We were not able to get out to a Friday night game this week, and with many of the state’s top-ranked teams on first round section playoff byes, our focus became the plight of teams that were 10-0 in the regular season that did play in the CIF Southern Section, CIF L.A. City Section and...
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Boys BB Records Ready for 2024-25
All of the Cal-Hi Sports state records in boys basketball are updated and ready to go before teams begin playing games later this month to start the 2024-25 season. Here’s a recap of the new additions and a look at the career state scoring record currently held by Sacramento Sheldon’s DeMarcus Nelson. We hope you […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
This week’s order for the first 14 gets mixed up after Santa Margarita’s eye-opening 44-8 win over Servite of Anaheim. That forced the Eagles to come back up into the higher reaches of the first 25. Others getting boosts include Clovis East (up two), Murrieta Valley (up three) and St. Mary’s of Stockton (up three)....
State Football Players of the Week
This week’s six State Football Players of the Week didn’t give us any entries to track for the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book, which is one of the goals of this feature, but we did uncover some diamonds in the rough and some exceptional talent that garners statewide recognition to go with local kudos. This […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
There is just a flip-flop of the No. 4 and No. 5 teams this week between JSerra and Orange Lutheran, but the Trinity League still has five of the top six spots. And we asked St. John Bosco’s Jason Negro last Saturday how good he thought the league looks this season. The biggest mover of...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
This group begins with Clovis East of Clovis and includes several others getting strong bumps that are helping them close in on the top 25. That group includes Los Alamitos, Frontier of Bakersfield and Newbury Park. The highest ranked newcomer this week is now No. 39 Chaparral of Temecula. Other newcomers are Damien of La...
Preseason All-Long Beach/South Bay
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...
NEW State TOP 25 FB Rankings (1-25)
It will be No. 1 St. John Bosco facing No. 3 Serra of San Mateo in the CIF Open Division final on Saturday at Saddleback College. The rest of the top 10 this week has been reshuffled with the D1-AA regional results as De La Salle moved up following its win over Folsom and Lincoln...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
CIF section playoff pairings are out for most of the state and in the CIF Southern Section the No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 and No. 5 teams in these rankings also earned the top four seeds in Division I. This week’s rankings also sees rises for JSerra (SJ Capistrano) and Lincoln (San Diego). Plus,...
