We can’t argue with the fact that our rankings are not totally in line with some state and national rankings. However, the one thing we have in our favor is in traversing up and down the state in the past five months, and covering dozens of teams and games, we have personally seen the first...
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NEW Girls BB State TOP 30 Rankings
Seeds, seedings and saplings. The CIF Regional playoffs are set, the seedings are out, and the action begins on Tuesday for lower divisions and on Wednesday for the Open Division. However, reflecting back on the section playoffs, and the CIF Southern Section in particular, the traditional perennial girls basketball powers are still not totally changed,...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 30 Rankings
Seedings versus Cal-Hi Sports girls rankings is this week’s theme. The biggest difference is by and large seedings are computer driven while these rankings come from personal observation and years of observing and evaluating the state’s top girls basketball talent. As of these current rankings we will have traversed the state and personally seen 24...
FINAL All-State Baseball Noms (NorCal)
Now that the players of the year for baseball are out, we’ll start getting into the picking of players for the 42nd annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball Teams. Here is a second, updated list of nominees on our board from the CIF Central Coast, Central, North Coast, SF/Oakland, Northern and Sac-Joaquin Sections. Thanks to those...
Girls BB: Divisional State Rankings
Just like the boys, here’s our first run through of each CIF division after Tuesday’s first round game and going by our own system of doing rankings. We rank 10 teams in each division and have comments after each one. We’ll have another update next week and then final rankings after the CIF state championships […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 35 Rankings
It’s no coincidence that three of the four California players chosen for the West squad in this year’s McDonald’s All-American Game are from the top three teams in these rankings, and the fourth is from a school that has produced the most girls to play in the prestigious event. As things shake out and as...
Girls Cali Live 23: Top Player Ranks
Connecticut-committed Morgan Cheli from Archbishop Mitty of San Jose and Brazilian transplant and newfound phenom Taissa “Tissa” Queiroz of Santa Rosa Cardinal Newman were the top two players among some pretty impressive talent that performed for around 75 college coaches at the Roebbelen Center in Roseville two weeks ago. We have starting top five, next...
Mr. Baseball 2023: Trent Caraway
Sweet swinging shortstop/third baseman from JSerra (San Juan Capistrano) collects the top honor in the state for the 2023 season after already earning several other major honors. He was the leading player on the state’s No. 1 team and he’s the ninth Mr. Baseball State Player of the Year from Orange County in more than […]
Mr. Baseball 2022: Malcolm Moore
The 2021 State Junior of the Year had an outstanding season behind the plate and at the plate as his team from McClatchy of Sacramento had one of its best seasons in school history. Moore is only the fourth player ever from the Capital City region to gain baseball’s state player of the year honor […]
More Baseball State Teams of Year
In addition to overall No. 1 and State Team of the Year Concord De La Salle, others that can say they are mythical state champions for 2022 are McClatchy of Sacramento (D2), Tesoro of Las Flores (D3), Estancia of Costa Mesa (D4) and St. Bernard’s of Eureka (D5).
