We move on in the release of the 41st annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Softball Teams and these next teams are for those from medium & small schools. It’s more confusing as ever as which is large, medium & small thanks to competitive equity based playoffs but we have been doing these teams for a long […]
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Baseball: State Ranks By Divisions
We can now do these rankings by division only twice each season because we have no idea what divisions teams are going to placed until the Sunday before CIF regional playoffs and then each team plays three times in five days. Final rankings will be done later next week and we’ll have more time to […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. More than lists and numbers, we can provide historical context since we’ve maintained state records in California for more than 40 years. We begin this week with softball player Cynthia Arellano of San Jose Silver Creek tying a state record...
Senior Salutes No. 2 (Baseball/Softball)
As a consequence of the 2020 high school baseball and softball seasons being canceled after not even one-third of scheduled games were played in the state, we cannot produce all-state teams in those sports for 2020. We do not want to forget about those seniors from the Class of 2020, however, who were going to […]
All-State Baseball Nominees (Part 1)
Welcome to this initial step toward selection of the 38th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Baseball Teams. Current MLB stars like Christian Yelich, Aaron Judge, Trevor Bauer, Brandon Crawford, Joc Pederson and C.C. Sabathia were all on these teams in the past. These nominees are grouped according to each CIF section in the state. It’s not […]
State Rankings By CIF Divisions
We can’t do divisional state basketball rankings anymore during the regular season because there’s no way to know (thanks to competitive equity seeding) which divisions to place any of these teams. Now that brackets are out, though, we can apply our own rankings system to the teams in both the NorCal and SoCal playoffs and […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
We’ve all heard of perfect passers in a single game, but for running backs could the equivalent be six carries with all six going for touchdowns? One of those on this week’s honor roll did just that. We also continue to follow hard-to-fathom seasons by sophomore QB Donny Fitzgerald from Coachella Valley of Thermal (41...
Pairings Breakdown: Central Section
Edison of Fresno earns the top seed in Division I over Liberty of Bakersfield. Best chances for a CIF SoCal bowl game seem to be in D1 if Liberty wins it all or in D2 if Lemoore can go all the way and stay unbeaten.
