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California High School Oakland Section News

Four Monte Vista of Danville football players signed their early letters of intent, from L-R: OL Zach Struempf (San Diego), RB Julian McMahan (Washington), coach Johnny Millard, TE Kellan Ford (Arizona) and QB Brayden Turner (Fresno State).
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Northern California's Top 8 Signing Day high school football headlines

Mitch Stephens
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Four Monte Vista of Danville football players signed their early letters of intent, from L-R: OL Zach Struempf (San Diego), RB Julian McMahan (Washington), coach Johnny Millard, TE Kellan Ford (Arizona) and QB Brayden Turner (Fresno State).
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Northern California's Top 8 Signing Day high school football headlines

From unlikely Alabama connections, to baby offers, to Seattle invasion to early regional bragging rights, the early NSD headlines were aplenty

Mitch Stephens
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Pittsburg senior Marley Alcantara isn't just nimble on his feet, as shown in last year's CIF Northern California Division 1-AA 28-25 loss at Folsom, but he has a big, accurate arm which had led to a North Coast Section D1 championship. The two teams tangle again in the same game at Pittsburg on Friday
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CIF California State Bowl Championships brackets: Updated pairing, destinations, results and more

One championship matchup is decided, the 14 others will be decided by regional bowl championships

Mitch Stephens
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Mater Dei hopes to repeat as CIF State Open Division champions after defeating Serra last year. The Monarchs will play De La Salle in the 2024 game at Saddleback College Dec. 14 at 7 p.m.
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CIF State California Football high school championship pairings announced

As expected, De La Salle and Mater Dei will meet for the CIF Open Division title game on Dec. 14 at Saddleback College; List of all other regional games here

Mitch Stephens
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Members of the Pittsburg Pirates hold up the North Coast Section Division 1 hardware after a 35-28 win over San Ramon Valley Friday at Diablo Valley College. It was Pittsburg's fourth straight Division 1 title. The Pirates will now likely meet Folsom in the CIF State Division 1-AA Northern Region title game.
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CIF California Section-by-section football championship game score list

A total of 48 champions are crowned from up and down the Golden State, now awaits the CIF State Bowl Championships

Mitch Stephens
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Lincoln tight end and linebacker Kevin Zhao hopes to bring the Mustangs their third Turkey Day/San Francisco Section championship when they face Balboa for a fifth straight year at Kezar Stadium on Thanksgiving.
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California (CIF) high school football Week 4 playoff scores, live updates (11/29/2024)

Live California high school football postseason scores from all sections brought to you by High School On SI, starting with a Turkey Day tradition in San Francisco

Mitch Stephens
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Oakland senior Noah Bandabaila on verge of kicking game-winning walk-off 42-yard field goal in 10-7 win over Oakland Tech on Nov. 16 sending the Wildcats to the Silver Bowl.
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Oakland Wildcats take bite out of adversity, embraces change, reach pinnacle game

After losing 21 straight games, new coach Tee Hendrix helps get 'basketbal, academic school' once led by Damian Lillard to high water football mark since the mid-1990

Mitch Stephens
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Jaxon Bell, a junior running back from Liberty-Brentwood, is one of 61 top performers this week after he rushed for 267 yards and three touchdowns in a North Coast Section playoff win.
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Best performances in California high school football (Nov. 14-16)

How good were the perfromances this week? Try a whopping 61 standouts as playoff action hits full throttle in California

Mitch Stephens
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Ryder Lyons (left) and Lucas Hardeman celebrate by hoisting the state championship trophy at Saddleback College from the 2023 State Division 1-A title game. Saddleback has been secured for the fourth straight year to host tentative the top five divisions of the 15-game State Bowl Championships.
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CIF football championship venues are set: Saddleback College, Long Beach City College and Fullerton Stadium

Sites for the 15 State Bowl Games have been set for three different Southern California locales

Mitch Stephens
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Then sophomore guard Brandon McCoy of St. John Bosco (California) during the 39th annual Tournament of Champions against Edmond North (Oklahoma) at Great Southern Bank Arena on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024.
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Top 25 California high school boys basketball preseason rankings (11/17/2024)

St. John Bosco, two-time defending Open champion Harvard-Westlake and Eastvale Roosvelt head the pack

Mitch Stephens
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Kingston Keanaaina (2) rushed for 212 yards and three touchdowns in the second half lifting Saint Francis, the No. 4 team in the Central Coast Section according to the SBLive computer rankings, to a 27-13 win at St. Ignatius on Oct. 18, 2024.

