After previous No. 1 Harvard-Westlake gets stunned in first CIF Southern Section Division I playoff game, new No. 1 comes down to Eastlake of Chula Vista and Valley Christian of San Jose. If both teams win out, that will continue to be a tough call but for this week it’s Eastlake. New State Top 20...
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NEW Softball State Top 20
Loss by previous No. 2 Gahr not only screws up the CIF Southern Section Division I seedings, but also drops down the Gladiators in this week’s State Top 20. The other big move was to elevate Foothill of Pleasanton back up to No. 11 after it beat previous No. 11 Amador Valley behind ace pitcher...
NEW Baseball State Top 20
Bizarro world situations continue to emerge for this year’s rankings as Bellarmine of San Jose (which has six league losses) wins the Boras Classic state championship while a San Mateo Serra team that is the round-robin co-champion of that same league drops a pair of non-league games. It’s still calm at the top, however, as...
NEW Baseball State Top 20
A different team from the West Catholic Athletic League now joins No. 1 Valley Christian of San Jose in the top five. We also have four newcomers led by new No. 13 De La Salle of Concord, which beat previous No. 3 Foothill of Pleasanton last Friday. Also going in this week are Rancho Bernardo...
NEW Girls BB State Top 20
The lone newcomer this week wasn’t even at .500 until this week but we kept them on the bubble and now Sacred Heart Cathedral of San Francisco is playing for all the marbles in Division I. With two nationally-ranked teams going down in the NorCal Open division, including the nation’s top team, meant a fairly...
NEW Girls BB State Top 20
We do and always have done the Cal-Hi Sports state rankings (more than 35 years) independent to whatever seemingly yearly changing system the CIF uses to do its regional playoff seedings. After seeing some of the placements this time, one can only hope they will get the kinks out of a system that needs fixing....
NEW Boys BB State Top 20
The various section championships around the state brought two newcomers to this week’s State Top 20, including a San Joaquin Memorial team that didn’t know if it was going North or South for the regional brackets. With the NorCal and SoCal regional brackets released on Sunday, we see that all but two of the 16...
NEW Girls BB State Top 20
There were no major upsets among the top teams going into this week’s semifinals and finals of the CIF section playoffs with ranked teams, but there was a State Top 20 team that lost in the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section. The injury bug also has bitten and at this stage of the season that can change...
NEW Boys BB State Top 20
We finally hit the week where the tougher competition in the playoffs causes some major changes in our weekly State Top 20, including at the very top. With Bishop Montgomery going down in the CIFSS Open Division playoffs, read on to see why Salesian of Richmond gets the nod as the new No. 1 in...
NEW Girls BB State Top 20
With this week’s playoffs now going on in all sections of the state and for all teams in the state rankings, it’s hard to believe the CIF Southern Section Open Division is already down to just four teams in the hunt for the championship. Including the four teams that lost in last Saturday’s quarterfinals, all...
