Since we’ve always gone by head-to-head results, it’s easy to now put Santa Margarita with the No. 1 state ranking for the first time in school history. After their win over previous No. 1 Sierra Canyon, they have wins over the other three teams also still going in the CIF Southern Section D1 playoffs. De...
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NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (26-50)
We could have had no new teams this week with all losses by TOP 50 ranked teams (other than one to Texas team) were to other ranked teams. We did make one move, however, with 3-0 Mira Costa of Manhattan Beach going in after quality win vs La Habra. Other teams going up multiple spots...
Boys BB: Divisional All-State 2025
With the all-state teams out last weekend for juniors, sophomores and freshmen, the next set of teams for the 46th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state boys basketball teams are to honor the top players according to the same divisions in which this year’s CIF state championships were contested. Of course, it’s very difficult to determine which […]
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
There are several players moving up the all-time boys hoops scoring list even with Tounde Yessofou and Jason Crowe Jr. near the top. The list includes Carlsbad’s Jake Hall (43 points on Wednesday night) and Chatsworth’s Alijah Arenas (63 points on Wednesday night). Malibu’s Dylan Goosen also ends the season with 36.8 ppg average, but...
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
With football in the home stretch, this is the week in which boys and girls hoops gets added to this feature. We start with Mater Dei’s Gary McKnight moving to No. 2 all-time in the nation for coaching wins in boys hoops plus we have the 800th win for Bishop Montgomery’s Doug Mitchell. Carlsbad’s Jake...
Baseball: All-State Underclass 2024
It’s time to start releasing the various teams for the 42nd annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball honors. We begin with a new way of doing the all-state underclass teams and that’s doing the juniors and sophomores separately (just like football and basketball). We have a first and second team all-state for juniors and first team...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 35 Rankings
The regional playoff brackets are set and the top two seeds in both the North and South open brackets receive byes, but after that there is a mixed bag of seedings that don’t really match our boys basketball weekly State Top 35. We’ll run down why and how some of the seedings don’t follow the...
