Players and coaches at Bullard of Fresno present a banner to head coach Tom Donald (24) after he won 500th game of career last week. Donald is a former State Coach of the Year at nearby Buchanan (Clovis). The Knights also moved up into the top 10 of this week’s state rankings. Photo: @bullardbb / Twitter.com.
Including Monday scores, No. 1 Thousand Oaks puts win streak up to 30 games. This week also sees Harvard-Westlake joining the top five plus San Marcos, Bullard of Fresno and Foothill of Tustin joining the top 10. There’s also plenty of newcomers, including California of San Ramon, Dana Hills of Dana Point and St. Francis of Mountain View.
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Note About CIF Regional Playoffs: It was announced last week that the CIF will be hosting a one-week Southern California regional playoff for baseball that will be held from June 19 to June 26. This was the year, remember, that the CIF was going to have both NorCal and SoCal regionals in baseball and then CIF state finals in several divisions. There has not been baseball playoffs in California beyond the CIF section levels since 1922. Even though NorCal regional playoffs aren’t happening, this is still a big deal that SoCal regionals are taking place. We don’t know, of course, which schools will opt out of going on beyond the section playoffs and we don’t know how many players will be skipping out on the rest of this strange, later than usual high school season to concentrate only on other events. Players chosen in the MLB Draft most likely will all be gone and not part of their high school teams, either. As with everything else COVID-19 related, we will just have to wait and see. For the record, the CIF sections that will be advancing teams into the SoCal regional playoffs will be the Southern, San Diego, L.A. City and Central Sections. In normal years in other sports, Central Section teams can be placed by the CIF into either the NorCal or SoCal regional brackets.
