Two new teams in this week’s medium schools top 15 are Soquel and Bonita of La Verne. Cardinal Newman of Santa Rosa also gets a two-spot bump. For small schools, there are no changes at all with the top three still shown as Bradshaw Christian, Carmel and Sonora. Bradshaw had a big win over another...
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Medium/Small Schools State FB Ranks
Any kind of rankings in any CIF section of the state broken up into any kind of divisions is going extinct like the dodo bird due to competitive equity playoff divisions. Not for us, however. We will continue to put the spotlight on schools that are medium or small based on a lot of our […]
Preseason All-CCS Football Team
Our next to last stop in our series of preseason all-section or all-area football teams covers the CIF Central Coast Section. It’s been the home of the top NorCal team for 2021, 2022 & 2023 from Serra (San Mateo). The Padres lost a tremendous senior class, which is shown by more players on this team...
2023-24 Grid-Hoop All-State Team
To continue our end-of-school year content of honoring the best multi-sport and overall athletes of the year (boys and girls), we take a deep look at the state’s 15 best football-basketball combo athletes on our 38th annual Cal-Hi Sports Grid-Hoop All-State team. Leading the 15-man group is player of the year Caden Pinnick from Del […]
All-State Baseball Nominees (NorCal)
We’re a little later than usual, but we’re now beginning the post-season honors process for all-state baseball. This will be the 42nd annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball Teams. State Coaches of the Year and State Players of the Year will be coming soon. We start the cycle with a first list of nominees on our […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Two of the selections this week came from nominations. Keep them coming because believe it or not there’s only a few more chances for a football player to get one of these honors before we switch to basketball. We also have another entry this week into the state record book. This week’s stops are in […]
All-State FB Medium/Small Watch Lists
With some teams slated to play actual spring 2021 football games as early as next week, we’re beginning our series of statewide preseason posts with this look at top players to watch from those schools classified as medium or small for our annual all-state honors. North Coast Section schools Marin Catholic and Cardinal Newman have […]
Boys BB: Divisional All-State 2020
This was year two of doing our traditional Cal-Hi Sports All-State Divisional Boys Basketball Teams with the CIF’s switch to competitive equity-based playoff divisions. These teams are based on the CIF state divisions (not sections) and in some cases we had to extrapolate where teams would have been placed for the CIF state playoffs to […]
Boys BB: Divisional State Rankings
Go through this post for updated outlooks and rankings for every CIF division plus we have as many state record updates that we could find in a limited amount of time from Thursday’s incredible 128-123 win in six overtimes by Damien of La Verne over Riverside Poly in the SoCal D1 quarterfinals. No. 1 teams […]
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...
