For this week, there wasn’t a game we could get to on Friday night so what we saw comes from hitting the internet for three hours looking for highlights from the very top-ranked teams. State and national No. 1 Mater Dei of Santa Ana and NorCal No. 1 De La Salle of Concord both won […]
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NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
After Santa Margarita’s big win over Corona Centennial, the Trinity League keeps reaching up for new levels of dominance and now has the No. 1, No. 2, No. 4, No. 5 and No. 6 teams in the state. Orange County also now has No. 1, No. 3, No. 4, No. 5 and No. 6. Top-ranked...
What We Saw: De La Salle vs Grant
Big win for the Spartans in their first game Friday at home ended up being a prelude for a bigger one next week against Serra of San Mateo, but for someone who was clued in to both schools in the decade of the 2000s and even back to the 1990s it was a first-time matchup...
Preseason NCS East Bay FB Team
Continuing to bounce around the state, our next stop in our series of preseason all-section or all-area football teams from around California is the East Bay portion of the CIF North Coast Section. This team also includes players from the very small CIF Oakland Section mixed in. Pittsburg and De La Salle both have the...
Preseason State TOP 50 FB Ranks (1-10)
It’s now up to nine straight seasons that either Mater Dei of Santa Ana or St. John Bosco of Bellflower has started out No. 1 in the state and for 2024 that means the Monarchs are in that position. They are the defending CIF Open Division state champions and they also have a lot more […]
25 Schools With Winning In Their DNA
We are now at that point of the summer in which we are updating the all-time state football records that have been maintained exclusively by Cal-Hi Sports since the first list was compiled in the 1970s. We begin with team categories and one of them is the list of schools with the best all-time win-loss […]
All-State Baseball: 2nd & 3rd Teams
In addition to first team overall, the 42nd edition of the Cal-Hi Sports All-State teams for baseball also has 35 more players here who have been selected second team. Any player from any school regardless of class or school size can be on first or second team. The third team, however, is only for seniors...
State Coach of Year: Corrigan Willis
There hadn’t been a State Coach of the Year from the East Bay region of the CIF North Coast Section from 2011 until last year. But now it’s two in a row as Granada of Livermore’s Corrigan Willis follows De La Salle’s David Jeans after his team had one of the greatest seasons a team […]
All-State Baseball Nominees (NorCal)
We’re a little later than usual, but we’re now beginning the post-season honors process for all-state baseball. This will be the 42nd annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball Teams. State Coaches of the Year and State Players of the Year will be coming soon. We start the cycle with a first list of nominees on our […]
NCS: Epic Pitching, Sad Situation
The CIF North Coast Section D1 baseball final between Granada of Livermore and De La Salle of Concord came within one hit of both starting pitchers throwing seven-inning no-hitters, but after 10 innings on Friday of 0-0 action it couldn’t be completed as darkness set in at Monte Vista High in Danville. The historical final […]
