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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 […]

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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 […]

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State Football Players of the Week

Despite the fact all the remaining teams in CIF section playoffs were halved last week with one week to go, we accomplished both goals of this feature, uncovering hidden talent that might only get local recognition, and tracking entries for the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book. This week we visit Madera, Oakland and Winters in […]

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Ontario Christian tops Etiwanda

Preseason state No. 4 Knights take down No. 1 Etiwanda, 74-66, on Saturday night in Studio City to win Harvard-Westlake Invitational. First slate of games shows just how much of an impact incoming freshman Sydney “Bean” Douglas is going to have this season, especially paired with scoring phenom Kaleena Smith. We also had a big […]

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State Football Players of the Week

As the section playoffs narrow the funnel of those that can be selected, there are still some rather incredible performances from last weekend that deserve major props. One of them will be good enough to go into the state record all-time list for single-game rushing. All of them helped their teams collect playoff wins. The […]

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Preseason Girls BB Ranks (1-15)

We continue to roll out our preseason winter basketball content on CalHiSports.com and we’re doing that today with our annual preseason girls basketball state rankings. Etiwanda has already won two straight CIF Open Division state titles and is loaded for a shot at number three. The Eagles don’t have to look far — about 15 […]

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Preseason Girls BB Ranks (16-40)

Here’s the rest of the preseason Top 40 of the best girls basketball teams from all across California. This group is led by the legendary sharpshooters from Pinewood of Los Altos Hills at No. 16 and goes on to No. 40 Lynwood, which has a legendary head coach. We also have added a list of […]

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State Football Players of the Week

With many schools already contesting playoff games, it will become more difficult the last couple of weeks of this feature to find worthy candidates. However, for this week’s State Football Players of the Week, we found players worthy of more than local recognition, which is one of the goals of this feature, but we also […]

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OLu Wins CIFSS D1 Flag FB Crown

We also have some info on the other CIF Southern Section girls flag football championships played on Saturday at Fred Kelly Stadium in Orange plus comments from speakers at the first-ever CIFSS press luncheon held the previous Wednesday that was sponsored by the Los Angeles Chargers. We hope you enjoy this free story on Cal-Hi […]

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State Football Players of the Week

This week’s honorees include two remarkable kickers, one who kicked his second 50-yard field goal of the season and the other who’s a girl who had game-winning field goal that earned her team a league title. We also have a QB with eight TD passes in a game his team won, 90-46. The six we […]

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