No sooner did we get started with baseball and softball Players of the Week than due to circumstances way beyond our control this will be the last one for at least a few weeks and until we find out if spring sports will resume. Hopefully, we will be able to re-start this feature this season. […]
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All-Decade Softball: All-State Team
Vista Murrieta ends up being the only school with three first team players for the decade with two of those from the same family. Selecting this team also shows how great California was in the 2015 season and it was a challenge to try to get as many members of the just-named 2020 U.S. Olympic...
Ms. Softball 2019: Kinzie Hansen
In another of the closest selections ever, the Norco High catcher edges out two others to collect the state’s longest-running individual softball honor. She is the fourth from Norco to be Ms. Softball this decade and is only the second catcher now on the all-time list. In the end, despite the accomplishments of the five […]
Norco State Softball Team of Year
It’s official as Norco is named the 2019 State Softball Team of the Year. The Cougars previously were State Team of the Year in 2012 and essentially clinched their final overall No. 1 state ranking by winning the CIF Southern Section Division I title on May 17 and finishing 31-1. The Cougars also made it […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ms. Softball 2018: It’s Tidd by a tad
This one was one of the closest selections ever, but what happened in the last game and local consensus is the difference as Payton Tidd of San Marcos earns the state’s longest-running individual softball honor. There were five outstanding finalists this year but it basically came down to two from the CIF San Diego Section. […]
More Softball Players of the Year
If you weren’t paying attention when our Ms. Softball finalists were named, only one of the five was a junior so you should have correctly assumed that the State Junior Player of the Year was automatically going to be Norco’s Kinzie Hansen. Joining her and Ms. Softball POY Payton Tidd of San Marcos as statewide […]
FINAL Softball State Division Ranks
Final No. 1 teams already were announced for D1 (San Marcos), D2 (Newbury Park), D3 (West of Torrance), D4 (Sutter) and D5 (East Nicolaus). But here’s the final rankings for each of those divisions with expanded top fives for each division plus a list of teams to watch in each division for 2019 season. Teams...
FINAL Softball State Top 40
As is our custom, it takes us awhile to get out final state rankings because we do the all-state nominations first. But we try to make up for it by doing expanded lists in all divisions. The first 10 showed up on our ticker last week, but here’s the next 30 all placed in order...
