Category Archives: softball
Mater Dei makes a mess with title win
The Monarchs, despite starting the postseason with seven losses, complete their run through the CIF Southern Section Division I softball playoffs with an 8-2 victory over state No. 1 Orange Lutheran. Their win also denied the Lancers a chance to be No. 1 in one national poll and set up a tough decision about which […]
NEW Division Softball Rankings
Is there a chance that not every one of our final No. 1 teams will be from the CIF Southern Section? Yes, but it’s guaranteed for D1 and D2 and would take monumental upsets for either Ceres in D3 or Mariposa County in D5 to move up to the top spot for the final rankings....
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
This will be the final set of these honors for the 2015-16 school year and three of them led their teams to section championships last weekend – from Eagle Rock, San Jose and Ceres. The other choice from Torrance still has games to play.
NEW Softball State Top 20
Orange Lutheran and Los Alamitos will meet on Tuesday in a No. 1 vs. No. 2 showdown that also has mythical national title implications. Mater Dei, meanwhile, goes back up into the top 10 at No. 7 after wins over previous No. 3 Etiwanda and Great Oak of Temecula. Newcomers this week include CIF San...
NEW Division Softball Rankings
It was decided this week to get out the latest edition of these rankings AFTER the CIF Southern Section quarterfinals were played on Thursday but in doing that they were released DURING some section playoff games being played on Friday. No. 1 teams remain Orange Lutheran (D1), La Habra (D2), Grand Terrace (D3), Paraclete (D4)...
State Stat Stars Of The Week
Last few games of championship season for Palo Cedro Foothill’s Jessica Seeley were hard to believe, including one game in which she hit two grand slams and drove in 12 runs. Another from softball comes from a girl who took an AP exam for four hours before zipping out to have a strong game. In […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
We went with two small school kids for NorCal this week, one who led his team to its second straight section title. The two SoCal choices both are underclass players, one who threw a no-hitter against the champion of one of the state’s best leagues and the other who is setting school records as a […]