California high school football computer rankings (10/22/2024)

High School on SI's custom rankings formula for every section of California high school football ahead of Week 9

Mitch Stephens
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McClymonds coach Michael Peters is back for another dominating season but his Warriors will be challenged mightily in 2024
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California small-school high school football power to forfeit Friday due to fight, ending 97-game league win streak

Four-time state champion McClymonds will be forced to forfeit Friday's game after brawl last week with league rival Fremont

Mitch Stephens
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The CIF Southern Section and CIF State offices have revealed updated transfer numbers through September of 2024.
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CIF transfers slightly rise in Southern Section, but are slightly down statewide

The CIF Southern Section processed 2,952 transfers so far this year, a slight increase from 2023.

Tarek Fattal
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Vote: Who should be the California High School Football Athlete of the Week (10/1/2024)?

Vote now to select SBLive Sports California High School Football Athlete of the Week for Sep. 26-28

Mitch Stephens
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Pittsburg senior RB and SS Jamar Searcy, a Washington State commit, rushed 17 times for 164 yards and four touchdowns in Friday's 56-42 win over Riordan.
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Best performances in Northern California high school football (Sept. 12-14)

Central Section's leading rusher Brison Abbott rushes for more than 200 yards again, leading Bakersfielld to a huge win over Bullard

Mitch Stephens
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California high school football game stopped early after crowd runs onto field

Game between El Cerrito at Oakland Tech ended only two minutes into the second period

Mitch Stephens
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Monte Vista quarterback Brayden Turner, who committed to Fresno State during the summer, opened his 2024 season with 300 yards passing and four touchdowns to earn a spot on the top NorCal performers' list | Photo: Troy Jones
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Best performances in Northern California high school football (Aug. 29-31)

Big scores, big numbers set the tone as five NorCal Sections opened play last week

Mitch Stephens
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Folsom QB Ryder Lyons was the SBLive/SI California Co-Offensive Player of the Year in 2023.
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SBLive/SI All-State California high school football teams for 2023 season

We honored 114 players across the state, including seven total Players of the Year, one coach along with a dozen QBs, RBs, WRs, DL, LBs, DBs and all-purpose standouts

Mitch Stephens, SBLive Sports
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Mater Dei incoming senior running back Jordon Davison should carry the ball more than 101 times as he did as a junior/Photo: John Bowers
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California's Top 50 high school running backs to watch in 2024 football season

The high school football season is only a month away and here are 50 of the top running backs in California

Mitch Stephens
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Mater Dei will play Bishop Gorman for the fourth time on Sept. 6 after winning for a third straight time here in 2022, 24-21. 5-star running back Jordon Davison (0) is back for the Monarchs.
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Which football teams have the toughest schedules in every California (CIF) Section?

From Clovis North to Mater Dei, here's a look at 10 of the toughest 2024 high school football schedules in the state

Mitch Stephens
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Four-star recruit Jake Hall of Carlsbad will be one of the top players more than 150 college coaches will be watching in the Boys Cali Live 24 event Friday through Sunday at Roebbelen Center in Roseville (Calif.).
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Top prospects to watch at Boys Cali Live 2024 high school basketball event

If you're one of the approximate 150 men's basketball coaches who plan to attend Boys Cali Live 24 Friday through Sunday at the Roebbelen Center, this list is for you. It's more than 300 possible Division I college prospects who will be in action.

Mitch Stephens
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Top 50 Bay Area high school 2025 football recruits: Commitments, predictions where non-committed will end up

Fifty of California's top 247 football recruits from the Class of 2025 reside in the Bay Area — a huge amount — led by San Ramon Valley hard-hitting linebacker Marco Jones who has yet to commit.

Mitch Stephens
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Final 2023-24 Top 25 California High School boys basketball rankings (3/15/2024)
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Final 2023-24 Top 25 California High School boys basketball rankings (3/15/2024)

Harvard-Westlake finishes No. 1 in the final Top 25 rankings

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Live score updates: Oakland Tech defeats Centennial in California boys basketball championship
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Live score updates: Oakland Tech defeats Centennial in California boys basketball championship

SACRAMENTO — Somewhere Leon Powe is smiling.  The former Oakland Tech, Cal and NBA standout lost in back-to-back CIF Division 1 championships to Westchester in

Mitch Stephens, SBLive Sports
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CIF California girls basketball semifinal roundup, preview to regional finals (3-5-2024)
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CIF California girls basketball semifinal roundup, preview to regional finals (3-5-2024)

From buzzer beaters to blowouts to nail-biters to massive upsets, the road to the CIF California Regional girls basketball finals have been wide and varied.

Mitch Stephens, SBLive Sports
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CIF Northern California 2024 girls soccer playoff brackets: Updated scores, matchups, game times (3-2-2024)
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CIF Northern California 2024 girls soccer playoff brackets: Updated scores, matchups, game times (3-2-2024)

The 2024 CIF Northern California girls soccer championship matches are on for Saturday.  Four of the five top seeds will host matches for Northern California

Mitch Stephens, SBLive Sports
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