We are now at that point of the summer in which we are updating the all-time state football records that have been maintained exclusively by Cal-Hi Sports since the first list was compiled in the 1970s. We begin with team categories and one of them is the list of schools with the best all-time win-loss […]
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Website Updates For 2024-25
It’s been more than 10 years now since this website has been the home of Cal-Hi Sports, but our history of course goes back to the days of weekly newsletters that began during the 1979-80 school year. We’re not stopping any time soon, but there are some changes coming for the 2024-25 school year. Note: […]
Class of 26 FB: First Hot 100
Mater Dei wide receiver Chris Henry Jr. moves to the top of the state among this class after his transfer from Ohio. Another Monarchs’ transfer, offensive tackle Kodi Greene Jr., is not far behind. This class, however, is also about quarterbacks, led by two of the very best incoming juniors in the nation. FOR A...
All-State Baseball 2024: First Team
We conclude the release of our 42nd annual All-State Baseball Teams. State Team of the Year Corona has three on first team, but you’ll have to read the post to see which three (there’s also two on second team). We also got creative with a couple of the outfield positions instead of using even more […]
All-State Baseball: 2nd & 3rd Teams
In addition to first team overall, the 42nd edition of the Cal-Hi Sports All-State teams for baseball also has 35 more players here who have been selected second team. Any player from any school regardless of class or school size can be on first or second team. The third team, however, is only for seniors...
Girls BB: More Digging For Diamonds
The second of our annual Girls of Summer basketball features from longtime analyst Harold Abend focuses on two events in Orange County. While it’s impossible to see great players in one place these days with so many events at the same time, one of those seen that had to get a mention for this feature...
Baseball: All-State Medium, Small
The selections for the 42nd annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball Teams goes on and today it’s those from medium & small schools. It’s more confusing as ever as which is large, medium & small thanks to competitive equity based playoffs but we have been doing these teams for a long time. Both the small schools […]
Girls BB: Mining For Diamonds
After taking a few days off from being co-director of the massive Cali Live boys basketball event in Roseville, Harold Abend hits the road again for girls basketball during the NCAA July viewing period and the first of our Girls of Summer features focuses on some very exciting players, some of them who haven’t yet […]
Baseball: All-State Underclass 2024
It’s time to start releasing the various teams for the 42nd annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball honors. We begin with a new way of doing the all-state underclass teams and that’s doing the juniors and sophomores separately (just like football and basketball). We have a first and second team all-state for juniors and first team...
State School of the Year: Mater Dei
A massive fall season with three CIF state titles had Mater Dei of Santa Ana firmly in the lead to be California’s No. 1 school for the 2023-24 school year for outstanding overall athletic excellence. The Monarchs now collect that honor, which is their third in 11 years and seventh time they’ve been on top […]
