Category Archives: State Top 20 Rankings
NEW Softball State Top 20
With one week to go in the regular season for almost all teams, there wasn’t much movement in this week’s new pecking order. Every team behind previous No. 8 Rio Mesa of Oxnard that didn’t lose last week was able to move up at least one spot. This week’s lone newcomer ended up being another...
NEW Baseball State Top 20
Huntington Beach takes over as the No. 1 team in the state thanks to Clovis West getting a win last week over previous No. 1 Buchanan. Rancho Bernardo also moves up to No. 2. Newcomers this week are La Costa Canyon of Carlsbad, Christian Brothers of Sacramento and Stockdale of Bakersfield. The only unbeatens still...
NEW Softball State Top 20
One mighty swing of the bat by Ventura Buena’s Jenessa Ullegue causes a lot of changes in this week’s rankings since her swing gave the Bulldogs a 1-0 win over Rio Mesa in the title game of the Thousand Oaks tourney. Rio Mesa was No. 5 in last week’s pecking order coming into that game....
NEW Baseball State Top 20
Although Buchanan of Clovis continues on top, we just about had to blow up the rest of this week’s state baseball rankings. Previous No. 2 Chatsworth and previous No. 3 Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks struggled at the SoCal Boras Classic, which helped Huntington Beach and Rancho Bernardo move up into those positions this week....
NEW Softball State Top 20
Three of this week’s four newcomer slots have gone to teams from Ventura County, which already had unbeaten Rio Mesa sitting in the top five. Elk Grove also makes a major move after winning the top divisional title at the NorCal Classic. Norco, Los Alamitos and Gahr, meanwhile, continue to hold the top three positions....
NEW Softball State Top 20
Compared to previous weeks, this was a somewhat quiet one for the state’s top softball teams. We did have to figure out what to do with Orange Lutheran as the Lancers had to drop from No. 3 after suffering a league loss to Mater Dei of Santa Ana. There also was the difficulty of choosing...
NEW Baseball State Top 20
We are presenting these rankings after most of the major pre-Easter spring break tournaments are done, including the National Classic, Boras Classic for Northern California, the Mike Morrow Lions tourney in San Diego, the Fresno Easter Classic and even the IMG Classic in Florida. All of those created results of course that greatly impacted the...
State Coach of Year: Craig Campbell
It all came together for this year’s girls basketball team at Clovis West of Fresno and with one of the most balanced starting fives you’ll ever see, it also is the perfect time to choose the Golden Eagles’ Craig Campbell as the Cal-Hi Sports State Coach of the Year for the 2016-17 season. There was […]
NEW Softball State Top 20
Go ahead, call us homers. But it just worked out doing these rankings the same way we’ve done them for 30-plus years that three teams from San Joaquin County (our home base) have landed in the State Top 20 for softball. It doesn’t look like that’s happened before. At the top of the heap, meanwhile,...
NEW Baseball State Top 20
Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks gets a monster bump after beating previous No. 7 Harvard-Westlake twice, but the Knights kind of take Thousand Oaks right up the charts with them. Go inside to see why. Other new teams in this week’s rankings include unbeaten Redwood of Visalia plus an emerging No. 1 team in the...
