Our boys basketball coverage for Gold Club VIPs continues with a look at the state’s top college prospects in each class. The sophomore class (2021) has good players at every position, but the sure-fire All-Americans have not developed quite yet. We expand our 2021 rankings from 25 to 65 with five newcomers to the original 25...
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NEW Girls VB State Top 20
Playoffs are already underway in the CIF Southern Section where the top four seeds in Division I are No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 and now No. 6 in the state. Changes for this week’s rankings mainly come from previous No. 6 Central of Fresno losing to Buchanan of Clovis in its league plus new […]
NEW Girls VB State Top 20
California teams finish second and third at the monstrous Durango Fall Classic in Las Vegas, but both lost to the same opponent as Assumption of Louisville, Ky., won the title after beating Mater Dei in the semifinals and then Redondo in the finals. Mater Dei, which has a win over Redondo, therefore is still No. […]
State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard
The only State Top 25 team to fall to a lower-ranked opponent happened to be the game we went to as Antioch held on to edge host and No. 21 Clayton Valley of Concord 35-34. One of the nights other big winners was No. 8 Folsom, which led 35-0 in the early going and went […]
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
With strong wins, both De La Salle and Corona Centennial can make a legitimate claim to be No. 3 behind Mater Dei and St. John Bosco, but DLS was third before so it stays there. Another school in Concord, Clayton Valley, does indeed crack the barrier to be in this first of two posts including...
State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard
No. 3 De La Salle extends NorCal (north of Fresno) dominance with impressive 14-0 shutout of high-octane No. 3 Folsom. It was no trouble for No. 1 and No. 2 Mater Dei & St. John Bosco, and No. 5 Centennial posts strong win over nationally ranked out-of-state foe. The biggest upset is preseason No. 9 […]
Preseason All-State FB Teams
We have two squads selected with 30 players each. Defending CIF Open Division champion Mater Dei leads the way with seven who’ve been named with St. John Bosco and Cajon of San Bernardino both checking in with three. Other schools with more than one player chosen are Orange Lutheran, De La Salle, Jesuit of Carmichael, […]
Winners/Losers in CIF Open Brackets
We go over each of the two boys and girls Open Division playoff brackets (both north and south) released on Sunday and present our breakdowns of which teams fared well and which teams did not. As the Open Division continues to evolve, it will be interesting to see if the CIF Southern Section will ever...
NEW Girls VB State Top 20
As section playoffs are just getting underway, there is only one new team in this week’s rankings and it just had to go to the team that already has posted the first significant upset. That would be Foothill of Tustin, which took out previous No. 16 JSerra in the first round of the CIF Southern […]
