To go with our annual State Schools of the Year tribute, here are some additional schools that were on our board in the various CIF state divisions and in our own five-division format that we would consider to be honorable mention.
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More State Baseball Coaches of Year
In addition to overall State Coach of the Year Mike Gonzales of El Toro, we have additional state coaching honors for the 2017 season going to Rich Henning from Christian Brothers of Sacramento and Jim Cleveland from Redwood Christian of San Lorenzo.
State Divisional Baseball Rankings
We can’t get going on these rankings until most section playoff brackets are out and all of our all-state boys and girls basketball teams have been selected and posted. There’s still three weeks of the season left, except for the CIF Northern Section and we do have one Northern Section team with a shot to […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Both of this week’s baseball honorees — Tanner Cunha of Sacramento Christian Brothers and Josh Landry of Cypress — had no-hitters last week and one of those had a perfect game. The other one missed a perfect game by issuing a leadoff walk. Our two softball honorees are from Simi Valley and Manteca.
State Stat Stars of the Week
Two of this week’s leading performances on the boys side came in the same game for opposite teams as Jordan Roberts of Bakersfield Ridgeview poured in 46 points and so did West of Bakersfield’s Austyn Contreras. For the girls, it’s more big totals for San Diego’s twosome of Destiny Littleton and Shyla LaTone plus Menlo’s […]
State Football Records Update
Coaching all-time wins list is now current through the end of the 2016 season, including playoffs, and those who made big gains down the stretch included Jim Kunau of Rancho Christian, Bruce Rollinson of Mater Dei and Dan Carmazzi of Sacramento Christian Brothers. More state record lists have been updated for team scoring and losing...
FINAL Five-Division State FB Ranks
We really did try to have CIF state champions No. 1 in all five of these divisions, but weren’t going to switch teams in divisions to do it. Once we established which teams were in which of our five divisions based on section playoff divisions it didn’t seem fair to switch them around later on....
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Big-time recruit Jaelan Phillips does something to get this week’s SoCal Defensive POW honor and get his name into the state record book. Our NorCal Offensive POW, meanwhile, throws for nearly 500 yards in 74-32 win. Other chosen this week are from Atherton, Petaluma, Villa Park and Santa Maria.
Wake Up Calls For No. 1 Mitty
State’s top-ranked girls volleyball team almost loses Saturday in a morning match at the Stockton Classic, but ends up winning the title in the event’s top division and needs to overcome a 12-7 deficit in the deciding third game. The Monarchs’ 24-26, 25-21, 15-12 triumph over league rival Sacred Heart Cathedral will keep them No. […]
