The 43nd annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams are coming out about eight months after the last ones for the 2021 spring season. As usual, this year’s series of teams begins with a look at the best of the best among sophomores. CIF Open Division state champ Mater Dei has three on first team and...
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Marlon Gardinera: State Coach of Year
Following San Mateo Serra’s Patrick Walsh for 2020-21, it became a perfect fit for another of the major coaches in the state who played a significant role in enabling there to be a season last spring to be named for the state’s most prestigious coaching honor. This is the one that goes back for more […]
CIF Saturday State Finals (SoCal)
Mater Dei caps unbeaten, state and national No. 1 season with rout of San Mateo Serra in Open Division. It’s too bad, though, the school handled its post-game interactions with the media the way it did. That other Serra, from Gardena, did much better in D1-A with a win over Liberty of Bakersfield. The day […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
This will be the last week with minimal changes among the state’s top teams as games against each other in section playoffs will really get going this week. For this week, the St. Francis (MV) win over Serra (San Mateo) has given one-spot upward moves for many teams. Inglewood & Corona del Mar, meanwhile, are...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
St. John Bosco remains No. 2 in the State Top 50 for a rather simple reason: 10 straight wins over No. 3 Servite. The Friars are going to have to win on the field to get past the Braves or Mater Dei. De La Salle also doesn’t drop from No. 10 after loss to nationally...
Preseason All-CCS Football Team
Stop No. 11 (with just one more to go) takes us to the San Jose area, Monterey Bay area and up the Peninsula to San Francisco. Serra of San Mateo leads the way with four first team selections and two on the second team followed by Valley Christian (San Jose) and Menlo-Atherton with three first...
Preseason All-State Football Teams
This is the 35th consecutive season that there has been a preseason all-state teams by Cal-Hi Sports. We honored the all-state juniors just a couple of months ago, but it’s not as easy as you might think because there were some all-state sophomores chosen as well and these teams are a combination of those plus […]
Preseason STATE TOP 50 (Part 1)
With positive thoughts that there won’t be the similar numbers of games cancelled this fall as there were last spring due to COVID, we present the starting point of state football rankings for the 2021 fall season. This will be the 44th season in which Cal-Hi Sports founder Nelson Tennis (1936-2004) or Cal-Hi Sports publisher […]
All-State FB 2020-21: First Team
Here are the absolute headliners for the 42nd annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams. Go inside this post for writeups of the 11 players on offense plus a kicker, then 11 on defense plus a punter and then six multi-purpose players who have been selected First Team Overall. This is the group that is being […]
NEW State TOP 35 Baseball Rankings
It ended up being just a one-week break on top of the state rankings for Thousand Oaks after the Lancers moved to 24-1 while other teams lost (Ayala and Buchanan). Harvard-Westlake and JSerra moved up to No. 2 and No. 3 after winning prestigious league titles. A big league title also will be up for...
