Author Archives: Harold Abend
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
For our six stops this week we hit the beaches of Southern California twice before heading to the suburbs of San Diego and Santee. When we head up to Northern California, we start in the Mother Lode Country town of Grass Valley, then head west on Highway 80 to around halfway between San Francisco and […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Now that all teams in Northern California have at least one game under their belts, we are bringing back this popular feature that allows us to track not only outstanding performances, but some players who could be added into the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book. For this first week we head 40 miles north of […]
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-East Bay (NCS & Oak)
Not surprisingly, De La Salle of Concord leads the way with four first team and four second team selections. They are not household names, but isn’t that the way it is every year for the Spartans? Pittsburg is close behind with Clayton Valley, Benicia and McClymonds next. Note: These preseason all-section or all-area teams are...
All-State Girls BB: Best of Best
Ms. Basketball State Player of the Year Jayda Curry of No. 1 Corona Centennial leads the first team (top 10 overall) on the 41st annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state girls basketball team. Two sophomores who have both been state player of the year both land on this first group along with the girl from San Diego […]
All-State Girls BB: 2nd & 3rd Teams
Here’s the place to see all of the writeups for those who are second team overall and third team overall on the 41st annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Girls Basketball Teams. The second team features two freshmen from the same team plus two from state-ranked Clovis West. The third team has two more freshmen and two...
Ms. Basketball 2021: Calling Ms. Curry
It goes down to the last game, but that’s the difference for Centennial of Corona guard Jayda Curry in gaining this year’s most prestigious and longest running girls basketball individual honor in California. Choosing a Ms. Basketball with no state championships for a second straight year was made even more complicated by the fact there […]
State Coach of Year: Martin Woods
Before the fireworks went off, Corona Centennial’s Josh Giles was selected State Coach of the Year in boys basketball. The fireworks may be cooling, but the school keeps on sparkling with Martin Woods named as State Coach of the Year for girls basketball. This is the first time a school has had both state coaches […]
FINAL State TOP 40 Girls BB Ranks
It’s hard to believe that we are doing final rankings up against the Fourth of July and with school out for the summer, but before the season began we made it clear we would not let this pandemic wipe out the normalcy of our weekly rankings and yearly postseason honors still to come. We start...
NorCal / SoCal Players of the Week
This will be the final week for the Baseball and Softball Players of the Week since Northern California, except for the CIF Central Section, has concluded play. It turns out there was one player from the Sacramento area we could still honor since his last game was last week. We also went with one of […]
