Granite Bay Alex Gibbs, Chuck Pedone, and Brandon Baumgarten return from last year's
NorCal qualifying team and will press Smotherman and Del Oro all season long in the Sierra Foothill League.
Not exact matches
In the
NorCal finals, Smotherman dropped to seventh place and Granite Bay
qualified as the third - best
team from the North.
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.
Saco has since led the CIF in adding regional playoff games to
qualify the section championship
teams for the state bowl games, and also added an Open Division — for championship games between the state's top
NorCal and SoCal programs regardless of division and enrollment — in both football and basketball.
SHC more than held its own, going 18 - 9 and
qualifying for the
NorCal Open Division playoffs (note all nine of those losses came to
teams that also played in the Open Division in postseason).
With the new Open Division for the NCS (North Coast Section) that was implemented last year (top 4
teams), Pittsburg will always have an opportunity to play for State Championship as the top 2 in open division automatically
qualify to play for
NorCal regional and State Championship football games.