We are presenting these rankings after most of the major pre-Easter spring break tournaments are done, including the National Classic, Boras Classic for Northern California, the Mike Morrow Lions tourney in San Diego, the Fresno Easter Classic and even the IMG Classic in Florida. All of those created results of course that greatly impacted the...
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NEW Softball State Top 20
Go ahead, call us homers. But it just worked out doing these rankings the same way we’ve done them for 30-plus years that three teams from San Joaquin County (our home base) have landed in the State Top 20 for softball. It doesn’t look like that’s happened before. At the top of the heap, meanwhile,...
NEW Softball State Top 20
No. 1 Norco rolls on with 9-0 win earlier this week over state-ranked Mater Dei. Previous No. 2 Amador Valley, however, was upset by Livermore, which helped put Los Alamitos into this week’s No. 2 spot. Unbeaten Rio Mesa also is given a big boost from No. 11 to No. 6 while Great Oak is...
NEW Baseball State Top 20
We will begin to move up the timing to much earlier in the week now that basketball is completely done, but this week wanted to wait until after No. 1 Buchanan played Clovis (No. 8 last week, No. 10 this week but No. 4 on the ticker in between) on Tuesday night. The Bears won...
NEW Baseball State Top 20
With a lot of teams taking their first losses within the last week, the key benefactors in this week’s rankings are Orange Lutheran and Clovis. The Lancers are now No. 3 and right behind the No. 2 team from Huntington Beach, which is the only team that has beaten them. The Cougars are now NO....
NEW Softball State Top 20
Etiwanda gains new No. 1 state ranking after Pioneer of San Jose is upset by Mt. Pleasant. Five teams didn’t play last week due to spring break, which helped to limit other moves. This week’s only two newcomers are Cathedral Catholic of San Diego and La Habra. Note: There are not going to be separate...
NEW Girls BB State Top 20
Two CIF Southern Section Open Division teams drop out of this week’s rankings, but they’re replaced by two from the same bracket. The biggest upset last week saw previously unranked Etiwanda knock off Mater Dei of Santa Ana, ensuring that last year’s CIF Open Division state finalists won’t be back in the Open Division for...
NEW Girls BB State Top 20
It’s a bit of a shame this year as the playoffs approach is that it’s not looking like the top two teams in the state will play in the CIF Open Division title game. Usually this is because the top two are in the south, but this year the top three girls teams are in...
Softball: National FAB 50 To Begin
Many longtime followers of Cal-Hi Sports and this web site know that directing national rankings programs for Student Sports, ESPN, FOX and others was part of our job for many years in addition to the statewide coverage. One of the people we worked with for most of that time was Brentt Eads. We both had […]
Boys BB: Updated State Top 20
Mission League clubs Loyola of Los Angeles and Chaminade of West Hills from the CIF Southern Section and Foothill Christian from the CIF San Diego Section join the list of California’s elite teams. We wanted to get updated rankings out quickly this week as tournaments continue around the state on Monday and don’t be surprised […]
