We travel this week to the San Joaquin County wine region of Lodi, and then to the shadows of the Sutter Buttes for our Northern California honorees. For the south, it’s the Southern Orange County mission city of San Juan Capistrano, and then to the north-westerly edge of Los Angeles County and the community of […]
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NEW State TOP 35 Baseball Rankings
No. 1 Thousand Oaks also has now made it into the state record book after extending current win streak to 27 games on Monday. This week also sees a different Ventura/L.A. County team, Royal of Simi Valley, join the top five. Plus, there’s red-hot JSerra getting back into the top 10, St. Augustine moving to...
State Stat Stars of the Week
We still have a couple more final football players listed as there were still games played last weekend, but most of this week’s standouts are from boys & girls hoops, baseball & softball, including one player from a 43-0 rout in baseball that makes it into the state record book. And in the same week...
NEW State TOP 35 Baseball Rankings
In a week in which it’s announced there will be CIF regional playoffs held beyond the CIF section playoffs for the first time since 1922, Thousand Oaks and Ayala stay in the top two positions. Buchanan, Orange Lutheran and Santa Margarita all move up as previous No. 3 Rancho Bernardo is now holding on in...
NEW State TOP 35 Baseball Ranks
Ayala of Chino Hills and Rancho Bernardo of San Diego switch at the No. 2 and No. 3 spots behind No. 1 Thousand Oaks. The two teams moving up the most are new No. 8 Granite Bay and new No. 9 Elk Grove. Newcomers Murrieta Mesa of Murrieta and San Marcos also made major jumps....
State Stat Stars of the Week
For the first time in our history and thanks to the pandemic, this week’s stat stars encompasses all five sports that are the focus of this site: football, boys basketball, girls basketball, baseball and softball. We’re just glad it’s likely only going to be one week of it (unless someone does something insane in one...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Week five of our Baseball and Softball Players of the Week feature has us visiting the Mother Lode town of Shingle Springs, plus Visalia in Northern California, and then it’s on to Oxnard of Ventura County and finally to the Inland Empire city of Redlands for our Southern California award winners. Go inside to see […]
NEW State TOP 35 Baseball Ranks
Thousand Oaks stays at No. 1 as a new week begins, but there are many changes after that. Rancho Bernardo of San Diego moves up to No. 2, Ayala of Chino Hills rejoins the top five and there are huge jumps for unbeaten Royal of Simi Valley and Santa Margarita. Newcomers include Bullard of Fresno,...
State Stat Stars of the Week
This is another week of top standouts in California from football, baseball and softball. We’re still deciding how to do boys and girls basketball, but will be adding those into the honor roll mix next week for at least one week until football is done. Football’s best includes two QBs from nearby schools both throwing...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Week four of our Baseball and Softball Players of the Week feature takes us to the Orange County cities of Mission Viejo and Huntington Beach for the SoCal honorees. It’s also to Mill Valley and the metro Sacramento town of Lincoln for the Northern California award winners. Also, for this week’s winners, we looked at […]
