Bellflower school has ended No. 1 in the state in football four times (all since 2013), but has never finished No. 1 in any other sport we cover until this week. The Braves won the CIF SoCal D1 baseball title last Saturday to add to their CIF Southern Section D1 title from the previous week […]
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NEW State Baseball TOP 35 Rankings
There was consideration for the first unbeaten team through the CIF San Diego Section playoffs in history to be moved up to No. 1 after Corona’s loss to St. John Bosco of Bellflower. But when the Braves later beat Santa Margarita to win the CIF Southern Section D1 crown, it had to be them at...
NEW State Baseball TOP 35 Rankings
The first big upset of the 2025 CIF section playoffs around the state sees a team that has been in the top five, La Mirada, go down in the super-loaded Southern Section D1 bracket. This week’s rankings also are impacted by Granada of Livermore beating previous No. 6 De La Salle of Concord in a...
State Coach of Year: Andre Chevalier
For leading his program to its first CIF state championship post-COVID with a unit that wasn’t expected to be there in the preseason, Andre Chevalier of Chatsworth Sierra Canyon has been named the 2025 State Coach of the Year in boys basketball. His third CIF state title didn’t come at the open level, but the […]
FINAL State TOP 75 FB Rankings (1-25)
It’s the eighth time in the last nine seasons that Mater Dei and St. John Bosco finish in the top two slots. The only time they didn’t was 2021 and that No. 2 team, Servite of Anaheim, is going to have two first round NFL draft picks in April. De La Salle also did enough...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
This week’s order for the first 14 gets mixed up after Santa Margarita’s eye-opening 44-8 win over Servite of Anaheim. That forced the Eagles to come back up into the higher reaches of the first 25. Others getting boosts include Clovis East (up two), Murrieta Valley (up three) and St. Mary’s of Stockton (up three)....
State Super 70: No. 46 to No. 70
We are on a trip overseas this week so there will be no games attended on Friday night and there will be no weekly state rankings for one week. For this week on Friday, we’re running the first and second parts of our updated look at the greatest teams in state history in a reverse...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
We haven’t had a team jump from unranked into the top list, but there was no choice to do that this week for Leuzinger of Lawndale after its upset of previous No. 6 Santa Margarita. There also are two teams that moved up this week after losses — Sierra Canyon and Pittsburg — plus Los...
Preseason State TOP 50 FB Ranks (1-10)
It’s now up to nine straight seasons that either Mater Dei of Santa Ana or St. John Bosco of Bellflower has started out No. 1 in the state and for 2024 that means the Monarchs are in that position. They are the defending CIF Open Division state champions and they also have a lot more […]
Preseason All-Long Beach/South Bay
After hitting the CIF Central Section, the next stop in our annual tour of the state through the selection of preseason football honor squads is the area of the CIF Southern Section that contains schools in the Long Beach/South Bay region. It’s also the home of national power St. John Bosco, not to mention Long...
