Southern California’s Mission League opened up on Friday with not one but two big upsets (if you can call them that) as No. 11 Serra of Gardena fell to Loyola while No. 13 Alemany was stunned in the closing seconds by defending league champion Bishop Amat. State No. 2 St. John Bosco didn’t lose, but […]
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State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard
Preseason No. 3 De La Salle loses, but does so by 24-14 to a team that has been placed No. 1 in some national rankings. No. 2 St. John Bosco rolled on Saturday over one of top teams from East Coast. The other highest ranked team to lose was No. 10 Upland (on Thursday), so […]
More State Girls Athletes of the Year
When you go through all of the various sports in which girls from California high schools are all among the best in the nation and in some cases best in the world, there really is no place like it. This year’s choices to lead the juniors, sophomores, freshmen and those from each of five competitive […]
FB Preview: Eight Burning Questions
We’ll have more of our preseason all-section, all-area and all-county teams to come (Orange County already done) plus preseason Top 50 team rankings, preseason all-state and more, but here’s a general overview of the upcoming 2019 California high school football season. We also have done an early preseason top 10 that has been input into […]
Class of 2020 FB: Flowe To Top
Upland linebacker Justin Flowe will start the 2019 high school football season in California regarded as the state’s No. 1 college prospect. That’s because of his No. 1, No. 1 and No. 2 placements according to player rankings by the three major recruiting networks. He’s also now on top of the Cal-Hi Sports Hot 100...
Boys BB All-State Nominees Part 1
This is a milestone year for the Cal-Hi Sports All-State Teams in boys basketball since it marks the 40th one that we have done, beginning with the work of founder Nelson Tennis, continuing all these years with editor Mark Tennis and greatly enhanced in the last 15 years by associate editor Ronnie Flores. We now […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Scoring 24 points often isn’t enough to be a player of the week, but St. Mary’s of Stockton junior point guard Jamar Marshall did it when his team ended the state-record and national-best 194-game league win streak held by Modesto Christian. We talked with Jamar at school earlier this week about that game. He’s joined […]
NEW State Top 50 FB Rankings
Since this will be the next-to-last State Top 50 football rankings and we have a majority of teams listed as season complete, we’ll do this week’s feature in one post instead of two. Next week’s final State Top 50 will be two and with more extensive breakdowns of each team. For this week, the CIF...