Valley Christian of San Jose, Vacaville and Eastlake of Chula Vista all completed championship seasons one week after the CIF Southern Section Division I playoffs were in the books. So what to do about that? Valley Christian went up one spot in the final rankings (No. 4), Vacaville stayed at No. 8 (but definitely could...
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MLB Draft: Six from state 1st round
Only one played during the 2019 high school season (the others were in college), but solid total of six players from the Golden State were chosen in the first round of Monday’s MLB Draft. We have the rundown on all six plus the next highest selections in the second round, including two from the same […]
Tough Loss in NorCal Boras Final
Bellarmine of San Jose pitcher Derrick Turner gives up one hit on a fly ball that should have been caught, but the Bells come up short in their attempt to win a third straight Boras Classic Northern California title. League rival Archbishop Mitty collected the 2-0 victory and will now face JSerra of San Juan […]
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
Teams on the rise include Liberty of Brentwood joining the top 10 for the first time in school history (and that’s a school that goes back a long time), Torrey Pines up to No. 12 and Buchanan of Clovis up to No. 20. We also only dropped JSerra one position after its loss to Mater...
State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard
Saturday games at the Honor Bowl in Mountain View sees impressive wins by No. 16 Serra of Gardena and No. 19 Liberty of Brentwood. On Friday, No. 1 Mater Dei shows national audience on ESPNU why not much has changed despite all of those gone from last season with a 42-0 road romp over national […]
Preseason Orange County FB Team
Mater Dei hasn’t always been this dominant, but now in the “transfer era” the football program has taken off and is clearly among the best in the nation, rivaling only St. John Bosco in California, and with no end in sight. The Monarchs start out 2018 with 11 players on this preseason 30-man All-Orange County...
Preseason Boys BB Ranks (Part 2)
It’s time to launch our winter basketball content on CalHiSports.com and we are doing it with a preseason Top 40 of the top boys teams from all across the state. This group is led by No. 16 JSerra and includes the rest of teams down to No. 40 Capital Christian of Sacramento, plus a list […]
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
Bosco stays close enough to Mater Dei and has enough big games coming up to remain No. 2 in the state behind No. 1 Monarchs. JSerra, meanwhile, has to go up to No. 6 from No. 10 heading into this week’s game against Mater Dei. We also have two new teams that have been added...
Preseason FB: Top 50 Teams (16-30)
This second group of elite teams leads off with Calabasas, which is continuing to build toward a CIF state title. We also had a hard time coming up with a team to start out highest in the CIF Central Coast Section, so we just stuck two of them in this group right next to each […]
Mr. Baseball 2017: It has to be Hagen
It was a situation of competing precedents in this year’s race for the state’s longest-running State Player of the Year honor for baseball, making it one of the most difficult decisions ever in perhaps the most talent-laden season ever for Southern California. In the end, local consensus carries Hagen Danner of Huntington Beach over the […]