All-State football teams from Cal-Hi Sports have now been extended back to the 1950 season with the 1950s teams just added based on research. Earlier this year, we added the 1970s and 1960s. Similar to the newer decades and the teams we’ve picked in real time since 1979-80, many of the players are future NFL […]
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All-State Baseball Nominees (NorCal)
We’re a little later than usual, but we’re now beginning the post-season honors process for all-state baseball. This will be the 42nd annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball Teams. State Coaches of the Year and State Players of the Year will be coming soon. We start the cycle with a first list of nominees on our […]
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. Home runs in softball takes the lead this week as we have confirmed a state record tying four...
All-State Baseball: Underclass
This is the first of four posts announcing the 41st annual edition of the Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball Teams (without one year due to COVID). This is the one for the best of the best among juniors, sophomores and freshmen. It also can help serve as a barometer about which teams may be near the...
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. We are definitely getting into some uncharted waters for the Ganesha of Pomona baseball & softball teams (both undefeated). Go inside to see if any school has finished unbeaten in both. In softball, we also have final career totals for...
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. For baseball, Fowler head coach Bill Feaver wins 500th game, alma mater of Aaron Judge has started 10-0 with leadoff hitter well over .500 and we detail the bad karma/good karma pair of games for Lodi’s Andrew Wright. For softball,...
Boys BB: FINAL Division State Ranks
Overall No. 1 Centennial of Corona leads Open Division teams, but we have No. 1 teams from five other divisions (the same five we’ve done for many years). Those final No. 1 nods go to St. John Bosco (D1), Jesuit of Carmichael (D2), Aquinas of San Bernardino (D3), University of San Francisco (D4) and Kingsburg...
SoCal / NorCal Players of the Week
This will be the next-to-last installment of this series for the 2020-21 school year. We just couldn’t resist one chance to rave about one of the best baseball pitchers in the nation and a top small-school softball player from the south. In the north, we have the leader of a team that finished 24-2 plus […]
All-Time All-State Medium FB Teams
Several days after doing a feature on the all-time all-state small schools football teams, we are following up with the best-ever grads from California’s medium-sized schools. With Firebaugh’s Josh Allen playing in the AFC title game on Sunday, the medium schools group is led by another NFL QB still playing this week — probable league...
Salute to Rafer Johnson (1935-2020)
In the 40-plus years of following and covering California high school sports, we’ve met a lot of great people. The greatest athlete we’ve ever met so far (including late Uncle Nelson in that statement) would be Olympic legend Rafer Johnson, who died this week at age 86. There’s a good reason why the only two […]
