Category Archives: baseball
Baseball: State Ranks By Divisions
We can now do these rankings by division only twice each season because we have no idea what divisions teams are going to placed until the Sunday before CIF regional playoffs and then each team plays three times in five days. Final rankings will be done later next week and we’ll have more time to […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Over the years that we’ve been doing this feature, our final week of each school year has always been at the conclusion of the baseball/softball section playoffs, and that is this week. With the CIF Southern Section having concluded last weekend, we had to find our SoCal winners in the CIF Los Angeles City Section […]
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
There is one week to go in the 2024 season in California with the final No. 1 ranking now locked up by Corona. It’s still possible for changes after that, however, and we’ve made one this week with Granada of Livermore moving up to No. 2. Yes, the Matadors needed 14 innings to win their...
Corona: Baseball State Team of Year
We’re not going to wait around too long to go ahead and get out the inevitable after the CIF Southern Section Division I title was decided last Saturday and that’s to name Corona as the 2024 State Team of the Year. The Panthers are the first team from the Inland Empire to finish No. 1 […]
St. Mary’s Breaks Title Drought
Rams storm back from early 1-0 deficit to beat Rocklin, 6-1, on Thursday night to grab their first CIF Sac-Joaquin Section D1 title since 2012. State’s No. 8 team also probably will be seeded no lower than No. 2 in next week’s CIF NorCal D1 regional playoffs due to No. 5 Valley Christian’s upset loss […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
With the baseball and softball seasons in the home stretch, and with so few teams still in action, in years past we sometimes had to dig deep to find the kind of outstanding performances that could qualify for a statewide player of the week award, let alone find a potential entry for the Cal-Hi Sports […]
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
This week’s rankings were delayed several hours to include all of the reported opt-outs from the CIF Southern Section regarding next week’s CIF Southern California regional playoffs. State No. 1 Corona is the main one, but after Saturday night’s win over Harvard-Westlake in the CIFSS D1 final there isn’t much else left that the Panthers...
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. More than lists and numbers, we can provide historical context since we’ve maintained state records in California for more than 40 years. For baseball this week, player of the year candidates T.P. Wentworth (Modesto Central Catholic) and Boston Bateman (Camarillo)...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
With the CIF Southern Section now into the semifinals and finals this week for baseball and softball, it narrows the funnel by a lot, but even so we have two SoCal honorees who put up some very impressive numbers. In Northern California, where playoffs are just starting, we have two award winners that are near […]
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
We’re down to No. 1 Corona, No. 2 Orange Lutheran, No. 3 Harvard-Westlake and No. 7 Huntington Beach for the CIF Southern Section D1 title. Would any other teams have a chance to be final No. 1 if Huntington Beach is the one that wins the title? Granada of Livermore (just one loss) for sure...