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All-State Football 2018: Juniors

The Cal-Hi Sports All-State Sophomore Teams were released earlier several days ago to kick off our 40th year of all-state football honors. For the juniors, it was especially tough to find room for all of the state’s highly regarded quarterbacks and wide receivers. Schools with more than one first team all-state junior include Mater Dei...

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Girls BB: So Cal Prep Classic Winners

Both Mater Dei teams — from Santa Ana and Chula Vista — plus McClatchy of Sacramento and Peninsula of Rolling Hills Estates earn tourney crowns.

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Final State FB Ranks By Divisions

No. 1 teams for the 2018 season according to our traditional five-division state breakdowns are Mater Dei of Santa Ana (D1), Lawndale (D2), Menlo-Atherton of Atherton (D3), McClymonds of Oakland (D4) and Hilmar (D5). Two of these schools are No. 1 for the second straight year while two of them are No. 1 in the...

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FINAL State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)

Folsom doesn’t move up from No. 5 after CIF D1-AA state title win and then this week it’s reported that head coach Kris Richardson is leaving to become an assistant at Sac State. Cathedral Catholic doesn’t win in overtime against Folsom, but does move up from No. 8 to No. 7 in the final rankings....

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It’s Official: Mater Dei State TOY

For the third time in its history, but second year in a row, Mater Dei of Santa Ana collects State Team of the Year honor in California prep football. Read more for why this year’s Monarchs reminds us of the school’s and head coach Bruce Rollinson’s very first CIF Southern Section championship squad.

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NEW State Top 50 FB Rankings

Since this will be the next-to-last State Top 50 football rankings and we have a majority of teams listed as season complete, we’ll do this week’s feature in one post instead of two. Next week’s final State Top 50 will be two and with more extensive breakdowns of each team. For this week, the CIF...

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NEW Boys BB State Top 20 Ranks

There is some shake-up at the top, as state preseason No. 2 Bishop Montgomery of Torrance has been battling injuries and drops to make room for battle-tested Rancho Christian of Temecula. The Knights have only lost to two teams quite familiar to those who’ve been following our rankings the past two decades: L.A. City Section […]

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NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)

After the big win over St. John Bosco, Mater Dei takes over at the top of the state, which is where the Monarchs started this season and ended last season. The rest of the top 11 from last week is unchanged, and we didn’t move up Upland that far after it defeated previous No. 12...

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Salute to “Big Lou” Cvijanovich

There’s an exclusive group of high school boys basketball coaches in the history of California who’ve won 600 games or more. It’s a smaller group when you get to 800 and an even smaller group of those who’ve actually been the winningest in state history. Count Lou Cvijanovich, who coached at Santa Clara of Oxnard […]

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FINAL Girls VB State Top 20 Ranks

After losing in the CIF Open Division state final last year, Mater Dei of Santa Ana completes its quest to get the job done this time with easy 3-0 sweep of Fresno Central in last Saturday’s championship. The Monarchs also are the 2018 State Team of the Year, but it may be surprising to see […]

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