To kick off our end-of-school year content of honoring the best multi-sport and overall athletes of the year, we begin with a look at the state’s 15 best football-basketball combo athletes on our 34th annual Cal-Hi Sports Grid-Hoop All-State team. Leading the group is Bakersfield Christian’s Ben Yurosek. We have even more listed as Grid-Hoop...
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All-State FB 2019: 2nd & 3rd Teams
Releasing these teams on the same day as first team overall can tend to lessen the attention that these players receive, but we do it so people know right away which ones came the closest to first team. Still, these second team players are great in their own right and we know it’s almost a...
All-Decade Baseball: All-State Team
With the World Series tied at 2-2, we thought it became the perfect day to complete this presentation. California remains one of the world leaders in baseball and the decade of the 2010s provided more examples, especially with all of the No. 1 overall picks in the MLB Draft. For this All-Decade, All-State Team we...
All-State Softball: 2nd & 3rd Teams
The 37th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state teams selections for softball concludes with 30 players named second team overall and nearly 40 more who are third team. Any player from any school regardless of class or school size can be on second team. The third team, however, is only for seniors and only for large schools....
State Coach of the Year: John Weber
Leader of program at Cypress that won CIF Southern Section Division I title completed 14th season at the school and has all of the other attributes of having built an elite program. He’s now the State Coach of the Year for 2019 and is the third in a row from Orange County. Before this streak, […]
De La Salle: 1st Baseball State TOY
It’s one of the toughest choices atop the final state rankings between De La Salle of Concord and Cypress, but if historical achievements are a factor (and it always has been in the 40 years of Cal-Hi Sports rankings) then the Spartans are getting the nod. This is the first time the school is being […]
More Softball State Teams of Year
In addition to overall No. 1 Norco, others that can claim they are mythical state champions for 2019 are Cypress (Division II), Oakdale (D3), Ripon (D4) and East Nicolaus of Nicolaus (D5).
Softball: New Divisional Rankings
With the California high school softball season set to be done by Saturday of the coming weekend, here’s an updated look at our state rankings done according to our five-division format that honors teams of all shapes, sizes and competitive equity levels. One new No. 1 team that has won its section title is Cypress...
NEW Baseball State Top 25 Rankings
Thunderstorms and rain throughout Northern California cause a disruption in section playoffs (some games rescheduled to Monday), but we decided to stay on our usual Monday schedule of doing a State Top 25 update. This will be the next-to-last rankings of the season since we will wait until all games in the state are done...