The incoming senior at Mission Hills (San Marcos) was one of the rave performers at last weekend’s The Opening held at Nike World Headquarters. He’s now focusing on the upcoming 2017 season but he already was starting to do that one month ago when we visited with him at the Elite 11 Finals in Redondo […]
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Elite 11 QB Matt Corral
He’s looking forward to a fresh start at Long Beach Poly after going to The Opening later this summer in Oregon. At Poly, he’ll have the surrounding talent to lead the Jackrabbits in the CIF Southern Section Division I playoffs, but will it be enough to make a run at the big three of St. […]
More State Record Updates
It’s a good thing Oaks Christian of Westlake Village was on a bye last week. We can’t take any more of this team’s wild-and-wacky offensive shootouts. Three different games involving the Lions already this season have produced some of the highest scores for a losing team in state history. Lakewood’s 80-64 win last week over...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Ronnie Rivers of surging Freedom (Oakley) gains NorCal offensive honor with seven TDs and nearly 400 yards rushing against Antioch. In the south, Matt Corral of Oaks Christian passes for 529 yards in a game in which both teams had more than 700. Others chosen this week are from San Jose, Danville, Twentynine Palms and […]
State Stat Stars Of The Week
As you might expect, there were several huge totals from players in that 70-62 win in regulation by Murrieta Valley over Oaks Christian. The one player who tied two state records, however, was Oaks Christian’s Mycah Pittman. We also liked Tustin’s Kenneth Carr rushing for 377 yards and coming one yard short of the school […]
FB: Top 10 Rankings Update
Oaks Christian gets a bump after its big win over Chaminade, but not much else changed from the preseason after opening week of 2016 season.
Preseason All-Southern Sec Teams
With so many schools and so many top-ranked players, the massive CIF Southern Section gets a first team and a second team with player writeups and than a third team of those who just missed. If you want to say we saved the best for last, go ahead. Mater Dei leads the way with four […]
Preseason All-State FB Teams
We have 30 written up as first team with 30 more picked on a list for second team. We hope the annual all-state team at the end of the season matches this one closely and that no one doesn’t make it due to injury. Two juniors are one first team and two also are on...
Class of ’18 FB Player Rankings (Summer)
We go with Matt Corral of Oaks Christian at the top, but local rival Cameron Rising of Newbury Park is also in the top 10. The first 35 also continues to show how talented the team at Hawkins of Los Angeles may be this season. No other school in the state has as many players...
All-State Football: Sophomores
Announcement of 37th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams continues. These are for the best of the best among sophomores only. It’s a tricky group to pick with several top nationally ranked quarterbacks who all play close to each other. Four schools lead the way with one on the first team and one on the...
