Category Archives: football
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
No. 4 Sierra Canyon gets a scare in its league showdown, but No. 5 San Mateo Serra does not. Granite Hills of El Cajon moves up four spots after its big win over Helix, while this week’s other major mover is Servite of Anaheim, which is now essentially in a tie with league rivals Santa...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
It’s the most newcomers this week since early in the season with six squads getting the call up from last week’s bubble. Monterey Trail’s win over Grant of Sacramento and Frontier of Bakersfield beating Liberty of Bakersfield caused the most changes. The other four going in are St. Francis of Mountain View, Central of Fresno,...
Spotlight Athlete: Hunter Babb
Uncommitted 2024 RB/ATH Hunter Babb has established himself as one of the most dynamic running backs in the CIF Central Section and for the state’s small schools during his high school football career at Caruthers High. Here’s a different way we normally present stories about a top athlete. We may do more of these 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. We’ve got another girl scoring a touchdown (just the second one in Central Section history) but there was...
Medium/Small Schools State FB Ranks
Pacifica of Oxnard still No. 1 in medium schools despite computer ranking. Oak Hills, Leuzinger and Citrus Valley all move up in medium with newcomer slots going to St. Francis (La Canada) and Central Valley Christian. For small schools, not much movement except for Twelve Bridges going up after win over Sutter. Big games this...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Although we had one Southern California award winner come close, we didn’t have any totals this week that will eventually go into the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book, which is one of the purposes of this feature. We did fulfill the other intention of this feature and that is to uncover talent that sometimes only […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
Bosco retakes No. 1 ranking and makes the preseason pick of the Braves not look so bad after win vs No. 2 Mater Dei. Who else had them first at the start? Santa Margarita’s win over JSerra also causes a lot of evaluation and changes. This week’s only newcomer to this group is new No....
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
There are three new teams called up into this week’s rankings, with Tustin being only one of the three that is featured for the first time this season. The other two are Chaparral of Temecula and Chaminade of West Hills. Teams getting upward bumps include Oak Ridge (El Dorado Hills), Oak Hills (Hesperia) and a...
MD-Bosco & Centennial Highlights
For perhaps the first time in our history (which goes back 45 plus years), we were able to see the top three ranked teams in the state in the regular season on the same weekend. The top two of them, of course, played each other on Friday night in Bellflower. But on Thursday night it […]
