This week’s order for the first 14 gets mixed up after Santa Margarita’s eye-opening 44-8 win over Servite of Anaheim. That forced the Eagles to come back up into the higher reaches of the first 25. Others getting boosts include Clovis East (up two), Murrieta Valley (up three) and St. Mary’s of Stockton (up three)....
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NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
For this group, the two teams that had to come way up from on the bubble to now be ranked in front of teams they just beat were Simi Valley and Oak Ridge of El Dorado Hills. Manteca also is a newcomer this week. Others getting bumps include San Juan Hills of SJ Capistrano, Grant...
What We Saw: Clovis East-Clovis North
Based on its 38-21 victory on Friday at Lamonica Stadium over defending CIF Central Section D1 champion Clovis North, thoughts of Clovis East doing the same for 2024 — including going 13-0 through the section playoffs — were impossible not to arise. The Timberwolves displayed a very effective short passing spread offense that could not […]
Medium/Small Schools State FB Ranks
Marin Catholic of Kentfield is the only new team ranked this week for either medium or small and jumps up high in preparation for its showdown game on Saturday against Cardinal Newman of Santa Rosa. Los Gatos, Soquel and Tustin are other medium schools ranked teams that have big games this week. Bishop’s of La...
State Football Players of the Week
Besides uncovering hidden talent as one of the goals of this feature, we track entries for the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book, and this week we have a bit of an anomaly or a twist as we like to call it. We have plenty of hidden talent in our six State Football Players of the […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
Mission Viejo does indeed move to No. 2 in place of St. John Bosco after its big loss to No. 1 Mater Dei, although that isn’t going to match computer rankings that will be used for the CIF Southern Section D1 playoffs. De La Salle also joins top five for the first time this season,...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
We have four newcomers this week, led by Leuzinger of Lawndale (which has been in there before). Two of the other three are from the city of La Verne — Damien and Bonita — while the fourth is Marin Catholic of Kentfield. The team Marin Catholic is hosting on Saturday, Cardinal Newman of Santa Rosa,...
Flag Special: OLu Wins In Playoffs
We don’t have the resources to cover girls flag football like we do the five main sports we cover for this web site, but we will do some feature stories and welcome any suggestions for how it can be done. On Saturday, our main girls basketball editor was in Orange County and offered to go […]
What We Saw: MD Romps Past Bosco
Paced by the most disruptive front seven on defense that perhaps no high school team has ever had and an offense that has been getting more dynamic every week since the start of the season, state and national No. 1 Mater Dei of Santa Ana turned its annual regular season showdown game against No. 2 […]
