It takes some extra time, but as usual we have expanded our final state team rankings in baseball from Top 20 overall to Top 40 overall. Writeups and comments from each team have been completed as well. Teams moving up at the end include section champions Cathedral Catholic and Elk Grove. Some of the hardest...
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MLB Draft: 1st Round Recap
Three of the four first-round picks in this year’s MLB Draft from California high schools are finalists for Mr. Baseball State Player of the Year. The only one who isn’t happens to be from the same league as one of the others.
Boys BB: All-State Best of Best
It’s finally time to present the 38th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state elite boys basketball teams. These are the teams selected regardless of CIF division or year in school. This is a look at the 10 players named first team overall. Lonzo Ball and T.J. Leaf are joined by one junior and we think at least […]
NEW Softball State Top 20
There’s only one newcomer this week, but plenty of movement due to upsets involving previous No. 2 Mission Viejo and previous No. 7 Mater Dei of Santa Ana. Los Alamitos climbs back to No. 2 behind No. 1 Orange Lutheran while Amador Valley joins the top five. The only new team is defending CIF Central...
More State Boys Players of the Year
We choose honorees for seniors, juniors, sophomores and freshmen and for each CIF division. Among the most difficult picks was for freshmen (which one from Chino Hills?) and for those divisions in which players from Open Division teams were deemed eligible. Brandon McCoy of San Diego Cathedral Catholic also emerges as the State Junior of […]
NEW Softball State Top 20
Orange County teams stay No. 1 and No. 2 this week with several more from the county moving up, including La Habra and Mater Dei to No. 5 and No. 6, Orange Lutheran to No. 7 and newcomer Huntington Beach to No. 12. Other newcomers are Gahr of Cerritos and Santiago of Corona. Note: There...
NEW Softball State Top 20
Etiwanda gains new No. 1 state ranking after Pioneer of San Jose is upset by Mt. Pleasant. Five teams didn’t play last week due to spring break, which helped to limit other moves. This week’s only two newcomers are Cathedral Catholic of San Diego and La Habra. Note: There are not going to be separate...
Going Inside Open Division QFs
The state’s No. 2 ranked boys basketball team and the state’s No. 3 ranked girls squad both got knocked off on Friday night in their very first CIF Open Division regional quarterfinal games. Here’s where to go for a statewide breakdown of all of the results plus leading individual performances.
Preseason State Rankings (Divisions)
With the CIF bowl games now in 13 divisions and with it basically impossible to place teams into those divisions in a weekly format, we are resurrecting our traditional five-division state rankings first done in 1975. No. 1 teams to start are De La Salle (D1), Grant of Sacramento (D2), Cathedral Catholic of San Diego […]
