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...
Girls BB: Divisional State Rankings
We don’t have a 128-123 game to go through, but we also have compiled our first divisional state rankings for the girls teams through Thursday’s regional quarterfinals. The big move is Long Beach Poly having to go in front of previous state No. 2 Mater Dei for a big win from Wednesday in the Open […]
All-Decade Baseball 2010s: Honors
We’ll have a separate post coming on Friday containing the actual all-decade all-state baseball teams for the 2010s, but for this first announcement we’re taking care of the major awards: State Player of the Decade, State Coach of the Decade, State Team of the Decade and State Game of the Decade. Clovis schools have captured […]
Baseball/Softball Coaching Highlights
All of our exclusive state coaching record lists in football, boys hoops, girls hoops, baseball and softball have now been updated through the 2018-19 school year now that we have completed the updates for baseball and softball. Here is a recap of the major milestones from some of the greatest baseball and softball coaches in […]
All-State Baseball: First Team
Great players abound historically from all corners of California, which makes the annual selections for the Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball Teams that much more difficult. This year’s 38th annual edition of this elite 30-player team happens to include one from the CIF Northern Section and one from the CIF Oakland Section. We also have the […]
Matt Sweeney: State Coach of Year
He’s a guy we’ve considered for the highest coaching accolades in football, but for various reasons it didn’t work out. But now that Pleasanton Foothill’s Matt Sweeney is coaching softball and had one of the top teams in the nation this season, the timing is perfect to tell his story. It ended up not being […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
We couldn’t wait to get out all the details of this week’s no-hitters pitched on the same day by Clovis baseball and softball pitchers. From last week in baseball, highlights include those from a game played at Anaheim Stadium between two of the oldest schools in Southern California plus we have the scoop on El...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
One of our four honorees for this week is the younger sister of 2018 State Baseball Junior Player of the Year Dawson Netz of Pasadena Maranatha. And little sis is putting up some monster pitching-hitting totals for the early going of this season. Our three other writeups recognize the skills of baseball players from San […]
Preseason Central Section FB Team
It’s an amazing season coming up the Central Valley with record-breaking, rush-pass quarterbacks galore. We couldn’t even fit some players with monster stats from last year on first team. This also is the first year the section welcomes 13 new schools coming in from the CIF Southern Section. Two players from those schools are on...
