Author Archives: Mark Tennis
Weekend Regional FB Scoreboard (Saturday)
It’s a second straight stunning loss for a top San Diego Section team, this time as St. Augustine falls on the final play to St. Bonaventure of Ventura in D1-A South final. Folsom beats Pitt in the NorCal game while Los Gatos and Central Valley Christian won in the 2-A games in completely different ways. […]
Weekend Regional FB Scoreboard (Friday)
One of the most incredible finishes to a game you’d ever see and three unbeaten teams that all lost were just some of the storylines for the CIF regional championships that were played on Friday night. We’ll have a similar scoreboard on Sunday morning after all of the games played on Saturday for D1-A, D2-A, […]
All-State FB Nominees (Central-LA-SD)
Here is the first of three lists of players considered as nominees for the various 2023 season all-state football teams. These are from the CIF Central, L.A. City and San Diego Sections. This is the 46th consecutive year of Cal-Hi Sports all-state football teams. We welcome additional nominations to be sent in and apologize in […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. More than lists and numbers, we can provide historical context since we’ve maintained state records in California for more than 40 years. In football this week, we have details on amazing outings for QBs Jaden Mangini, Ryder Lyons and David...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
Mater Dei goes back to the No. 1 spot it was in before last year’s CIF Southern Section championships and if recent history is a guide will stay there until St. John Bosco wins the next time in the series between the two schools. Pittsburg and Mission Viejo get big bumps, but are still playing...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
CIFSS D3 champion St. Bonaventure just misses first group, but leads off this next 25 and moved up four spots. Section champions Los Gatos, La Serna and St. Augustine also move up this week. A group of three newcomers includes CIF North Coast Section D2 champion El Cerrito for the first time this season. The...
Enhanced Regional FB Matchups
We take what the CIF has announced on Sunday for this year’s NorCal and SoCal regional championship games and enhance them with which section title each team won plus win-loss record plus any notes or comments that we immediately noticed. State title games will be played this year at Saddleback, El Camino & Pasadena junior...
FINAL CIF Regional Projections
There’s no time to explain all of these placements as they have been done late on Saturday night after all results are in and the actual pairings by the CIF will be out by Sunday afternoon. We’ll have reactions to those in a full post on Sunday night. Also, remember we don’t know which teams […]
Section Finals Weekend Scoreboard
Saturday championships have now been added, including big wins for Mission Viejo, St. Bonaventure and Rocklin. On Friday, state No. 2 Mater Dei of Santa Ana proved once again how hard it is for either itself or No. 1 St. John Bosco of Bellflower to beat the other one twice in the same season with […]
Thanksgiving Weekend FB Quiz
With the usual NFL games played in Detroit and Dallas plus the 49ers & Seahawks in the evening, the Thanksgiving football weekend has begun with a roaring start. In honor of those games plus this week’s CIF section championships being held throughout the state, we created a fun quiz that includes a question about Cowboys’ […]
