It’s the first time ever that El Capitan of Merced, a school that was once open from 1959 to 1962 and reopened in 2013, has had an athlete honored or team ranked by Cal-Hi Sports with softball standout Cassie Gasper snagging this week’s NorCal honor. This week’s other recipients are from Napa, La Mirada and […]
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CIF State Bowl Champions (All 13)
For a one-stop check of all of the CIF state bowl winners crowned on Saturday, Dec. 19 (plus the two on Friday) with an MVP chosen for each game, this is the place to go. First-time champions are everybody except De La Salle (7) and Central Catholic (4). We predicted the winners from all 13 […]
Full CIF Bowl Lineup & Picks
Check here for our predicted scores for each of the 13 CIF state bowl games and for each game, site and time and whether game is being played on Friday or Saturday. Note: To see our breakdowns on why we think certain teams may win in the games being played at Sacramento State, a Gold […]
All-State Boys BB: By Divisions
After the underclass picks, up next in our parade of 2014-15 all-state boys basketball honors is our breakdown of honorees for each CIF division, although the Open Division is not considered separately. CIF Open Division champ Bishop O’Dowd gets three onto the Division III team while runner-up Mater Dei gets three in Division I and […]
SoCal Boys: Mater Dei again
With four straight CIF state titles in the highest classification, the Monarchs will now get to try for five after they defeat Fairfax 51-40 in the SoCal Open Division championship. Go inside here for recaps of all of the SoCal boys championship games both from Long Beach and Ontario. Other winners were Chino Hills (D1), […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
If you haven’t figured it out yet, we try to avoid picking players for this honor that are obvious (like Jake Browning in football or this week with Tyler Dorsey and Katie Lou Samuelson in basketball) and instead try to dig deeper for younger players or less well-known players who happen to be making a […]
NEW Boys BB Division State Ranks
Teams on the move include La Mirada and Foothills Christian of El Cajon. We also make a pitch for the CIF not to move up still unbeaten Half Moon Bay into the NorCal Open Division (unless of course the Cougars were to win the CCS Open Division title). Please check out and bookmark our new...
Week 6 State Rankings Updates
One Serra stays in the State 25 despite loss due to having another key win plus big games coming up . Another Serra, meanwhile, moves in after strong showing in S.F. Bay Area. Also, the new No. 1 team in the SoCal D2 bowl game division is unbeaten St. Francis of La Canada.
FB: Norwalk staying focused
After Cerritos posted its first win since 2010 last week against Ocean View of Huntington Beach, Norwalk was going to be a stern test. The Dons were a bit in over their heads as Norwalk improved to 5-0 with a 56-0 running clock victory. It wasn’t so much that Norwalk beat Cerritos — that was […]