Sweet swinging shortstop/third baseman from JSerra (San Juan Capistrano) collects the top honor in the state for the 2023 season after already earning several other major honors. He was the leading player on the state’s No. 1 team and he’s the ninth Mr. Baseball State Player of the Year from Orange County in more than […]
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Mr. Baseball 2022: Malcolm Moore
The 2021 State Junior of the Year had an outstanding season behind the plate and at the plate as his team from McClatchy of Sacramento had one of its best seasons in school history. Moore is only the fourth player ever from the Capital City region to gain baseball’s state player of the year honor […]
Mr. Baseball & Ms. Softball Finalists
Two of the five players named as finalists to be baseball’s State Player of the Year are headed to Stanford with a third who went to high school across the street. For softball, there are two front-runners but three others who have been selected as finalists for the magical moments that they created for their […]
State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports. We still have some from basketball since one of the winningest head coaches ever has retired and we begin to think about where Ontario Christian’s Chloe Briggs will finish on the all-time career scoring list with one year to go....
All-State Baseball: First Team
We’re so glad to be able to honor these 30 elite California players after not being able to do the same for 2020. We had done it for 38 years in a row. This 39th edition had many challenges and it’s much later than a “normal” season, but the players deserve the accolades. The big […]
More Baseball State Players of Year
Stanford and Cal are both represented among this group of five players as a Stanford-bound player is tops for the juniors while a Cal-bound player is the same for medium schools. We also have one player named for sophomores, freshmen and small schools.
Baseball/Softball State Stat Stars
It is increasingly looking like the 2020 spring season for high school sports in the state is finished due to school closures amid the Coronavirus pandemic. But we did take some time in the last two days to go through all of our various sources for a look at baseball/softball players who had turned in […]
Prep Notes With A Twist
We’re doing this feature for most weeks this season with a mix of topical comments on the leading issues in California high school sports, the best state stat stars of the previous week and state record updates. We start out with our thoughts about small, four-team playoff brackets at the top of some sections with...
