The earliest start for all sports in the CIF state calendar continues since some teams in the CIF Southern Section are scheduled for non-scrimmage baseball games this weekend. We’ll have to start the state rankings in spring sports earlier than ever as well (watch for softball next week) and are beginning today in baseball. This […]
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All-State Football 2018: Juniors
The Cal-Hi Sports All-State Sophomore Teams were released earlier several days ago to kick off our 40th year of all-state football honors. For the juniors, it was especially tough to find room for all of the state’s highly regarded quarterbacks and wide receivers. Schools with more than one first team all-state junior include Mater Dei...
CIF breakthrough in girls vb pairings
For years, we’ve been putting teams from the CIF Central Section in the north for our state rankings but that hasn’t been the case for the California Interscholastic Federation, which has quite often put Central Section teams in the south. And with the CIF Southern Section’s use of competitive equity playoff divisions, we also have […]
NEW Girls VB State Top 20
Playoffs are already underway in the CIF Southern Section where the top four seeds in Division I are No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 and now No. 6 in the state. Changes for this week’s rankings mainly come from previous No. 6 Central of Fresno losing to Buchanan of Clovis in its league plus new […]
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
Central Catholic goes in for the first time this season at No. 39 after its big win over St. Mary’s of Stockton while Westlake of Westlake Village also debuts fairly high at No. 41 after its victory against Newbury Park. The week’s only other newcomer is Buchanan of Clovis, which is looking like one of...
NEW Baseball State Top 20
Are there such things as meaningless losses? When it’s the last week of a team’s regular season and everything appears locked up (such as top seeds for the playoffs), yes that’s pretty much true. That’s mainly why Huntington Beach stays No. 1 this week despite a loss to Newport Harbor. Still, there are changes in...
Super 8 Baseball State Ranks Update
Going up from the lower half of last week’s State Top 20 into the top half of this week’s rankings are Bellarmine, Clovis, Glendora and Gregori. And oh by the way, there’s a new No. 1 with Huntington Beach. NOTE: Our updated State Top 20 with lists of many other teams on the bubble will […]
NEW Baseball State Top 20
Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks gets a monster bump after beating previous No. 7 Harvard-Westlake twice, but the Knights kind of take Thousand Oaks right up the charts with them. Go inside to see why. Other new teams in this week’s rankings include unbeaten Redwood of Visalia plus an emerging No. 1 team in the...
Super 8 Baseball State Ranks Update
No. 2 behind Buchanan changes again after Orange Lutheran returns home from North Carolina as the NHSI champions but loses in next game to St. John Bosco. Thousand Oaks and Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks also get huge bumps to No. 9 and No. 10.
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Eight TD passes not only gets Rancho Verde’s E.J. Stewart a weekly SoCal player of the week selection, but his name entered into the state record book. In the north, a four-interception night by Buchanan’s Jack Wilkins was too hard to miss. Others chosen this week are from Hayward, Antelope, Orange and Norco.
