It could be a No. 1 vs No. 2 showdown at the Michelle Carew Classic this weekend as St. Francis of Mountain View is stepping up to play some of the top teams in Southern California. We’ll have on-site coverage from longtime associate editor Harold Abend. The big news in this week’s rankings are the...
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NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
It didn’t take long this season for huge changes to hit the TOP 35 state rankings. No. 1 Orange Lutheran didn’t play last week, but the big moves began at No. 2 with Servite of Anaheim grabbing that position. Sierra Canyon also goes up to its highest ranking in baseball ever. Elk Grove, Clayton Valley...
NEW State TOP 35 Softball Rankings
The top six teams appear to be locked in those positions heading into the final week of the season since results from this week’s first-ever CIF Southern California regional playoffs won’t have that much of an impact. Those six teams all opted out of those playoffs. Three of those teams — No. 1 Esperanza, No....
NEW State TOP 35 Softball Rankings
The result this week that caused the most changes actually just happened on Monday night as previous No. 5 Mater Dei Catholic lost to league rival Eastlake in the CIF San Diego Section. With playoffs about to start in the CIF Southern Section, the biggest question may be whether its D2 bracket is even stronger...
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 Softball Rankings
There’s a new No. 1 team, but it’s a team that knows all about being in that position as Norco gets the nod this week. A head-to-head win that the Cougars have over Huntington Beach comes into play after previous No. 1 Villa Park lost to Los Alamitos. Westlake and Mater Dei Catholic also move...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Week four of our Baseball and Softball Players of the Week feature takes us to the Orange County cities of Mission Viejo and Huntington Beach for the SoCal honorees. It’s also to Mill Valley and the metro Sacramento town of Lincoln for the Northern California award winners. Also, for this week’s winners, we looked at […]
Boys/Girls BB Blasts From The Past
We presented Blasts From The Past in the fall for football, and will now look at doing the same for boys and girls basketball when those teams should be playing this winter. These are highlights from around the state from 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40 years ago. We’ve also added one […]
All-Time All-Section/All-County Teams (Part 1)
Based on how these players did after high school, here is a look at three of these teams in another short series we’re doing as we wait for the next football season to hopefully begin in the state. For this group of teams, we have the CIF Central Section, CIF Sac-Joaquin Section and Orange County....
NEW State Top 25 Baseball Rankings
There will be final rankings done separately if it turns out that the spring sports season is going to be completely lost this year due Coronavirus mitigation efforts. For this week, we do have a new pecking order based on those results from last week that did come in and there is a new No....
