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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Folsom buries Central with 84 points
Going on the road to Fresno to face 13-0 Central High of Fresno didn’t prove to be roadblock for the Folsom football team in its attempt to repeat as CIF D1-AA state champions. The Bulldogs revved up their engines for an 84-46 win in one of those performances we’ve seen many times in the last […]
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
Vista Murrieta of Murrieta lost to Orange Lutheran 42-17, but gets to go way up in the rankings this week because a team the Broncos beat in their first game, Los Alamitos, was the one that knocked off previous No. 17 Long Beach Poly and we didn’t want to drop both the Jackrabbits and Narbonne...
Preseason CCS Football Team
Not surprisingly, a large number of players on both the first and second teams are from the three teams that all won CIF state bowl game titles last season plus additional standouts from the West Catholic Athletic League. Still, there were some fresh new faces last season and a couple of them are not from...
Polynesian National POY Watch List
Even though the growingly popular Polynesian Bowl all-star game is played in Hawaii and the Polynesian Football Hall of Fame is in Honolulu, California leads the way with 14 players who have been placed on a watch list for the 2018 Polynesian High School Football Player of the Year Award.
More FB Player of Week Nominees
Some of these could still be written up later on in the season as a NorCal/SoCal Player of the Week because the only rule we have for players of the week is that no one can be chosen more than once. Note: Nominations accepted each week at markjtennis@gmail.com. Micah Barnes (Kennedy, Richmond): On just 10 […]
Updated Girls VBall State Top 20
California’s top two teams, plus many others, will face national-level competition this weekend at the Nike Tournament of Champions in Arizona. One darkhorse team to watch in that event is Redondo, which pushed state and national No. 1 Mater Dei to five games in a match last weekend. For this week’s NorCal Volleyball Top 20 […]
State Stat Stars Of The Week
Sophomore QB Hank Bachmeier of Murrieta Valley soars past 470-yard mark in wild-and-wacky loss to Colorado team and can be added to state record book. Also going in are Jordan Mims of Menlo-Atherton (99-yard run) and Jalen Williams from Brookside Christian of Stockton (99-yard reception).
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Just like we did during the football and basketball seasons, we are going to do our best to spread around these honors as much as possible with one boy and one girl chosen from each region in baseball and softball. This week’s best are from Atherton, Los Angeles, Salinas and Carson.
