Author Archives: Harold Abend
Girls BB: CaliLive 25 Player/Team Ranks
Here’s a more in-depth look at the recent Girls California Live 2025 held on June 12-14 in Roseville. We have the top 13 teams ranked in order — starting with Archbishop Mitty, South Medford, Clovis West and Stockton St. Mary’s — and then top players from those teams are listed. We also have player highlights...
Girls BB: Cali Live 25 Top Teams
There were some teams from Southern California on hand, but three-time NorCal Open Division champion Archbishop Mitty (San Jose) was the class of the field at the Girls California Live 2025 held last weekend in Roseville. Players from South Medford (Oregon), St. Mary’s of Stockton, Clovis West of Fresno, Brentwood of Los Angeles and Villa […]
State Softball/Baseball Players of Week
As the old saying goes “all good things must come to an end” and for this week’s State Baseball-Softball Players of the Week this will be the final installment for the 2024-25 school year. Despite the fact there are only a handful of teams either still alive and competing in the CIF Regional Playoffs, and […]
Coral helps Norco corral another title
Sophomore pitcher Coral Williams plus big production from the bottom of the batting order leads state No. 1 Cougars to triumph over El Modena of Orange in CIF Southern Section D1 softball championship on Saturday in Irvine. It also avenged an earlier loss to the Vanguards from the Dave Kops TOC in Arizona. We hope […]
State Baseball/Softball Players of Week
For this week, which will be the next to last group of picked players for the 2024-25 school year, we don’t have any entries for the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book. That is something this features tracks, but despite the funnel narrowing with not a lot of teams left in action, we fulfilled the second […]
State Baseball/Softball Players of Week
For this week’s five honorees we didn’t have any entries for the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book to track, which is one of the goals of this feature, but the other goal of finding diamonds in the rough for statewide honors who might only get local recognition was more than satisfied. Five instead of four […]
All-State Girls BB 2025: First Team
Out of the thousands who played girls basketball during the 2024-25 season, here’s where the 46th annual all-state teams gets broken down to just 10 players. This includes Ms. Basketball State Player of the Year Aliyahna “Puff” Morris plus State Junior of the Year Jerzy Robinson plus two freshmen. Both Etiwanda and Ontario Christian have […]
All-State Girls BB 2025: 2nd & 3rd Tms
Here’s the place to see all of the writeups for those who have been selected second team overall and third team overall on the 46th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Girls Basketball Teams. Two more freshmen were included on these teams to go with the two on first team. There’s also three sophomores who are included....
State Softball/Baseball Players of Week
Have we ever had one week in the history of this feature (more than 10 years on this site) in which two of our honorees both threw back-to-back no-hitters? We’re not sure. All four of this week’s featured players did some amazing things and we’re pleased to bring their stories to a bigger audience. They […]
State Baseball/Softball Players of Week
The two goals of this weekly feature are to track potential entries in the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book and to uncover and identify some hidden talent and diamonds in the rough for statewide recognition that might only get local kudos. While we didn’t have any performances that made the record book, we had two […]
