Our final stop for Northern California on our annual tour of the state’s top preseason players and teams based on a selection of key players is the East Bay portion of the CIF North Coast Section. This is the place where De La Salle of Concord has ruled since 1992. That should be the case...
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Preseason All-State FB Teams 2017
With an all-state junior and sophomore team to go by from just last January, it might seem like doing a preseason all-state team would be easy cheesy. But in this age of rapid-fire transfers (some for players leaving the state) and others exploding up the charts in the spring and summer events, there are quite […]
Girls of Summer Player Ranks 2017
More than 90 players are evaluated in this annual post, including the top 30 ranked in order, from a series of girls hoops events attended in person during June and July. Most are from Northern California with a handful from SoCal schools like Mission Hills, Brea Olinda, Rosary Academy, Santa Maria St. Joseph and San...
Girls BB: All-State 2nd, 3rd Overall
The 35th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State girls basketball teams continues with these 20 players featured prominently on second & third team overall. With so many injuries, there were some girls honored who missed more than a couple of games. Also, comparisons among girls who competed in Open Divisions both at the section and statewide level […]
FINAL Girls BB Expanded Top 35
Last week we hinted there might be a re-shuffle based on a closer look at all results and more discussion. All-in-all, the first three spots for the 2016-17 season are a slam dunk but after that for the next three it’s basically a three-way tie. Last week we saw it one way and in this...
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Rankings
By the time your eyes start to glide through these rankings it’s likely San Diego State-bound St. Mary’s (Stockton) senior star Naje Murray will either be playing against crosstown arch rival Lincoln or will have already played in her return from a knee injury suffered early last summer playing club ball. With her back, there’s...
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Rankings
This is a week when the eyes and mind and ability to analyze makes human rankings the far superior kind when you have nuances. On example is Stockton St. Mary’s beating teams at full strength and then being decimated by injuries and dropping completely out after being national top five to start the season. Another...
Super 8 Girls BB State Ranks Update
There are no changes at the top of this week’s overall pecking order and some of the teams are winning by almost 100-point margins. That will change once the section playoffs get going, which are coming up fast. NOTE: Our updated State Top 20 with expanded writeups of the first eight teams plus the next […]
All-State Football: Sophomores
It’s time to begin announcing the 38th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams and we’re starting with this Gold Club exclusive highlighting sophomores from the 2016 season. Sure, this is a group led by QBs J.T. Daniels (Mater Dei) and Hank Bachmeier (Murrieta Valley) but the real strength may be up front on defense with...
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Rankings
After a significant number of the top teams in the state rankings converged on Stockton for the St. Mary’s MLK Showcase, including the top two, there is a bit of a shake-up among the top 10 and even beyond. In some instances, a head-to-head win was used to determine placement but there were also some...
