There are a few teams that have already started, but these rankings will serve as our starting point for the upcoming 2021 spring season. Perennial powerhouse Norco is sitting in the No. 1 position for the state despite nearby school Chino Hills landing a No. 1 national ranking. Those two will play each other, which […]
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NEW Class of ’21 Hot 100 (Softball)
With the 2021 California high school softball season about to get going everywhere, here is a new, updated look at the Cal-Hi Sports Hot 100 player rankings for the Class of 2021. Sophia Nugent of Los Alamitos stays in the No. 1 position, but a player moving out of the state has everyone else moving...
Softball: Team State Records Launch
We now have a fifth sport with updated state records added to the CalHiSports.com website. It’s softball and we begin with a look at all of the state records in team categories, including pitching, hitting, win streaks, section titles, league titles and all-time wins. Plus, there are game records (two teams). We’ll be adding all […]
Softball Schools of Century (So Far)
Going by a points system based on final state top 20 rankings since the 1999-2000 school year and matching previous posts for schools of the century (so far) plus girls basketball and baseball, here’s the list for softball. The No. 1 slot belonging to Norco isn’t a surprise, but it also ended up that the...
Football Blasts From The Past
Here’s another look back in time to approximately the same week of the California high school football season from five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40 years ago. At the end of what would have normally been the end of each of those seasons, we may go back even further such as Long […]
Schools With The Most All-State Players
Softball all-state selections don’t go back as many years as they do for other sports, but we do have a school with 23 all-state softball selections since 2003 and that’s Norco. The only schools close are both from Orange County — Mater Dei (Santa Ana) and Pacifica (Garden Grove). Pacifica actually has the same number […]
State Athlete of Year: Sarah Willis
Even though her senior season in softball was cut way short by the Coronavirus pandemic, Norco’s Sarah Willis did more than enough in her two sports of softball and basketball to earn overall girls state athlete of the year honors. She’s the first from the Inland Empire to be named in nearly 30 years and […]
Softball: All-Time 30 Greatest Teams (1)
Here’s an updated and expanded version of our ranking of the all-time greatest teams in California high school softball history. This one includes two teams from last season placed fairly high — one in the top five and the other in the top 15. We also have added three more teams from the first 25...
Softball: Class of 2021 Hot 100 Players
After earlier releasing our first-ever Hot 100 player rankings for California softball for the graduating Class of 2020, we’re now looking ahead to the Class of 2021. Oklahoma scored big for the 2020s with the No. 1 and No. 2 players in the state both getting ready to play for head coach Patty Gasso. For...
