With all of the disruptions in Northern California & the CIF pushing back the state finals one week, it will be more disjointed this season since the Southern California section playoffs will be complete after this weekend and the SoCal bowl games lineup will be announced on Sunday. The CIF and ourselves like to look...
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FINAL Baseball State Division Ranks
Final No. 1 teams already were announced for D1 (San Jose Valley Christian), D2 (Alameda), D3 (Maranatha of Pasadena), D4 (Winters) and D5 (Pasadena Poly). Now, 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....
NEW Baseball State Division Ranks
With one more round of games to go in section playoffs around the state (NCS, SD, LA, CIFSS) here are the teams in line to win mythical state titles: Valley Christian (D1), Beckman of Irvine (D2), Maranatha of Sierra Madre (D3), Winters (D4) and Pasadena Poly (D5). Valley Christian and Winters are done, but the...
Valley Christian: Version 2.0
With A Dugout Full Of Returning Talent, Valley Christian of San Jose Prepares For A Year Of New Challenges As It Chases A CCS Open Division Repeat Story By JAMES G. KANE | Photos By SAMUEL STRINGER At 53, John Diatte is not nearly old enough to have come from the time of Satchel Paige. […]
Preseason FB: Top 50 Teams (16-30)
This second group of elite teams leads off with Calabasas, which is continuing to build toward a CIF state title. We also had a hard time coming up with a team to start out highest in the CIF Central Coast Section, so we just stuck two of them in this group right next to each […]
What If CIF State Baseball Playoffs?
Just like softball, there’s also been talk about the future addition of CIF state playoffs in baseball. We went through all of the teams in our final divisional state baseball rankings and came up with a proposed format with an Open Division and then six divisions after that. We set up brackets for each division...
FINAL, Expanded Top 50 (No. 21-50)
Several NorCal teams had to drop a few spots due to 0-5 record at Sac State. Sierra Canyon also comes up into Top 25 for final rankings while Del Oro and San Mateo Serra take drops. All six Trinity League teams are in as is CIF D3-AA champ Paraclete. If you can’t see this post,...
NEW State Top 25 FB Rankings
It’s CIF state championship week with nine teams in the State Top 25 heading to Sacramento, led by No. 1 St. John Bosco meeting No. 4 De La Salle in the Open Division. We couldn’t get all 10 going to Sac State into the rankings since we decided to leave in previous No. 10 Calabasas...
CIF NorCal Bowl Board No. 8
Big move of the week is switching Sanger and Selma from the north to the south and vice-versa and we really liked how it balanced out both boards. Both teams still have to win Central Section titles, however, and Sanger will have to battle a surging team from Ridgeview of Bakersfield. We also forecast where...
