After losing in the CIF Open Division state final last year, Mater Dei of Santa Ana completes its quest to get the job done this time with easy 3-0 sweep of Fresno Central in last Saturday’s championship. The Monarchs also are the 2018 State Team of the Year, but it may be surprising to see […]
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NEW Girls VB State Top 20 Rankings
The 2018 CIF state championships are set for this weekend at Rancho Santiago College: Mater Dei vs. Central of Fresno for Open Division, Temecula Valley vs. Bishop O’Dowd for Division I and Village Christian vs. Los Altos for D2. There are additional state finals, but none of those squads are on the bubble for these […]
NEW Girls VB State Top 20 Rankings
For this week’s rankings, we have waited to finish them after Wednesday’s first-round of the CIF NorCal and CIF SoCal Open Division regional playoffs. The CIF made two moves with this year’s Open Division regional brackets that we believe have been a long time coming: putting the CIF Central Section teams in the north and […]
CIF breakthrough in girls vb pairings
For years, we’ve been putting teams from the CIF Central Section in the north for our state rankings but that hasn’t been the case for the California Interscholastic Federation, which has quite often put Central Section teams in the south. And with the CIF Southern Section’s use of competitive equity playoff divisions, we also have […]
NEW Girls VB State Top 20 Rankings
No. 1 Mater Dei and No. 3 Marymount are all set for the CIF Southern Section Division I championship, but as of Wednesday afternoon when these rankings were released No. 2 Torrey Pines and No. 5 Cathedral Catholic still had to win one more match to reach the CIF San Diego Section Open Division final. […]
NEW Girls VB State Top 20
We’re a day later than has been normal for these state rankings in order to account for Wednesday’s CIF Southern Section quarterfinals. There were no major upsets as No. 1 Mater Dei, No. 2 Redondo, No. 5 Marymount and No. 6 Sierra Canyon all advanced. We’ll also now start to look at some of Wednesday’s […]
NEW Girls VB State Top 20
Playoffs are already underway in the CIF Southern Section where the top four seeds in Division I are No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 and now No. 6 in the state. Changes for this week’s rankings mainly come from previous No. 6 Central of Fresno losing to Buchanan of Clovis in its league plus new […]
Girls VB: Marin Catholic has youth
It was not anywhere near the best effort of Marin Catholic this season, but its top player, 6-foot-6 Loyola-Marymount-committed junior outside hitter Kari Geissberger, was a bit under the weather, and head coach Jake Spain was looking to a grueling four-game Stockton Classic on Saturday and was hoping to rest her and his other stars.
NEW Girls VB State Top 20
Redondo wins its own tourney, but Mater Dei gets an avenging win over Marymount (sort of) and returns to the No. 1 ranking. Cathedral Catholic also wins SoCal Invitational and moves up to No. 4. In other moves, Vista Murrieta gets a jump into the top 10 for making tourney final and Santa Margarita of […]
NEW Girls VB State Top 20
This week’s rankings are altered with further consideration for teams being at full strength in some games and without key players in others, but we’ve never assumed certain teams are going to win games at full strength and we know that section and state playoffs will eventually answer all questions. Newcomers this week are Sierra […]
