This is the region of the CIF Southern Section dominated by national powerhouse St. John Bosco, but it also includes the South Bay where Serra of Gardena always has a lot of blue-chip recruits to get written up as well. The Braves almost have all skill positions on offense on this team except one running...
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All-State Baseball: Medium, Small
The 38th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball Teams continue with these players named from schools that were in CIF section playoffs during the 2019 season that made them medium or small school in class. CIF Sac-Joaquin Section D2 and D4 champions Oakmont of Roseville and Los Banos both check in with three players named on […]
State Coach of Year: Alicia Komaki
It’s a first in the 47 years of the Cal-Hi Sports State Coach of the Year honor as a former player of a previous State Coach of the Year has now captured the honor as well. This year’s choice, Alicia Komaki, of 33-1 CIF Open Division state champion Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth, once played for […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
Who will end up as the season passing yards leader and season rushing yards leader for the state this season? J.P. Andrade from Bonita of La Verne had a massive outing last week (498 yds passing) but others close behind are still playing while his team was eliminated. It looks like either Christian Hunter of...
Preseason Girls BB Ranks (16-40)
There ended up being 10 new teams that were not this high in the state rankings at the finish of the 2017-18 season. The CIF San Diego Section snagged four of the spots taken by newcomers. We don’t have a bubble list with this set of preseason rankings, but trust us that a lot of […]
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
We go over why we’re moving up Corona Centennial to No. 2 this week instead of dropping previous No. 1 Mater Dei down to No. 2 behind new No. 1 St. John Bosco. This also is a good week to give JSerra a bump to No. 6 before the Lions take a crack at the...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
It wasn’t playing in front of us that caused Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth to be raised from the bubble to No. 37 as the highest ranked newcomer on this week’s state rankings. It was beating previously ranked Bakersfield 31-7 and doing on the same night that Grace Brethren (also going into this week’s rankings) upset...
What We’ve Learned So Far 2018
Even though there are some teams that have played six games, this is the week we consider as the halfway point of the 2018 football season. Games that we’ve attended have been Folsom at De La Salle, the Honor Bowl at St. Francis of Mountain View (five games), Stockton St. Mary’s at Central Catholic (Modesto), […]
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
Vista Murrieta and Narbonne move up eight and 10 positions, respectively, after posting major triumphs against San Diego Madison and Serra of Gardena. We also have five other newcomers this week in addition to new No. 24 Villa Park, including Lawndale, Helix of La Mesa, Capistrano Valley, Bishop O’Dowd and California of San Ramon. For...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
We only dropped Orange Lutheran one spot for losing to No. 4 Corona Centennial in what was a tight game until midway in the fourth quarter. Centennial also may benefit later on in CIFSS D1 playoff seedings due to No. 1 Mater Dei now having a forfeit loss. The one team getting a strong boost...
