As with the boys, we have returned to the format of releasing these teams by CIF divisions instead of large, medium and small. To account for differences in competitive equity, however, the combined Open Division & Division I all-state squads are doubled in size. CIF Open Division champion Clovis West is the only team with...
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Boys BB: All-State Underclass
We are tipping off the release of our annual all-state basketball teams with the underclass boys. This means the best of the best among juniors, sophomores and freshmen. These teams last year featured four players from mythical national champion Chino Hills. This year, the Huskies are well-represented again with two honorees. There are eight other...
All-State Football: Juniors
Biggest challenge was at the receiver positions due to the state’s big-time talent at the top of national Class of 2018 rankings plus others who had monster numbers. We went with three WRs on first team, two on second and several others just had to drop to third. St. John Bosco is the only school...
NEW CIFSS All-State FB Nominations
In the final updated group of all-state football nominations, this one is for the CIF Southern Section and includes a number of additional players listed since the first post two weeks ago plus other updates. New photos added as well. Now that we’ve gone through all of the CIF sections, the time has begun to...
Class of ’18 FB Player Rankings (Summer)
We go with Matt Corral of Oaks Christian at the top, but local rival Cameron Rising of Newbury Park is also in the top 10. The first 35 also continues to show how talented the team at Hawkins of Los Angeles may be this season. No other school in the state has as many players...
MLB Draft: 1st Round Recap
Three of the four first-round picks in this year’s MLB Draft from California high schools are finalists for Mr. Baseball State Player of the Year. The only one who isn’t happens to be from the same league as one of the others.
Mr. Baseball State POY Finalists
Thursday’s MLB Draft will involve most of these elite players in what is shaping up to be a very difficult choice to determine the 2016 Mr. Baseball State Player of the Year. We have cut off the list of this year finalists at seven names. If a player is not a finalist, he can still […]
More State Girls Players of the Year
We also choose honorees for juniors, sophomores and freshmen and for each CIF division. The most difficult this year might have been for the ninth graders. We also could have had co-players of the year in a couple of places. There are three players of the year from the CIF Southern Section with two from […]
State Coach of the Year: Mark Lehman
Longtime leader of boys and girls teams at Cajon of San Bernardino landed CIF Division II state title and gets the nod as state’s leading coach in girls hoops for the 2015-16 season. He’s also the first-ever State Coach of the Year in girls basketball from the Inland Empire.