There’s no change at the top since No. 1 St. Francis (Mountain View) won both of its games last week against previous No. 7 Archibishop Mitty. Rio Mesa of Oxnard is the biggest mover as it goes up to No. 15 from No. 20. Livermore joins the top 25 with this week’s newcomer slots going...
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All-State Softball Nominees (SoCal)
Like the same list posted earlier for NorCal, here’s a first list of nominees on our board for the annual Cal-Hi Sports all-state softball teams for SoCal. We have been doing all-state teams in California for more than 40 years and it’s more than 35 for softball. Here are players we’ve come up with from […]
NEW Softball State TOP 25 Rankings
Two CIFSS D1 playoff games from Monday are not included this week, but everyone is playing in Tuesday’s second round and some of the matchups already involve two State TOP 25 teams against each other. Clovis North continues in the No. 1 position entering the final week of its regular season. This week’s only newcomers...
NEW Softball State TOP 25 Rankings
Los Alamitos takes over No. 1 ranking after winning title of the Michelle Carew Classic, but then we decided to wait to release this week until after a Tuesday game vs league rival Marina (Huntington Beach). Los Al won so all rankings stayed as projected. Another league rival, Huntington Beach, jumps from 5-3 and not...
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
Because of needing to get out final girls basketball rankings and current baseball and softball rankings out on Monday and Tuesday, our Players of the Week feature is running on Wednesday instead of Tuesday, and while we like to get these honors out before games are played, we’re not sure under the circumstances of the […]
NEW Softball State Top 25
Since we’re doing more than 80 teams now nationally every week for partners at ExtraInningSoftball.com, we’ll ramp it up to 25 for the state with at least 15 on the bubble. The big news this week is that Mater Dei Catholic of San Diego has improved to 10-0 after a win over previous No. 2...
NEW Softball State Top 20
With one week to go in the regular season for almost all teams, there wasn’t much movement in this week’s new pecking order. Every team behind previous No. 8 Rio Mesa of Oxnard that didn’t lose last week was able to move up at least one spot. This week’s lone newcomer ended up being another...
NEW Softball State Top 20
One mighty swing of the bat by Ventura Buena’s Jenessa Ullegue causes a lot of changes in this week’s rankings since her swing gave the Bulldogs a 1-0 win over Rio Mesa in the title game of the Thousand Oaks tourney. Rio Mesa was No. 5 in last week’s pecking order coming into that game....
Super 8 Softball Rankings Update
Sheldon of Sacramento gets to do the flip-flop with Rio Mesa after its avenging win over Elk Grove in conjunction with Elk Grove then later winning the top division at the NorCal Classic. Amador Valley also rejoins the Super 8 in place of Stockdale and Clovis.
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
One of our honorees this week blasted a school record three homers in one game while another is a former Little League star for a U.S. championship squad. The four we’ve selected are from Salinas, Hanford, Chula Vista and Oxnard.
