Author Archives: Harold Abend
Clovis Girls BB Wins Jamboree Crown
State Top 20 team tops Hawaii team in prestigious Bay Area tourney’s Platinum Division title game behind MVP Sadie Sin. The Cougars also avenged an earlier loss in the semifinals. Their league rivals from Central East won the third-place game with Villa Park taking the consolation crown. For the first time in 25 years in […]
State Basketball Players of the Week
This is another week in which we don’t have any entries to track for the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book. That is one of the goals of this feature, but there is no shortage of hidden talent to earn a statewide award to go with local recognition, and that’s our other goal. This week our […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 30 Rankings
As has been the case in years past, we follow up the preseason pankings with an initial first rankings prior to major tournaments like the Nike TOC in Arizona, the Nike Holiday Classic in Oregon and the West Coast Jamboree in the Bay Area. As of this time there is still a lot of uncertainty...
State Basketball Players of the Week
We don’t have any entries this week for the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book to track, which is one of the goals of this feature, but the other goal of the feature, to find diamonds in the rough and hidden talent for statewide honors to go with local recognition, was very much accomplished. For this […]
State Basketball Players of the Week
For the first week of the Cal-Hi Sports State Basketball Players of the Week for the 2025-26 season, we don’t have any entries for the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book to track, which is one of the goals of the feature, but we more than accomplished the other goal. That is to find some hidden […]
Ontario Chr girls dominant in tourney
State’s preseason No. 1 girls hoops team looks like a national No. 1 team the way that it rolled to the Troy Warrior Way Hoops Classic title on Saturday. Preseason state No. 2 Sierra Canyon also was in the event, but is still missing State Junior of the Year Jerzy Robinson. Note: We hope you […]
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 […]
