Author Archives: Mark Tennis
Patrick Walsh: State FB Coach of Year
For a year like no other, Serra of San Mateo’s Patrick Walsh became a driving force among football coaches throughout the state for their sport to have a short, spring season. But that’s not the only reason he now joins the all-time state list of honored coaches that goes back for more than 100 years. […]
NEW State TOP 35 Baseball Rankings
No. 1 Thousand Oaks also has now made it into the state record book after extending current win streak to 27 games on Monday. This week also sees a different Ventura/L.A. County team, Royal of Simi Valley, join the top five. Plus, there’s red-hot JSerra getting back into the top 10, St. Augustine moving to...
NEW State TOP 35 Softball Rankings
Norco still on top, but there’s shuffling this week beginning right at No. 2 as Villa Park grabs that spot. Crescenta Valley’s win from last Monday over previous No. 2 Huntington Beach was reflected in our home page ticker last week, but not in the rankings until now. This week’s new order also sees big...
2021 Spring Football Unbeaten Teams
Some may object to counting any of the teams in this strange spring football season that didn’t lose a game as an unbeaten team. But we’ll leave the interpretation to others and we are going to count them. By our totals, we have 93 teams in California that have been added to the all-time state […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
We still have a couple more final football players listed as there were still games played last weekend, but most of this week’s standouts are from boys & girls hoops, baseball & softball, including one player from a 43-0 rout in baseball that makes it into the state record book. And in the same week...
FINAL Five-Division State FB Ranks
Since there were games going on until last weekend in a couple of places in the state, the final look at state football for this spring according to our long-time format of divisions (honoring all teams from medium to small school levels) couldn’t be done until now. All final No. 1 teams were previously announced,...
Nominate for All-State FB Spring 2021
Yes, some players might have only played a couple of games, but we are not going to turn our back on all of the players, coaches & parents who went through so much so that there was a 2021 spring football season at all. This will therefore be the 42nd consecutive season in which there […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
It’s only two weeks into our player of the week honors for boys and girls hoops (and some of the NorCal schools are playing very limited schedules), but we already have a couple of firsts. We have the first NorCal girls selection that also is based in part on what that girl has done in […]
NEW State TOP 35 Baseball Rankings
In a week in which it’s announced there will be CIF regional playoffs held beyond the CIF section playoffs for the first time since 1922, Thousand Oaks and Ayala stay in the top two positions. Buchanan, Orange Lutheran and Santa Margarita all move up as previous No. 3 Rancho Bernardo is now holding on in...
NEW State TOP 35 Softball Rankings
There’s a new No. 1 team, but it’s a team that knows all about being in that position as Norco gets the nod this week. A head-to-head win that the Cougars have over Huntington Beach comes into play after previous No. 1 Villa Park lost to Los Alamitos. Westlake and Mater Dei Catholic also move...
