We just had to get this week’s rankings out on Sunday night well before Monday’s big games. After Thousand Oaks dropped its first game, Ayala goes to No. 1, Buchanan slides up to No. 2 with Orange Lutheran now No. 3 ahead of its showdown series with No. 6 JSerra. Harvard-Westlake and Sherman Oaks Notre...
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NEW State TOP 35 Baseball Rankings
Including Monday scores, No. 1 Thousand Oaks puts win streak up to 30 games. This week also sees Harvard-Westlake joining the top five plus San Marcos, Bullard of Fresno and Foothill of Tustin joining the top 10. There’s also plenty of newcomers, including California of San Ramon, Dana Hills of Dana Point and St. Francis...
Patrick Walsh: State FB Coach of Year
For a year like no other, Serra of San Mateo’s Patrick Walsh became a driving force among football coaches throughout the state for their sport to have a short, spring season. But that’s not the only reason he now joins the all-time state list of honored coaches that goes back for more than 100 years. […]
NEW State TOP 35 Baseball Rankings
No. 1 Thousand Oaks also has now made it into the state record book after extending current win streak to 27 games on Monday. This week also sees a different Ventura/L.A. County team, Royal of Simi Valley, join the top five. Plus, there’s red-hot JSerra getting back into the top 10, St. Augustine moving to...
NEW State TOP 35 Baseball Ranks
Get used to these new state baseball rankings coming out on Mondays for the rest of the spring season. While section playoffs won’t be happening in Northern California, we found out Monday morning that they will happen for most of Southern California. For this week’s rankings, Thousand Oaks stays on top for the second straight...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
What to do in the aftermath of Norco’s win from last Saturday over previous No. 6 Corona Centennial? Should a team like the Cougars jump all the way up into this week’s rankings from the bubble and where should the Huskies drop? We say yes and put the two of them in the No. 15...
NEW State TOP 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
De La Salle and Servite flip-flop at No. 3 and No. 4, but there are no other changes in the top 10 even though both Cathedral Catholic and Sierra Canyon deserve to go up. This week’s two major movers are Rocklin from the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section and Buchanan from the CIF Central Section. Nice bumps...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
With just about every team in the state finally in action, we had lots of performances to choose from. Our honorees this week took us to some familiar places — Gardena, Solana Beach and Valencia in the south, and Concord, Gilroy and Santa Rosa in the north. We hope you enjoy this free story on […]
Preseason State TOP 50 (Part 1)
These are the ones with more than 45 years of work behind them, but it’s so different for this spring season. Factors such as which teams are playing which teams and building a consensus of those who do local rankings will be more important in compiling these rankings than when it’s known there are going […]
