The six finalists for Ms. Basketball State Player of the Year are joined by 24 others on the 40th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State teams regardless of CIF division or class. This year’s first team has six seniors, three juniors and a lone sophomore. Two are from the same team. For the all-time archive of every […]
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State Stat Stars of the Week
This week we begin to shift some of our regular features toward baseball and softball and begin with a no-hitter in baseball plus a softball pitcher with two straight perfect games. In boys hoops, we’ve got monstrous outings from some of the most dynamic players in the state, including Boogie Ellis, Josh Christopher, Jalen Green...
Girls BB: Pinewood keeps climbing
Los Altos Hills school wins Platinum Division at the West Coast Jamboree with a slug-it-out victory over Salesian of Richmond in title game matchup of two state top 10 squads. The elite division at one of the state’s top tournaments also concluded on Saturday with state No. 9 Carondelet of Concord taking third-place and with […]
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Ranks
We could have shaken things up even more from the preseason top five and while there is a change in that group the real changes are after that and particularly in the second 10 where it seems like teams not expected to lose have tanked and the who-beat-whom syndrome dropped a lot of teams from […]
NEW Girls BB State Top 20
Some teams began league play last week while others had non-league games but eight teams in the rankings, including No. 1 and No. 2, were in action in the nine-game Elite Is Earned Showcase put on by noted girls basketball analyst Chris Hansen last Saturday at Orinda Miramonte. Also, with the beginning of 2018, and...
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Rankings
With new No. 7 Carondelet of Concord seemingly coming in out of nowhere after toppling St. Mary’s in Stockton, that only reinforces the fact that teams like Clovis West and Mitty, and in many respects Long Beach Poly, seem to be far and away better than teams below them. At least right now in the...
Girls of Summer: Early viewing recap
(This is part 2 of a two-part recap) After Part I focused on what happened at two big events in Southern California, Part II goes in-depth about what happened to top NorCal club teams at events in Oregon and Chicago, including Cal Stars Nike Elite taking top honors at the End of the Trail tourney […]