As a companion list to a group of those considered more near the top of the state to be the first-ever State Freshman Player of the Year, here’s a more comprehensive list of those now on our radar screen as ninth graders we’ll likely be following for the next few years. FOR INTRO ABOUT FIRST-EVER...
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NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
No. 1 Mater Dei and No. 2 St. John Bosco get back to dominating against other top 25 teams after playing each other. Changes this week include Los Alamitos flip-flopping with Long Beach Poly, Inglewood joining the top 10 plus Oaks Christian & Sierra Canyon getting a jump into the first 25 of this week’s...
Preseason All-State Football Teams
We have first team, second team, third team just missed and a top 12 chart of the leading Mr. Football State Player of the Year candidates. This is the 36th straight year of Cal-Hi Sports compiling a preseason all-state football team. Note: There are no writeups for each player (like there will be for the […]
Preseason All-Orange County FB Team
For the second stop in a tour of the state through the selection of preseason football honor squads, we hit Orange County of the CIF Southern Section. Defending CIF Open Division state champ Mater Dei is the dominant program in the county, but there are a bunch of great players ready to roll from schools...
All-State Softball: First Team
Ms. Softball State POY Jessica Oakland from Mountain View St. Francis and Gatorade State POY Micaela Kastor of Westlake Village Oaks Christian spearhead this elite first team on the 39th edition of the Cal-Hi Sports all-state softball teams. All first team players are featured in this post. We also have a second team and a […]
Class of 23 FB: NEW Hot 100
Here’s a new, updated look at the top 100 ranked football recruits from California for the Class of 2023. We’ll be ramping up preseason 2022 football coverage in upcoming weeks, and will start by updating the 2023 class with a first look at 2024 coming next week. There’s not much debate about which player is...
NEW State TOP 25 Softball Rankings
The CIF Southern Section playoffs were conducted with three rounds in five days last week and have already reached the championship stage while other CIF sections have yet to even begin. This all helped to create lots of changes in this week’s rankings as St. Francis (MV) moves up to No. 1 with Clovis North...
NEW State TOP 25 Softball Rankings
There’s a shake-up in the top five as St. Francis (MV) returns to No. 2 after No. 1 Oaks Christian and Villa Park moves up to No. 4. One of the teams that caused the changes, Buchanan of Clovis, debuts this week up at No. 18. Strong weeks by Sheldon of Sacramento and Livermore also...
NEW Softball State TOP 25 Rankings
In a very tough call at the top following what happened at the Michelle Carew Classic, unbeaten teams Clovis North and Oaks Christian get the new No. 1 and No. 2 rankings with previous No. 2 St. Francis and previous No. 1 Villa Park both staying in the top four for different reasons. Canyon of...
