For our next to last stop for the SoCal region in our series of preseason all-section or all-area football teams, we head to the San Fernando Valley & Ventura County area of the CIF Southern Section. This team also includes players from Santa Barbara County plus the Santa Clarita Valley but not the Antelope Valley....
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NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
It’s the most newcomers this week since early in the season with six squads getting the call up from last week’s bubble. Monterey Trail’s win over Grant of Sacramento and Frontier of Bakersfield beating Liberty of Bakersfield caused the most changes. The other four going in are St. Francis of Mountain View, Central of Fresno,...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
This group is led by Madison of San Diego, which will look to come back from a tough loss to Oak Ridge with a game this week vs Helix. Big movers include Servite of Anaheim and Central Catholic of Modesto. Newcomers this week are topped by Palos Verdes of PV Estates plus McClymonds of Oakland....
NEW Softball State TOP 25 Rankings
The timing of the rankings this week once again includes Monday games (but not Tuesday), which means Los Alamitos is No. 2 after a win over No. 3 Huntington Beach. A win last week by the Oilers over the Griffins, however, plus two big wins by Clovis North in the Tri-River Athletic Conference pushes the...
FINAL Boys BB State TOP 40 Rankings
As is another of our traditions, we present our expanded, final State Top 40 overall boys basketball team rankings for the 2022-23 season, the first season with no COVID-19 issues since 2018-19. There is some movement from our previous weekly Top 25 update, as teams in strong leagues deserve to move up and more D2...
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. It’s now mostly baseball & softball players getting into the spotlight, but there are some wraps as well for basketball, especially with where Lynwood’s Jason Crowe Jr. has been added into the state record book. We also have our first...
Boys BB: State Ranks By Divisions
Yes, we will once again have final divisional state rankings this season, but we can’t get them started until the CIF does its divisional placements and then there’s not enough time to get them done until the first round of the regional playoffs begin. No. 1 teams at this point of the sprint to the […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
There was a window of time that opened up on Monday for us to get done with this week’s honorees and it has been done. This also is to ensure that each winner can enjoy perhaps 24 hours as player of the week before locking in on a Tuesday section playoff game. Our stops this […]
Baseball All-State Nominees (SoCal)
After getting out our first look at NorCal nominees yesterday for the annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball Teams, here’s the same thing for the CIF L.A. City Section, CIF San Diego Section and CIF Southern Section. For these lists, the Central Section is in the north. They are based on information we’ve gained through coverage […]
