After the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section a few days ago, we head back south for our series of preseason all-section or all-area football teams from around California. The Inland Empire for these purposes includes the high desert area of San Bernardino County and the Palm Springs region of Riverside County. Once again, Corona Centennial rules supreme...
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NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
It’s not the usual when we honor players from highly-ranked teams, instead looking to highlight those from smaller and medium-size programs, but this week it was impossible for the two baseball honorees not to be pitchers from Valley Christian of San Jose in the north and Maranatha of Pasadena in the south. For softball, we […]
Preseason Baseball State TOP 40
Welcome to the 44th season of Cal-Hi Sports state baseball rankings. We will continue to follow more teams in the greatest baseball state in the nation than anyone else. This will be the second season in which the CIF NorCal & CIF SoCal regional championships will conclude the race to the top. Will it gain […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
For the third straight week we accomplish the main goal of this feature by tracking potential entries in the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book and uncovering a few diamonds in the rough who don’t always get big-time attention. Our stops this week in Southern California are in Santa Paula, Torrance and San Bernardino, while in […]
Who Will Be First-Ever Frosh POY?
There has never been a Cal-Hi Sports State Freshman Football Player of the Year, but there will be one named after the 2022 season is in the books. Here’s a quick look at five top contenders, why we’re doing this now, if we’ll do our usual approach of going back and naming one historically over […]
More Baseball State Players of the Year
It’s a smooth move upward for Junior Player of the Year Gavin Grahovac of Villa Park and Sophomore Player of the Year Bryce Rainer from Harvard-Westlake of Studio City as those two were the leaders last season for sophomores and freshmen. A junior also has been chosen as State Medium Schools Player of the Year, […]
Softball All-State Nominees (SoCal)
Welcome to another of the first steps toward the selection of the Cal-Hi Sports 2022 All-State Softball Teams. This is the second list of nominees from CIF sections in Southern California (with the Central Section in the north) based on information we’ve gained through coverage of the regular season and playoffs. It’s not meant to […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
They are both from Merced County and from towns 17 miles apart who are longtime football rivals, but schools from Los Banos and Dos Palos are from different CIF sections. This week, Pacheco of Los Banos and Dos Palos share common honors as they have players who are NorCal players of the week in softball […]
Friday CIF State Finals
Central of Fresno & Clayton Valley of Concord capture CIF state football titles on Friday night at Cerritos College. It’s the first title for both and the first one for a Fresno school in Division 1 or higher after the Grizzlies bounced Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth in the D1-AA final. Clayton Valley came through on […]
