It’s time to begin releasing the teams for the 36th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state girls basketball selections. We’ll start with underclass players. This is the best of the best among juniors, sophomores and freshmen. Five different schools were able to land three players on this year’s teams: Archbishop Mitty, Clovis West, Long Beach Poly, Pinewood […]
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State Teams of the Year 2016
It’s time to get out the record books for the Chino Hills boys and Chaminade girls as they are officially named Cal-Hi Sports State Team of the Year in basketball. For Chino Hills, it’s also not too early to compare the Huskies to some of the greatest teams in state history. While Chaminade didn’t actually […]
Boys BB: Regional QFs
It’s a huge night for the CIF North Coast Section in NorCal as Berkeley and Bishop O’Dowd knock off Jesuit and Weston Ranch, but there were even more NCS winners than that…..Riley Battin’s 47-point night was one of the big stories in the south, along with wins by state No. 10 Crespi and state No. […]
Turning Heads At ETA Combine
Two upcoming sophomores from the East Bay and an athlete trying to make a point about soccer were among those who came, tested and stood out at the fourth annual Elite Training Academy All-Star Sports Combine last Saturday in Tracy. Go inside for honorees from the two high school age groups.
NEW Girls BB State Top 20
It didn’t take a buzzer beater for previous No. 19 Santa Barbara to taste defeat, but it sure did for Pinewood of Los Altos Hills. Pinewood thus drops from No. 8 to No. 11 this week with San Diego teams plus Bishop O’Dowd going up. This week’s lone newcomer, meanwhile, is Oak Ridge of El...
Girls BB: Saturday at St. Mary’s MLK
Go inside here for all Saturday scores and highlights from annual Stockton St. Mary’s MLK Showcase other than the top matchup between Miramonte and Mater Dei. For that writeup and breakdown, CLICK HERE. St. Mary’s (Stockton) 84, Alemany (Mission Hills) 47 After a week in which the unbeaten Rams, ranked No. 1 in the state […]
Preseason All-Section, All-Area (Part 4)
We’re continuing to take a closer look at top players to watch from each of the state’s CIF sections plus well-known regions inside the CIF Southern Section and CIF North Coast Section. For this fourth part, thanks to longtime Bay Area analyst Harold Abend, we choose the best from the East Bay and Redwood Empire...
The Opening Oakland: MVPs & Invites
California players collect six of the seven MVP awards at the annual Northern California stop of the national Nike football tour. Four of those players also were handed out invites to Nike’s version of “football heaven” to be held this July at its world headquarters in Beaverton, Ore.
Inside The Girls BB All-State Teams
There are always some hard choices to make each year for the all-state basketball teams and each year we get great information from coaches and parents in the nominating process. Go inside for toughest decisions, some sophs and frosh who just missed and for details about new free throw shooting state record. If you can’t...
All-State Girls BB: By Divisions
These are the teams broken down for each CIF division but with the Open Division not considered separately. Several teams ended up with three honorees, led by CIF Open Division champ St. Mary’s of Stockton. The final post for the 35th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state girls basketball teams will be for first team overall, second […]
