There’s some upheaval in Orange County with Huntington Beach breaking through with a big win last week over previous No. 2 Los Alamitos plus Mater Dei getting a surprisingly lopsided 11-1 romp on Monday over previous No. 4 Orange Lutheran. The results cause some changes and we’re pretty sure we know which school’s fans aren’t...
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NEW Baseball State Top 20
Bizarro world situations continue to emerge for this year’s rankings as Bellarmine of San Jose (which has six league losses) wins the Boras Classic state championship while a San Mateo Serra team that is the round-robin co-champion of that same league drops a pair of non-league games. It’s still calm at the top, however, as...
NEW Baseball State Top 20
A different team from the West Catholic Athletic League now joins No. 1 Valley Christian of San Jose in the top five. We also have four newcomers led by new No. 13 De La Salle of Concord, which beat previous No. 3 Foothill of Pleasanton last Friday. Also going in this week are Rancho Bernardo...
Record Updates: Basketball Coaching
In between our announcement of the 2018 State Coach of the Year for girls basketball (which came on Friday) and the 2018 State Coach of the Year for boys basketball (coming Monday), we have updated all of the state coaching records in our exclusive files that include some of the best ever for both genders. […]
NEW Baseball State Top 20
What’s going on with all these ties? The top two teams from last week were both involved with ties so the only option is to move up a team that doesn’t have one, unbeaten Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks, into the new No. 1 position. Not all ties are equal, either, so the ones for...
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 […]
