Category Archives: baseball
De La Salle: Baseball State Team of Year
It wasn’t like the more dominant team of 2019, but this year’s baseball team at De La Salle of Concord won the first CIF NorCal D1 title in dramatic fashion over previous state No. 1 St. Francis of Mountain View and gets the school’s second State Team of the Year honor in four years. Other […]
One Day, Two CIF SoCal Titles
Huntington Beach baseball & Oaks Christian of Westlake Village softball have learned that losing in a section playoff game does not mean the season is over. It’s a lesson many teams in other sports that have CIF regional and state competitions have known for many years. Both teams won CIF Division I regional titles on […]
CIF Regional Championship Scoreboard
Here are some highlights and a complete look at all of the CIF baseball and softball regional championship games played on Saturday with one that was played on Friday and one game that has had to be delayed until Monday due to rain in the far North Coast region of the state. FOR FEATURE STORY […]
Regional Baseball/Softball Scoreboard
St. Francis of Mountain View wins in both D1 NorCal semifinals at home on Thursday and will take No. 1 state ranking in both sports into Saturday championships. Go inside for scores, quick breakdowns and some highlights from all of the regional semifinals played on Thursday (with one on Wednesday but not including one on […]
Baseball: State Division Rankings
In keeping with our longstanding tradition of providing divisional state rankings in baseball, here’s a look at what they look like after Tuesday’s first round of the CIF regional playoffs (north & south) but before Thursday’s semifinals. Sitting at No. 1 are St. Francis of Mountain View (D1), McClatchy of Sacramento (D2), Tesoro of Las […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
With everyone playing on Tuesday this week, the final player of the week feature for this season has been done earlier. We also would have concluded the Player of the Week feature last week, but with the advent of the CIF Regional playoffs for the second year in the Southern Region and the first year […]
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
It’s baseball so just about anything might happen for the teams still going in this week’s first-ever concurrent CIF Northern and Southern California regional championships. St. Francis of Mountain View will finish No. 1 in the final rankings if it wins in three games by Saturday. Teams moving up this week include Villa Park (No....
Fifth Straight NCS Title For De La Salle
The Spartans came from behind with two runs in the seventh to get a tie and won it in the ninth, 9-6, over Foothill of Pleasanton in CIF North Coast Section Division 1 final. They’ve now won five section titles in a row and kept the streak going after a two-year break due to the […]
Whitney Wins 1st SJS Baseball Title
School from Rocklin that began in 2003 faced off against a school from Sacramento founded in 1937 with a ton of baseball tradition, but on Thursday night at Sacramento City College it was the young ones — also with a young roster — that came out top. Whitney of Rocklin won the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. In baseball this week, we have playoff no-hitters by pitchers from Woodland Hills, Oceanside and Atwater. We also detail how Anaheim’s girl pitcher did in her CIF Southern Section title game start. For softball, Eureka pitcher Kira Morris improves to...
