No. 1 St. John Bosco proves our point of just going with the winner of the most recent game between the top two teams in the nation as being No. 1 in the state until they play again with a huge national win vs St. Thomas Aquinas of Florida. No. 2 in state Mater Dei...
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Preseason All-East Bay Football Team
After our Preseason State TOP 50 team rankings and all athletes of the year for 2022-23 are done, we’re back to this annual tour of the state through preseason all-area or all-section football teams. This one also includes the CIF Oakland Section to go with all of the schools in the East Bay region of...
Preseason State TOP 50 FB Ranks (1-10)
For the eighth straight year since Mater Dei of Santa Ana and St. John Bosco have gone on their current run of dominance atop California (and really the nation), the winning team from the season before gets to start out No. 1 for the following season. That means until they play again it will be […]
More Boys State Athletes of the Year
For the 2022-23 school year, in addition to overall honoree Rodrick Pleasant, we have more special athletes selected among boys for juniors, sophomores, freshmen and those from divisions (D1, D2, D3, D4 and D5). The junior winner is one we could see competing in the Olympics next summer in Paris. The sophomore winner had the […]
State Coach of Year: David Jeans
With two straight CIF Northern California D1 regional titles and six straight CIF North Coast Section D1 titles, the time is right to get De La Salle of Concord’s David Jeans onto the all-time state list of State Coaches of the Year in baseball. He’s just the seventh all-time from the East Bay portion of […]
FINAL Baseball TOP 40 (Expanded)
CIF NorCal D1 champ De La Salle ends third this time behind JSerra and Santa Margarita. All of the CIF San Diego Section teams also get big bumps at the end after that huge day of wins in the CIF SoCal D1 playoffs by La Costa Canyon, Eastlake and Rancho Bernardo. We also had to...
Tripaldi slam gives DLS historic win
A grand slam in the top of the seventh inning by junior Hank Tripaldi (who just lost his mother to cancer) caps a six-run rally to lift De La Salle of Concord to its second straight dramatic win in its second straight CIF NorCal baseball final. With the 11-8 defeat, state No. 2 Valley Christian […]
All-State Baseball Nominees (NorCal)
This will be the 41st annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball Teams that are going to be presented in the upcoming weeks. Here’s a first list of nominees on our board. These are the ones from CIF sections in Northern California (with the Central Section in the north). An updated list with more names will be […]
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
JSerra repeats as CIFSS D1 champion and moves up to No. 1 for the first time since it started there in the preseason. Franklin of Elk Grove & Whitney of Rocklin also will both be in the top 10 when they play each other for Sac-Joaquin Section title. We also have a bump for CIFSS...
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
Cancellation of Boras Classic state final with Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks taking a forfeit loss has no impact on the rankings. The Knights are still looking strong in the No. 1 position. Santa Margarita’s title-clinching win in the Trinity League does push up the Eagles to No. 2. Others on the move up include...
