It’s much later than usual after a season that was much later than usual, but it’s now time to salute these 30 elite California players after not being able to do the same for 2020. This 38th edition had many challenges, mainly working on it after the football season had begun, but at least it’s […]
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NEW State TOP 35 Baseball Rankings
We just had to get this week’s rankings out on Sunday night well before Monday’s big games. After Thousand Oaks dropped its first game, Ayala goes to No. 1, Buchanan slides up to No. 2 with Orange Lutheran now No. 3 ahead of its showdown series with No. 6 JSerra. Harvard-Westlake and Sherman Oaks Notre...
NEW State TOP 35 Baseball Rankings
In a week in which it’s announced there will be CIF regional playoffs held beyond the CIF section playoffs for the first time since 1922, Thousand Oaks and Ayala stay in the top two positions. Buchanan, Orange Lutheran and Santa Margarita all move up as previous No. 3 Rancho Bernardo is now holding on in...
NEW State TOP 35 Baseball Ranks
Thousand Oaks stays at No. 1 as a new week begins, but there are many changes after that. Rancho Bernardo of San Diego moves up to No. 2, Ayala of Chino Hills rejoins the top five and there are huge jumps for unbeaten Royal of Simi Valley and Santa Margarita. Newcomers include Bullard of Fresno,...
NEW State Top 25 Baseball Rankings
After Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks and JSerra of San Juan Capistrano taste defeat for the first time, it’s now more of a No. 1 battle between De La Salle of Concord and Orange Lutheran with still unbeaten Ayala of Chino Hills moving up to third. The highest ranked newcomer is unbeaten Torrey Pines of...
NEW Medium/Small School FB Ranks
Team that everybody in the state really is rooting for, Paradise, makes a big move this week even though the 7-0 Bobcats didn’t play. Losing teams and results from earlier in the season have just worked out for them. Ayala of Chino Hills and Rio Hondo Prep of Arcadia are two other newcomers in medium...
NEW Baseball State Top 20
This week’s first regular season rankings for California baseball are complicated with a 0-0 tie taking place in a matchup of two top five teams. There are no ties in the rankings so we’ll leave those two teams — Elk Grove and Valley Christian of San Jose — right where they were. The tie did […]
Boys BB: State Ranks By Divisions
The CIF may have seedings, but we have rankings for each division that actually make more sense based on head-to-head results, not just blindly seeding teams based on what divisions they were in at the section level. There’s also one team ranked that isn’t even playing in the regional playoffs due to a problem that...
Boys BB Rankings By Divisions
As the section playoffs reach critical stages this week and teams stamp their tickets for the upcoming NorCal and SoCal regional playoffs, here’s a breakdown of how certain teams stack up in projected CIF state divisions. We also project which eight teams in the North and which eight teams in the South are on track […]
