No. 1 Torrey Pines and No. 2 Mater Dei receive the top two seeds for the CIF Southern California Open Division playoffs (starting Thursday) while No. 3 Archbishop Mitty and No. 7 Marin Catholic did the same in the north. There weren’t many changes in this week’s rankings, but Turlock has to go in after […]
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NEW Girls VB State Top 20
As section playoffs are just getting underway, there is only one new team in this week’s rankings and it just had to go to the team that already has posted the first significant upset. That would be Foothill of Tustin, which took out previous No. 16 JSerra in the first round of the CIF Southern […]
NEW Girls VB State Top 20
Santa Margarita takes over No. 1 ranking from league rival Mater Dei but it could change again with both teams heading to the Nike Tournament of Champions this weekend in Arizona. Marymount also is hoping to make a splash in that event, but made one of a different kind on Tuesday night by getting upset […]
NEW Girls VB State Top 20
After all of the myriad of big matches were played by more than half of the State Top 20 at the Durango Fall Classic last weekend in Las Vegas, the order this week for the top three amazingly remained unchanged between Mater Dei, Santa Margarita and Redondo. Defending CIF Open Division state champ Archbishop Mitty […]
Preseason Girls VB State Top 20
For the second straight year, we’ll be doing a Top 20 state ranking each week in girls volleyball. This is because we’re working once again with FloVolleyball in compiling its Flo50 national rankings. We have done state rankings, on again and off again, in the sport since the middle of the 1990s and last season […]
Preseason All-CCS Football Team
A tremendous group of defensive linemen highlights this year’s top group from the CIF Central Coast Section. We put five on first team and there’s some other great ones we had to put on second but are among the best DLs in Northern California. Milpitas leads the way with five honorees and if we were...
Girls of Summer Player Ranks 2017
More than 90 players are evaluated in this annual post, including the top 30 ranked in order, from a series of girls hoops events attended in person during June and July. Most are from Northern California with a handful from SoCal schools like Mission Hills, Brea Olinda, Rosary Academy, Santa Maria St. Joseph and San...
Softball: All-Time Top 25 Coming Soon
Another editorial project that we’ve started working on in the last week and plan to have completed before the start of the 2017 football season is actually not from football. That will be the selection of the 25 greatest softball teams in state history.
NCAA Softball MOPs from California
Shay Knighten’s sensational hitting, including a grand slam in one game and three-run double in another, paved the way for Oklahoma to repeat this week as NCAA champions at the Women’s College World Series in Oklahoma City. She was named the Most Outstanding Player. Here is a list of ladies from California high schools who’ve […]
