This is the week we vent our distaste for the current situation in some section playoffs that shouldn’t be doing Open Divisions, but after this week the routs will be behind us for the most part as the teams that are supposed to be in the top divisions of CIF Southern and Northern Regional playoffs...
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State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. We actually have a couple of them this week for the first time from baseball & softball, including a season-opening perfect game in baseball plus a coach winning his 500th game in softball. There’s still more from boys & girls...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
As the funnel narrows for teams still playing, our choices for winners in this feature becomes a little more difficult and also at this point of the season we don’t want to pick a player who may have lost in a season-ending game from the night before. That said, we do have four honorees this […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
The rest of the state will be joining the CIF Southern Section as playoffs begin this week for the other nine sections. Speaking of the Southern Section, first round play in the Open Division didn’t produce any upsets but the two Pool A games were closer than expected. This week’s two newcomers are Oak Ridge...
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. For the girls, congrats are in order for Harvard-Westlake head coach Melissa Hearlihy for becoming just the second in state history to win 800 career games. We also have girls with 43 pts & 30 rebounds in one game and...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
As the basketball season is about to hit the section playoffs throughout the state, for our Southern California honorees we visit Escondido in the North County portion of the CIF San Diego Section and Newport Beach in Southern Orange County. In the north, there’s a player from a team that was undefeated in Visalia until […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
The playoffs begin in the CIF Southern Section and with a couple of exceptions the seedings of the Open Division look more like these rankings than they ever did in any of the previous polls the CIFSS releases each week. With league play wrapping up and limited non-league action last week throughout the state, there...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
In the last rankings, the top team nearly got toppled but it didn’t quite happen, and there was no movement in the first 12 spots. This week it’s much different. Etiwanda, La Jolla Country Day and Sierra Canyon are still 1-2-3, but upsets up north (and Monday night in Orange County) have caused big moves....
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. We’ve got two weeks of writeups this time and includes outings of 51, 49, 47 and 45 points for the boys with 50, 44 and 40 for the girls. We’ve also got details on a 43.7 ppg girls scorer who...
