Category Archives: softball
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. It’s now mostly baseball & softball players getting into the spotlight, but there are some wraps as well for basketball, especially with where Lynwood’s Jason Crowe Jr. has been added into the state record book. We also have our first...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Now that basketball season has concluded, we can turn our full attention to softball and baseball, and this week we have some real solid talent consisting of two college-bound seniors and two underclass stars, one of each in baseball and softball. This week’s winners are from La Puente and Spring Valley in Southern California and […]
NEW Softball State TOP 25 Rankings
Norco wins the title for a record fifth time at the Dave Kops TOC in Arizona and also moves up to a familiar position as No. 1 ranked team in the state. Runner-up Los Alamitos moves up to third while previous No. 1 Murrieta Mesa drops to fifth. Highest ranked newcomers are Central of Fresno,...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Despite the fact it’s the most important week in high school basketball in California, we have traditionally switched from the hardwood to the baseball and softball fields this week since the available players to choose becomes so few. We also more importantly want to start looking for some players in baseball and softball who we […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. Baseball & softball takes up more spots for this week’s honor roll. There’s also still plenty of outstanding boys and girls basketball players wrapping up their seasons as they work towards next week’s CIF state championships. Go inside as well...
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. The big news is Chloe Briggs of Ontario Christian moving to No. 3 on the all-time career scoring list for the girls. It’s the player she passed and the section record she broke, however, that carries the most weight. For...
Preseason Softball State TOP 40
Welcome to another season of Cal-Hi Sports state softball rankings. These have been done more than 30 years. The softball “preseason” rankings are different than baseball, which was done last week, because there are some teams in the CIF Southern Section that have already played games. We will continue to use the California rankings we […]
All Softball State Records Updated
For the first time ever, we have added all individual softball state record lists onto this web site. The exclusive CalHiSports.com state record archives also are now for the first time showing all individual and team categories in all sports we focus on (football, boys hoops, girls hoops, baseball & softball). All softball state records […]
Carlos Arias: Getting Stronger Daily
A former Orange County Register high school sports journalist and current writer for the ExtraInningSoftball.com national web site, Carlos Arias continues to work every day and hopes to be out at games sometime in the future. That he’s even alive is really a miracle. This article, in fact, was begun as an obituary in May […]
More Girls State Athletes of Year
To go with overall honoree Dalia Frias, we have others selected tops among girls athletes for juniors, sophomores, freshmen and those from divisions (D1, D3, D4 and D5) for the 2021-22 school year. One of those was nearly chosen as the overall winner, while another was recently named as our 2022 Ms. Softball State Player […]
