Category Archives: State Top 25 Rankings
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
It’s the first week of May and already there are a few prominent teams that have lost in the CIF Southern Section playoffs and are done for the season, including two-time defending D1 champion JSerra. The CIF Sac-Joaquin Section playoffs start this week, but it’s still another week after that for the rest. Clovis West...
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
Monday results are included this week since we also wanted to wait for the CIF Southern Section playoff pairings that also were released on Monday. We break down some of those pairings and explain why some of the rankings don’t match the seeds. The top six from last week remain the same with lots of...
NEW Softball State TOP 35 Rankings
We’re doing softball first this week since we had CIF Southern Section playoff brackets out on Saturday and we had to wait until they were put out for baseball on Monday. Top eight teams remain same, led by No. 1 St. Francis of Mountain View. Mater Dei Catholic returns to the first 25 while the...
NEW Softball State TOP 35 Rankings
It’s a big week for Orange County as Orange Lutheran, Pacifica (Garden Grove) and Canyon (Anaheim) have all moved up into the top five and OLu goes to third. Los Alamitos also rejoins the top 10 and Esperanza goes up nine spots. The big mover in Northern California is Whitney of Rocklin (up 10 spots)....
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
As the regular season is about to end in the CIF Southern Section, a loss by Corona last week does not cause a change at the top of the state rankings. The win by La Mirada, however, does push that team up into the top 10 of this week’s rankings. Clovis also makes a huge...
NEW Softball State TOP 35 Rankings
There’s no change at the top since No. 1 St. Francis (Mountain View) won both of its games last week against previous No. 7 Archibishop Mitty. Rio Mesa of Oxnard is the biggest mover as it goes up to No. 15 from No. 20. Livermore joins the top 25 with this week’s newcomer slots going...
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
Corona wins National High School Invitational title and goes back to the top after what ended up as a one-week break. Orange Lutheran & Harvard-Westlake also show they are among best in the nation. Inland Empire teams Paloma Valley, Centennial and Arlington also all have big weeks and get boosted into first 25. This week’s...
NEW Softball State TOP 35 Rankings
The first 12 teams from last week’s rankings are in the same positions as rainy weather once again causes cancellations of tournaments around the state. The biggest movers this week are Granada Hills Charter of the CIF L.A. City Section and Buchanan of Clovis from the CIF Central Section. Unbeaten Benicia makes its debut inside...
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
Unbeaten Granada of Livermore gets to move up to the top of the heap with plenty of tough games remaining in a very competitive league. Previous No. 1 Corona only drops one spot after loss to Mater Dei, which now goes back up into the top 10. Serra of San Mateo also moves up into...
NEW Softball State TOP 35 Rankings
Michelle Carew Classic results had a major impact on this week’s rankings with upsets to four of the top 10 teams coming in. Previous No. 2 St. Francis of Mountain View or previous No. 3 Norco were not among them and naturally move up to No. 1 and No. 2. The longtime rival of St....