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 […]
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NEW Girls BB State Top 20
After all of the major holiday tournaments, there are of course a lot of changes in the rankings and many factors at play in determining this week’s new order. This includes who-beat-who, stinker losses, who played national level competition for two straight weeks and who did not plus transfers becoming eligible this week and upcoming...
NEW Girls VB State Top 20
Archbishop Mitty and Torrey Pines move up into the No. 2 and No. 3 spots after Torrey Pines tops previous No. 2 Santa Margarita in the title match of the California Challenge. The Eagles then gave a valiant effort to try to knock off No. 1 Mater Dei on Tuesday but fell short. This week’s […]
NEW Girls VB State Top 20
After all of the myriad of big matches were played by more than half of the State Top 20 at the Durango Fall Classic last weekend in Las Vegas, the order this week for the top three amazingly remained unchanged between Mater Dei, Santa Margarita and Redondo. Defending CIF Open Division state champ Archbishop Mitty […]
NEW Girls VB State Top 20
Defending CIF Open Division champion Archbishop Mitty makes a Labor Day weekend trip to Orange County and the results of those matches cause some changes. The Monarchs couldn’t beat either state No. 1 Mater Dei or Torrey Pines of San Diego (now up to No. 6) but they did beat Canyon Crest Academy, which despite […]
NEW Baseball State Top 20
We are releasing this week’s Top 20 before Tuesday’s section playoff games and hope there are no upsets. This week’s two newcomers are Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks and Davis. Harvard-Westlake, previous No. 5, had to drop all the way out after losing in CIF Southern Section playoff game. St. John Bosco was elevated back...
NEW Softball State Top 20
There was even less movement in this week’s rankings than last week when only one new team cracked the Top 20. This time, there are no new teams. Of the two teams that did lose, both did it to higher-ranked opponents. With most CIF section playoffs beginning this week, there may not be a long...
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...
