Category Archives: State Top 20 Rankings
More Softball State Teams of Year
State Team of the Year honors for the 2025 softball season also are going out for the four other CIF based playoff divisions. We have done teams of the year in five divisions for many years and these mythical honors considered all teams that played in CIF section playoffs (including those that opted out of […]
Boys BB: FINAL Division State Ranks
All of the CIF state champions crowned last weekend in Sacramento are in the final No. 1 positions, but the runner-up is often not always going to be placed at No. 2. More adjustments also are made with teams from NorCal or SoCal going up or going down depending on what happened in the various...
Preseason All-Central Section FB Team
After starting in Orange County, the second stop in our annual tour of the state through the selection of preseason football honor squads is the CIF Central Section. It’s the home of three current NFL starting QBs (Josh Allen, Derek Carr & Jordan Love) and we had to get creative through our multi-purpose category to...
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. Two big off-season happenings is the continued impact Name, Image, Likeness (NIL) has on the boys basketball landscape and the NFHS recommended rule changes that eliminates the one-and-one foul shot in high school basketball. […]
Preseason Boys BB Ranks (16-40)
It’s time to launch our winter basketball content on CalHiSports.com and we are doing it with a preseason Top 40 of the best boys teams from all across the state. This group is led by No. 16 and NorCal open contender Branson of Ross and includes the rest of these teams down to No. 40 […]
State TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
The highest ranked team to lose to a lower ranked team on either Thursday or Friday was No. 12 Rancho Cucamonga on Thursday to Upland. The most head-turning score was Friday’s 49-0 victory by JSerra over Servite of Anaheim, especially after Servite had just defeated Santa Margarita. Congratulations to all the teams that wrapped up […]
Sutter Softball Looks D1 Ready
Huskies prevailed over previously unbeaten East Nicolaus, 1-0, on Thursday in a showdown between state’s top two small school squads. Both teams are now headed into different CIF section playoffs in “small school” divisions, but competitive equity seeding for the CIF NorCal regional playoffs creates all sorts of possibilities for division placement. We hope you […]
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, […]
Preseason Boys BB Ranks (16-40)
It’s time to launch our winter basketball content on CalHiSports.com and we are doing it with a preseason Top 40 of the best boys teams from all across the state. This group is led by No. 16 Clovis West and includes the rest of these teams down to No. 40 Rancho Cucamonga, plus a list […]
Baseball: Final State TOP 40 Rankings
Our final rankings are not rushed out and done in a simple list form. We take our time and expand them at the end all the way out to 40 teams in all and have completed write-ups for each. CIF D2 regional champions Archbishop Mitty and Torrey Pines get the biggest jumps for the final...
