For week four of our NorCal/SoCal Players of the week we start out in the east end of the San Gabriel valley in Pomona and then head further east to the Inland Empire city of Moreno Valley, conclude our SoCal journey by heading north to Lompoc, and then hit Tracy and Cupertino before heading to […]
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NEW State TOP 35 Baseball Ranks
With key games taking place every day this week through Thursday and with just a few teams not playing until next week, we decided to update our State TOP 35 in baseball on Friday of this week. All of the extra games created a lot more opportunities for top-ranked teams to lose and many of...
State FB TOP 25 Weekend Scoreboard
For the next few weeks, we’ll treat Friday and Saturday nights like we do for the fall with the compilation of a weekend scoreboard involving the state’s top-ranked teams. The game of Friday night was in Bellflower where No. 1 St. John Bosco was pushed by No. 3 Servite but came out on top, 38-28. […]
Preseason Baseball TOP 35 Teams
Yes, we are going to have to do football, baseball and softball rankings at the same time in the coming weeks. Many of the best teams in the state in baseball are starting schedules at the end of this upcoming week. Orange Lutheran was in the No. 1 position at the end of the suspended […]
Baseball Schools of Century (So Far)
Going by a points system based on final state top 20 rankings since the 1999-2000 school year and matching previous posts for schools of the century (so far) and girls basketball, here’s the list for baseball. The top four probably would be the ones most people might guess with the leader being Chatsworth. The Chancellors...
Softball: All-Time 30 Greatest Teams (2)
This group of the state’s all-time greatest Top 30 softball teams begins with No. 16 Bullard of Fresno 1999 and ends with No. 30 Charter Oak (West Covina) 1993. See which other teams were selected and featured from No. 16 through No. 30 in this expanded, updated version of this feature. You’ll need to be...
State School of Year: Buchanan Repeats
With boys wrestling rolling to fifth straight CIF state team title plus girls cross country winning one in D1 gives Buchanan of Clovis the edge in collecting its second straight State School of the Year honor. There was also a NorCal regional title in a third sport and plenty of depth for a program that […]
Narbonne beats the heat & Buchanan
It was one of those hot August nights in the Central Valley, but the Narbonne of Harbor City football team didn’t wilt and showed a lot of determination in defeating Buchanan of Clovis on Saturday night. Both teams entered in the top 12 of the preseason state rankings and both were preseason No. 1 teams […]
State School of the Year: Buchanan
After basically finishing second for the previous school year, the Bears wind up on top of the state for overall sports excellence for the second time. Winning CIF state titles in boys wrestling and girls track wasn’t enough as three other schools also won a pair of CIF state titles. The difference was superior depth […]
