To continue our end-of-school year content of honoring the best multi-sport and overall athletes of the year (boys and girls), we take our annual look at the state’s 15 best football-basketball combo athletes. They will comprise our 39th annual Cal-Hi Sports Grid-Hoop All-State team. Leading the 15-man group is player of the year Kaleb Edwards […]
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NEW State Softball TOP 25 Rankings
Tournament wins catapult Tracy from No. 16 to No. 10 and Oaks Christian from on the bubble to No. 18 in this week’s new state rankings. Del Oro also moves up to third after big win vs previous No. 3 Oak Ridge and now has an argument to be No. 1. Pacifica of Garden Grove...
State Baseball/Softball Players of Week
These are the first players of the week for the 2025 spring season and all four honorees have been tabbed for providing big power totals at the plate. One of them is from a family we’ve been covering closely since the early 1990s and another was impacted greatly from the Eaton Fire in Altadena. They […]
State Football Players of the Week
Besides uncovering hidden talent as one of the goals of this feature, we track entries for the Cal-Hi Sports Online Record Book, and this week we have a record book entry and also have chosen a player who will very likely crack the record book in the future for career passing yards. Our visits this […]
Preseason Softball State TOP 40
Welcome to another season of Cal-Hi Sports state softball rankings. These have been done more than 30 years. The softball “preseason” rankings are different than baseball, which was done last week, because there are some teams in the CIF Southern Section that have already played games. We will continue to use the California rankings we […]
Salute to Peter Ackermann
Longtime softball coach and athletics coordinator at Oaks Christian of Westlake Village died last Saturday from a heart condition at age 77. Last June’s CIF SoCal D1 championship game that the Lions won in dramatic fashion, 6-5, over Roosevelt of Eastvale unfortunately wound up as Pete’s last game. His final career record of 651-148-1 is […]
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (1-25)
No. 1 Mater Dei and No. 2 St. John Bosco get back to dominating against other top 25 teams after playing each other. Changes this week include Los Alamitos flip-flopping with Long Beach Poly, Inglewood joining the top 10 plus Oaks Christian & Sierra Canyon getting a jump into the first 25 of this week’s...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Rankings (26-50)
Making the biggest move among these teams is new No. 26 Oaks Christian, which jumps up from No. 49 after taking down Sierra Canyon. San Joaquin Memorial of Fresno, Granite Bay and Salinas also are among those getting strong bumps. This week’s highest ranked newcomer is Alemany of Mission Hills, but Menlo-Atherton is right behind....
