After the big win over St. John Bosco, Mater Dei takes over at the top of the state, which is where the Monarchs started this season and ended last season. The rest of the top 11 from last week is unchanged, and we didn’t move up Upland that far after it defeated previous No. 12...
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State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard
We now have two of four big nights completed in which section titles have been decided with the biggest of course being at Cerritos College on Friday where No. 1 St. John Bosco is beaten by No. 2 Mater Dei 17-13 in CIF Southern Section Division I championship. No. 9 Central of Fresno also wraps […]
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
There’s a new member of the top five as Folsom is elevated after impressive 40-0 win over previously unbeaten Del Oro. Liberty of Brentwood and Central of Fresno also switch spots in the top 10. This group also has three newcomers moving up from 26-50, led by Rancho Verde of Moreno Valley plus Central Catholic...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
There are only two new teams in this week’s State Top 50. One of those two, Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks, posted an impressive win over a state-ranked foe. The other one, Valley Christian of San Jose, is hoping to do that in its game this week. Others getting major rankings upward lifts include Los...
What We’ve Learned So Far 2018
Even though there are some teams that have played six games, this is the week we consider as the halfway point of the 2018 football season. Games that we’ve attended have been Folsom at De La Salle, the Honor Bowl at St. Francis of Mountain View (five games), Stockton St. Mary’s at Central Catholic (Modesto), […]
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
Vista Murrieta of Murrieta lost to Orange Lutheran 42-17, but gets to go way up in the rankings this week because a team the Broncos beat in their first game, Los Alamitos, was the one that knocked off previous No. 17 Long Beach Poly and we didn’t want to drop both the Jackrabbits and Narbonne...
State Top 25 Weekend Scoreboard
At the Honor Bowl on Saturday night, No. 10 Serra (Gardena) goes down to host school (which is good news for two other top ranked San Diego area squads). Highest ranked team to lose on Friday was No. 17 Long Beach Poly, which couldn’t get going against Los Alamitos after its big win last week […]
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
There are five newcomers in this group, led by new No. 41 Alemany of Mission Hills under new head coach Casey Clausen. There are also solid jumps for No. 30 La Costa Canyon of Carlsbad (up 16 positions) and No. 31 Central Catholic of Modesto (up eight). For teams ranked No. 1 to No. 25...
Boys BB: Divisional All-State 2018
It took us a couple of years to adjust our annual divisional all-state teams in basketball to the CIF having an Open Division. Now they’ve changed things again with competitive equity based divisions and team placements. If competitive equity means that the Open Division and Division I is that much stronger than the other divisions, […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Last week, we honored one player with a 56-point outing. This week, we’ve got a boy with 59 who also made 16 three-pointers in one game and our state leading girls scorer who had a 57-point outburst. In all, our honorees are from Modesto, Sacramento, Rancho Mirage and Chula Vista.
