Category Archives: baseball
MLB Draft: Five from state on 1st night
California didn’t get the No. 1 overall position for the second straight year and ended the night with a lower total than usual, but there was still plenty of highlights from the first night of the 2021 MLB Draft. Chula Vista Eastlake struck again with Marcelo Mayer’s selection at No. 4 while the intrigue of […]
State Coach of Year: Jared Halpert
After losing a stellar group of seniors in 2020, Harvard-Westlake of Studio City won the CIF Southern Section D1 baseball title, which is exactly what is looked for in a State Coach of the Year. Meet Jared Halpert, a former player during the glory days of the early 2000s from Chatsworth who is now 2021 […]
FINAL State TOP 40 Baseball Rankings
Previous No. 3 Buchanan’s loss to Bishop Amat shook up the final order with the Bears falling three spots while the Lancers had to come way up and wound up in the top 10. Two CIF San Diego Section teams that won CIF SoCal regional titles — La Costa Canyon and Granite Hills — both...
Thousand Oaks: Baseball Team of Year
With no State Team of the Year selection possible in 2020 due to the Coronavirus pandemic, there’s a new entry now listed for 2021 and for the third straight time it’s a team that ended its season with 29 wins. This time, it’s 29-1 Thousand Oaks, which is similar in some ways to 29-1 De […]
Baseball State Ranks By Divisions
With the 2020-21 season ending on Saturday and CIF SoCal regionals already into the semifinals, here’s a look at our own five-division state rankings for baseball. For this year, we are combining the teams in the SoCal regional bracket into divisions (not the same) and then injecting where the NorCal teams would fit in based […]
NEW State TOP 35 Baseball Rankings
With both teams winning CIFSS titles and both opting out of this week’s first-ever CIF SoCal regional playoffs, we’ll never know which team for sure — Thousand Oaks & Harvard-Westlake — should be No. 1 in the state for baseball this season. For this week, it’s Lancers No. 1, Wolverines No. 2 and that likely...
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports and continues as a mix for boys and girls basketball plus baseball and softball for at least one more time for the 2020-21 school year. This week actually covers two weeks since last week we were getting everything ready for...
NorCal / SoCal Players of the Week
This will be the final week for the Baseball and Softball Players of the Week since Northern California, except for the CIF Central Section, has concluded play. It turns out there was one player from the Sacramento area we could still honor since his last game was last week. We also went with one of […]
NEW State TOP 35 Baseball Rankings
There was almost one upset of the century involving one of the state’s top six teams, but in the end all six got through to their section semifinals this week. Let’s hope all six are showing up next week in the first-ever CIF Southern California Open Division playoffs. Biggest movers in this week’s rankings include...
SoCal / NorCal Players of the Week
This will be the next-to-last installment of this series for the 2020-21 school year. We just couldn’t resist one chance to rave about one of the best baseball pitchers in the nation and a top small-school softball player from the south. In the north, we have the leader of a team that finished 24-2 plus […]
