As is another of our traditions, we present our expanded, final State Top 40 overall boys basketball team rankings for the 2025-26 season. There is some movement from our previous weekly Top 35 update, as once again CIF Southern Section teams that didn’t make the regional playoffs deserve to move up over some NorCal D1...
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All-State FB: Frosh Watch List 2025
This isn’t quite the same as an all-state team, but we’re once again presenting a list of leading freshman football players in the state from the 2025 season who may be on track to be on the all-state sophomore teams next season. The already announced State Freshman Player of the Year was quarterback Marcus Washington...
State Basketball Players of the Week
We didn’t have any entries to track for the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book, which is one of the goals of this feature, but we more than fulfilled the other objective and that is to track and uncover hidden talent for statewide recognition to go with local acknowledgement. It’s also a week we where we […]
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
The big news for the record files we maintain is the two freshman state records set by Long Beach Millikan’s Jonah Tuaniga, who had 502 yards passing and nine touchdown passes in a lopsided win vs Long Beach Cabrillo. We have all the details on what he did and records that were established. Others featured...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (26-50)
Chaminade of West Hills goes from unranked to No. 27 after knocking off Oaks Christian while previous bubble team Millikan of Long Beach moves to No. 38 after upending 2024 CIFSS D2 champion Newbury Park. Valencia also is a newcomer this week and is going to face Chaminade in the second game for both. More...
Preseason Long Beach/South Bay Team
A little more than a third of the players from this region of the state in this feature are from preseason state No. 2 St. John Bosco. Serra of Gardena also has multiple players written up as well as Palos Verdes, Downey and Leuzinger of Lawndale. Note: These preseason all-section or all-area teams are done...
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
We begin this week with a salute to two coaches (one baseball, one softball) who both earned their 600th win last week. Baseball’s best also includes an update on state home run season lead after Oaks Christian’s Quentin Young hit a pair of them on Wednesday, a catcher with five RBI at Oracle Park and...
State Stat Stars & Record Updates
It’s a wide range of emerging and senior standouts who had huge totals in recent games. In softball, Auburn recruit Delaney Aumua had three homers in one game while freshman Jiannah Freitas of Tulare had four homers in three games. In baseball, Jackson Balden of Bakersfield Legacy Christian has 20 strikeouts in a perfect game,...
All-State Football Nominees (CIFSS)
The first part of the process of choosing the players for the 47th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state football teams is now complete. This is the third of three lists of players considered as nominees for the various 2024 season squads. These are all from the CIF Southern Section. The first two were for Northern California […]
Preseason State TOP 50 Ranks (31-50)
A team with a QB committed to UCLA begins this group of ranked squads. Early big games such as Helix of La Mesa vs St. Francis of Mountain View and Newbury Park hosting Long Beach Millikan also were attractive enough to us to put both teams in these rankings. We do look at others doing […]
