With two straight CIF Northern California D1 regional titles and six straight CIF North Coast Section D1 titles, the time is right to get De La Salle of Concord’s David Jeans onto the all-time state list of State Coaches of the Year in baseball. He’s just the seventh all-time from the East Bay portion of […]
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FINAL Baseball TOP 40 (Expanded)
CIF NorCal D1 champ De La Salle ends third this time behind JSerra and Santa Margarita. All of the CIF San Diego Section teams also get big bumps at the end after that huge day of wins in the CIF SoCal D1 playoffs by La Costa Canyon, Eastlake and Rancho Bernardo. We also had to...
Tripaldi slam gives DLS historic win
A grand slam in the top of the seventh inning by junior Hank Tripaldi (who just lost his mother to cancer) caps a six-run rally to lift De La Salle of Concord to its second straight dramatic win in its second straight CIF NorCal baseball final. With the 11-8 defeat, state No. 2 Valley Christian […]
All-State Baseball Nominees (NorCal)
This will be the 41st annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball Teams that are going to be presented in the upcoming weeks. Here’s a first list of nominees on our board. These are the ones from CIF sections in Northern California (with the Central Section in the north). An updated list with more names will be […]
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
JSerra repeats as CIFSS D1 champion and moves up to No. 1 for the first time since it started there in the preseason. Franklin of Elk Grove & Whitney of Rocklin also will both be in the top 10 when they play each other for Sac-Joaquin Section title. We also have a bump for CIFSS...
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
Cancellation of Boras Classic state final with Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks taking a forfeit loss has no impact on the rankings. The Knights are still looking strong in the No. 1 position. Santa Margarita’s title-clinching win in the Trinity League does push up the Eagles to No. 2. Others on the move up include...
NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
It was a bad week for almost all top-ranked teams in Northern California, except one as Cardinal Newman of Santa Rosa won the Boras Classic for NorCal teams, improved to 14-0 and moved to No. 1 for the region. Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks goes back to No. 1 for the state and is one...
FINAL Boys BB State TOP 40 Rankings
As is another of our traditions, we present our expanded, final State Top 40 overall boys basketball team rankings for the 2022-23 season, the first season with no COVID-19 issues since 2018-19. There is some movement from our previous weekly Top 25 update, as teams in strong leagues deserve to move up and more D2...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
When it’s all said and done after pouring over the results of the regional brackets from Saturday, it looks like regardless of what teams advance to this weekend’s CIF state championships, the South will be favorites in Open, D1 and D2, especially if this week’s new boys basketball State TOP 25 is any indication. All...
NEW Boys BB State TOP 25 Rankings
In this week’s new boys basketball State TOP 25, it’s regional playoff time as we further break down the Open Division and D1 brackets. D1 is stronger than normal since there are only five teams in both the North and South open brackets, but some of the seeds are a bit perplexing. St. John Bosco...
