With the 2020-21 season ending on Saturday and CIF SoCal regionals already into the semifinals, here’s a look at our own five-division state rankings for baseball. For this year, we are combining the teams in the SoCal regional bracket into divisions (not the same) and then injecting where the NorCal teams would fit in based […]
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State Stat Stars of the Week
This feature serves as our statewide collection of milestone achievements in California high school sports and continues as a mix for boys and girls basketball plus baseball and softball for at least one more time for the 2020-21 school year. This week actually covers two weeks since last week we were getting everything ready for...
NEW State TOP 35 Baseball Rankings
There was almost one upset of the century involving one of the state’s top six teams, but in the end all six got through to their section semifinals this week. Let’s hope all six are showing up next week in the first-ever CIF Southern California Open Division playoffs. Biggest movers in this week’s rankings include...
NEW State TOP 35 Baseball Rankings
It ended up being just a one-week break on top of the state rankings for Thousand Oaks after the Lancers moved to 24-1 while other teams lost (Ayala and Buchanan). Harvard-Westlake and JSerra moved up to No. 2 and No. 3 after winning prestigious league titles. A big league title also will be up for...
NEW State TOP 35 Baseball Rankings
No. 1 Thousand Oaks also has now made it into the state record book after extending current win streak to 27 games on Monday. This week also sees a different Ventura/L.A. County team, Royal of Simi Valley, join the top five. Plus, there’s red-hot JSerra getting back into the top 10, St. Augustine moving to...
NEW State TOP 35 Baseball Rankings
In a week in which it’s announced there will be CIF regional playoffs held beyond the CIF section playoffs for the first time since 1922, Thousand Oaks and Ayala stay in the top two positions. Buchanan, Orange Lutheran and Santa Margarita all move up as previous No. 3 Rancho Bernardo is now holding on in...
NEW State TOP 35 Baseball Ranks
Ayala of Chino Hills and Rancho Bernardo of San Diego switch at the No. 2 and No. 3 spots behind No. 1 Thousand Oaks. The two teams moving up the most are new No. 8 Granite Bay and new No. 9 Elk Grove. Newcomers Murrieta Mesa of Murrieta and San Marcos also made major jumps....
NEW State TOP 35 Baseball Ranks
Thousand Oaks stays at No. 1 as a new week begins, but there are many changes after that. Rancho Bernardo of San Diego moves up to No. 2, Ayala of Chino Hills rejoins the top five and there are huge jumps for unbeaten Royal of Simi Valley and Santa Margarita. Newcomers include Bullard of Fresno,...
NEW State TOP 35 Baseball Ranks
Get used to these new state baseball rankings coming out on Mondays for the rest of the spring season. While section playoffs won’t be happening in Northern California, we found out Monday morning that they will happen for most of Southern California. For this week’s rankings, Thousand Oaks stays on top for the second straight...
NEW State TOP 35 Baseball Ranks
With key games taking place every day this week through Thursday and with just a few teams not playing until next week, we decided to update our State TOP 35 in baseball on Friday of this week. All of the extra games created a lot more opportunities for top-ranked teams to lose and many of...
