For the first set of honorees for the spring, dominating softball pitchers Nerissa Eason from Bear River (Lake of the Pines) and Katie Barbarick from Righetti (Santa Maria) get put into the spotlight. Baseball’s first two choices, meanwhile, are from San Ramon Valley (Danville) and Burroughs (Burbank). Note:For purposes of this feature, we are considering […]
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All-State Baseball: First Team
With several former all-state first team players getting ready to play in the MLB All-Star Game, here’s our own California prep version of an all-star roster, which also is the 35th consecutive year that we’ve done it. This group is our elite of the elite and some of the choices as usual were very difficult.
FINAL Boys BB Division State Ranks
Here is the last look at all CIF divisions for the 2014-15 season, including all 16 Open Division teams ranked in order. We also have expanded each division an extra five teams. Final adjustments also done depending on whether a NorCal or SoCal team won in the state championship game. If you want to see...
CIF Basketball Picks & Previews
Here are the predicted scores, what to watch for and more for each of the 12 CIF boys and girls basketball state championship games. Of the several schools going for boys/girls sweeps, we think O’Dowd, Mitty and Sierra Canyon will do it but Mater Dei won’t. If you can’t see this entire post, consider signing...
Boys, Girls BB State Rank Updates
With one week to go in the season, four boys teams just coming into the State Top 20 this week include state finalists San Ramon Valley of Danville, Campolindo of Moraga and Mitty of San Jose. For the girls, McClatchy of Sacramento, Serra of Gardena and Mark Keppel of Alhambra are all new and two […]
NorCal Boys: O’Dowd gets it done
State’s No. 1 team advances to CIF Open Division state final with 56-47 triumph over Modesto Christian. The Dragons weren’t explosive but ground it out behind Ivan Rabb’s 18 points and 18 rebounds. Go inside here for recaps of all of the NorCal boys championship games both from Sacramento and American Canyon. Other winners were […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
Alyssa Palomino of Mission Viejo already has six homers this season and is getting near the career state record. We have updated the all-time list. For baseball, the honor roll includes two players who had a direct impact on changing the order of the top five in this week’s state rankings – Joey Matulovich of […]
NEW Bay Area 25 Football Rankings
San Ramon Valley and Los Gatos make the biggest moves while St. Ignatius and Bishop O’Dowd both break in. One of those teams is now coached by a former Cal-Hi Sports Mr. Football State Player of the Year.
Preseason FB: All-NCS/East Bay
This is the 10th preseason all-section or all-area football team we have compiled and covers schools from the East Bay region of the CIF North Coast Section, which is Contra Costa and Alameda counties, plus players from the CIF Oakland Section. This is the one, of course, dominated since the mid-1980s by Concord De La […]
