On the first day and night of the CIF state championships at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, there were no games that were decided in the final minutes. Favored teams Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks (boys) and Oakland Tech (girls) completed their tasks with the Tech girls also making history with their fifth state title […]
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Boys BB: State Ranks By Divisions
Yes, we will once again have final divisional state rankings this season, but we can’t get them started until the CIF does its divisional placements and then there’s not enough time to get them done until the first round of the regional playoffs begin. No. 1 teams at this point of the sprint to the […]
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
In this week’s new boys basketball State TOP 25, it’s regional playoff time as we further break down the Open Division and D1 brackets. D1 is stronger than normal since there are only five teams in both the North and South open brackets, but some of the seeds are a bit perplexing. St. John Bosco...
Preseason Baseball State TOP 40
Welcome to the 44th season of Cal-Hi Sports state baseball rankings. We will continue to follow more teams in the greatest baseball state in the nation than anyone else. This will be the second season in which the CIF NorCal & CIF SoCal regional championships will conclude the race to the top. Will it gain […]
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
In this week’s new boys basketball State Top 25 there is plenty of movement following the result of a big NorCal vs. SoCal contest played at the State Preview Classic at Colony High School. There are also two newcomers, one from the North and one from the South, from traditional power leagues in each region....
Preseason Boys BB Ranks (1-15)
It’s time to launch our winter basketball content on CalHiSports.com and we’ll do it with our preseason boys basketball state rankings. It was a normal summer for the first time since 2019, as the long-term effects of COVID-19 begin to take shape and California deals with its “new” normal. That normal includes the impact that Name, […]
Baseball: Final State TOP 40 Rankings
Our final rankings are not rushed out and done in a simple list form. We take our time and expand them at the end all the way out to 40 teams in all and have completed write-ups for each. CIF D2 regional champions Archbishop Mitty and Torrey Pines get the biggest jumps for the final...
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
As the CIF Southern Section moves into its semifinal round early this week, some section playoffs in the state are just getting started. State No. 1 Orange Lutheran didn’t get out of the quarterfinals in the CIFSS so a new No. 1 had to be found and it will be Buchanan of Clovis. St. Francis...
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. For softball this week, we have more than one girl who had three homers in one game plus the end of a long league losing streak that was at least 153 games in length. For baseball, the big story is...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
For this week’s award winners, our two stops in Southern California are in Sherman Oaks and West Covina and then we head north to Elk Grove before we end up in the Central Valley town of Caruthers. For our SoCal softball honoree there was a solid candidate from the Michelle Carew Classic winning Canyon team, […]
