La Habra’s Frank Mazzotta captured his eighth CIFSS title to tie some legends on an Orange County all-time list and now has been named the state medium schools honoree. For small schools, Rio Hondo Prep’s Mark Carson gets the nod for winning three straight CIFSS titles despite the team having to play in higher and […]
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Medium/Small School State FB Ranks
With the regional bowl games set for this weekend, we’re doing one more installment of these rankings to set up the final rankings that will be done after next week’s CIF state championships. It could be a perfect storm for the CIF D2-A state final if Sonora and Rio Hondo Prep are playing each other...
NEW Regional Bowl Game Projections
This is the second of four projections that will done prior to the CIF section commissioners meeting on Sunday, Nov. 30, to pick all of the regional bowl matchups. The third will be next Wednesday and the final one will be done late on Saturday night, Nov. 29, after we have results of all section...
FINAL Divisional State FB Rankings
When the very first Cal-Hi Sports state football rankings were compiled in the late 1970s by founder Nelson Tennis, they were done in five divisions (Class AAAA, etc.). We don’t do these anymore during the season, but to keep the archives going so that we have a version of them for every season we have...
Boys BB All-State Nominees (Part 1)
CIF state championships are about to be decided so it is a perfect time to get the process going for the annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state teams for boys basketball. These honors have been done by us for well more than 40 years. These lists of honorees were first posted on March 2 and are the […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. For softball this week, we have more than one girl who had three homers in one game plus the end of a long league losing streak that was at least 153 games in length. For baseball, the big story is...
All-State Baseball: Medium & Small
The 39th edition of the Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball Teams rolls on with these players named from schools that were in CIF section or regional playoffs during the 2021 season that made them medium or small school in class. Colusa is the only team from the last season to have three players on these teams […]
Baseball: FINAL Division State Ranks
The five divisional state teams of the year have previously been announced, but now it’s time for all of the final rankings. Teams moving up at the end include Palo Alto (D2), La Habra (D3), Ridgeview of Bakersfield (D3), Burlingame (D4), Marysville (D4) and de Toledo of West Hills (D5). TO SEE OUR FINAL EXPANDED...
1ST LOOK: Five-Division FB Rankings
With no upcoming playoffs to consider and limited games, it’s super-hard to do rankings in this same five-division format that was begun more than 40 years ago by Cal-Hi Sports founder Nelson Tennis. But it was super-hard for all of the players and coaches to be able to play at all during this school year […]
State FB TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
For the next few weeks, we’ll treat Friday and Saturday nights like we do for the fall with the compilation of a weekend scoreboard involving the state’s top-ranked teams. Saturday was the bigger day and night of this weekend with a big upset in Riverside County and a win by No. 2 Mater Dei over […]
