This will be the final week for the Baseball and Softball Players of the Week since Northern California, except for the CIF Central Section, has concluded play. It turns out there was one player from the Sacramento area we could still honor since his last game was last week. We also went with one of […]
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All-State Girls Volleyball 2019 (Part 1)
The 2019 season is long concluded and it’s now 2020 on the calendar, but it took time to come up with our first-ever expanded Cal-Hi Sports All-State Teams for girls volleyball. For the first time, we have all-state teams in the sport for each class plus small schools and medium schools. This first release is […]
NEW Girls Volleyball State Top 20
After Wednesday’s CIF Southern Section quarterfinals, the D1 semis are set with Redondo playing Sierra Canyon and Marymount facing Mater Dei. All four will then no doubt go on to the CIF SoCal Open Division no matter which won wins the CIFSS crown. Torrey Pines and Cathedral Catholic haven’t yet reached the San Diego Open […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
For the first time in as long as we can remember two of our NorCal honorees are from the CIF Central Section which we remind our readers that for this and all our weekly features honoring players is considered part of Northern California. One of those two also could be about to reach 7,000 career […]
NEW Girls Volleyball State Top 20
Thanks to La Costa Canyon’s upset of Torrey Pines, the state and national rankings are in a state of flux this week. We’re listing Redondo Union back on top for the state, but some are putting Mater Dei at No. 1 in the nation. The amazing aspect of this week is that the top 11 […]
NEW Girls Volleyball State Top 20
Torrey Pines of San Diego takes over at the top after Tuesday triumph this week over Redondo Union. Previous No. 1 Mater Dei is now third after losing to Redondo last week. All three of these teams will be at the upcoming Durango Fall Classic in Las Vegas, which is where the pecking order probably […]
Preseason Girls VB State Top 20
Redondo Union of Redondo Beach is already making a push for the top after an impressive series of outings at a preseason tournament in Hawaii. But defending CIF Open Division state champion Mater Dei of Santa Ana still should be on top until the team gets a few matches under its belt or suffers a […]
Girls BB: All-State 2nd, 3rd 2019
Here’s where to go to see all of the writeups for those who are second team overall and third team overall on the 40th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Girls Basketball Teams. The second and third teams feature the second player from a few of the state’s very best teams plus some who were players of […]
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Rankings
As the funnel narrows to its slimmest of margins, the head to head results of the CIF regional playoffs don’t exactly coincide with the seedings or the rankings. The result is we are sticking with the formula we’ve used successfully for nearly 40-years of ranking girls basketball and the result is the top spots are...
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Rankings
Now is when the rubber really meets the road as the drive to the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento for the March 8-9 state championships begins this week. There were not a lot of surprises in the Open Division selections for Northern California since we knew with a lack of Open Division level teams in...