Since there were no teams that lost last week and not much to change, we begin this week’s rankings with a more detailed explanation of the new CIF Southern Section Open Division playoffs being conducted through a pool play format. State No. 1 Sierra Canyon leads the pack in those playoffs. No. 2 Archbishop Mitty...
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Fantag Games: Colfax girls, Vanden boys triumphant
Click on the link after each game recap to see video highlights from each of these two Fantag Games of the Week. For this fifth week, we have recaps and video highlights from the Colfax girls winning in a crucial Pioneer Valley League matchup plus the Vanden of Fairfield boys knotting up the Monticello Empire […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
Jarod Lucas’ chase for the CIF Southern Section (and fourth spot in state history) career scoring record continued on Tuesday night, but there was additional attention among prep basketball scribes in Southern California directed toward Joel Pastrana from small school Calvary Baptist of La Verne, who set a reported state record by making 23 three-pointers...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Jazlen “Jazzy” Green gets into groove for 39 points and goes nice and smooth with 16 of 16 on free throws in an effort for Lakeside of Lake Elsinore that helps her collect SoCal Player of the Week selection. This week’s other players getting the nod are from Ripon, Palo Alto and San Diego. We […]
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Rankings
There is no change in the top two spots this week and barring an upset of Sierra Canyon in an early round of pool play in the newly formatted CIF Southern Section Open Division playoffs or of Archbishop Mitty in its remaining four West Catholic Athletic League games there shouldn’t be a change for at...
Fantag Games: Union Mine girls, Folsom boys, Bear Creek girls win
Click on the link after each game recap to see video highlights from each of these three Fantag Games of the Week. For this fourth week, we have recaps and video highlights from two huge league games (Sierra Valley Conference girls, Sierra Foothill League boys) plus a non-league matchup between two of the leading girls […]
Fantag Games of the Week No. 5
As the regular season draws to a close, there will be two more sets of games to feature for fans around the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section to get introduced to the Fantag app. We’re looking for outstanding teams and players we’ve yet to check out and this week it will be the Pioneer Valley League for […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
For the first time in this honors’ program history, we’ve chosen two players from great games played on a Saturday who then had their teams play against each other on a Monday. That can only happen on MLK weekend. For the boys, we were more normal going with hair-raising scoring outputs from players representing regions […]
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Rankings
With so many top teams in action against each other last week or over the MLK weekend playing top-notch competition, it was thought there could be a shakeup for this week’s rankings, and there is, with the biggest change being for the third straight week there is a new leader at the top of the...
Fantag Games of the Week No. 4
It can be argued that the Folsom boys and Bear Creek girls of Stockton should be considered the top-ranked teams in the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section heading into the fourth weekend of January. Both teams will be featured in our next group of contests as Cal-Hi Sports Fantag Games of the Week. The first game this […]