Category Archives: softball
Softball: New Divisional Rankings
With the California high school softball season set to be done by Saturday of the coming weekend, here’s an updated look at our state rankings done according to our five-division format that honors teams of all shapes, sizes and competitive equity levels. One new No. 1 team that has won its section title is Cypress...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
We have two weeks to go for this feature for this school year and we’ll be looking to feature those baseball and softball players who have led their teams to section titles. It was more challenging than expected in the north since rainouts forced some section finals into this week, but we found two from […]
Softball: New Divisional Rankings
As some sections in the state are getting ready to crown champions for the 2019 season this weekend, No. 1 teams by divisions are Norco (D1), Notre Dame of Salinas (D2), Oakdale (D3), Cloverdale (D4) and East Nicolaus (D5). Cloverdale is the only new No. 1 in what was an extremely close call that also...
NEW Softball State Top 25 Rankings
Gahr of Cerritos goes up to No. 4 after beating Los Alamitos and Santiago (Corona) in CIF Southern Section D1 playoffs. The Gladiators play No. 3 Great Oak in semifinals with winner likely to face defending champion and No. 1 Norco in this weekend’s title game. This week’s two highest newcomers are No. 18 St....
State Stat Stars of the Week
Pitchers getting strikeouts took center stage among the state’s stat star standouts from last week. For baseball, it was J.T. Smith of Denair putting himself into the Cal-Hi Sports state record book by notching 20 Ks in a perfect game. For softball, Templeton’s Ashley Daugherty joined an exclusive club by recording her 1,000th career strikeout...
Softball: Divisional State Ranks
After getting out all of the boys and girls all-state basketball teams, we have the final few weeks of the softball season to add divisional state rankings into the mix. Go inside to see which teams have the best chances to earn a mythical state title in five-division format that we’ve had for many years.
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
It’s that tricky time of the season for Players of the Week where we try to avoid players from teams who may be playing in their final games of the season on the same Tuesday in which we’re releasing these weekly honors. We were successful this week in finding worthy honorees from the L.A. City […]
NEW Softball State Top 25 Rankings
The first major upset of the section playoffs this year already has taken place as previous No. 4 Grand Terrace fell in its CIF Southern Section Division I first-round game. That created some movement for this week’s rankings. The team that beat the Titans, Huntington Beach, went from unranked to No. 19 but has been...
Prep Notes With A Twist
Maya Brady’s huge game for Oaks Christian in CIFSS D1 playoff game on Thursday has us wondering: What are the best mother-daughter combos in California softball history? Or best for all sports? Maya and her mother, Maureen Brady, would definitely be on the list. We also mention what would be a format we’d like to...
