Category Archives: State Top 25 Rankings
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
Huge tourney titles lift Granite Bay and Torrey Pines up into the top 10 of this week’s rankings. Other high rising newcomers include Serra of San Mateo, Patrick Henry of San Diego and Centennial of Corona. This week’s Boras Classic for Southern California could force similar big moves in next week’s rankings or No. 1...
St. Francis MV, Norco Co-Champs
This year’s Michelle Carew Classic had four of the top five teams from the state and six of the top 10, but rain wiped out Saturday’s schedule so there was no No. 1 vs No. 2 championship in the Gold Bracket. There were still big developments as No. 1 Pacifica (Garden Grove) lost twice, the […]
NEW Softball State TOP 35 Rankings
It could be a No. 1 vs No. 2 matchup of state-ranked teams coming up on Saturday at the annual Michelle Carew Classic in Anaheim. No. 2 St. Francis strengthened its grip on the top ranking in NorCal with a win last Saturday vs previous No. 3 Hollister. Norco is now back up to No....
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
Preseason No. 1 Corona goes back to the top after Orange Lutheran loses twice in a three-game series with Santa Margarita, which jumps to No. 5 after winning those two games. Unbeaten Granada of Livermore moves to No. 4. The week’s biggest newcomer is St. Augustine of San Diego after a big win over Granite...
FINAL Girls BB State TOP 40 Rankings
For these final expanded rankings we obviously had a change at the top with Etiwanda defeating Archbishop Mitty for the CIF Open Division state championship, but after that only nine of the next 23 teams in the Top 25 held onto the same spot they had in the last rankings. Seven of the next 10...
NEW Softball State TOP 35 Rankings
Last year’s No. 1 team from Hollister jumps up to No. 3 this week prior to big games against Central (Fresno) and No. 2 St. Francis (Mountain View). Central also moves way up there this week with some help from another Central Section team (St. Joseph of Santa Maria). More big movers include Canyon of...
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
Orange Lutheran stays at No. 1 after losing a game but winning a huge Trinity League series vs 2023 State Team of the Year JSerra. Granada of Livermore joins the top five after win over De La Salle (and moving to 7-0). Highest rising newcomers are Granite Hills of El Cajon and San Juan Hills...
FINAL Boys BB State TOP 40 Rankings
As is another of our traditions, we present our expanded, final State Top 40 overall boys basketball team rankings for the 2023-24 season. There is some movement from our previous weekly Top 35 update, as CIF Southern Section teams that didn’t make the regional playoffs deserve to move up over some NorCal and SoCal D1...
FIRST Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
It wasn’t possible to do a preseason ranking this season with an earlier start than ever in Southern California right in the middle of basketball playoffs. It would have been No. 1 Corona and No. 2 Orange Lutheran. Those two just played so for this breakdown from us they are reversed. Valley Christian of San […]
Boys BB Saturday CIF State Finals
Harvard-Westlake completes its mission of winning CIF Southern Section Open Division & CIF Open Division state titles with a victory over Salesian of Richmond. It wasn’t easy, though, as the Pride had the lead in the fourth quarter with less than two minutes left. Also earning CIF state titles on Saturday were Monterey (D4) and […]
