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NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week

Our first week of the NorCal/SoCal Basketball Players of the Week for this season is kicking off a full month after the season should be over and done with. It also marks the first time ever we are presenting players of the week in four different sports in the same week — baseball and softball, […]

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NEW State TOP 35 Softball Ranks

The first four teams from last week remain in place, but there are plenty of changes after that with Rocklin moving into the top five, Mater Dei Catholic of Chula Vista moving into the top 10 plus Huntington Beach, Pacifica of Garden Grove and South (Torrance) moving into the top 20. Newcomers this week are...

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NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (26-50)

Highest movers among this group are led by Murrieta Valley (up from No. 37 to No. 27), Edison of Huntington Beach (up from No. 42 to No. 29), Mater Dei Catholic of Chula Vista (up from No. 43 to No. 30) and Rocklin (up from No. 36 to No. 32). Newcomers are Mission Hills of...

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NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)

Newcomers to this week’s elite list of the state’s best teams (with each team written up) are Rocklin and Upland. Long Beach Poly inches up to No. 26 after OT win over previously higher ranked foe while it’s also a bump for St. Mary’s of Stockton as a nod to how it played in a...

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Schools With The Most All-State Players

Softball all-state selections don’t go back as many years as they do for other sports, but we do have a school with 23 all-state softball selections since 2003 and that’s Norco. The only schools close are both from Orange County — Mater Dei (Santa Ana) and Pacifica (Garden Grove). Pacifica actually has the same number […]

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Schools With The Most All-State Players

With the MLB playoffs coming to a close, we’re matching a previous project for boys and girls basketball in counting up schools with the most all-state first team honorees in baseball. We’ve got these teams going back to 1980, just in time to get a promising outfielder from Serra of San Mateo chosen twice. The […]

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40 Greatest Baseball Teams (1-10)

This is the third time we’ve done these all-time rankings. The last posting was in 2015. Fresno 1958 and Chatsworth 2004 remain in the top two positions and have to be among the two greatest ever in U.S. history. The big change for the top 10 is the insertion of Clovis Buchanan’s 30-1 team from...

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Senior Salutes No. 4 (Softball/Baseball)

As a consequence of the 2020 high school baseball and softball seasons being canceled after not even one-third of scheduled games were played in the state, we cannot produce all-state teams in those sports for 2020. We do not want to forget about those seniors from the Class of 2020, however, who were going to […]

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Softball: FINAL & Expanded Top 40

As is another of our traditions, we have a final & expanded version of rankings for California’s best softball teams at the close of the season. That unfortunately became official last Friday with spring sports cancelled for the duration of the school year due to the Coronavirus. How hard is it to rank some teams...

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NEW State Top 25 Softball Rankings

There are not as many changes to this week’s new State Top 25 in softball, but like baseball we also wanted to wait until hearing what the CIF and its sections might do for spring championships on Tuesday before releasing these rankings. These are not final, and even if at a later date the CIF...

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