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And then beginning on Wednesday, Sept. 21, we're going to release the first set of weekly state and
NorCal girls volleyball rankings.
IIMAR» I THOMAS Sacred Heart Cathedral - S.F. — Basketball — Senior Thomas was the SportStars
NorCal Girls Basketball Player of the Year, as well as a Cal - Hi Sports First - Team All - State Elite selection, after posting a double - double average of 25 points and 13.4 rebounds for an Irish team that finished 18 - 9 against what many computer programs determined to be the most difficult schedule in the country.
Not exact matches
The Mustangs became the first CIF
NorCal Division I
girls soccer champions after a hard - earned 1 - 0 win over Archbishop Mitty - San Jose in a meeting of two of the nation's most elite programs.
The
girls are playing in the
NorCal finals — There's an Open Division and D1 (James Logan is ranked # 20 in the state and very likely will be playing for the D1 Championships), but it also puts pressure on our gym availability.
Humboldt has some decent lady's compared to the hippy homeless look that most
girls have there but compared to other
norcal counties it's not even close.
Though all the attention in the coming weeks will be rightfully focused on the race for state championships, it would be unfair to ignore the quality Division VI
girls teams, which will conclude their season at the end of the
NorCal playoffs.
So if Bishop O'Dowd, a Division III team in
girls basketball according to NCS, qualified for
NorCal basketball but wasn't an Open team, it would automatically drop back to Div.
He's also had a successful runs at St. Elizabeth - Oakland (where he led the
girls program to a
NorCal finals appearance), Pinole Valley and De Anza - Richmond.
>> Can a
girls golfer — perhaps Palo Alto's Michelle Xie or Justin - Siena - Napa's Kathleen Scavo — break the
NorCal drought of CIF individual state champions?
Their only losses were to Windward - Los Angeles, the No. 1
girls team in the country according to MaxPreps.com, and O'Dowd, which was also nationally - ranked and has spend all season atop the SportStars
NorCal Top 20.
Since 2008,
NorCal has produced eight National Champions (Granite Bay — 2016 Boys Club; Sacramento Amazons — 2016 and 2010
Girls High School Nationals; Jesuit — 2013, 2011, 2009 and 2008 Boys Single School National Championships; Dixon — 2012 Boys Single School).
That's Feb. 23 - 24 for
girls and March 3 - 4 for boys, which are two of 10 monumental events featuring
NorCal grapplers listed below.
and St. Mary's will be in a
NorCal Open Division field that could feature another unbeaten team (Miramonte - Orinda) with the best
girls» player in the state (Sabrina Ionescu).
We've always understood the logic behind it — separate the most elite programs from the Division I - V fields to allow for more parity there — but have had a difficult time watching it end the seasons of some very good
NorCal boys and
girls teams which were considered too good for their own divisions, but clearly weren't at the caliber of the top 3 - 4 teams in the region.
GRIZZLIES MAUL EVERYONE: One year after the Granite Bay
girls volleyball team lost in the
NorCal finals, first - year coach Tricia Plummer led her veteran roster to the most dominant run in the section's history.
The Pleasant Grove - Elk Grove
girls did not win a league or section title, but reached the
NorCal final with three consecutive 2 - point wins on the road and then upset perennial power Berkeley 51 - 42 to punch its ticket to the state final.
Over 600 boys and
girls teams of all levels took part in the 2012/13 U14 - U19
NorCal State Cup.
Check out Clay Kallam's look ahead to the
girls NorCal tournament on Page 14 to get a better idea of what sort of craziness is in store.
On the
Girls side of things, Rugby
NorCal had three teams who also ended up being ranked in the top 10 in the Country, including the Sacramento Amazons U19 program.
Rugby
NorCal has begun to lay the groundwork in creating Rookie Rugby leagues by holding a Rookie Rugby Course Leader Training session, which took place in Vacaville and included administrators from local rugby clubs, Boys and
Girls Clubs and sports facilities.
This year, the two Northern California
girls basketball titans are on track to meet once again, but not until the
NorCal finals in mid-March — assuming that both manage to get that far.
Ten SJS golfers have won
NorCal titles with Beyer - Modesto's Marina Martinez taking the individual championship most recently in 2006, but no SJS
girls golfer has ever won a CIF State Golf Championship.
And if there is one sport in which
NorCal has really held its own in recent years, it's
girls volleyball.
Narrowing all of
NorCal's basketball talent into three teams of five for both boys and
girls was NOT easy.
Dublin's
girls were mad at themselves simply because they know they're good enough to beat the Matadors, an annual staple within
NorCal basketball's upper echelon.
FAST BREAKDOWN: It will be a long day Sunday when the CIF sifts through 400 teams (boys and
girls, north and south) to come up with the
NorCal and SoCal brackets, but the picture will be a lot clearer after the section championships wrap up this weekend.
The 5 - 10 forward seized the spotlight on the biggest stage by scoring 19 points and leading a stout defensive effort as McClatchy downed Oak Ridge 58 - 49 in the
NorCal Division I
girls final at Sleep Train Arena.
The California Golden
Girls thank the
NorCal Squash Association for their support of the two Howe Cup teams who traveled to Stamford CT in November.
Lucky for Konah, her foster home had been looking for a mellow companion for their older GSP
girl Princess (also a
NorCal GSP Rescue alumni), and from the minute they met her, they were in love.