Category Archives: softball
Softball: State Ranks By Divisions
Here is the first place in any ranking national or state to see Pacifica of Garden Grove now at the top of the state as the Mariners have supplanted St. Francis of Mountain View following Tuesday’s massive upset pulled off by Amador Valley of Pleasanton. Oak Ridge & Whitney of the Sac-Joaquin Section both had […]
NEW Softball State TOP 35 Rankings
No. 1 St. Francis of Mountain View looks to cap perfect season with a CIF NorCal title at the end of this week. Major movers in next to last rankings include Poway (up four spots), Oak Ridge (up 12 after big win over previous No. 7 Whitney) and Clovis North (up 16). Livermore also goes...
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 […]
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 Softball State TOP 35 Rankings
With Pacifica of Garden Grove wrapping up its second straight title in perhaps the toughest playoff bracket in the nation, it’s now down to the Mariners and St. Francis of Mountain View for the final No. 1 ranking. The focus this week now shifts north to the CIF Central Coast Section where the Lancers will...
Gahr Had Own Story To Write In Final
With two outs and nobody on in the bottom of the seventh and trailing 4-3, the Gladiators staged a rally to beat California of Whittier, 5-4, in the CIF Southern Section D2 championship on Saturday. It spoiled what would have been a sentimental win of epic proportions for California, which has been led the past […]
Pacifica Repeats As CIFSS Champion
Whether they play on in the CIF SoCal regionals is for another day, so for now we’ll recap a major milestone accomplishment for the Pacifica of Garden Grove softball team. The Mariners’ win on Friday over Orange Lutheran in the CIF Southern Section D1 title game capped a great season and at the minimum puts […]
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)...
NEW Softball State TOP 35 Rankings
It will be No. 2 Orange Lutheran vs No. 3 Pacifica on Friday in the CIF Southern Section D1 final, but it will take a loss for unbeaten No. 1 St. Francis of Mountain View for the winning team to be top-ranked in California. There also are a lot of changes this week as there...
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 […]
