Sweet swinging shortstop/third baseman from JSerra (San Juan Capistrano) collects the top honor in the state for the 2023 season after already earning several other major honors. He was the leading player on the state’s No. 1 team and he’s the ninth Mr. Baseball State Player of the Year from Orange County in more than […]
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State Coach of Year: Benji Medure
After his 22nd season, Huntington Beach’s head coach is closing in on his 400th win and has built one of the top baseball programs in California. This year’s capper of winning the CIF Southern California D1 regional title also has gained him the No. 1 coaching honor for the 2022 season. FOR MORE ON THIS […]
Mr. Baseball 2018: Joe Magrisi
Call us suckers for a great story to go with a player of the year resume, but Joe Magrisi of San Diego Torrey Pines just had too much of a spectacular season to be denied as the winner of the state’s longest-running high school baseball honor. This is the one with roots back to the […]
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 […]
Mr. Baseball 2017: It has to be Hagen
It was a situation of competing precedents in this year’s race for the state’s longest-running State Player of the Year honor for baseball, making it one of the most difficult decisions ever in perhaps the most talent-laden season ever for Southern California. In the end, local consensus carries Hagen Danner of Huntington Beach over the […]
MLB Draft: Top two are SoCal preps
It’s the first time two players from CIF Southern Section schools go 1-2 in the MLB Draft after Royce Lewis and Hunter Greene are selected in those positions during Monday’s MLB Draft. It’s not the first time it’s happened for California. Go inside to read about the 1980 and 2000 MLB Drafts and for a […]
Mr. Baseball & Ms. Softball Finalists
There are more than one from Orange County for both baseball and softball as post-season honors begin with a look at top candidates for the only baseball and softball State Player of the Year honors that have more than 100 years of history behind them. We hope you like this free post on CalHiSports.com. Please […]
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....
NEW Baseball State Top 20
Although Buchanan of Clovis continues on top, we just about had to blow up the rest of this week’s state baseball rankings. Previous No. 2 Chatsworth and previous No. 3 Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks struggled at the SoCal Boras Classic, which helped Huntington Beach and Rancho Bernardo move up into those positions this week....
Super 8 Baseball State Ranks Update
Huntington Beach and Rancho Bernardo are now putting some pressure on Buchanan of Clovis for the No. 1 ranking while one of this week’s newcomers to the State Top 20 — unbeaten Foothill of Pleasanton — jumps all the way up into the Super 8. NOTE: Our updated State Top 20 with lists of many […]
