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NEW Softball State Top 20

It could have been three different teams that could have been the new No. 1 in this week’s State Top 20, but the pick went to the next highest in line as Cathedral Catholic of San Diego moved up from No. 2. Previous No. 1 Norco lost to new No. 3 Lutheran of Orange in...

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Softball: Inside the All-State Teams

When you have a team that ended No. 1 in the nation and a roster with double-digit players owning major college scholarships, how to break up that group into the ones that are first team, second team, third team, etc. becomes very difficult. Plus, we have lists of others who can now say they are...

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All-State Softball: First Team

The No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the final state and national rankings combine for five first team picks to headline this year’s 35th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Softball Team. We’ll make you go inside to read whether it’s Los Alamitos or Norco, however, that had three. This group of 30 players is the […]

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Prep Notes With A Twist

Linden’s Aaron Judge gets more MLB all-star votes than anyone as his amazing season continues. We look back at the honors he got in his senior season for the Lions in 2010 and the advice he got from his football coach. In this column, we also have an updated list of state’s all-time leaders in […]

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What If CIF State Softball Playoffs?

There’s been discussion about the future addition of CIF state playoffs in both softball and baseball. We went through all of the teams in our final divisional state softball rankings and came up with a proposed format with an Open Division and then six divisions after that. We set up brackets for each division as...

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FINAL State Divisions Softball Ranks

There were no teams given big bumps in Division I but there are some teams that are much higher in final rankings after all section finals were put in the books. The list includes Elk Grove and Agoura (D2), Foothill of Palo Cedro (D3), St. Anthony of Long Beach (D4) and Ripon Christian (D5). Each...

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FINAL Softball State Top 40

There weren’t many changes for this season’s final rankings, except for Camarillo getting a jump to No. 13 and Clovis getting picked to be No. 20 as a replacement for St. Lucy’s. As is our custom for the final rankings, however, no one drops out, just down into one of the expanded positions. We go...

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Los Alamitos Softball State TOY

For the third time in four years, an Orange County team has been officially crowned as the State Team of the Year in softball. Since 2009, it’s been either an Orange County or Inland Empire team finishing on top in the state, but at least this year there’s no bothersome comparison of the various CIF […]

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More Softball State Teams of Year

In addition to overall No. 1 Los Alamitos, others that can claim they are mythical state champions for 2017 are Camarillo (Division II), Buena of Ventura (D3), South of Torrance (D4) and Village Christian of Sun Valley (D5). We do try to look for teams outside of the CIF Southern Section, but couldn’t choose one […]

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Super 8 Softball State Ranks Update

This week’s top five has changed drastically with Gahr of Cerritos now gone after suffering its first loss plus the rapid rise of Grand Terrace. Benicia also is new to the Super 8 after completing impressive run to CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Division III title. NOTE: Our updated State Top 20 with lists of many other […]

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