ win on Friday over Orange Lutheran in the CIF Southern Section D1 title game capped a great season and at the minimum puts […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. More than lists and numbers, we can provide historical context since we’ve maintained state records in California for more than 40 years. For baseball this week, we have 19 strikeouts for Zach Menlove of Monrovia for a school record, four...
All-State Girls BB 2024: First Team
CIF Open Division state champ Etiwanda, runner-up Archbishop Mitty and SoCal Open finalist Sierra Canyon all place two players each on this year’s top 10 group for the 45th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state girls basketball teams. That left only four spots for the rest of the state to get and one of those went to […]
All-State Girls BB 2024: 2nd & 3rd Tms
This is where to stop to see all of the writeups for those who have been selected second team overall and third team overall on the 45th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Girls Basketball Teams. Of the 20 players selected for the Elite Second and Elite Third teams, there are nine juniors, two sophomores and another...
