Author Archives: Mark Tennis
NEW State TOP 25 FB Rankings (1-25)
It will be No. 1 St. John Bosco facing No. 3 Serra of San Mateo in the CIF Open Division final on Saturday at Saddleback College. The rest of the top 10 this week has been reshuffled with the D1-AA regional results as De La Salle moved up following its win over Folsom and Lincoln...
NEW State TOP 25 FB Rankings (26-50)
CIF state finalists McClymonds of Oakland and Granite Hills of El Cajon both move up within this group. We also tried to get San Ramon Valley into the 50th spot, but head-to-head losses didn’t work out and the Wolves would be No. 51. Newcomers this week are all done for the season but go in...
Salute to Peter Ackermann
Longtime softball coach and athletics coordinator at Oaks Christian of Westlake Village died last Saturday from a heart condition at age 77. Last June’s CIF SoCal D1 championship game that the Lions won in dramatic fashion, 6-5, over Roosevelt of Eastvale unfortunately wound up as Pete’s last game. His final career record of 651-148-1 is […]
Saturday CIF Regional Scoreboard
The Weekend State TOP 25 Scoreboard is being replaced this weekend by two scoreboards that will present details and quick reactions from the Saturday and Friday CIF regional championships. The big winners on Saturday were Pittsburg (D1-A), Liberty of Bakersfield (D1-A), San Ramon Valley of Danville (D2-A) and Granite Hills of El Cajon (D2-A). Note: […]
Friday CIF Regional Scoreboard
The Weekend State TOP 25 Scoreboard is being replaced this weekend by two scoreboards that will present details and quick reactions from the Friday and Saturday CIF regional championships. The big winners on Friday were De La Salle of Concord (D1-AA), Lincoln of San Diego (D1-AA), McClymonds of Oakland (D2-AA) and Mater Dei Catholic of […]
Medium/Small Schools State FB Ranks
Going into the CIF regional finals, Yorba Linda for medium and Escalon for small can win out and add additional honor to the CIF state title both are looking for. If they lose, the final No. 1 ranking could go to a team that has lost to a large school in a higher competitive equity...
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. Two of the top stat stars are from Kennedy of Granada Hills and Granada Hills Charter. We also have a player who pulled off the Christian McCaffrey triple (TD pass, TD catch, TD run). Plus, we have more boys &...
NEW State TOP 25 FB Rankings (1-25)
The last time that St. John Bosco was No. 1 in the state was at the start of the 2021 COVID spring season and the Braves are now back following their big win over Mater Dei last Friday. How long will MD stay at No. 2 until it gets it back? This week’s rankings prior...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (26-50)
It’s never too late to go into the TOP 50 of the state and we have three newcomers this week who are going in for the first time: Lemoore, Granite Hills of El Cajon and Marin Catholic of Kentfield. McClymonds of Oakland and Mater Dei Catholic also are moving up and could play each other...
Enhanced CIF Regional FB Matchups
We take what the CIF has announced on Sunday for next week’s NorCal and SoCal regional championship games and enhance them with which title each team won plus win-loss record plus any notes or comments that we immediately noticed. State title games will be played in Open, D1-AA, D1-A, D2-AA and D2-A the following week […]
