As the CIF Southern Section moves into its semifinal round early this week, some section playoffs in the state are just getting started. State No. 1 Orange Lutheran didn’t get out of the quarterfinals in the CIFSS so a new No. 1 had to be found and it will be Buchanan of Clovis. St. Francis...
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State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. For softball this week, we have more than one girl who had three homers in one game plus the end of a long league losing streak that was at least 153 games in length. For baseball, the big story is...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
For this week’s award winners, our two stops in Southern California are in Sherman Oaks and West Covina and then we head north to Elk Grove before we end up in the Central Valley town of Caruthers. For our SoCal softball honoree there was a solid candidate from the Michelle Carew Classic winning Canyon team, […]
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
Tuesday’s regional finals are set and once again it will be a No. 1 vs. No. 2 in the state matchup when Centennial hosts Sierra Canyon for the SoCal open championship. No, the NorCal open title game is not No. 3 vs. No. 4, but both Campolindo and Modesto Christian are confident after big regional...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
The big games at the Nike Extravaganza caused some change among the middle of the pack teams in this week’s updated State Top 25 rankings. Corona Centennial strengthens its grip on No. 1, while newcomer Village Christian (Sun Valley) has a big game right away on Monday, as does Baseline League powers Damien and Etiwanda....
Biggest Upset Openers Since 2000
This was supposed to have been the opening weekend of the 2020 high school football season in California (at least in those areas of the state not greatly impacted by poor air quality from the many fires). With that in mind, here’s a year-by-year look going back to the 2000 season of the most surprising...
Preseason FB: Top 50 Teams (31-50)
For the final 20 teams in our massive preseason state football rankings package, we start out with one of the top three teams from the CIF San Diego Section. This post also includes two more teams from the CIF Southern Section’s Mission League, a team with perhaps the top sophomore quarterback in the state and […]
NEW Baseball State Top 25 Rankings
The incredibly loaded CIF Southern Section Division I playoffs get a jump-start on the rest of the sections in the state with the first round starting Thursday. Teams in it include state No. 1 Orange Lutheran, No. 3 Cypress, No. 4 Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks (moving up from seventh this week), No. 5 Harvard-Westlake...
NEW Baseball State Top 25 Ranks
It’s still time for some schools and teams to be on Spring Break (especially with Easter Sunday so late on the calendar this year) and this week we’ll have several noteworthy tournaments, including the Boras Classic for Northern California, the Fresno Easter Classic and the Mike Morrow Lions tourney in San Diego. The top nine...
Boys BB All-State Nominees Part 2
After the first run-through of names on our virtual board of all-state nominees, we’ve now updated that list with this one and are getting set to choose the 40th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Teams. New photos also have been added to this post from the first one. More players added and some other fixes had...
