State Junior of the Year Bryce Rainer of Harvard-Westlake and State Sophomore of the Year Diego Velazquez of Encino Crespi know each other well from being in the same league. All of the other major honors also were not easy to decide. For more on Mr. Baseball State Player of the Year Trent Caraway, CLICK […]
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NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
Santa Margarita moves up to No. 1 after big upset of previous No. 1 Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks by Corona. All four of the CIF Southern Section D1 semifinalists are in the top eight. We also have big moves for Bullard of Fresno, Whitney of Rocklin and Rancho Bernardo of San Diego. Newcomers this...
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...
NEW State TOP 35 Baseball Ranks
Ayala of Chino Hills and Rancho Bernardo of San Diego switch at the No. 2 and No. 3 spots behind No. 1 Thousand Oaks. The two teams moving up the most are new No. 8 Granite Bay and new No. 9 Elk Grove. Newcomers Murrieta Mesa of Murrieta and San Marcos also made major jumps....
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...
State Stat Stars of the Week
There are no-hitters and then there’s what Corona High’s Michael Hobbs did for his no-hitter last week since it wasn’t exactly against some chump opponent. Then already this week, Vacaville Christian’s Lucas Sweany has his second straight playoff no-hitter and we have a baseball slugger in the state named Goldschmidt. For softball, the hits are […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
We went with two small school kids for NorCal this week, one who led his team to its second straight section title. The two SoCal choices both are underclass players, one who threw a no-hitter against the champion of one of the state’s best leagues and the other who is setting school records as a […]
All-State Baseball: First Team
With several former all-state first team players getting ready to play in the MLB All-Star Game, here’s our own California prep version of an all-star roster, which also is the 35th consecutive year that we’ve done it. This group is our elite of the elite and some of the choices as usual were very difficult.
