The biggest winner on Friday night was No. 8 Sierra Canyon, which got out to a hot start in win against No. 6 Norco. There were a lot of teams on byes before they start league play, including No. 2 St. John Bosco. No. 1 Mater Dei did get in a tune-up and won easily […]
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NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
Bishop Amat of La Puente opens strong with a win over La Habra and goes in highest among four newcomers to this week’s rankings. The other three are Etiwanda, Vacaville and Granite Hills of El Cajon. One of the teams getting a bump is Granite Bay (up four spots) from the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section. FOR...
Baseball State Ranks By Divisions
With the 2020-21 season ending on Saturday and CIF SoCal regionals already into the semifinals, here’s a look at our own five-division state rankings for baseball. For this year, we are combining the teams in the SoCal regional bracket into divisions (not the same) and then injecting where the NorCal teams would fit in based […]
Preseason Baseball TOP 35 Teams
Yes, we are going to have to do football, baseball and softball rankings at the same time in the coming weeks. Many of the best teams in the state in baseball are starting schedules at the end of this upcoming week. Orange Lutheran was in the No. 1 position at the end of the suspended […]
NorCal vs. SoCal: Endless Debate
It was after all games were played during the 1992 high school football season in the state when we put together a cover story for Student Sports Magazine that allowed players from the top-ranked teams to come together for a photo shoot. The one who came down to Southern California to represent CIF North Coast...
1994 Season Replayed (Final)
This is how the season looked after it was completed in 1994. This is the second of three posts in which our week-by-week replays for three of the most exciting, unpredictable football seasons we’ve covered in our 40-plus years — 1981, 1994 and 2008 — is concluding with one post focusing on how each wrapped...
Girls BB All-State Nominees (Updated)
Starting this week, it will be time to begin selecting the 40th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Teams for girls basketball. We already posted a first run-through of names on our virtual board of all-state girls basketball nominees nearly three weeks ago, and now we’re doing a second, updated list. More players were added and some...
State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard
Southern California’s Mission League opened up on Friday with not one but two big upsets (if you can call them that) as No. 11 Serra of Gardena fell to Loyola while No. 13 Alemany was stunned in the closing seconds by defending league champion Bishop Amat. State No. 2 St. John Bosco didn’t lose, but […]
FB Preview: Eight Burning Questions
We’ll have more of our preseason all-section, all-area and all-county teams to come (Orange County already done) plus preseason Top 50 team rankings, preseason all-state and more, but here’s a general overview of the upcoming 2019 California high school football season. We also have done an early preseason top 10 that has been input into […]
