One week after the Super Bowl and two weeks after the last of our annual all-state teams went out, we look to the future. Here is a watch list of leading freshmen football players in the state from the 2023 season who are on track to be all-state sophomores next season. Zach Benitez from Granite...
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FINAL All-State FB Noms (NorCal)
Here is the third of three lists of players considered as final nominees for the various 2023 season all-state football teams. These are all from CIF Northern California sections (excluding Central Section). These lists have been updated from the first lists compiled from about one month ago. Thanks for all of the nominations and input....
Weekend Regional FB Scoreboard (Saturday)
It’s a second straight stunning loss for a top San Diego Section team, this time as St. Augustine falls on the final play to St. Bonaventure of Ventura in D1-A South final. Folsom beats Pitt in the NorCal game while Los Gatos and Central Valley Christian won in the 2-A games in completely different ways. […]
Preseason All-CCS Football Team
One of the things that always seems difficult in choosing a preseason team is finding offensive linemen, but in a bit of a twist from most years the Preseason CIF Central Coast Section has a load of them. In fact, as the old expression goes, “they’re coming out of our ears.” In another bit of...
FINAL All-State FB Noms (NorCal)
Here is the first of three updated lists of players considered as nominees for the various 2022 season all-state football teams. These are from Northern California CIF sections (not including Central Section). Thanks to everyone who sent in info about these players compared to the first list of nominees that we compiled. It’s not too...
Class of 21 FB: NEW Hot 100
There remains no doubt about Corona Centennial’s Korey Foreman being the No. 1 player in California based on his national recruiting rankings. We just don’t know for sure yet whether he or how many of the other top recruits in the state are going to be playing for their high school teams once the 2021...
Boys BB All-State Nominees (Updated)
We released the first run-through of names on our virtual board of all-state boys basketball nominees more than three weeks ago, and now we’re about to start honoring the 41st annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Teams. More players were added and some other fixes had to be made plus we’ve gone in and selected all new...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
One of our honorees this week blasted a school record three homers in one game while another is a former Little League star for a U.S. championship squad. The four we’ve selected are from Salinas, Hanford, Chula Vista and Oxnard.
State Stat Stars of the Week
It’s a plethora of top outings from boys hoops, girls hoops, baseball and softball. Basketball’s best include one successful state record bid that is now complete while another could still be going into the CIF state finals. In baseball, freshman Adam Christopher of El Camino Real makes a splash while Palma of Salinas pitcher gets […]
Boys BB Divisional State Rankings
Heading into the regional semifinals, our top-ranked teams are Bishop Montgomery (Open), Damien of La Verne (D1), Esperanza of Anaheim (D2), St. Ignatius of San Francisco (D3), Palma of Salinas (D4) and Rolling Hills Prep of San Pedro (D5). Esperanza is the only new No. 1 since last week. If you can’t see this post,...
