The 2018 CIF state championships are set for this weekend at Rancho Santiago College: Mater Dei vs. Central of Fresno for Open Division, Temecula Valley vs. Bishop O’Dowd for Division I and Village Christian vs. Los Altos for D2. There are additional state finals, but none of those squads are on the bubble for these […]
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NEW Girls VB State Top 20 Rankings
For this week’s rankings, we have waited to finish them after Wednesday’s first-round of the CIF NorCal and CIF SoCal Open Division regional playoffs. The CIF made two moves with this year’s Open Division regional brackets that we believe have been a long time coming: putting the CIF Central Section teams in the north and […]
NEW Girls VB State Top 20 Rankings
No. 1 Mater Dei and No. 3 Marymount are all set for the CIF Southern Section Division I championship, but as of Wednesday afternoon when these rankings were released No. 2 Torrey Pines and No. 5 Cathedral Catholic still had to win one more match to reach the CIF San Diego Section Open Division final. […]
NEW Girls VB State Top 20
We’re a day later than has been normal for these state rankings in order to account for Wednesday’s CIF Southern Section quarterfinals. There were no major upsets as No. 1 Mater Dei, No. 2 Redondo, No. 5 Marymount and No. 6 Sierra Canyon all advanced. We’ll also now start to look at some of Wednesday’s […]
NEW Girls VB State Top 20
Redondo wins its own tourney, but Mater Dei gets an avenging win over Marymount (sort of) and returns to the No. 1 ranking. Cathedral Catholic also wins SoCal Invitational and moves up to No. 4. In other moves, Vista Murrieta gets a jump into the top 10 for making tourney final and Santa Margarita of […]
NEW Girls VB State Top 20
This week’s rankings are altered with further consideration for teams being at full strength in some games and without key players in others, but we’ve never assumed certain teams are going to win games at full strength and we know that section and state playoffs will eventually answer all questions. Newcomers this week are Sierra […]
NEW Girls VB State Top 20
It’s even more complicated at the top of the state rankings following the Nike Tournament of Champions in Arizona as Marymount of Los Angeles wins the tourney title. The Sailors topped state No. 1 Mater Dei in the final, but they have six losses this season and are 0-2 vs. both Redondo and Torrey Pines. […]
NEW Girls VB State Top 20
On the eve of the hugely prestigious Durango Fall Classic in Las Vegas, two-time defending CIF Open Division champion Archbishop Mitty has to take a tumble in this week’s rankings after losing in three straight games to league rival Sacred Heart Cathedral on Tuesday night. The top seven teams in this week’s State Top 20 […]
NEW Girls VB State Top 20
Of course, we were going to wait until after No. 1 Mater Dei (Santa Ana) and No. 2 Redondo Union (Redondo Beach) played each other in Orange County on Wednesday night. The Monarchs won in four games to further solidify its status in California. Teams on the rise the most from the preseason are new […]
Valley Christian Caps It Off
The Warriors moved into the catbird’s seat to get their chance to be final state No. 1 in baseball due to a result from San Diego on Wednesday and they have now sealed the deal. Their heart-pounding triumph in the bottom of the seventh inning over Los Gatos in Friday’s CIF Central Coast Section Open […]
