Results at big-time holiday events such as the Tarkanian Classic, The Classic at Damien and Hoophall West have a big infleunce on the first boys basketball state rankings for 2026. Top-ranked Sierra Canyon faces a huge test this week on national television, while results around the country show California’s top teams can compete with just...
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State Basketball Players of the Week
This is another week in which we don’t have any entries to track for the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book. That is one of the goals of this feature, but there is no shortage of hidden talent to earn a statewide award to go with local recognition, and that’s our other goal. This week our […]
CIF State FB Previews & Picks
We have more historical info in our archives than anyone so we have some tidbits on the teams in these games unmatched by anyone else. For the games played at Saddleback College, we have Santa Margarita, Cathedral Catholic, Central East, St. Mary’s of Stockton and Sonora as winners. It’s hard to pick a winner obviously […]
State Football Players of the Week
This week it’s the final narrowing of the funnel, as traditionally it’s also the last week for the Cal-Hi Sports State Football Player of the Week honors with all of the CIF section championship games. We’re switching to basketball (boys & girls) next week. For our final week, not only did we uncover some hidden […]
NEW Boys BB State TOP 30 Rankings
The NorCal and SoCal regional finals are set for Tuesday and in our second-to-last State TOP 30 boys basketball rankings of the 2024-25 season, a team that didn’t make the regional moves up based on last week’s results. As expected, it will be No. 1 vs. No. 2 in Tuesday’s SoCal Open title game and...
All-State Football 2024: Sophomores
Welcome to the first selections for the 47th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams. These are the longest running all-state teams in California by a wide margin. We start as always with a look at those getting first, second and third team honors among sophomores. Perennial powerhouse St. John Bosco had a very young team...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
On the eve of the latest Mater Dei-St. John Bosco battle of No. 1 and No. 2 for the CIF Southern Section D1 championship, we see rises this week for De La Salle up to No. 4, Folsom up to No. 7 and Lincoln of San Diego up to No. 12. We also have both...
State Football Players of the Week
This week’s honorees include two remarkable kickers, one who kicked his second 50-yard field goal of the season and the other who’s a girl who had game-winning field goal that earned her team a league title. We also have a QB with eight TD passes in a game his team won, 90-46. The six we […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
We have four newcomers this week, led by Leuzinger of Lawndale (which has been in there before). Two of the other three are from the city of La Verne — Damien and Bonita — while the fourth is Marin Catholic of Kentfield. The team Marin Catholic is hosting on Saturday, Cardinal Newman of Santa Rosa,...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
The two big results that shook up this week’s rankings were St. Ignatius of San Francisco posting a 21-20 win over previous No. 9 Serra of San Mateo and Serra of Gardena exploding past previous No. 15 Los Alamitos. Both of those teams were in our top 50 and both need to get bumped up...
