We are once again going to take a tour of the state prior to the start of the 2023 football season through the selection of preseason football honor squads. We begin with Orange County of the CIF Southern Section where the most talent-laden team of returnees that we’ve ever seen in more than 40 years...
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NEW Softball State TOP 25 Rankings
This week’s rankings are posted after key Monday games, including previous No. 11 Moorpark losing its first game to Camarillo, but before Tuesday games, including No. 1 Los Alamitos playing No. 4 Huntington Beach. The top tournament winners are the Oilers (defeated previous No. 4 Oaks Christian at Best of the West in Santa Maria)...
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
It was a bad week for almost all top-ranked teams in Northern California, except one as Cardinal Newman of Santa Rosa won the Boras Classic for NorCal teams, improved to 14-0 and moved to No. 1 for the region. Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks goes back to No. 1 for the state and is one...
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
In one of those kind of baseball weeks in which most of the top teams takes a loss (some more than one), De La Salle of Concord moves back to the same position it ended in the final state rankings from 2022. Santa Margarita also surges up to second after its three-game sweep of Orange...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (26-50)
For the second straight week, we have five new teams going into our rankings of the state’s elite squads. The highest of those is Archbishop Mitty of San Jose. Also up are Granite Bay, Mission Hills of San Marcos, Upland and Downey. Teams on the move the most include Warren of Downey, Mater Dei Catholic...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (26-50)
For the first time this season, there are no new teams that were pulled up into these weekly rankings. That can happen with very few teams losing and many others on byes. Oak Hills of Hesperia and Citrus Valley of Redlands continued to move up after the two had big wins in their previous games....
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
Losing one game at the National High School Invitational does not drop Orange Lutheran from the No. 1 California ranking. There also were no changes this week until No. 8. Three teams all playing in this week’s NorCal part of the annual Boras Classic – Palo Alto, Cardinal Newman and Woodcreek – all got big...
2019-20 Grid-Hoop All-State Teams
To kick off our end-of-school year content of honoring the best multi-sport and overall athletes of the year, we begin with a look at the state’s 15 best football-basketball combo athletes on our 34th annual Cal-Hi Sports Grid-Hoop All-State team. Leading the group is Bakersfield Christian’s Ben Yurosek. We have even more listed as Grid-Hoop...
All-State FB 2019: 2nd & 3rd Teams
Releasing these teams on the same day as first team overall can tend to lessen the attention that these players receive, but we do it so people know right away which ones came the closest to first team. Still, these second team players are great in their own right and we know it’s almost a...
All-Decade Baseball: All-State Team
With the World Series tied at 2-2, we thought it became the perfect day to complete this presentation. California remains one of the world leaders in baseball and the decade of the 2010s provided more examples, especially with all of the No. 1 overall picks in the MLB Draft. For this All-Decade, All-State Team we...
