Author Archives: Harold Abend
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 […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 30 Rankings
There were a couple of changes in the top 10 this week with Etiwanda and Archbishop Mitty flipping. The next three spots stayed the same but with Folsom getting upset the next four teams after the Bulldogs all moved up a spot with Fairmont Prep joining the top 10. The reality is once we get...
State Basketball Players of the Week
We didn’t have any entries for the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book to track among this week for State Basketball Players of the Week award winners, but we did have some talent that was discovered, including a freshman girls who can light it up from outside, among this week’s honorees. This week our stops are […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 30 Rankings
A whole lot has happened since the first regular season rankings were released for games through December 14. However, after just around three weeks of major tournament action since then, and a major injury in the California girls basketball community that pretty much occurred on the eve of these rankings being released, after all that...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 25 Rankings
This will be the only rankings we will do until after the Nike TOC, West Coast Jamboree and SoCal Holiday Classic are completed during the holidays, but one thing that is shaping up, and that is after the first five teams (led by Ontario Christian & Archbishop Mitty) no one seems to have what it...
Milestone Win, Mitty Title at Sweet 16
State preseason No. 2 Archbishop Mitty (San Jose) headed down to San Diego for the annual La Jolla Country Day Sweet 16 tourney and came back with an impressive title. The big story of the event on Friday night was the host school’s head coach becoming the winningest head coach in CIF San Diego Section […]
State Football Players of the Week
We’ve come to the end of the line for this year’s version of the State Football Players of the Week, but despite only having section title games to choose from with only several dozen teams in action, we have six very worthy honorees that will now have an opportunity to help their teams win a […]
Troy Classic: Ontario Christian Triumphant
After knocking off two-time defending CIF state Open Division champions and Cal-Hi Sports and national preseason No 1 Etiwanda at the Harvard-Westlake tournament two weeks ago, preseason No. 4 ranked Ontario Christian headed to Texas for the Nike Hoopfest in Texas and came back victorious and looked to remain unbeaten at the Troy Classic in […]
Different MD win vs Bosco for title
It wasn’t close to the 59-14 triumph from earlier this season, but national/state No. 1 Mater Dei of Santa Ana tops state No. 2 St. John Bosco of Bellflower, 31-24, to win its second straight CIF Southern Section D1 championship. They will now go into the CIF Open Division state final in two weeks to […]
The Bean Is Born
It has only taken three games for Sydney “Bean” Douglas to make an impact as a 6-foot-6 freshman at Ontario Christian. The daughter of former Ms. Basketball State Player of the Year Maylana Martin and former NFL lineman Rome Douglas was the leading scorer for the Knights in their big win last week over preseason […]
