Author Archives: Mark Tennis
NEW State Baseball TOP 35
It’s been an insane start for the No. 1 Corona baseball team. The big accomplishment so far for any of the six teams that the Panthers have played is scoring a run and that has only happened once compared to five shutouts (including one on Tuesday). There has been a lot of changes since the...
Boys/Girls BB State Teams of Year 2025
We’re doing a combo post for the final State Teams of the Year honors since both teams — Roosevelt of Eastvale boys and Etiwanda girls — are from the Inland Empire and are only about 16 miles apart. It’s not the first time that the Inland Empire has swept the two big final No. 1 […]
NEW State Softball TOP 25
There’s much upheaval from the preseason as a lot of top teams from 2024 have not done well to start 2025. The new No. 1 is El Modena of Orange due to its championship two weekends ago at the Dave Kops TOC in Arizona, but good lord do the Vanguards have a tough schedule. They...
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
We have a mix this week with some games from Tuesday’s regional basketball finals involving stars like Brayden Burries, Alijah Arenas, Alijah “Puff” Morris and Lauren Harris. Burries, Arenas & Morris will all be on hand at this weekend’s CIF state finals in Sacramento. Harris has obliterated state three-point shooting records for girls. Final career...
State Baseball/Softball Players of Week
These are the first players of the week for the 2025 spring season and all four honorees have been tabbed for providing big power totals at the plate. One of them is from a family we’ve been covering closely since the early 1990s and another was impacted greatly from the Eaton Fire in Altadena. They […]
Girls BB: NEW Division State Ranks
New No. 1 teams are Windward of Los Angeles (D1), Marin Catholic of Kentfield (D3), Half Moon Bay (D4) and Rosamond (D5). Still No. 1 is Ontario Christian (Open) and Caruthers (D2). This is the second installment of these divisional state rankings, which are updated through the regional semifinals played Saturday. The third installment will...
Boys BB: NEW Division State Ranks
Here is the second installment of these divisional state rankings, which are updated through the regional semifinals played Saturday. The third installment will be the final rankings after next weekend’s CIF state championships. No. 1 teams are Roosevelt of Eastvale (Open), Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth (D1), Chatsworth (D2), King’s Academy of Sunnyvale (D3), Fresno Christian...
Boys BB All-State Nominees (SoCal)
Here is a first list of the boys nominees for Southern California high schools who are “on the board” for the 46th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State teams. We did the first NorCal list with the Central Section in the north last week. We welcome all input and additional nominations. We also have archived other seasons […]
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
This is the time of the year for this feature when we start mixing in top performances from baseball and softball as many of those teams around the state have already played multiple games. Basketball’s best include two girls closing in on state single-season three-point shooting record plus more big games from J.D. Wyatt (Sun...
Boys BB: NEW Division State Ranks
As has been the case since competitive equity seeding for CIF regional playoffs, we can’t do any divisional state rankings since it isn’t known which divisions to place teams until the regional playoffs are seeded. We not only have those placements from last Sunday, but the first round of games from Tuesday to go off […]