Author Archives: Harold Abend
Ontario Christian Girls Prevail
Two free throws with 17.6 seconds left proved to be the big difference for the state No. 1 Knights in their 65-63 victory on Saturday night at Toyota Arena over state No. 2 Etiwanda. The Eagles certainly are not done, however, in their attempt to win a third straight CIF Open Division state title. FOR […]
Friday CIFSS Girls BB Highlights
Winners for Friday’s CIF Southern Section girls basketball championship games played at Toyota Arena in Ontario were Rancho Christian for D1, Oak Park for D2AA, Rolling Hills Prep of San Pedro for D2A and Mark Keppel of Alhambra for D3AA. We hope you enjoy this free post on CalHiSports.com. Please help us out today by […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 30 Rankings
Seedings versus Cal-Hi Sports girls rankings is this week’s theme. The biggest difference is by and large seedings are computer driven while these rankings come from personal observation and years of observing and evaluating the state’s top girls basketball talent. As of these current rankings we will have traversed the state and personally seen 24...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 30 Rankings
The CIF Southern Section claims its Open Division playoffs are the toughest playoffs not only in California but the entire nation, and rightfully so, but after the opening rounds in both Pool A and Pool B, what’s even more obvious is the disparity between the top four seeds and the other four seeds in the...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 30 Rankings
For the better part of next week there will be limited action in the CIF Southern Section with no games for the Open Division until Saturday and Thursday for the lower divisions. That’s not the case in other CIF sections. The Central Coast Section doesn’t even have its seeding meeting until next Monday. At some...
State Basketball Players of the Week
We have four very deserving honorees this week that are not the big stars that take up a lot of the limelight, but those that usually might only get local accolades. We don’t have any entries for the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book, which is one of the goals of this feature, but one of […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 30 Rankings
As we begin the final drive to CIF section playoffs, one thing is pretty apparent. These rankings don’t fully coincide with what the computer spits out or in the case of the CIF Southern Section it uses a system that includes a weighted form of margin of victory. Regardless, we are going to continue to...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 30 Rankings
The first nine spots remain intact this week but after that there are a lot of changes with only one team in the next 21 spots holding onto the same spot it had in last week’s rankings. Having seen seven of the top 10 teams and 24 of the TOP 30 in live action, we...
Yessoufou goes to No. 2 in Salesian win
The matchup between Cal-Hi Sports No. 4 St. Joseph of Santa Maria and No. 9 Salesian of Richmond had more than one storyline and some twists and turns in the featured high school game on Saturday at the 10th Annual Crush in the Valley Basketball Showcase at Contra Costa College in San Pablo. We hope […]
State Basketball Players of the Week
Just like every year with MLK weekend games and events going through Monday, it means the boys and girls rankings were delayed until Tuesday, and that also means the State Basketball Players of the Week feature is delayed a day as well, and last but not least Tuesday games are included, and that helped secure […]
