It has only taken three games for Sydney “Bean” Douglas to make an impact as a 6-foot-6 freshman at Ontario Christian. The daughter of former Ms. Basketball State Player of the Year Maylana Martin and former NFL lineman Rome Douglas was the leading scorer for the Knights in their big win last week over preseason […]
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Ontario Christian tops Etiwanda
Preseason state No. 4 Knights take down No. 1 Etiwanda, 74-66, on Saturday night in Studio City to win Harvard-Westlake Invitational. First slate of games shows just how much of an impact incoming freshman Sydney “Bean” Douglas is going to have this season, especially paired with scoring phenom Kaleena Smith. We also had a big […]
Preseason Girls BB Ranks (1-15)
We continue to roll out our preseason winter basketball content on CalHiSports.com and we’re doing that today with our annual preseason girls basketball state rankings. Etiwanda has already won two straight CIF Open Division state titles and is loaded for a shot at number three. The Eagles don’t have to look far — about 15 […]
FINAL Softball State TOP 40 Ranks
Going through everything for one last ranking of the California 2024 softball season that will be the one that gets added to our all-time archives was fun, yet challenging. The first question was what to do with Amador Valley of Pleasanton, after its championship in the CIF NorCal D1 playoffs despite having 11 losses. We...
Gahr Had Own Story To Write In Final
With two outs and nobody on in the bottom of the seventh and trailing 4-3, the Gladiators staged a rally to beat California of Whittier, 5-4, in the CIF Southern Section D2 championship on Saturday. It spoiled what would have been a sentimental win of epic proportions for California, which has been led the past […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. More than lists and numbers, we can provide historical context since we’ve maintained state records in California for more than 40 years. For baseball this week, player of the year candidates T.P. Wentworth (Modesto Central Catholic) and Boston Bateman (Camarillo)...
All-State Girls BB 2024: First Team
CIF Open Division state champ Etiwanda, runner-up Archbishop Mitty and SoCal Open finalist Sierra Canyon all place two players each on this year’s top 10 group for the 45th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state girls basketball teams. That left only four spots for the rest of the state to get and one of those went to […]
Ms. Basketball 2024: Kennedy Smith
It’s now being called the quad and that’s being a state player of the year for California among freshmen, sophomores and juniors and then finishing it off by being named Ms. Basketball. Etiwanda’s Kennedy Smith has now completed the quad and has been selected as the Ms. Basketball for California girls hoops. She’ll now join […]
More Girls BB Players of the Year
Puff Morris & McKenna Woliczko are repeat winners at the top of their junior and sophomore classes while high-scoring phenom Kaleena Smith of Ontario Christian had to be on top among freshmen. Two of this year’s CIF divisional honorees are from the state title teams, but two were from regional championship runner-up squads. For official […]
State Coach of the Year: Anna Almeida
The highest girls hoops coaching honor in California, the one that now goes back 53 years, lands in the small town of Caruthers. It can be difficult to build a hugely successful program in a place like that, but it came together for 20-year head coach Anna Almeida with a CIF state title. She won […]
