We will begin to move up the timing to much earlier in the week now that basketball is completely done, but this week wanted to wait until after No. 1 Buchanan played Clovis (No. 8 last week, No. 10 this week but No. 4 on the ticker in between) on Tuesday night. The Bears won...
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NEW Baseball State Top 20
With a lot of teams taking their first losses within the last week, the key benefactors in this week’s rankings are Orange Lutheran and Clovis. The Lancers are now No. 3 and right behind the No. 2 team from Huntington Beach, which is the only team that has beaten them. The Cougars are now NO....
State Stat Stars of the Week
Kern Valley of Lake Isabella gets a boy and a girl on this week’s honor roll. It’s not the first time in multiple sports for Zach Bushling and it may not be the last for emerging sophomore Hannah Hurley. Others among this week’s best include Anaheim Esperanza’s Kezie Okpala (45-point game) and San Jose Harker […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
Some of these writeups each week can come from the smallest divisions, even wild-and-wacky eight-man playoff games, but this week we also have an outing from a losing team that can’t be missed because it was against one of the top teams in the nation. Yes, we know a lot of teams have already played […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Eight TD passes not only gets Rancho Verde’s E.J. Stewart a weekly SoCal player of the week selection, but his name entered into the state record book. In the north, a four-interception night by Buchanan’s Jack Wilkins was too hard to miss. Others chosen this week are from Hayward, Antelope, Orange and Norco.
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...
Preseason State Super 50 (Part 2)
This group of teams starting at No. 13 is led off by St. Mary’s of Stockton, which is loaded with returning players, but 2016 CIF Division II-A titlist Del Oro of Loomis is right behind. This group down to No. 25 also includes our top preseason top picks for the CIF Central Coast Section and […]
More Baseball Players of the Year
In addition to Mickey Moniak, statewide honors also are going out to Royce Lewis from JSerra of San Juan Capistrano (juniors), Brandon Dieter from South Hills of West Covina (sophomores), Jasiah Dixon of Orange Lutheran (frosh), Sean Reynolds of Redondo (medium schools) and Brett Super from Sage Hill of Newport Beach (small schools).
