After the result of a huge No. 1 vs. No. 2 state showdown from last Saturday, there is a new . 1 as Rancho Christian of Temecula takes down previous No. 1 Sierra Canyon of Chatsworth in a possible preview of the CIF Southern Section Open Division and CIF SoCal Open Division title games down...
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NEW Baseball State Division Ranks
The only new No. 1 team in this week’s divisional state baseball rankings is CIF Southern Section Division 4 top seed South of Torrance, which is now No. 1 for the state in D3. Still No. 1 would be Harvard-Westlake (D1), Beckman of Irvine (D2), Winters (D4) and St. Vincent de Paul (D5). Those making...
First Look: State Baseball Div. Ranks
Simply doing State Top 20 rankings in any sport has never been enough for us, and besides the Cal-Hi Sports five-division state rankings in five sports have been going on for more than 40 years. The main question for this year in baseball for the divisional state rankings is what to do with Winters? Should […]
NEW Baseball State Top 20
Bizarro world situations continue to emerge for this year’s rankings as Bellarmine of San Jose (which has six league losses) wins the Boras Classic state championship while a San Mateo Serra team that is the round-robin co-champion of that same league drops a pair of non-league games. It’s still calm at the top, however, as...
NEW Baseball State Top 20
Unbeaten teams are on the move in this week’s rankings, which were done on Sunday to account for a solid portion of teams that are playing on Monday. Foothill of Pleasanton is up from No. 8 to No. 3, Arcadia is up from No. 14 to No. 8 and Mira Costa of Manhattan Beach is...
Boys BB: All-State Underclass
We are tipping off the release of our annual all-state basketball teams with the underclass boys. This means the best of the best among juniors, sophomores and freshmen. These teams last year featured four players from mythical national champion Chino Hills. This year, the Huskies are well-represented again with two honorees. There are eight other...
NEW Baseball State Top 20
We are presenting these rankings after most of the major pre-Easter spring break tournaments are done, including the National Classic, Boras Classic for Northern California, the Mike Morrow Lions tourney in San Diego, the Fresno Easter Classic and even the IMG Classic in Florida. All of those created results of course that greatly impacted the...
Super 8 Girls BB State Ranks Update
Harvard-Westlake pins 11-point defeat on one-loss Etiwanda in earning trip to CIF Southern Section Open Division finals opposite state No. 3 Long Beach Poly. The Wolverines also move up to No. 8 in this week’s rankings. No. 1 Archbishop Mitty and No. 2 Clovis West, meanwhile, continue to roll in section playoffs. NOTE: Our updated […]
NEW Girls BB State Top 20 Rankings
There are actually no new teams that cracked this week’s rankings since the previous rankings even with all of the holiday tournaments. There is plenty of shuffling, however, including a new team at the top plus a big jump for Bishop O’Dowd of Oakland. Fairmont Prep of Anaheim also has joined the top 10. If...
FINAL Boys BB Division State Ranks
Putting all of the CIF state champions in the No. 1 position is the easy part (but even that is arguable in one instance). For our final divisional state rankings, we also expand by at least five teams in all divisions. Among those moving up are Alemany of Mission Hills (D1), Archbishop Mitty (D2), Weston...
