Category Archives: State Stat Stars
Prep Notes With A Twist
An Open Division or national championship for California teams in a few sports? And the CIF letting California teams compete in it? Yes, we say it’s time to consider exactly that. Unless you like one-sided state finals…..Latest state record file update is for single-game receiving and we already have four this season who’ve gotten five...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Two of this week’s selections are out to super-hot starts in the categories of touchdown passes and touchdown catches. For TD passes, Norco’s Shane Illingworth threw for seven TDs in one game for the second time already this season, while for TD catches Lane Thrap from St. Bernard’s of Eureka already has 12 for the […]
Prep Notes With A Twist
Honor Bowl needs to give the CIF Central Section a try…..NorCal Bowl Board for CIF already beginning to take shape and it really will after this weekend….Latest state record file update is for most points by a losing team….Plus, more of the top state stat stars. Note: This is a post for our Gold Club...
Multi-Star Mustang: Nate Rutchena
This story appears courtesy of our partners, SportStars Magazine. Visit SportStarsMag.com to view more of their NorCal football coverage, and be sure to check out their October issue later this month to view exclusive column from CalHiSports.com that won’t be available anywhere else. Monte Vista’s Rutchena is a multi-sport standout and starter on both sides […]
State Record Updates/Stat Stars
Extra time was spent this week working on all of our state football record lists for single game highs. Sparked by an eight-touchdown pass game from week one and then a massive outing by La Jolla Country Day’s E.J. Kreutzmann for week two, we’re completely done with the single game touchdown pass and passing yardage...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
As was the case for our first set of award winners last week we have more than one honoree who could have been classified as Multi-Purpose, but we don’t have that category for this feature so the players that shined in more ways than one had to find their spots and did. This week’s winners […]
Prep Notes With A Twist
We’re doing this feature for most weeks this season with a mix of topical comments on the leading issues in California high school sports, the best state stat stars of the previous week and state record updates. We start out with our thoughts about small, four-team playoff brackets at the top of some sections with...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
We get started for this feature for the 2019 football season once again selecting offensive, defensive and special teams players from two different regions of the state. The six we have come up for this week are from San Diego, Los Angeles, La Puente, Cottonwood, Danville and Bakersfield. We hope you enjoy this free story […]
All-State Baseball: First Team
Great players abound historically from all corners of California, which makes the annual selections for the Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball Teams that much more difficult. This year’s 38th annual edition of this elite 30-player team happens to include one from the CIF Northern Section and one from the CIF Oakland Section. We also have the […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
Pitchers getting strikeouts took center stage among the state’s stat star standouts from last week. For baseball, it was J.T. Smith of Denair putting himself into the Cal-Hi Sports state record book by notching 20 Ks in a perfect game. For softball, Templeton’s Ashley Daugherty joined an exclusive club by recording her 1,000th career strikeout...