With previous No. 2 and No. 3 losing, the possibility of No. 1 St. Francis (Mountain View) or its rivals from Archbishop Mitty (which already has one win over the Lancers) ending No. 1 in the state has become more juicy. With CIF Southern Section D1 champ Pacifica moving up to third, more scrambling could...
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NEW Baseball State TOP 35 Rankings
It didn’t take long this season for huge changes to hit the TOP 35 state rankings. No. 1 Orange Lutheran didn’t play last week, but the big moves began at No. 2 with Servite of Anaheim grabbing that position. Sierra Canyon also goes up to its highest ranking in baseball ever. Elk Grove, Clayton Valley...
Baseball Individual Records (Hitting)
Welcome to the online Cal-Hi Sports State Record Book & Almanac. These state record lists are for individual hitting in baseball except RBI. For more on late Cal-Hi Sports record book founder Nelson Tennis, CLICK HERE. These totals are through all games of the 2023 season. To submit a record or report a correction online, CLICK HERE and...
40 Greatest Baseball Teams (11-24)
This group of all-time state squads is led by Lompoc of 1970, which went 27-1 and had two first-round MLB draft picks. We also have last season’s State Team of the Year from De La Salle of Concord debuting in the all-time list at No. 15. To check out teams selected from No. 1 to...
State’s All-Time MLB 1st Round Picks
As a prelude to the 2020 MLB Draft and to run in conjunction with a couple of feature stories we have coming up on significant California players, here’s as complete a list as possible of high school players and former high school players from the state who have been chosen in the first round of...
Mr. Baseball 2018: Joe Magrisi
Call us suckers for a great story to go with a player of the year resume, but Joe Magrisi of San Diego Torrey Pines just had too much of a spectacular season to be denied as the winner of the state’s longest-running high school baseball honor. This is the one with roots back to the […]
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
Three of our honorees this week are done after sparking their teams to section titles, including two of them who will be in the Pac-12 Conference next year. We couldn’t pick someone from SoCal baseball who is done for the year, but did go with a top pitcher from the CIF L.A. City Section who […]
SoCal/NorCal Players of the Week
The challenge this week was not to honor someone who was playing in a Tuesday sectional playoff game so we looked extra-hard to for those who are done or those who weren’t scheduled to play until later this week. Mission accomplished with Red Bluff’s Tanner Tweedt, San Diego Rancho Bernardo’s Nick Seamans, Mountain View St. […]
NEW Baseball State Top 20
Huntington Beach wins 21st game in last 22 outings and goes up to No. 1 in the state following loss by previous No. 1 Valley Christian of San Jose. The Warriors, however, only drop one spot due to other teams losing and their own 6-3 win on Saturday against state-ranked Archbishop Mitty. This week’s rankings...
NorCal/SoCal Players of the Week
All three of our SoCal choices for this week also go into the state record book in the categories of single game rushing yards, single game sacks and career field goals. And one of our NorCal picks was in a 76-62 contest that beat a winner from last week. The full roster of six hails […]