(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...
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Girls BB: All-State Underclass 2026
On the same weekend as the WNBA season gets going, it’s time to start naming players for the 47th annual edition of the Cal-Hi Sports All-State Girls Basketball Teams. You should notice that’s the same number of years as for the boys. These first teams are for the most outstanding juniors, sophomores and freshmen in...
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
(Click Arrows to See More Photos on home page) St. John Bosco beats Orange Lutheran in two of three games as No. 1 state ranking flips for a second week. Those two could play again this week in Boras Classic for Southern California. The Boras for NorCal was held last week with St. Mary’s of...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 30 Rankings
We begin this week with some explanations from the CIF and our own thoughts on Sunday’s release of pairings for both the NorCal and SoCal regional playoffs. We also have a big change at the top as Sierra Canyon has to move up to No. 1 after beating previous No. 1 Ontario Christian in the...
NEW Girls BB State TOP 30 Rankings
No. 1 Ontario Christian already has more 100-point games than any team in state history entering CIF Southern Section Open Division semifinals with three other top five state teams. St. Mary’s of Stockton and San Ramon Valley also move up within top 10 and may already be eyeing each other for possible CIF NorCal Open...
Baseball Preseason State TOP 35
We have 45 years of final baseball state rankings in our archives and we’re beginning the 46th season with a similar theme as the 45th. That’s with a very strong favorite at the top of the state. The team that was in that spot last year, though, wasn’t No. 1 at the end. Can St. […]
All-State FB 2025: 1st Team Defense
Here are the 11 defensive players plus one punter and three of the other six multi-purpose players who have been named First Team Overall on the 48th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Football Teams. There has to be a minimum of three DLs, LBs and DBs among this group and we went with a 3-4-4. Within […]
NEW Girls BB State TOP 30 Rankings
A lot has happened since the last rankings done after games completed by January 10, but one thing that hasn’t changed is the top four teams, and maybe new No. 5, that appear to be head and shoulders above the rest. After the first four teams there were no teams that held on to the...
MLK Special: St. Mary’s girls roll
There was a matchup on the MLK holiday between the top two ranked girls basketball teams in the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section, but it was not close. Host St. Mary’s of Stockton clearly looks like one of the state’s top teams with a 72-39 win over Christian Brothers of Sacramento. Having junior Kori Rogers back after […]
Tony Franks: State FB Coach of Year
St. Mary’s of Stockton program leader for 27 years had a team in 2025 that knew how to come from behind to win playoff games and capped it off with its first CIF state title. He’s the first State Coach of the Year from Stockton since 1943 and he’s the sixth from the CIF Sac-Joaquin […]
