Here’s the third 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 all from the massive CIF Southern Section. Believe it or not, but we’ve reached 40 years since Cal-Hi Sports founder Nelson Tennis (1936-2004) sat down and […]
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State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard
Many of the state’s best teams had the week off with first-round byes or open dates in CIF sectional playoffs. The major exception, of course, was in the Southern Section where even some top-seeded squads had playoff tests right out of the gate. State No. 1 St. John Bosco wasn’t one of them. The highest […]
Bryce Young 16-for-16 in the book
There seems to be many wondering about a 16-for-16 passing performance and where it might rank in the record books. That outing was turned in last Friday for state No. 1 Mater Dei of Santa Ana by junior quarterback Bryce Young when the Monarchs rolled past visiting St. Mary’s of Stockton 56-0. Yes, we do […]
State School of Year: Mater Dei
The Monarchs built up a huge lead with their success in fall sports, led by football going 15-0 and ending No. 1 in the nation, and they did more than enough for the rest of the year to hold off Buchanan of Clovis and the school that earned this honor for two of the previous […]
FINAL Baseball State Division Ranks
Final No. 1 teams already were announced for D1 (San Jose Valley Christian), D2 (Alameda), D3 (Maranatha of Pasadena), D4 (Winters) and D5 (Pasadena Poly). Now, here’s the final rankings for each of those divisions with expanded top fives for each division plus a list of teams to watch in each division for 2019 season....
Cal 3: High school sports implications
It was announced this week that California voters will make their opinion known this November about a proposal to split the state into three separate states. While the prospects of this happening require Congressional approval and seems extremely unlikely and it’s doubtful that anyone in the California Interscholastic Federation has spent much time worrying about […]
NEW Softball State Division Ranks
For this week, we are doing the next-to-last divisional state rankings in softball BEFORE the Tuesday section playoff games and will be doing baseball AFTER those contests. There just aren’t that many games left in softball compared to baseball with all sections done except the Southern and North Coast. Top-ranked teams entering the final week...
NEW Softball State Top 20
It’s wacko Tuesday in the CIF Southern Section Division I playoffs since two teams that have been near the very top of the state and national rankings all season — Los Alamitos and Orange Lutheran — both were eliminated in upsets. Nothing is that stunning in that bracket, but of course causes a lot of...
First Look: State Softball Div. Ranks
Apologies for not getting these out earlier, but the season is still going and we have put teams in position to claim mythical state championships in addition to winning section titles. These five-division state rankings in softball also have a long tradition that dates back more than 30 years. Some tough decisions had to be […]
More State Football Coaches of Year
Here are the choices from among those schools considered medium-size and small for the 2017 season. Our medium schools honoree is more known for his work at small schools, but since his team this year was in the CIF D2-A state final we can pick him for medium. Our small schools honoree has done an […]
