The first night of the CIF Open Division boys basketball state playoffs saw both top seeds from the north and south suffer elimination upset losses. State No. 1 Salesian of Richmond lost in overtime to Folsom while state No. 2 Mater Dei of Santa Ana was tripped up by Fairfax of Los Angeles. Read on […]
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Winners/Losers in CIF Open Brackets
We go over each of the two boys and girls Open Division playoff brackets (both north and south) released on Sunday and present our breakdowns of which teams fared well and which teams did not. As the Open Division continues to evolve, it will be interesting to see if the CIF Southern Section will ever...
NEW Boys BB State Top 20
The big Westchester-Fairfax rivalry in Los Angeles causes changes in this week’s boys basketball State Top 20. There are also two newcomers this week after teams from two of the toughest leagues in the state go down. With last weekend’s Nike Extravaganza in the books, the major showcases are now done for the season as...
NEW Boys BB State Top 20
There is a change at the top, as defending CIF Open Division champion Bishop Montgomery takes over as the state’s No. 1 ranked team. There is a bunch of other movement in the rankings too as the results of MLK showcase games around the state cause some hopping and lead to two newcomers this week....
All-State FB Nominees (Part 1)
We’re going to begin selection of the 39th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams a little earlier than before and hope to have all nominations lists posted by next week. This first group of players who have been placed on our board of nominees are from the CIF Central Coast Section, CIF North Coast Section, […]
CIF Bowl Boards 3 (North & South)
There’s not many changes on this week’s CIF bowl boards, but we always contemplate different matchups and there are two new teams listed in the south as South Hills of West Covina is on for CIF Southern Section Division 7 and Southwest of El Centro is on for CIF San Diego Section Division IV. Note:...
CIF Bowl Board No. 1 (North)
Here’s a first look at how the teams may begin to be stacking up for this year’s CIF Northern California regional bowl games. We build these boards from the top down and from the bottom going up with the toughest choices for the middle divisions. All of these teams should be viewed as place-holders in […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
For the third week in a row, our NorCal Special Teams Player of the Week from Bishop O’Dowd of Oakland ran back a punt for touchdown. Our SoCal choice in that category from San Diego Lincoln had three kick return scores in just last week’s game. Other honorees this week are from Santa Rosa, Sacramento, […]
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
This week’s two highest ranked newcomers are Upland (No. 28) and Oaks Christian (No. 33). There also are now three other newcomers from the Inland Empire plus Heritage of Menifee going up 10 spots from No. 40 to No. 30. This is the 38th consecutive season for Cal-Hi Sports state football rankings. For teams ranked...
