Saturday section finals added, including the biggie: No. 2 St. John Bosco avenging its only loss with comeback win over No. 1 Mater Dei of Santa Ana in CIF Southern Section Division I championship. Three teams in the top 10 collected CIF section championships on Friday night with No. 3 De La Salle topping Pittsburg […]
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State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard
Saturday results added, including Helix of La Mesa winning CIF San Diego Section Open Division title. After just scraping by in its previous game, No. 6 and two-time defending CIF D1-AA state champion Folsom couldn’t survive a second straight upset bid as the Bulldogs got topped by Monterey Trail of Elk Grove in CIF Sac-Joaquin […]
2018-19 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 33rd annual Cal-Hi Sports Grid-Hoop All-State team. We have even more listed as Grid-Hoop athletes of distinction and some of these players...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
With NorCal ending the regular season while most of SoCal was in the first week of section playoffs, we have stops this week in Elk Grove, Fairfield, Encino and San Diego. One of our tips of the hat is for a 50-point game while another was for a huge outing against a team led by […]
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
The CIF could have gone in several directions for the NorCal 2-A, 3-AA and 3-A bowl games since those teams are bunched together fairly closely no matter how you slice it. For our State Top 50 this week, we went along with those placements for the most part and have put unbeaten San Joaquin Memorial...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
We are releasing this week’s State Top 50 without knowing whether the CIF is going to push this year’s CIF state championships back one week due to the very unhealthy air quality in the S.F. Bay Area that has caused playoffs in the CIF North Coast and Central Coast Sections to be delayed for at...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
As the section playoffs get started everywhere in California except two CIF sections, there are four new teams debuting in the State Top 50 for the first time this season, led by new No. 43 Rancho Cucamonga. Also going in are Carlsbad, Inderkum of Sacramento and Tulare. In this group, we also have Valley Christian...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
There are only two new teams in this week’s State Top 50. One of those two, Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks, posted an impressive win over a state-ranked foe. The other one, Valley Christian of San Jose, is hoping to do that in its game this week. Others getting major rankings upward lifts include Los...
State Stat Stars of the Week
The theme of this week could be called Crazy Eights since there were five different QBs in the state who were reported with eight TD passes on the same night. Three of those were in the CIF Central Section. We have all of the details of those five (except one which was featured in SoCal/NorCal...
