Biggest movers are Rancho Cucamonga (up from No. 23 to No. 10) and Santa Margarita (up from No. 19 to No. 11) while group of five newcomers is led by Bellarmine of San Jose. The Bells also will have their new ranking tested immediately by their arch-rivals from No. 12 St. Francis of Mountain View....
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S.F. Bay Area Top 25 Football (2)
Here are rankings done by longtime Bay Area analyst Harold Abend and done for use on Antioch High football game broadcasts. We’ll run these lists with a short intro on our blog. Anyone wishing to see writeups and breakdowns of the top teams in the Bay Area and in the state, sign up for our […]
Preseason All-CCS Football Team
St. Francis of Mountain View leads the way with two on offense and two on defense. No other school landed more than two, but West Catholic Athletic League rivals Bellarmine, Serra and Valley Christian have a lot of players that easily could have been first team that weren’t picked as high.
Mr. Baseball State POY Finalists
Thursday’s MLB Draft will involve most of these elite players in what is shaping up to be a very difficult choice to determine the 2016 Mr. Baseball State Player of the Year. We have cut off the list of this year finalists at seven names. If a player is not a finalist, he can still […]
NEW Baseball State Top 20
Previous No. 7 San Mateo Serra, No. 9 J.W. North and No. 12 Mira Costa become first state-ranked teams to lose in section playoffs and see their seasons end. Top-ranked Buchanan, meanwhile, is down to just two more wins in the CIF Central Section before it locks up State Team of the Year selection. We’re...
NEW Baseball State Top 20
California’s tremendous depth already showing up with many top teams already with losses, including No. 1 JSerra, which split a pair with preseason No. 1 Huntington Beach on Monday. Wednesday saw two of the best in NorCal collide with De La Salle topping Elk Grove. Note: There are not going to be separate free and...
NEW State Top 25 Football
While candidate for Game of the Years has materialized for this weekend between Centennial and St. John Bosco, we’re focused as well on other positions for this week’s rankings. The biggest shakeups took place in San Diego where previously unbeaten Mission Hills was blasted by St. Augustine. That pushed both the Saints and Loyola of...
NEW S.F. Bay Area FB Ranks (Week 8)
Valley Christian goes back up to No. 8 as we’ll wait and see if it will be another re-shuffling next week of the WCAL and CCS squad. This week’s only newcomer is Amador Valley, which is back in after win against California of San Ramon.
More Baseball Players of the Year
In addition to Joe DeMers, statewide honors also are going out to Jeremy Ydens from St. Francis of Mountain View (juniors), Hunter Greene from Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks (sophs), Joey Magrisi from Rancho Bernardo of San Diego (frosh), Peter Lambert of San Dimas (medium schools) and Nico Hoerner of Oakland Head-Royce (small schools). For […]
