Category Archives: CIF State Championships
Ontario Christian Girls Prevail
Two free throws with 17.6 seconds left proved to be the big difference for the state No. 1 Knights in their 65-63 victory on Saturday night at Toyota Arena over state No. 2 Etiwanda. The Eagles certainly are not done, however, in their attempt to win a third straight CIF Open Division state title. FOR […]
CIFSS Open: State No. 1 Roosevelt Wins
After losing in the CIF Southern Section Open Division championship last season, Roosevelt of Eastvale makes clutch shots down the stretch and beats Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks on Saturday night in Ontario to win this year’s title. The big matchup of No. 1 vs No. 2 teams in the state could be replayed in […]
Boys BB: Thoughts on Open Division
As the first of the major CIF section boys basketball championships are about to get going on Friday, here’s where we think we stand in terms of which teams in the north and which ones in the south will be going to the Open Division. A lot can still change depending on any upsets for […]
More State Football Players of the Year
Check inside this post for the honorees who have been chosen among juniors, sophomores, freshmen, medium schools and small schools. And since Mr. Football is a junior and from a medium school, we also have additional honorees this time for large schools and seniors. To see who has been named Cal-Hi Sports Mr. Football State […]
More State Football Coaches of Year
For taking a brand new school to records of 12-1 and 14-1 in just its second and third varsity seasons, Chris Bean from Twelve Bridges of Lincoln gains top state medium schools honor. For small schools, a coach who went 12-0 in his first season in 2009 at Carmel, Golden Anderson, and who just went […]
FINAL Medium/Small State FB Ranks
As earlier announced, Newbury Park and St. Vincent de Paul of Petaluma were named teams of the year for medium & small schools just after the CIF state finals. Now, we have expanded, final rankings for both breakdowns. Those moving up the most for medium at the end include Cardinal Newman, Beaumont, San Jacinto and...
Mater Dei State Team of Year 2024
Here is the official updated list of the California high school football state teams of the year that goes back for more than 120 years with Mater Dei of Santa Ana now added for 2024. Since the Monarchs also were No. 1 in the pandemic season when there were no section/state playoffs, it’s now four […]
More State FB Teams of Year
This was one of the hardest final State Small Schools Team of the Year selections in more than 40 years of doing one at the end of a season. Corona Centennial also gets another State Public School Team of the Year honor, Newbury Park already had wrapped it up for medium schools and we have...
More CIF Saturday State Finals
We still have MVPs to pick for every CIF state championship game (we have one for every game played since 2006), but here are recaps of the title tilts played on Saturday at Veterans Stadium in Long Beach and at Fullerton UHSD Stadium. Two of these games went into overtime, one will go down as […]
Saturday CIF State Football Finals
It’s another CIF Open Division state title for Mater Dei, but this time the NorCal representative, De La Salle of Concord, put up a fight in the third quarter to make it interesting…at least for a few minutes. Monarchs gain their fifth CIF state title since 2017. Edison of Huntington Beach and Palos Verdes of […]
