Despite our wholehearted support of the state CIF and the difficulty of seeding so many teams in so many divisions with competitive equity looking over the shoulders of the seeding committees, we can’t help but think a different format may be needed for the Open Division going forward. Are five or six teams (and in...
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Final All-State Noms (Central, LA, SD)
Thanks to all of the input from many coaches, parents and fans, here is an updated list of players from the CIF Central Section, CIF L.A. City Section and CIF San Diego Section from the first list. We’re now days away from picking the 41st annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams. It’s still not too...
Friday CIF State Finals
Central of Fresno & Clayton Valley of Concord capture CIF state football titles on Friday night at Cerritos College. It’s the first title for both and the first one for a Fresno school in Division 1 or higher after the Grizzlies bounced Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth in the D1-AA final. Clayton Valley came through on […]
Clovis West boys/girls CIF split?
From the bizarro world of CIF state playoffs, competitive equity seeding and Open Divisions comes this very real possibility: one prominent school in which its boys basketball team is competing in Northern California while its girls team is in Southern California. The school we’re talking about is Clovis West of Fresno, which is the top […]
Updated All-State FB Noms (Part 2)
These are updated nominations lists from the CIF Central Section, CIF L.A. City Section and the CIF San Diego Section that we will be using for selection of the 40th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams. First of these teams to be announced on Friday. New photos have been added as well. It’s still not...
More All-State FB Nominees (Part 1)
Here’s the second group of players who have been placed on our board of nominees toward selection of the 40th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams. These players are from the CIF Central Section, CIF L.A. City Section and CIF San Diego Section. Believe it or not, but we’ve reached 40 years since Cal-Hi Sports […]
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
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 Softball State Top 20
While there could be a team from the CIF Southern Section with a solid No. 1 argument next week, this week it has to be San Marcos going up to the top of the state after its showdown win over previous No. 1 Cathedral Catholic of San Diego last Saturday. Read on to see why...
