This week’s twist is that both of our Southern California honorees are from schools that have Lions as their mascot. This week’s winners also are all still in action in the playoffs (but only one on Tuesday night) and are from Santa Rosa and Fresno in Northern California plus Los Angeles and Westlake Village in […]
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NEW State Top 25 Boys BB Rankings
After one round of games in the CIF Southern Section open pool play format, we still don’t have solid evidence based on the game results that, outside of NorCal No. 1 Sheldon, any of the state’s other top playoff teams should be ranked ahead of those eight. That could change starting next week, however, as...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Every so often we remind readers that this feature helps us not only award outstanding performances, but uncover diamonds in the rough and entries for the Cal-Hi Sports Record Book. This week, we have one of those with Isabel Avalos from Buena Park. She joins a group that also represents Carlsbad in Southern California, and […]
NEW State Top 25 Boys BB Rankings
The playoffs are about to tip off in the massive CIF Southern Section with most of the attention centered on the open division, which has a pool play format for the second consecutive year. Make sure to join the Gold Club to see what other team besides NorCal No. 1 Sheldon joins the eight pool...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
We have four solid performances from last week but added on to what they’ve done earlier in the season gets these four over the top. This includes the scoring leaders for girls from the CIF Central Section and the CIF San Diego Section. This week’s winners also are from the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section and CIF […]
NEW State Top 25 Boys BB Rankings
The basketball world is trying to get back to normal after the death of Kobe Bryant, and perhaps the upcoming post-season high school playoffs will help fans get their minds off the tragic accident. The top four teams in the state remain the same, but the middle of the pack has movement as teams look...
Boys & Girls BB State Stat Stars
There’s been several monstrous outings to get details about from the last two weeks, so here they are. On the boys side, we had 53 points from Sanger’s Luke Dillon, 50 from San Ysidro’s Jurian Dixon (that school’s “other” freshman), and 47 from Carmel’s J.T. Byrne. For the girls, how about 50 from freshman phenom...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
There were no state record book entries this week but we found some diamonds in the rough and some budding young stars in our four winners, and that’s part of what this feature is all about. We start out in the island city of Coronado just across the bay from San Diego, and then head […]
NEW State Top 25 Boys BB Rankings
All other basketball news seems secondary as California and the world mourns the death of Kobe Bryant, but the former Lakers’ star would want the high school games to go on and our rankings as well. We move on into another week. We have a new team in the top five, as NorCal No. 1...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
It’s a valley-style edition of this weekly feature as we hit four separate valleys to find our four honorees, beginning with the San Fernando Valley, then the Sacramento Valley, followed by the San Gabriel Valley and finishing up in the Santa Clara Valley. We also have three guards and one post player getting the nods. […]
