It’s the same teams in the top 10 for this week, but there are changes as De La Salle, Orange Lutheran and Folsom go up and Mission Viejo has to drop to 10th. Santa Margarita maintains top ranking. The biggest movers, meanwhile, are led by Mission Hills of San Marcos (up eight spots), Archbishop Riordan...
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Preseason All-CCS Football Teams
This is the final one of these preseason teams in our annual series. It’s still preseason for a good many teams in the state since their seasons haven’t begun. Defending Open Division champion Archbishop Riordan has five players on our preseason All-CCS first team. That is not as many, though as last year’s D1 winners...
2025-26 Grid-Hoop All-State Team
This year’s Grid-Hoop All-State Team is a big one for us as it marks 40 years in which we’ve been doing these honors. The idea always has been to take a special look at those best football-basketball combo athletes, some of them who also shine in a third sport. Leading the 15-man group of top […]
FINAL All-State Baseball Noms (NorCal)
Here’s the updated, edited list of nominees for the 44th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball Teams from the CIF Central Coast, Central, North Coast, SF/Oakland, Northern and Sac-Joaquin Sections. Thanks to everyone who sent in nominations and info in support of those already on the list from the previous version of these lists. It’s still...
MLB Draft Booms & Busts
With annual selection of high school players for the MLB Draft now proposed to be stopped by the league itself, we thought about all of the high schoolers from California who’ve been selected in the first round since the draft began in 1965. Here’s a ranking of the top 12 of those players plus a...
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
(Click Arrows to See More Photos on home page) For the first time, top-ranked baseball teams in the CIF Southern Section can lose a in an early-round playoff game and not have the season end. Those are the teams, including four of the first five in our state rankings, that will be in the new...
NEW State Baseball TOP 35 Rankings
Here’s the first regular season rankings of the 2026 season with updates since the preseason rankings were done about two weeks ago. St. John Bosco and Orange Lutheran remain 1-2, but there are changes after that with No. 3 De La Salle dropping a few spots with two forfeits. Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks and...
All-State Football 2025: Juniors
The 48th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams roll on with the top honors for juniors. It’s an interesting group of QBs with two of the very best from the same Orange County-based league. We also have four players on first or second team from Tustin High (also Orange County), which is the same number...
FINAL State TOP 75 FB Ranks (26-75)
As is our custom, we expand the final rankings out to 75 teams instead of just doing a bubble list. CIF state title game results also helped some other teams come up at the end, including Serra of San Mateo, Clovis and Los Gatos. We also had to figure out where best to place CIF...
