It’s the same teams in the top 10 for this week, but there are changes as De La Salle, Orange Lutheran and Folsom go up and Mission Viejo has to drop to 10th. Santa Margarita maintains top ranking. The biggest movers, meanwhile, are led by Mission Hills of San Marcos (up eight spots), Archbishop Riordan...
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Girls of Summer Player Rankings (Pt 1)
For the 21st year of doing this feature, our girls hoops lead analyst provides the names of more than 100 California high school girls basketball players who have received a dot system ranking of 7.0 or higher, led by returning Ms. Basketball State Player of the Year Kaleena Smith with a 9.6. Her former teammate,...
More 2025-26 Grid-Hoopers We Loved
In addition to the first 15 all-state grid-hoop athletes announced this week, there were many others uncovered in our research that we found who embodied the best of grid-hoop success. We will have two more posts with honors for the 205-26 school year, which will be our State Athletes of the Year. Several of those...
All-State Baseball Nominees (NorCal)
It’s time to get started on the process toward selecting the 44th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball Teams. These are top players who had strong seasons this year from the CIF Central Coast, Central, North Coast, SF/Oakland, Northern and Sac-Joaquin Sections. We encourage all coaches, parents and others to send us info on anyone missed […]
State Softball/Baseball Players of Week
Los Gatos pulls off a rare feat in that there was a Wildcats’ baseball player honored last week as the NorCal pick and then this week we have a Wildcats’ softball player with the same. This week’s other stop for Northern California is Bakersfield. For the south, we head to Temecula and Hesperia. We hope […]
FINAL Boys BB All-State Noms
It’s the 47th year of Cal-Hi Sports All-State teams for boys basketball and we’ll begin to pick the teams in a few days after our players of the year honorees are announced. Here is an updated list of nominees for all of this year’s All-State Boys Basketball Teams. Thanks to all who sent in information...
Girls BB All-State Nominees (NorCal)
This will be the 47th year of the annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State teams for girls basketball. Yes, we started doing the girls with the same coverage as the boys in the late 1970s. We start the process with an initial list of nominees on our board for teams that will be chosen. This list covers […]
CIF Saturday Boys BB State Finals
Despite early injury to key player, Sierra Canyon completes dominant season with win in Open Division state final against Salesian of Richmond. The Trailblazers become the first program in California to win three Open Division titles and now have five overall. Other boys winners on the day were San Joaquin Memorial of Fresno (D2) and […]
Boys BB CIF State Previews & Picks
The predicted scores of these games each year are done with great respect to all 12 teams who’ve made it to a CIF state championship and with a historical touch. Editor Mark Tennis has been credentialed at every CIF state championship weekend since the first one in 1980 in Oakland. Managing editor Ronnie Flores also […]
Boys BB: NEW Division State Ranks
After the CIF pairings from last Sunday plus first round games on Tuesday is when we can begin to look at expected favorites in each division of the CIF state championships. We can’t do it any earlier since there’s no way to know which divisions these teams are going to be in. These also will […]
