A team that lost in a CIF state final in overtime last season starts out this group of ranked squads. There’s also two teams written up that have been in the news this week for different reasons — Edison of Huntington Beach and Oak Ridge of El Dorado Hills — plus teams that went 13-1, […]
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NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
This week is one in which two criteria for this feature have been met. First, we are looking for diamonds in the rough type players that don’t always get a lot of props outside their local communities, and the second thing we do is track additions to the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book, and this […]
FINAL State Ranks By Five Divisions
We’re still not done with final state football rankings. Here are the No. 1 teams for the 2019 season according to our traditional five-division state breakdowns: St. John Bosco (D1), Clayton Valley of Concord (D2), Cardinal Newman of Santa Rosa (D3), Ripon (D4) and Caruthers (D5). The No. 1 choice for D5 was the most...
More State Football Coaches of Year
Here are the honorees from among those schools considered medium or small schools for the 2019 season. Our medium schools honoree directed one of the highest scoring teams in state history. Our small schools honoree also did something as a player in the 1980s that only a handful of players from Northern California over the […]
FINAL State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
Some of the teams in this group figure to be way up there for the 2020 preseason rankings, such as No. 28 Alemany (Mission Hills). We also have big bumps at the end for CIF D2-AA state champ Clayton Valley and a team with a head-to-head win over the Ugly Eagles. The only two newcomers...
NEW Medium/Small School FB Ranks
We have it all broken down with which teams will end No. 1 in the state for these categories depending on what happens in this week’s CIF state championships. Heading into those games, sitting in the No. 1 positions are Aquinas of San Bernardino (medium) and Ripon (small). Newcomers this week are Oxnard and Palos...
State Record Updates & Stat Stars
From the state record book in this post, we have updates for boys basketball coaching wins, quarterbacks in football with 10,000 career passing yards, Corona del Mar’s quest for dual record holders and consecutive PATs made by a kicker. Go inside as well for a look at California’s State Stat Stars for the last two […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
As the funnel narrows and we near the end of the weekly Players of the Week feature for football and transition into girls and boys basketball, with less games and tougher competition, the astronomical numbers can be fewer and far between, and finding Special Teams performances even harder. Even so, we have a solid group […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
We have a special group this week including Calel Aramboles from California School for the Deaf (Fremont), who had a 300-yard rushing game, plus the latest strong-legged kicker from San Diego who booted a 55-yard field goal. We also have another who had two field goals with a long of 47 but did a lot […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Two of our six honorees this week also are going into the state record book: Jeshua Gutierrez of Firebaugh (with four interceptions) and Austin Osborne of Mission Viejo (five touchdown catches). Others selected are from Sierra Canyon, Pacifica of Oxnard, Whitney of Rocklin and St. Francis of Mountain View.
