California didn’t get the No. 1 overall position for the second straight year and ended the night with a lower total than usual, but there was still plenty of highlights from the first night of the 2021 MLB Draft. Chula Vista Eastlake struck again with Marcelo Mayer’s selection at No. 4 while the intrigue of […]
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More Baseball Coaches of the Year
In addition to overall State Coach of the Year Jared Halpert of Harvard-Westlake, we have additional state coaching honors for the 2021 season going to Daniel Maye from Royal of Simi Valley (medium schools) and Eric Lay (small schools). We swear that the rhyming of their names wasn’t realized until the last one was picked, […]
State Coach of Year: Jared Halpert
After losing a stellar group of seniors in 2020, Harvard-Westlake of Studio City won the CIF Southern Section D1 baseball title, which is exactly what is looked for in a State Coach of the Year. Meet Jared Halpert, a former player during the glory days of the early 2000s from Chatsworth who is now 2021 […]
FINAL State TOP 40 Baseball Rankings
Previous No. 3 Buchanan’s loss to Bishop Amat shook up the final order with the Bears falling three spots while the Lancers had to come way up and wound up in the top 10. Two CIF San Diego Section teams that won CIF SoCal regional titles — La Costa Canyon and Granite Hills — both...
Baseball: FINAL Division State Ranks
The five divisional state teams of the year have previously been announced, but now it’s time for all of the final rankings. Teams moving up at the end include Palo Alto (D2), La Habra (D3), Ridgeview of Bakersfield (D3), Burlingame (D4), Marysville (D4) and de Toledo of West Hills (D5). TO SEE OUR FINAL EXPANDED...
Thousand Oaks: Baseball Team of Year
With no State Team of the Year selection possible in 2020 due to the Coronavirus pandemic, there’s a new entry now listed for 2021 and for the third straight time it’s a team that ended its season with 29 wins. This time, it’s 29-1 Thousand Oaks, which is similar in some ways to 29-1 De […]
More Baseball State Teams of Year
In addition to overall No. 1 and Division 2 No. 1 Thousand Oaks, others that can say they are mythical state champions for 2021 are Harvard-Westlake of Studio City (Division I), Rio Americano of Sacramento (D3), Tamalpais of Mill Valley (D4) and Colusa (D5).
Baseball State Ranks By Divisions
With the 2020-21 season ending on Saturday and CIF SoCal regionals already into the semifinals, here’s a look at our own five-division state rankings for baseball. For this year, we are combining the teams in the SoCal regional bracket into divisions (not the same) and then injecting where the NorCal teams would fit in based […]
NEW State TOP 35 Baseball Rankings
With both teams winning CIFSS titles and both opting out of this week’s first-ever CIF SoCal regional playoffs, we’ll never know which team for sure — Thousand Oaks & Harvard-Westlake — should be No. 1 in the state for baseball this season. For this week, it’s Lancers No. 1, Wolverines No. 2 and that likely...
NorCal / SoCal Players of the Week
This will be the final week for the Baseball and Softball Players of the Week since Northern California, except for the CIF Central Section, has concluded play. It turns out there was one player from the Sacramento area we could still honor since his last game was last week. We also went with one of […]
