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More State Schools of the Year

Snakebit School of the Year had to be Mater Dei of Santa Ana because with just a couple of wins in big games at the end in a couple of sports and the Monarchs would have been tops in the overall quite easily. They’re still getting recognition as Division I State School of the Year. […]

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Updated All-State Baseball Nominees

Nearly 100 more names have been put on the list since the first one went out plus additional other fixes have been done. We’re now switching into selection mode for the various Cal-Hi Sports all-state teams, which for baseball will mark the 36th year of the honors. It’s never too late to send in a...

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Softball Coach of the Year: Mike Noel

We don’t often go for someone from the same CIF section for two years in a row for one of our highest honors, but decided to do it this time with Clovis High’s Mike Noel following Madera’s Judy Shaubach as State Coach of the Year in softball. Noel guided the Cougars to their second CIF […]

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All-State Softball Nominees (Part 1)

Now that all of the final team rankings are done, it’s time for us to work toward selection of the 35th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state softball teams. The first step is this post of all-state nominees from every CIF section. If someone is missing, don’t get mad, just let us know. There will be an […]

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What If CIF State Baseball Playoffs?

Just like softball, there’s also been talk about the future addition of CIF state playoffs in baseball. We went through all of the teams in our final divisional state baseball rankings and came up with a proposed format with an Open Division and then six divisions after that. We set up brackets for each division...

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FINAL Baseball State Top 40

Major changes were made compared to the rankings done prior to the final week of the 2017 season. Among them are San Marcos going up from No. 17 to No. 9, De La Salle moving up from unranked in the Top 20 to No. 10, Elk Grove shifting from No. 16 to No. 11 and...

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State Stat Stars of the Week

Pitchers Darby Tatum and Danielle Lung were both sensational in leading the Clovis baseball and softball teams to CIF Central Section Division I championships. Tatum capped 13-2 season while Lung won in section finals for second time in her prep career. Other section champs on this week’s honor roll are Brianna Bowers of Napa, Hannah […]

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Super 8 Baseball State Ranks Update

Going up from the lower half of last week’s State Top 20 into the top half of this week’s rankings are Bellarmine, Clovis, Glendora and Gregori. And oh by the way, there’s a new No. 1 with Huntington Beach. NOTE: Our updated State Top 20 with lists of many other teams on the bubble will […]

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Super 8 Baseball State Ranks Update

No. 2 behind Buchanan changes again after Orange Lutheran returns home from North Carolina as the NHSI champions but loses in next game to St. John Bosco. Thousand Oaks and Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks also get huge bumps to No. 9 and No. 10.

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State Stat Stars of the Week

It’s another week of boys & girls hoops, baseball and softball mixed together. Highlights include two coaches reaching 700 career wins in different sports, Aurora Adams of Garden Grove Santiago driving in 10 runs in one game and Junior Ramirez scoring 30 points for Selma as it wins first section boys hoops title in 103 […]

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