Great Oak of Temecula rejoins the top five while Heritage of Brentwood goes up into the top 10 for the first team this season. This week’s three newcomers, meanwhile, are Whitney of Rocklin, Clovis North of Fresno and Westlake of Westlake Village. Los Alamitos (no stranger to being state-ranked) and Vista Murrieta (Murrieta) also make...
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NEW Softball State Top 25 Ranks
No. 1 Norco regains some momentum as CIF Southern Section Division I playoffs are beginning next week. No. 2 Foothill (Pleasanton) also looking to do the same in the CIF North Coast Section. For this week’s rankings, Chino Hills joins the top five, Buchanan joins the top 10 and Huntington Beach wins a big league...
NEW Softball State Top 25 Ranks
No. 1 Norco and No. 2 Foothill (Pleasanton) both capture major tourney titles, but there are plenty of changes after that, including Santa Margarita up to No. 3, Grand Terrace up to No. 6 and Oaks Christian up to No. 12. Newcomers into the mix this week are Clovis, Cosumnes Oaks of Elk Grove, Del...
NEW Softball State Top 25
No. 1 Norco will go from playing one unbeaten team to another at this week’s Michelle Carew Classic with a first-round game vs. Rio Mesa of Oxnard. Last week’s No. 2 team, Mater Dei Catholic of San Diego, also will be in the Carew along with some of the best from Orange County. But with...
NEW Softball State Top 20
This week’s rankings were compiled with knowledge that one of the teams moving up, Pacifica of Garden Grove, is going through the hard-to-fathom and sudden death of 57-year-old head coach Mark Campbell. We’re thinking about his family and players, and know he will be greatly missed in the California softball community. In this week’s rankings,...
NEW Softball State Top 20
First regular season look at California’s best for softball of course has Norco at the top, but it’s probably going to surprise some folks about the pecking we have that follows. We do see national rankings put out by MaxPreps and USA Today, but often do not agree with those rankings and don’t think we...
Preseason Softball State Top 25
The season has actually already begun for a few teams in the CIF Southern Section plus the L.A. City and Central Sections. For the state rankings, the No. 1 team to start shouldn’t be much of a surprise due to the returning players at defending CIFSS D1 champion Norco. There’s also the usual powerhouse squads […]
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (26-50)
A lot of the teams in this group naturally have fallen down from the first 25 and are done for the season with playoff losses. Still, there’s some on the rise, like new No. 28 Wilcox of Santa Clara and new No. 42 South Hills of West Covina. We also have three teams still going...
NEW State Top 50 FB Ranks (1-25)
Corona Centennial edges in front of De La Salle for the third spot this week and it will likely stay that way until the CIF Southern Section D1 semifinals. Buchanan of Clovis, the team partly responsible for the switch, also gets a reward from No. 20 up to No. 17 in anticipation of its showdown...
All-State Softball: First Team
The No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the final state and national rankings combine for six first team picks to headline this year’s 36th annual Cal-Hi Sports All-State Softball Team. This also ended up being a great year for catchers and we went with six of them on first team. This group of 30 […]
