St. Francis of Mountain View gains No. 1 ranking for the first time this season after Norco loss to Corona Santiago. Monday results that were counted this week also loomed large as both Archbishop Mitty of San Jose and Central of Fresno were highly ranked teams that lost. One of the biggest risers was No....
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SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Because of needing to get out final girls basketball rankings and current baseball and softball rankings out on Monday and Tuesday, our Players of the Week feature is running on Wednesday instead of Tuesday, and while we like to get these honors out before games are played, we’re not sure under the circumstances of the […]
NEW Softball State TOP 25 Rankings
A tie causes a slight change in the first six spots of this week’s rankings. There also were several key Monday games already counted, such as Murrieta Mesa over Beaumont and Marina of Huntington Beach over Edison. We already know as well a lot of Tuesday games were called off with wet weather across the...
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. It’s now mostly baseball & softball players getting into the spotlight, but there are some wraps as well for basketball, especially with where Lynwood’s Jason Crowe Jr. has been added into the state record book. We also have our first...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Now that basketball season has concluded, we can turn our full attention to softball and baseball, and this week we have some real solid talent consisting of two college-bound seniors and two underclass stars, one of each in baseball and softball. This week’s winners are from La Puente and Spring Valley in Southern California and […]
NEW Softball State TOP 25 Rankings
Norco wins the title for a record fifth time at the Dave Kops TOC in Arizona and also moves up to a familiar position as No. 1 ranked team in the state. Runner-up Los Alamitos moves up to third while previous No. 1 Murrieta Mesa drops to fifth. Highest ranked newcomers are Central of Fresno,...
NEW Softball State TOP 25 Rankings
This one includes results from Tuesday of this week, which is why Marina of Huntington Beach has jumped into the top 10 after a Tuesday win over previous No. 9 Huntington Beach. No. 3 Norco, No. 4 Los Alamitos and other highly ranked teams in California are all headed this weekend to Bullhead City, Ariz.,...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Despite the fact it’s the most important week in high school basketball in California, we have traditionally switched from the hardwood to the baseball and softball fields this week since the available players to choose becomes so few. We also more importantly want to start looking for some players in baseball and softball who we […]
Preseason Softball State TOP 40
Welcome to another season of Cal-Hi Sports state softball rankings. These have been done more than 30 years. The softball “preseason” rankings are different than baseball, which was done last week, because there are some teams in the CIF Southern Section that have already played games. We will continue to use the California rankings we […]
Salute to Peter Ackermann
Longtime softball coach and athletics coordinator at Oaks Christian of Westlake Village died last Saturday from a heart condition at age 77. Last June’s CIF SoCal D1 championship game that the Lions won in dramatic fashion, 6-5, over Roosevelt of Eastvale unfortunately wound up as Pete’s last game. His final career record of 651-148-1 is […]
