We were not able to get out to a Friday night game this week, and with many of the state’s top-ranked teams on first round section playoff byes, our focus became the plight of teams that were 10-0 in the regular season that did play in the CIF Southern Section, CIF L.A. City Section and...
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NEW Girls BB State TOP 25
For these first in-season rankings, we have a whole lot of changes once we get past the top 10 and that’s to be expected in this day and age of transfers and the fact freshmen are having a bigger impact in recent years. The first four spots stayed the same and they likely will through...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
Top-ranked Harvard-Westlake and No. 2 St. John Bosco live up to preseason billing at recent Hoophall West event, while Salesian of Richmond, JSerra of San Juan Capistrano, De La Salle of Concord and La Mirada are the big risers in the first updated regular season boys basketball State Top 25. Only three teams drop out...
NEW Softball State TOP 25 Rankings
With previous No. 2 and No. 3 losing, the possibility of No. 1 St. Francis (Mountain View) or its rivals from Archbishop Mitty (which already has one win over the Lancers) ending No. 1 in the state has become more juicy. With CIF Southern Section D1 champ Pacifica moving up to third, more scrambling could...
NEW Softball State TOP 25 Rankings
St. Francis of Mountain View goes back to No. 1 while Norco moves up to No. 2 with the CIF Southern Section D1 final coming up Friday vs new No. 7 Pacifica of Garden Grove. Central of Fresno also gains 12 spots after its big win over previous No. 1 Clovis North. This week’s newcomers...
NEW Softball State TOP 25 Rankings
Two CIFSS D1 playoff games from Monday are not included this week, but everyone is playing in Tuesday’s second round and some of the matchups already involve two State TOP 25 teams against each other. Clovis North continues in the No. 1 position entering the final week of its regular season. This week’s only newcomers...
NEW Softball State TOP 25 Rankings
There are a couple of CIF Southern Section D1 wild-card playoff games from Tuesday that are not included in these rankings, but all of the other top teams aren’t playing until Thursday. In this week’s rankings, the top nine teams stayed the same with the big mover being new No. 10 Moorpark. There are five...
NEW Softball State TOP 25 Rankings
The timing of the rankings this week once again includes Monday games (but not Tuesday), which means Los Alamitos is No. 2 after a win over No. 3 Huntington Beach. A win last week by the Oilers over the Griffins, however, plus two big wins by Clovis North in the Tri-River Athletic Conference pushes the...
NEW Softball State TOP 25 Rankings
This week’s rankings are posted after key Monday games, including previous No. 11 Moorpark losing its first game to Camarillo, but before Tuesday games, including No. 1 Los Alamitos playing No. 4 Huntington Beach. The top tournament winners are the Oilers (defeated previous No. 4 Oaks Christian at Best of the West in Santa Maria)...
