Category Archives: softball
Softball: FINAL Division State Ranks
State Teams of the Year by divisions have already been announced as Esperanza (D1), Upland (D2), Notre Dame of Salinas (D3), Sutter (D4) and Fowler (D5). For the final divisional rankings, teams moving up include St. Paul of Santa Fe Springs (D2), Louisville of Woodland Hills (D3), Redwood of Larkspur (D4) and Orestimba (D5). TO...
Esperanza: State Softball Team of Year
There is an asterisk attached to the 2021 State Softball Team of the Year honor that has been earned by Esperanza of Anaheim, but that has nothing to do with the worldwide pandemic that caused the 2020 season to be scrapped after a few weeks. The Aztecs are a legit champion and have become the […]
Softball State Ranks By Divisions
With the 2020-21 season ending on Saturday with CIF SoCal regional championships, here’s a look at our own five-division state rankings for softball. 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 on our own […]
NEW State TOP 35 Softball Rankings
The top six teams appear to be locked in those positions heading into the final week of the season since results from this week’s first-ever CIF Southern California regional playoffs won’t have that much of an impact. Those six teams all opted out of those playoffs. Three of those teams — No. 1 Esperanza, No....
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 Softball Rankings
As the CIF Southern Section moves into its championship games next week with its matchups already determined, teams are on the move in this week’s rankings. Esperanza has gone to No. 1 after its win over previous No. 1 Norco last Thursday, Villa Park nudges up to No. 3, Upland moves from No. 9 to...
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 […]
NEW State TOP 35 Softball Rankings
All teams statewide that can be in CIF section playoffs are now in them this week. One of them, for the Central Coast Section, will conduct three rounds of games in four days this week. As Norco continues to be No. 1 in the state, biggest movers this week are Upland (up from No. 13...
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 the next few weeks. In boys hoops, Oceanside El Camino’s Tyson Robinson honors his late mother by becoming school’s new career scoring leader. In girls...
