Category Archives: Preseason coverage
Preseason All-Central Section FB Team
It’s now up to stop No. 3 in our annual tour of the state prior to the start of the 2023 football season. For this one, it’s the CIF Central Section, which in recent years has been in the unique situation in which its team could go north or south for the CIF regional bowl...
Preseason Long Beach/South Bay FB
For our second stop in our annual tour of the state prior to the start of the 2023 football season we hit the region dominated by national powerhouse St. John Bosco. We did Orange County and Mater Dei in the first stop. This year, though, on the offensive side of the ball, there also are...
Preseason All-Orange County FB Team
We are once again going to take a tour of the state prior to the start of the 2023 football season through the selection of preseason football honor squads. We begin with Orange County of the CIF Southern Section where the most talent-laden team of returnees that we’ve ever seen in more than 40 years...
Key Takeaways At Stockton Showcase
St. Mary’s (Stockton) speed, Central Catholic of Modesto beef and new players coming up at key positions for some schools made the first-ever spring football event held this week at Stagg High in Stockton a success. Note: We hope you enjoy this free post on CalHiSports.com. Some of our upcoming preseason football features will be […]
Preseason Softball State TOP 40
Welcome to another season of Cal-Hi Sports state softball rankings. These have been done more than 30 years. The softball “preseason” rankings are different than baseball, which was done last week, because there are some teams in the CIF Southern Section that have already played games. We will continue to use the California rankings we […]
Preseason Baseball State TOP 40
Welcome to the 44th season of Cal-Hi Sports state baseball rankings. We will continue to follow more teams in the greatest baseball state in the nation than anyone else. This will be the second season in which the CIF NorCal & CIF SoCal regional championships will conclude the race to the top. Will it gain […]
Preseason Girls BB State Ranks (1-20)
One week after our extensive boys basketball preseason state rankings, we do the same for the girls. With some teams starting in the CIF Southern Section on November 14 and some games in the CIF Central Section, adjustments to the original pecking order we planned had to be made to accommodate some of the results […]
Preseason Girls BB State Ranks (21-40)
This group of leading girls hoops teams in the state for the 2022-23 season is led off by defending CIF Sac-Joaquin Section D1 champion Oak Ridge. We also have a state champion in D2 from last season, a team with a player looking to move up big-time on the all-time career scoring list and at […]
Preseason Boys BB Ranks (1-15)
It’s time to launch our winter basketball content on CalHiSports.com and we’ll do it with our preseason boys basketball state rankings. It was a normal summer for the first time since 2019, as the long-term effects of COVID-19 begin to take shape and California deals with its “new” normal. That normal includes the impact that Name, […]