This is the week when we start adding top outings for boys and girls hoops to go with the end of the season in football. The end also is near for the state career scoring record set just last February by Santa Maria St. Joseph’s Tounde Yessoufou as Inglewood’s Jason Crowe Jr. is averaging 40...
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State Football Players of the Week
This week we cover all the bases, and that included finding hidden talent worthy of statewide recognition, entries for the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book, and have thanks to those who sent in nominations. Our stops this week are in San Diego, Encino and Thousand Oaks in Southern California, and in Northern California we visit […]
Preseason All-NCS East Bay FB Team
Concord De La Salle starts the season after stretching its streak of consecutive CIF section titles to 33 years, but there have been some close calls the past two seasons. The Spartans have 15 returning starters this year with many of them honored on this team. Pittsburg had a super group of seniors move on,...
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
We have two weeks of highlights to include this week and begin with why a team that ended 0-11 is going into the state record book. We also have a new state record holder for career receptions, another coach who has won 200 games or more (one that we saw win a CIF state title...
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
We start out with standouts from a 58-55 win by Agoura over Westlake that puts Westlake onto an all-time state list for most points scored by a losing team. We also have another coach added to the 200-win list, but he should have been on it earlier. Plus, there are stat stars such as QBs...
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...
FINAL All-State FB Noms (NorCal)
Here is the third of three lists of players considered as final nominees for the various 2023 season all-state football teams. These are all from CIF Northern California sections (excluding Central Section). These lists have been updated from the first lists compiled from about one month ago. Thanks for all of the nominations and input....
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. More than lists and numbers, we can provide historical context since we’ve maintained state records in California for more than 40 years. For boys hoops, we have a second addition to the all-time state single-game list this season after Logan...
2019-20 Grid-Hoop All-State Teams
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...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
Serra of Gardena knocks off previous No. 19 Alemany and despite some losses when not at full strength now gets to come back up — way up — in this week’s State Top 50. Also new this week is Monte Vista of Danville and Cajon of San Bernardino. We’re also giving slight bumps for several...
