Santa Ana Mater Dei’s offensive linemen, a great quarterback class from the state continuing to shine and some players making a name for themselves in a competitive setting among top recruits from all over the West Coast are just a few of the best things we saw on Saturday at El Cerrito High at the […]
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Closest We’ll Get To All-State Frosh
This isn’t an all-state football team, but here’s a look at some of the most impressive ninth grade players who were on varsity rosters all season that were collected by us in our research for this year’s various all-state teams. Record breakers of the future could be QB AJ Duffy of Rancho Verde, WR Kevin...
All-State Football Nominees (Part 1)
Believe it or not, but we’ve reached 40 years since Cal-Hi Sports founder Nelson Tennis (1936-2004) sat down and jotted down the first postseason all-state football team for California. We’ve been doing them ever since and it’s gotten bigger and better we hope each time. Just last year, we added an all-state patch ordering system […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
We usually like to get these out before Friday afternoon, but here’s another edition of this weekly feature that tracks the most amazing single-game football performances every week in California. We have a couple of freshmen we had to include for this report, we explain why we don’t consider Mac Bingham of Torrey Pines as...
State Stat Stars of the Week
We’ll have more details and comments about LaMelo Ball’s 92 points for Chino Hills later in the week after that team has played its final regular season game, but there’s others doing some great things as well. Jules Bernard of Windward had a 45-point game last week while Covina’s Allison Ayala is now coming up […]
State Football Record Updates
Team totals are on our minds this week, beginning with Fresno High joining the 500-club for all-time reported wins, a salute to others that have moved up on that record list, such as Loyola of Los Angeles and new 600-club member Pittsburg. We also report on schools with the most NFL alumni and one NorCal...
TD from TD gets big TD in Lions Game
Tyran Daniels from Thomas Downey of Modesto sparks South to 28-20 win over the North in 43rd Central California Lions All-Star Football Game held on Saturday night in Tracy. Eleven combined turnovers made it a sloppy contest, but once again it was hard-fought to the wire in one of the state’s top all-star football games.
Lions FB Game MVP Voting
As a media partner of the Central California Lions All-Star Game and volunteer media relations coordinator, one of the main functions for Cal-Hi Sports at the annual event is to conduct MVP voting. Here’s how this year’s vote played out plus here are some of the game’s statistical leaders for both offense and defense: