We stay inside the CIF North Coast Section for our next stop in our series of preseason all-section or all-area football teams from around California, going from the East Bay portion of the section to the Redwood Empire. We do the Redwood Empire separately since it is the home of associate editor Harold Abend as...
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Girls BB: Salute To Section Champions
There were a lot more girls teams that earned CIF section championships over the weekend besides state No. 3 Etiwanda and the ones we covered on Wednesday in Sacramento. Here’s a roundup of all of the other section champions from around California. Each team deserves to get a mention with all of the others that […]
CIF Regional Bowl Projections
Here’s our first run-through for all of the most likely scenarios for the CIF NorCal and SoCal regional bowl games, which will lead up to the CIF state football championships on Dec. 8-9 at three junior colleges in Southern California. We’ll do another one next week prior to the CIF section championships and will offer […]
Redwood Empire Football Weekend
There wasn’t a wine glass in sight as the schedule for the final weekend of the regular season in the CIF North Coast Section made it possible to see San Marin of Novato (9-0) play Marin Catholic of Kentfield (9-0) plus Windsor (7-1-1) play Cardinal Newman of Santa Rosa (9-0) on back-to-back days. Here’s what […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Despite the fact it’s the most important week in high school basketball in California, we have traditionally switched from the hardwood to the baseball and softball fields this week since the available players to choose becomes so few. We also more importantly want to start looking for some players in baseball and softball who we […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (26-50)
It’s never too late to go into the TOP 50 of the state and we have three newcomers this week who are going in for the first time: Lemoore, Granite Hills of El Cajon and Marin Catholic of Kentfield. McClymonds of Oakland and Mater Dei Catholic also are moving up and could play each other...
1st NorCal/SoCal Bowl Projections
There will be tons of movement on both sides of our board from now until that Sunday in four weeks when the CIF announces on which teams will be playing each other in this year’s regional & state title football games. Since we now have pairings and top seeds available in most CIF sections of […]
Medium/Small Schools State FB Ranks
Both rankings in the second week expand to 20 teams for medium and to 15 for small. The changes for medium are mostly due to matching the same order of this week’s overall State TOP 50 as Yorba Linda moves up from No. 4 to No. 6. In small schools, Half Moon Bay had to...
Preseason All-NCS Redwood Empire
This region of the NCS captured four section titles and two CIF state titles last season. One of the players on this team transferred from one school (San Marin of Novato) that won a CIF state title to another one (Marin Catholic). Rancho Cotate of Rohnert Park and Cardinal Newman of Santa Rosa also have...
All-State Softball: Medium & Small
After the underclass teams, we move on with the 39th edition of the Cal-Hi Sports All-State Softball Teams with these players named from schools that were in CIF section or regional playoffs during the 2022 spring season that made them medium or small school in class. RELATED: All-State Softball Underclass Teams (Gold Club) | Final […]
