Category Archives: State Top 20 Rankings
NEW Girls VB State Top 20
Santa Margarita takes over No. 1 ranking from league rival Mater Dei but it could change again with both teams heading to the Nike Tournament of Champions this weekend in Arizona. Marymount also is hoping to make a splash in that event, but made one of a different kind on Tuesday night by getting upset […]
NEW Girls VB State Top 20
After all of the myriad of big matches were played by more than half of the State Top 20 at the Durango Fall Classic last weekend in Las Vegas, the order this week for the top three amazingly remained unchanged between Mater Dei, Santa Margarita and Redondo. Defending CIF Open Division state champ Archbishop Mitty […]
NEW Girls VB State Top 20
With the Durango Classic looming this weekend in Las Vegas, big changes to the state rankings started happening earlier this week after Temecula Valley topped previous No. 3 Long Beach Poly to win title at Dave Mohs Tournament in Huntington Beach. Unbeaten Central of Fresno also debuts in this week’s rankings.
NEW Girls VB State Top 20
Defending CIF Open Division champion Archbishop Mitty makes a Labor Day weekend trip to Orange County and the results of those matches cause some changes. The Monarchs couldn’t beat either state No. 1 Mater Dei or Torrey Pines of San Diego (now up to No. 6) but they did beat Canyon Crest Academy, which despite […]
NEW Girls VB State Top 20
We’ve already got some major shakeups but Mater Dei stays at No. 1 due to win on Tuesday by league rival Santa Margarita over a Marymount of Los Angeles squad that probably would have been a new No. 1 had it won. One of the Eagles’ early losses was to the Monarchs at a tournament […]
Preseason Girls VB State Top 20
For the second straight year, we’ll be doing a Top 20 state ranking each week in girls volleyball. This is because we’re working once again with FloVolleyball in compiling its Flo50 national rankings. We have done state rankings, on again and off again, in the sport since the middle of the 1990s and last season […]
What If CIF State Softball Playoffs?
There’s been discussion about the future addition of CIF state playoffs in both softball and baseball. We went through all of the teams in our final divisional state softball rankings and came up with a proposed format with an Open Division and then six divisions after that. We set up brackets for each division as...
Eastlake State Baseball Team of Year
Win against Helix of La Mesa in CIF San Diego Section Open Division championship keeps Titans on top in the chase for mythical state crown. They earn their first State TOY honor in a close call over two championship teams from the CIF Southern Section. It wasn’t so much the win over Helix, however, but […]