Just like baseball, we have expanded our final state team rankings in softball from Top 20 overall to Top 40 overall. Writeups and comments from each team have been completed as well. Teams moving up at the end include section champions Freedom of Oakley and Archbishop Mitty. Some of the hardest to rank in expanded...
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State Stat Stars Of The Week
It’s a wrap on the great career of Redding Shasta’s Mia Camuso, who makes the state record book in a multitude of career hitting categories. Other softballers on this week’s honor role include a pitcher from Union Mine, Beth Hammer, who had three straight no-hitters. For baseball, Huntington Beach’s big-time duo of Hagen Danner and […]
State Stat Stars Of The Week
Going up against Wonderful College Prep Academy or Realm Charter pays off for two of our softball honor roll members as they each went 5-for-5 with seven RBI. It usually doesn’t produce a stat star-worthy outing when facing a foe that was No. 1 in the state from the previous season, but it did for […]
Top 10 Baseball, Softball Ranks
Here’s a quick look at the top 10 teams that will be highlighted in this week’s new Cal-Hi Sports State Top 20 rankings for baseball and softball.
NEW Baseball State Top 20
Unbeaten Davis and Redondo move up to No. 1 and No. 2 in the state, but both teams know even winning a league title is no guarantee, especially with other state-ranked teams to contend with. Previous No. 1 Buchanan is now third with this week’s newcomer slots going to Bonita of La Verne, Oak Ridge...
NEW Baseball State Top 20
It’s a wild-and-wacky first of two weeks in which many of the state’s top teams will be playing each other in Easter/Spring Break tournaments. Huntington Beach topped Chaminade in another all-California final at the National High School Invitational while Davis reigned supreme at the Northern California Boras Classic. This week, it’ll be the Southern California...
Boys Athlete of Year: T.J. DeFalco
After determining no multi-sport or two-sport athlete in the state was going to get the top spot this year, it came down to a choice between single-sport performers of the year Jake Browning (football), Michael Norman (track) and T.J. DeFalco (volleyball). In the end, when a player already is on the U.S. National Team and […]
All-State Baseball: First Team
With several former all-state first team players getting ready to play in the MLB All-Star Game, here’s our own California prep version of an all-star roster, which also is the 35th consecutive year that we’ve done it. This group is our elite of the elite and some of the choices as usual were very difficult.
All-State Baseball: Underclass
With the Fourth of July hot dogs back in the freezer, we keep the fireworks going with the first post of the 35th annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state teams for baseball. This post honors top juniors, sophomores and even two freshmen who all played beyond their years.