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Damien boys basketball team celebrates its CIF State Division I championship at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento on Friday, March 13, 2026.

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Below is a score list and full stats from the CIF State 2026 high school boys and girls basketball champions on March 13-14 at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento.

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Sabrina Ionescu poses with Ontario Christian sophomore Kaleena Smith, the game's MVP after she scored 23 points in a 61-44 win over Mitty on Jan. 4 at Carondelet High School in Concord, Calif.

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Ontario Christian and Corona Centennial stayed put in High School On SI's California CIF-Southern Section top 25 girls basketball rankings for the week of Mar. 16 after winning regional and state titles.

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Damien boys basketball team celebrates 58-55 win over Folsom to take the CIF Division 1 boys championship March 13 at Golden 1 Center.

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Damien coach Mike LeDuc wins his 1,127th game and second state title with bitterly-fought win over host Folsom; Centennial's bigs plus Cal-bound Armanyie Reed led Centennial to first title

Cornerstone Christian Benjamin Lukacs with two of his game-high 26 points lifting the Cougars to a 74-64 CIF State Division 3 title win over Birmingham at Golden 1 Center on March 13, 2026

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Ontario Christian's Kaleena Smith drives to the hoop against a Sierra Canyon defender in the CIF Southern Section Open Division final on Feb. 28, 2026. She leads her team into the state finals 6 p.m. Saturday against Mitty with a possible mythical national championship on the line.

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Sierra Canyon, Ontario Christian, Mitty play for national titles; Central Section takes center stage; Kaleen Smith makes debut; Jelani McCoy, McKenna Woliczko offer swan songs

Sage Hill girls basketball celebrates a shocking win over No. 1 Sierra Canyon in the CIF State Open Division regional playoffs.

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Ontario Christian is back on top after Open Division champion Sierra Canyon's state playoff loss to Sage Hill in High School On SI's California CIF-Southern Section top 25 girls basketball rankings for the week of Mar. 9.

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Jerzy Robinson's high school career is over after Sage Hills stunned Sierra Canyon at home in the CIF State regional semifinals Saturday night.

St. Bernard has appointed Dean Herrington its new football coach.

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Dean Herrington, who has 159 career wins, five CIF finals appearances, two CIF titles and a CIF State title to his name, will take over at St. Bernard in Los Angeles.

Ray Fenton is the new football coach at Orange Lutheran after winning a CIF title at Los Alamitos in 2025.

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Fenton was 80-33 as a head coach at Los Alamitos, including a CIF title in 2025. Now he's the newest coach in the powerhouse Trinity League.

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Top 2027 defensive lineman Marcus Fakatou (middle) has complete his transfer from Orange Lutheran to Sierra Canyon.

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Marcus Fakatou has completed a transfer from Orange Lutheran to Sierra Canyon this spring.

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Jason Crowe Jr. saw his high school career come to an end Tuesday night in Inglewood's CIF State playoff loss to Damien.

Mater Dei advances in the CIF State Division I playoffs after beating No. 1 La Mirada.

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Mater Dei took down No. 1 La Mirada in the opening round of the CIF State SoCal Regional playoffs Tuesday night.

Jerzy Robinson of Sierra Canyon (CA) celebrates after hitting a 3-pointer against Long Island Lutheran at the 2026 Hoophall Classic.

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Sierra Canyon is the Southern Section's top-ranked team and Open Division champion for the first time since Juju Watkins was a Trailblazer and La Salle leaps for winning the Division 1 title in High School On SI's California CIF-SS top 25 rankings.

Sierra Canyon's Jerzy Robinson celebrates winning the CIF Southern Section Open Division after beating Ontario Christian 69-62 on Feb. 28, 2026 at the Toyota Arena in Ontario, Calif.

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South Carolina commit Jerzy Robinson scores a game-high 32 points to lead Sierra Canyon to an Open Division victory over Kaleena Smith and Ontario Christian.

Brandon McCoy Jr. rises for a one-handed dunk against JSerra at Pauley Pavilion on November 22, 2025.

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Mission League rivals Sierra Canyon and Harvard-Westlake will face off in the CIF Southern Section Open Division final Saturday night.

Mater Dei could be in jeopardy of not playing a full-season schedule for the third season in a row.

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America's top high school football program has been unlucky the last two seasons when playing 10 regular-season games, it could happen again in 2026.

Huntington Beach's Jared Grindlinger and Sierra Canyon's Sean Parrow drew 30+ MLB scouts.

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Sierra Canyon and Huntington Beach brought out the MLB scouts and their weapon of choice: radar guns.

Sierra Canyon coach Andre Chevalier has the Trailblazers in their sixth CIF Southern Section Open Division final since 2016.

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The CIF Southern Section is set for basketball championship weekend on Friday and Saturday, highlighted by the Open Division finals at Toyota Arena.

Yorba Linda coach Jeff Bailey is leaving to take over the football program at Beverly Hills High.

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Yorba Linda coach Jeff Bailey, who played at UCLA, will takeover at Beverly Hills which hasn't had a winning season since 2010.

Vicky Oganyan has Burbank/Burroughs in the CIF finals while head coaching a women's college basketball team at the same time.

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Burroughs High coach Vicky Oganyan has the Bears in the program's first CIF final while head coaching LA Mission College to a historic season at the same time.

Harvard-Westlake will take on Sierra Canyon in the CIF Southern Section Open Division final on Saturday, Feb. 28 at the Toyota Arena in Ontario.

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The CIF-SS Open Division final is set for Saturday at 6 p.m. at the Toyota Arena in Ontario between familiar foes Sierra Canyon and Harvard-Westlake.

La Mirada coach Randy Oronoz will travel to Harvard-Westlake to compete in the Open Division semifinals Tuesday night.

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La Mirada has been deemed the Cinderella team of the 2026 CIF Southern Section Open Division playoffs after beating St. John Bosco and Redondo Union in back-to-back games.

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The top four seeds advance to the Open Division semifinals; top-ranked Ontario Christian is a heavy favorite against Sage Hill while Etiwanda and Sierra Canyon enter an evenly matched duel in the playoffs once again.