After hitting the CIF Central Section, the next stop in our annual tour of the state through the selection of preseason football honor squads is the area of the CIF Southern Section that contains schools in the Long Beach/South Bay region. It’s also the home of national power St. John Bosco, not to mention Long...
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NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
Teams playing each other this weekend now all placed in this range of our overall state rankings include St. Bonaventure vs Warren, La Serna vs Corona del Mar, Los Gatos vs Wilcox and Mission Hills vs St. Augustine. McClymonds of Oakland also returns despite having to take a forfeit win in its section playoffs. FOR...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
In a complete difference from the first 25, these next set of rankings are filled with newcomers (eight in all) and other teams making big upward moves. The highest incoming new teams are led by Murrieta Valley, Villa Park and San Juan Hills. All three have been featured before. We also have Sanger, Clovis and...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
There are two newcomers and one of them will be playing on Friday night at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood. The other didn’t just go into the top 50, but went in with a big jump into the top 40. We also have a big jump for Vista Murrieta after its win over Chaparral with more...
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. This week’s edition covers the last two weeks for baseball and softball. In baseball, no-hitters were abundant, including one from a UCLA commit and another from an Oregon commit. In softball, two girls will be gaining entries into the state...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
Mater Dei & St. John Bosco just one game and two weeks away from their Oct. 7 showdown at the Santa Ana Bowl. Folsom rejoins top five, Chaminade of West Hills moves into top 10, Orange Lutheran goes back to top 15 and both Lincoln (San Diego) and Warren (Downey) are now in top 25....
Preseason All-Long Beach/South Bay
In the carving up of the massive CIF Southern Section into different sections for this tour of the state through various preseason all-county, all-area and all-section football teams, this is the one that combines the Long Beach area and the South Bay. In other words, national powerhouse St. John Bosco’s region. Serra of Gardena and...
Warren (Downey) FB History Highlights
There was only one really good team at Warren of Downey going from its first season in 1956 until just the last two seasons (both in 2021). The Bears really struggled in the early 2010s, but have turned it around under head coaches Raul Lara and Kevin Pearson. Go inside for a snapshot look at […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
As was the case for our first set of award winners last week we have more than one honoree who could have been classified as Multi-Purpose, but we don’t have that category for this feature so the players that shined in more ways than one had to find their spots and did. This week’s winners […]
