On a Friday night and Saturday afternoon, big wins were rung up by Oak Ridge of El Dorado Hills and Archbishop Riordan of San Francisco in matchups of four teams all inside the top 30 of our state rankings. All four teams scored at least 35 points. Note: This is a post only for our...
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2024-25 Grid-Hoop All-State Team
To continue our end-of-school year content of honoring the best multi-sport and overall athletes of the year (boys and girls), we take our annual look at the state’s 15 best football-basketball combo athletes. They will comprise our 39th annual Cal-Hi Sports Grid-Hoop All-State team. Leading the 15-man group is player of the year Kaleb Edwards […]
FINAL State Softball TOP 40 Rankings
As is our custom, we expand the final rankings at the end of the season and unlike a computer we explain why each move is made. These also are the rankings that go into our archives that include final rankings in California high school softball for more than 40 years. Big moves had to be...
NEW State Softball TOP 25 Rankings
Top seed Norco has reached the title game in the nation’s toughest playoff bracket for the 10th time and will go for the CIF Southern Section D1 title on Saturday night as the state’s No. 1 team. The Cougars have moved back to that position after previous No. 1 Del Oro of Loomis lost to...
State No. 1 Falls in SJS Softball Final
Oak Ridge of El Dorado Hills wins its third straight CIF Sac-Joaquin Section D1 softball championship with a 3-2 triumph on Saturday over Del Oro of Loomis. That is the same Del Oro that was sitting at No. 1 in the state and was looking to complete its season with a 32-1 record and a […]
NEW State Softball TOP 25 Rankings
Del Oro of Loomis is still No. 1 and Norco has gone up from No. 3 to No. 2, but the biggest changes this week are from No. 3 on down the pecking order. Several upsets in the CIF Southern Section D1 playoffs plus previous No. 4 St. Francis taking a loss in the CIF...
2025 Boys/Girls BB Coach Milestones
Both of the boys and girls all-time state coaching records lists have now been updated for everyone through the 2024-25 season. Bishop Montgomery’s Doug Mitchell earned his 800th career win early in the season and we had two more reach 500. For the girls, Oak Ridge’s Steve White won the 700th game of his career […]
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
We begin with another look at boys state career scoring leaders as junior Jason Crowe Jr. of Inglewood has his season end in a tough loss in the CIF Southern Section playoffs. New record holder Tounde Yessofou still likely has three to four games left. We also have a new state freshman record for three-pointers...
Preseason Girls BB Ranks (16-40)
Here’s the rest of the preseason Top 40 of the best girls basketball teams from all across California. This group is led by the legendary sharpshooters from Pinewood of Los Altos Hills at No. 16 and goes on to No. 40 Lynwood, which has a legendary head coach. We also have added a list of […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
There are two new teams in this week’s breakdowns of the state’s top 50 teams, one of them that got in for beating a previously ranked team and the other going in based on previous that was on a bye last Friday. Teams that are showing with modest gains this week include St. Mary’s of...
