Here’s some record updates and highlights of top players & teams from the recent week as reported to us from CIF Central Section historian Bob Barnett of Fresno. Bob has done phenomenal work on behalf of CIF Central Section schools, athletes and coaches for more than 40 years.
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More State Boys Athletes of the Year
Among others being selected for top state honors is one of the most dominating wrestlers in the nation — Seth Nevills of Clovis (juniors) and one of the best distance runners in the last 20 years — Cooper Teare of Alameda St. Joseph Notre Dame (Division IV). And when learning of his background, how could […]
More State Schools of the Year
Snakebit School of the Year had to be Mater Dei of Santa Ana because with just a couple of wins in big games at the end in a couple of sports and the Monarchs would have been tops in the overall quite easily. They’re still getting recognition as Division I State School of the Year. […]
Updated All-State Baseball Nominees
Nearly 100 more names have been put on the list since the first one went out plus additional other fixes have been done. We’re now switching into selection mode for the various Cal-Hi Sports all-state teams, which for baseball will mark the 36th year of the honors. It’s never too late to send in a...
Softball Coach of the Year: Mike Noel
We don’t often go for someone from the same CIF section for two years in a row for one of our highest honors, but decided to do it this time with Clovis High’s Mike Noel following Madera’s Judy Shaubach as State Coach of the Year in softball. Noel guided the Cougars to their second CIF […]
All-State Softball Nominees (Part 1)
Now that all of the final team rankings are done, it’s time for us to work toward selection of the 35th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state softball teams. The first step is this post of all-state nominees from every CIF section. If someone is missing, don’t get mad, just let us know. There will be an […]
What If CIF State Baseball Playoffs?
Just like softball, there’s also been talk about the future addition of CIF state playoffs in baseball. We went through all of the teams in our final divisional state baseball rankings and came up with a proposed format with an Open Division and then six divisions after that. We set up brackets for each division...
Super 8 Baseball State Ranks Update
Going up from the lower half of last week’s State Top 20 into the top half of this week’s rankings are Bellarmine, Clovis, Glendora and Gregori. And oh by the way, there’s a new No. 1 with Huntington Beach. NOTE: Our updated State Top 20 with lists of many other teams on the bubble will […]
