Los Alamitos takes over No. 1 ranking after winning title of the Michelle Carew Classic, but then we decided to wait to release this week until after a Tuesday game vs league rival Marina (Huntington Beach). Los Al won so all rankings stayed as projected. Another league rival, Huntington Beach, jumps from 5-3 and not...
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Los Al Captures Carew Classic
Griffins get clutch pitching from Berkley Vance and big home run by Taryn Clements as they win the toughest softball tournament of the season in Southern California with a 4-2 win on Saturday in the final over state No. 1 St. Francis of Mountain View. Top pitching outings also were turned in from Orange Lutheran […]
All-State FB 2022: 1st Team Defense
Here is the best of the best on defense for the 44th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams. Go inside this post for writeups of the 11 players on defense plus a punter and three of six multi-purpose players who have been selected First Team Overall. We also have LB of the Year, but the […]
More State FB Teams of the Year
Los Alamitos is the 2022 State Public Schools Team of the Year even with a 9-3 final record. This group of Griffins, however, does make us recall great teams from Los Al in 1994 and 2002. We also have Granite Hills of El Cajon (medium schools) and Escalon (small schools) collecting final No. 1 honors. […]
Freshman FB Players To Watch (Part 1)
As a companion list to a group of those considered more near the top of the state to be the first-ever State Freshman Player of the Year, here’s a more comprehensive list of those now on our radar screen as ninth graders we’ll likely be following for the next few years. FOR INTRO ABOUT FIRST-EVER...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
No. 1 Mater Dei and No. 2 St. John Bosco get back to dominating against other top 25 teams after playing each other. Changes this week include Los Alamitos flip-flopping with Long Beach Poly, Inglewood joining the top 10 plus Oaks Christian & Sierra Canyon getting a jump into the first 25 of this week’s...
Preseason All-State Football Teams
We have first team, second team, third team just missed and a top 12 chart of the leading Mr. Football State Player of the Year candidates. This is the 36th straight year of Cal-Hi Sports compiling a preseason all-state football team. Note: There are no writeups for each player (like there will be for the […]
Preseason All-Orange County FB Team
For the second stop in a tour of the state through the selection of preseason football honor squads, we hit Orange County of the CIF Southern Section. Defending CIF Open Division state champ Mater Dei is the dominant program in the county, but there are a bunch of great players ready to roll from schools...