The first major upset of the section playoffs this year already has taken place as previous No. 4 Grand Terrace fell in its CIF Southern Section Division I first-round game. That created some movement for this week’s rankings. The team that beat the Titans, Huntington Beach, went from unranked to No. 19 but has been...
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NEW Baseball State Top 25 Rankings
As the CIF Southern Section playoffs already will be in the quarterfinal round by the end of this week, some of the state’s other section playoffs will not even have begun yet. CIFSS Division I playoff teams continue to hold down the No. 1, No. 3, No. 4, No. 5 and No. 6 positions with...
NEW Softball State Top 25 Rankings
Great Oak of Temecula rejoins the top five while Heritage of Brentwood goes up into the top 10 for the first team this season. This week’s three newcomers, meanwhile, are Whitney of Rocklin, Clovis North of Fresno and Westlake of Westlake Village. Los Alamitos (no stranger to being state-ranked) and Vista Murrieta (Murrieta) also make...
NEW Baseball State Top 25 Rankings
The incredibly loaded CIF Southern Section Division I playoffs get a jump-start on the rest of the sections in the state with the first round starting Thursday. Teams in it include state No. 1 Orange Lutheran, No. 3 Cypress, No. 4 Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks (moving up from seventh this week), No. 5 Harvard-Westlake...
NEW Softball State Top 25 Ranks
No. 1 Norco regains some momentum as CIF Southern Section Division I playoffs are beginning next week. No. 2 Foothill (Pleasanton) also looking to do the same in the CIF North Coast Section. For this week’s rankings, Chino Hills joins the top five, Buchanan joins the top 10 and Huntington Beach wins a big league...
NEW Baseball State Top 25 Rankings
It’s already the last week of the regular season for a lot of teams (especially in Southern California) with the highlight being a three-game series between top 10 teams Harvard-Westlake and Notre Dame (Sherman Oaks). In this week’s rankings, we kept Orange Lutheran on top despite losing one of three games in a series to...
NEW Softball State Top 25 Ranks
One upset loss in extra innings to a team it has beaten before doesn’t cost Norco the No. 1 ranking in the state. Foothill of Pleasanton stays No. 2 but all of the teams beating each other throughout the rest of Southern California may pay off for the Falcons down the road if they finish...
NEW Baseball State Top 25 Ranks
It’s still time for some schools and teams to be on Spring Break (especially with Easter Sunday so late on the calendar this year) and this week we’ll have several noteworthy tournaments, including the Boras Classic for Northern California, the Fresno Easter Classic and the Mike Morrow Lions tourney in San Diego. The top nine...
NEW Softball State Top 25 Ranks
No. 1 Norco and No. 2 Foothill (Pleasanton) both capture major tourney titles, but there are plenty of changes after that, including Santa Margarita up to No. 3, Grand Terrace up to No. 6 and Oaks Christian up to No. 12. Newcomers into the mix this week are Clovis, Cosumnes Oaks of Elk Grove, Del...
NEW State Baseball Top 25 Ranks
In a difficult week to do rankings since eight of the top 10 teams from last week all lost at least once, the team we’re moving to No. 1 is previous No. 2 Orange Lutheran. Getting a win over Cypress (No. 1 last week) and still having just three losses overall is the difference. The...
