This week we begin to shift some of our regular features toward baseball and softball and begin with a no-hitter in baseball plus a softball pitcher with two straight perfect games. In boys hoops, we’ve got monstrous outings from some of the most dynamic players in the state, including Boogie Ellis, Josh Christopher, Jalen Green...
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HS Football In California Quiz
This is a trivia challenge for any and all who think they have some knowledge about California prep football history. Have some fun and be sure next week to get your hands on our book, “High School Football In California,” at major bookstores or through Amazon.com.
All-State Baseball Nominees (Part 1)
Welcome to the first step toward selection of the 37th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball Teams. Current New York Yankees stars Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton, C.C. Sabathia and Aaron Hicks were all on these teams in the past. These nominees are grouped according to each CIF section in the state. It’s not a final list. […]
All-Time State Player Rankings (DLs)
Here’s the latest in this series that was begun last year with QBs, RBs and WRs and picked back up again recently with offensive linemen. Both LBs and DBs will be done soon so we can include the lists in the back of our upcoming book “High School Football in California” that should be out...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
It’s that time of the year when we switch sports for these honors and have our first foursome (two boys, two girls) for the 2017-18 basketball season. Both girls already have had a 50-point game. One of the boys led his team to a 7-0 start while the other one’s team has suffered its only […]
Few more State Stat Stars of Week
Here are more individual totals we need to record onto the site from last week’s football games. This list doesn’t include any SoCal/NorCal players of the week or those from the CIF Central Section, who are featured in a separate post on this blog. Even more players are mentioned in our various State Top 50 […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
With two weeks of performances to search out, we’ve found some real head-turners. In baseball, Jonathan Guardado of La Puente Nogales gets his second and third no-hitters, two players from Etiwanda hit for the cycle in back-to-back games and Wyatt Aguilar of Mountain Empire hits a double in sixth straight game. In softball, we have […]
All-Time All-State Super Bowl Team
In keeping with our usual first team all-state football format (30 players, six multi-purpose) and including the 2017 Super Bowl but not 2018, here’s a lineup we’d pick as our All-Time All-State Super Bowl Team. Performances in the game itself was one major part of the criteria (MVPs, etc.) and then looked at those who […]
State Stat Stars Of The Week
Going up against Wonderful College Prep Academy or Realm Charter pays off for two of our softball honor roll members as they each went 5-for-5 with seven RBI. It usually doesn’t produce a stat star-worthy outing when facing a foe that was No. 1 in the state from the previous season, but it did for […]
