After all of the major holiday tournaments, there are of course a lot of changes in the rankings and many factors at play in determining this week’s new order. This includes who-beat-who, stinker losses, who played national level competition for two straight weeks and who did not plus transfers becoming eligible this week and upcoming...
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All-State Baseball: First Team
With the No. 1 and No. 2 overall choices in last month’s MLB Draft plus two from Huntington Beach who also were high draft picks, including Mr. Baseball State POY Hagen Danner, this year’s 36th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball Team may have as many no-brainers as there’s ever been. Still, it’s not easy for […]
All-State Baseball Nominees (Part 1)
It’s hard to believe, but this will be the 36th year of Cal-Hi Sports all-state baseball teams. The first step is for us to list the names of those already on our board. It’s not meant to be all-inclusive and we know we may have missed a few players who’ve transferred or are listing someone […]
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...
FINAL State Divisions Baseball Ranks
It took a bit longer to get out the final divisional rankings this year because we also wanted to run them in conjunction with proposed mythical state playoff brackets. Teams that have come up the most in final rankings are De La Salle and Elk Grove (D1), Palma of Salinas and Arroyo of San Lorenzo...
NEW Baseball State Top 20
Are there such things as meaningless losses? When it’s the last week of a team’s regular season and everything appears locked up (such as top seeds for the playoffs), yes that’s pretty much true. That’s mainly why Huntington Beach stays No. 1 this week despite a loss to Newport Harbor. Still, there are changes in...
NEW Baseball State Top 20
Sweep weeks help Buchanan of Clovis go back to No. 2, St. John Bosco go up from No. 11 to No. 5 and helps get both El Toro and Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks back into the State Top 20. Huntington Beach strengthens its No. 1 ranking, meanwhile, by winning the Boras Classic state title....
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Have you ever heard of a baseball player who has hit for the cycle in back-to-back games and then later in the same season comes up with 11 RBI in one game? You have now with Etiwanda’s Steven Rivas, this week’s SoCal baseball POW. This week’s other honorees are from Ventura, Vacaville and Sacramento.
