Gahr of Cerritos goes up to No. 4 after beating Los Alamitos and Santiago (Corona) in CIF Southern Section D1 playoffs. The Gladiators play No. 3 Great Oak in semifinals with winner likely to face defending champion and No. 1 Norco in this weekend’s title game. This week’s two highest newcomers are No. 18 St....
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Girls BB All-State Nominees Part 1
Like the boys several days ago, we are beginning the process toward selection of the 40th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Teams in girls basketball with this first list of those honored as nominees. Some of the earliest selections include Cheryl Miller (Riverside Poly 1982), Violet Palmer (Compton 1982) and Lisa Leslie (Inglewood Morningside soph 1988). […]
NEW Softball State Top 20
First regular season look at California’s best for softball of course has Norco at the top, but it’s probably going to surprise some folks about the pecking we have that follows. We do see national rankings put out by MaxPreps and USA Today, but often do not agree with those rankings and don’t think we...
Girls BB: Regional Final Quick Picks
Good luck to all teams playing in CIF regional finals on Saturday. We will focus our coverage on the games played at Long Beach State (Open, D1) with coverage from Ronnie Flores and on the games played at Santa Clara University (Open, D1) with coverage from Harold Abend. Editor Mark Tennis will be editing everything […]
Boys BB: All-State Underclass
We are tipping off the release of our annual all-state basketball teams with the underclass boys. This means the best of the best among juniors, sophomores and freshmen. These teams last year featured four players from mythical national champion Chino Hills. This year, the Huskies are well-represented again with two honorees. There are eight other...
All-State Football: Medium Schools
How to get numerous area player of the year running backs onto these teams was a major challenge, which is why we went with four on the first team and basically put two others onto multi-purpose. Calabasas, which lost to Madison of San Diego (considered large schools) in the CIF Division 2-AA SoCal final, leads […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
Riverside Norte Vista’s Eric Melesio comes up 36 yards short of the single-season state record for rushing yards and won’t get a chance due to loss to San Gorgonio. La Jolla Country Day’s Braxton Burmeister also becomes just third in state history to surpass 11,000 career passing yards. Boys basketball’s best includes San Bernardino’s Matthew […]
All-State Nominees (Central, LA, SD)
This is the second group of players who have been placed on our board to be considered for the 37th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams. These are players from the CIF Central Section, CIF L.A. City Section & CIF San Diego Section. We welcome additional nominees from parents, coaches and fans.
CIF State Bowl Champions (All 13)
For a one-stop check of all of the CIF state bowl winners crowned on Saturday, Dec. 19 (plus the two on Friday) with an MVP chosen for each game, this is the place to go. First-time champions are everybody except De La Salle (7) and Central Catholic (4). We predicted the winners from all 13 […]
