Folsom & Cathedral Catholic of San Diego have met in the CIF state finals twice before and will make it a third time after the teams won D1-AA regional titles on Friday night. St. Mary’s of Stockton will be another CIF Sac-Joaquin Section team playing next Friday at Saddleback College after it won in the […]
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State Football Players of the Week
All of this week’s honorees are from CIF section playoff games and since we only pick players for these honors from winning teams, it gets more difficult to find those with record book type performances. We have six more very good ones, however, and two of them played in games that ended with scores of […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
Since we’ve always gone by head-to-head results, it’s easy to now put Santa Margarita with the No. 1 state ranking for the first time in school history. After their win over previous No. 1 Sierra Canyon, they have wins over the other three teams also still going in the CIF Southern Section D1 playoffs. De...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
San Clemente, Serra of San Mateo and Valencia are all among the teams getting nice bumps in this week’s rankings. We also have two new teams this week — Chino Hills and Soquel — who both have league championship showdowns they are involved in. All teams written up and we have more than 20 other...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (26-50)
Cardinal Newman takes down previous No. 17 Grant of Sacramento and has to come in as a newcomer to this week’s rankings. Going by the who-beat-who scenarios also causes a lot of other changes with previous No. 50 Long Beach Poly beating Tustin and previous unranked Bishop Amat topping previous No. 36 Valencia. Pacifica of...
Preseason All-CCS Football Team
It’s a parade of Archbishop Riordan players on this squad (especially on offense), but St. Francis of Mountain View has the most on defense. Valley Christian linemen and three from Sacred Heart Cathedral also have cracked the lineup. The CCS is dominated by the West Catholic Athletic League, but some other players from schools like...
De La Salle 7th inning rally beats Serra
A baseball team scoring three times in the bottom of the seventh inning to win a major title like the CIF NorCal D1 championship is pretty incredible, but compared to the other two times that the De La Salle of Concord baseball team rallied to win NorCal titles in the last four years what happened […]
NEW State Baseball TOP 35 Rankings
There was consideration for the first unbeaten team through the CIF San Diego Section playoffs in history to be moved up to No. 1 after Corona’s loss to St. John Bosco of Bellflower. But when the Braves later beat Santa Margarita to win the CIF Southern Section D1 crown, it had to be them at...
Close CCS Baseball/Softball Finals
Serra of San Mateo caps a busy day/night on Saturday of CIF Central Coast Section championships with a triumph over Valley Christian of San Jose to win the D1 baseball crown just a few hours after St. Francis of Mountain View won the Open Division softball title by handing Willow Glen of San Jose its […]
State Baseball/Softball Players of Week
For this week’s five honorees we didn’t have any entries for the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book to track, which is one of the goals of this feature, but the other goal of finding diamonds in the rough for statewide honors who might only get local recognition was more than satisfied. Five instead of four […]
