Adding a transfer into the pitching circle is all Norco needed for another legitimate run at state and national titles. The Cougars have almost everyone else back from last season’s 33-1 squad. This year’s preseason rankings also have three CIF San Diego Section teams in the top 10, two rivals from the same city in […]
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Softball: All-Time Top 25 Coming Soon
Another editorial project that we’ve started working on in the last week and plan to have completed before the start of the 2017 football season is actually not from football. That will be the selection of the 25 greatest softball teams in state history.
Softball: Inside the All-State Teams
When you have a team that ended No. 1 in the nation and a roster with double-digit players owning major college scholarships, how to break up that group into the ones that are first team, second team, third team, etc. becomes very difficult. Plus, we have lists of others who can now say they are...
Softball: Californians & Team USA
It wasn’t the ending that Team USA wanted in the final of the World Cup of softball last weekend as Japan used a two-run inning to hold on for a 2-1 win. Still, it’s always fun going through Team USA rosters in softball and looking at all of the former California high school stars who […]
All-State Softball: 2nd & 3rd Teams
The 35th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state teams selections for softball also includes 30 players named second team overall plus 30 more who are third team. Any player from any school regardless of class or school size can be on second team. The third team, however, is only for seniors and only for large schools. For...
All-State Softball: Underclass
First up in our annual All-State Softball extravaganza — which is being presented for the 35th consecutive year — is the best of the best among juniors, sophomore and freshmen. Of course, those with commitments to big-time college programs can have an edge, but these teams are based mostly on what happened and who shined...
Updated All-State Softball Nominees
We’re now just days away from starting to release the 35th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Softball Teams. Thanks to those who sent in updates from when we first posted this list. We have more than 50 additional names on the list and other corrections and fixes made. It’s only too late to send in a...
Ms. Softball 2017: Duh, it’s Dockins
Despite a loss in the last game, there really isn’t any other way to go for this year’s winner for the state’s longest-running and perhaps most prestigious individual softball honor. Norco’s Taylor Dockins just has to be the one on so many levels, from how she’s handled all of the attention she got this season […]