As promised, here’s a look at a list of top freshman softball players from the 2024 season from around the state that likely will be making all-state teams down the road. This isn’t an all-state team since the same format as the others can’t be duplicated, but it’s as close as we can get. These...
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Girls BB: NorCal Stop Ends Live Period
The Chico Tarheels, made up mostly of girls from Pleasant Valley of Chico with twin sisters from Sacramento mixed in, went 6-0 in their division to make a big impression at the End of the Trail (EOT) Summer Showcase last weekend in Roseville. Longtime girls hoops analyst Harold Abend also has more younger players to...
Preseason All-Orange County FB Team
It’s time to again take a tour of the state prior to the start of a football season through the selection of preseason football honor squads. We start again with Orange County of the CIF Southern Section where five of the six teams from the mighty Trinity League reside. Public school Mission Viejo, however, also...
25 Schools With Winning In Their DNA
We are now at that point of the summer in which we are updating the all-time state football records that have been maintained exclusively by Cal-Hi Sports since the first list was compiled in the 1970s. We begin with team categories and one of them is the list of schools with the best all-time win-loss […]
Website Updates For 2024-25
It’s been more than 10 years now since this website has been the home of Cal-Hi Sports, but our history of course goes back to the days of weekly newsletters that began during the 1979-80 school year. We’re not stopping any time soon, but there are some changes coming for the 2024-25 school year. Note: […]
Class of 26 FB: First Hot 100
Mater Dei wide receiver Chris Henry Jr. moves to the top of the state among this class after his transfer from Ohio. Another Monarchs’ transfer, offensive tackle Kodi Greene Jr., is not far behind. This class, however, is also about quarterbacks, led by two of the very best incoming juniors in the nation. FOR A...
All-State Baseball 2024: First Team
We conclude the release of our 42nd annual All-State Baseball Teams. State Team of the Year Corona has three on first team, but you’ll have to read the post to see which three (there’s also two on second team). We also got creative with a couple of the outfield positions instead of using even more […]
All-State Baseball: 2nd & 3rd Teams
In addition to first team overall, the 42nd edition of the Cal-Hi Sports All-State teams for baseball also has 35 more players here who have been selected second team. Any player from any school regardless of class or school size can be on first or second team. The third team, however, is only for seniors...
Girls BB: More Digging For Diamonds
The second of our annual Girls of Summer basketball features from longtime analyst Harold Abend focuses on two events in Orange County. While it’s impossible to see great players in one place these days with so many events at the same time, one of those seen that had to get a mention for this feature...
Baseball: All-State Medium, Small
The selections for the 42nd annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball Teams goes on and today it’s those from medium & small schools. It’s more confusing as ever as which is large, medium & small thanks to competitive equity based playoffs but we have been doing these teams for a long time. Both the small schools […]
