Author Archives: Harold Abend
State Football Players of the Week
This week it’s the final narrowing of the funnel, as traditionally it’s also the last week for the Cal-Hi Sports State Football Player of the Week honors with all of the CIF section championship games. We’re switching to basketball (boys & girls) next week. For our final week, not only did we uncover some hidden […]
Mater Dei Wins Inaugural Girls BB event
Harmony Golightly is MVP for the Monarchs, but the news is not all good for preseason state No. 5 team as it is revealed that South Carolina-bound Kaeli Wynn will be out for the rest of the season due to an upcoming knee surgery. This early season girls bb update also includes big results from […]
Ontario Chr leads in 1st Girls BB Ranks
We know another group has ranked Archbishop Mitty No. 1 in the nation, but we’re going to be more cautious with the return of All-American McKenna Wolitczko from injury and we think the Monarchs should be behind Etiwanda to start as well. Ontario Christian should have its big two of Kaleena Smith & Tati Griffin […]
Flag FB: JSerra Wins CIFSS D1 title
Perfect JSerra wins girls flag football CIFSS D1 title The old cliché “the third time is a charm” worked very well for the JSerra of San Juan Capistrano flag football team, but not so well for Orange Lutheran of Orange after JSerra defeated Orange Lutheran for the third time this season. This time, however, the […]
State Football Players of the Week
As the funnel begins to narrow as the playoffs in almost every one of the 10 CIF sections in the state is beginning to halve the field of teams still in action, we still not only found some hidden talent that gets statewide honors to go with local kudos, but we even had some entries […]
State Football Players of the Week
We’re starting to wind down as the football season enters the playoffs in the CIF Southern Section as well as several other sections, so the funnel begins to narrow. We didn’t have any Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book entries to track this week, which is one of the goals of this feature, but we did […]
State Football Players of the Week
This week we cover all the bases, and that included finding hidden talent worthy of statewide recognition, entries for the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book, and have thanks to those who sent in nominations. Our stops this week are in San Diego, Encino and Thousand Oaks in Southern California, and in Northern California we visit […]
State Football Players of the Week
This week we not only find some hidden talent for statewide recognition, which is one of the goals of this weekly feature, but we visit the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book which is the other focus of the State Football Players of the Week. Both offensive players have totals that will get a listing. We […]
Girls BB: H.O.P.E event draws top talent
San Ramon Valley, playing as Wolfpack NorCal – Black, gets one eye-opening win at Orange County event over Etiwanda. Eagles also debuted a new freshman point guard at the event who didn’t play vs SRV. We also have players mentioned and watched from Mater Dei, Windward, Centennial of Corona, Bishop Montgomery of Torrance, Rosary of […]
State Football Players of the Week
This is a great week for the Cal-Hi Sports State Football Players of the Week feature. Two weeks ago we got a nomination from the dean of California prep journalists, Eric Sondheimer of the Los Angeles Times, and this week we got one from the top prep scribes in Northern California. Plus, there are a […]
